WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF LIFE?

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We have all wondered about life and death. Weather death strikes a close friend or family member, we experience pain and loss and we wonder: "Will we ever see them again?" When the inevitable truth and fact of the 'end of life' is considered, a certain question 'fustigate' our minds, "Is there any hope for the future?" Thankfully, God Almighty - the Creator of life itself - reveals our true hope in the Bible.

There are many strange beliefs about the subject and obviously it leads to many conflicting ideas.

It is not what most people think. Unfortunately, not many people have the effort to open the Bible and study this subject in a serious manner. The Bible is clear on the subject for anyone willing to set aside human and religious traditions and read it for what it says. In one way or the other, we are all concerned about life and death. Where will we end up?

Science has its own answers to the same question, but scientists admit that they cannot measure or test the spiritual realm. Cryogenics gives the very rich, who paid vast sums of money to freeze their bodies, the hope that one day Science will find a way to revive them and give them long life.

But science cannot - and will not ever - give anyone eternal life.

Nobel prize winner, scientist George Wald made an astonishing admission in his article "Origin of Life"(Scientific American magazine): "The reasonable view was to believe in spontaneous generation; the only alternative, to believe in a single, primary act of supernatural creation. There is no 3rd position. One has to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation."

Isn't unbelievable how he admits that 'spontaneous generation' is impossible yet he insists that it must be true? The truth is quite simple, the Bible and science, properly understood, are in perfect harmony. It is a reality that the Bible reveal an all-powerful God, Who created all things. In doing so, it reveals deep spiritual and eternal truths, which science admits that it cannot discover.

Apostle Paul wrote, "I do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of man, who have no hope. According to the Lord's own Word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep." (1 Thessalonians 4:13, 15)

Notice that Paul calls death a "sleep". He does not describe dead Christians as active or alive in heaven. Rather, they are "asleep" until Christ second coming.

"For the Lord Himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever." (1 Thessalonians 4 16-18)

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