What is Life?
I understand this to be a question that has plagued the medical field for many years. They have tried to create it from nothing and found failures. The simplest answer I know, is that God gives life, having created all things, but also, He is the beginning and end of life. Last week, I mentioned that God’s word gives us truth, and life. It has established that because of sin, man dies, Romans 6:23. So we find our lives as being broken, as a creature that was made for God’s purpose, Ephesians 1:3-15.
Genesis tells us that God breathed into man, and he became a “living soul”. As in the old story of Frankenstein, “It’s Alive!!” In chapter 2, Adam and Eve were told not to eat of the tree in the midst of the garden of Eden, “the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil”. If they did, they would learn what it is to die. “Death” means a separation, and is used it two senses: (1) between body and soul, or (2) between God and Man. Jesus said, “Fear not him who can destroy the body, but Him who can destroy both body and soul in Hell”. Matthew 10:28 Typically
I understand this to be a question that has plagued the medical field for many years. They have tried to create it from nothing and found failures. The simplest answer I know, is that God gives life, having created all things, but also, He is the beginning and end of life. Last week, I mentioned that God’s word gives us truth, and life. It has established that because of sin, man dies, Romans 6:23. So we find our lives as being broken, as a creature that was made for God’s purpose, Ephesians 1:3-15.
Genesis tells us that God breathed into man, and he became a “living soul”. As in the old story of Frankenstein, “It’s Alive!!” In chapter 2, Adam and Eve were told not to eat of the tree in the midst of the garden of Eden, “the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil”. If they did, they would learn what it is to die. “Death” means a separation, and is used it two senses: (1) between body and soul, or (2) between God and Man. Jesus said, “Fear not him who can destroy the body, but Him who can destroy both body and soul in Hell”. Matthew 10:28 Typically
we use the term as the ceasing of the body functions, or the destruction of the body. Jesus referred to Lazarus as dead, because he began to stink, John 11. He then turned around and raised him from the dead, giving him life, causing the body to function again. This is all the physical reference to life and death. But, there is the more serious reference, as Christ mentioned, and that is the One who gives life or destroy the body and soul in Hell, the spiritual concern or use of the terms. Jesus said in John 14:6, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no man cometh to the Father but by Me.” In John 1:14, Jesus was the Word, mentioned in verses 1-3, that came and “became flesh and dwelt men” and “was the glory of the Father”. In John 14:10-11, He gave credit to God for not only the works/miracles He did, but all the Words that He spoke. So the credit goes back to the orginal creator of all things. In doing so, He was the way, truth, and life.
In John 3, Nicodemus, because of his understanding of the kingdom of God, couldn’t understand this rebirth of life. The kingdom was not a physical nation, but a spiritual one. It was not the physical birth but a spiritual birth, where Christ’s teaching gives life, a life that continues after death, whether a spiritual death or the physical death.
Peter said that God has “given us all things that pertain to life and godliness”. 2 Peter 1:3
It is hard for many to understand that a person can be living physically and yet be dead spiritually. Instead of their having life, they are dead because of sin they had committed. I want us all to think about this point and next week we will discuss this further.
Feel free to visit with us at the Macon Church of Christ on Hwy. 63 S, or visit our website: www. histruth.net .
In John 3, Nicodemus, because of his understanding of the kingdom of God, couldn’t understand this rebirth of life. The kingdom was not a physical nation, but a spiritual one. It was not the physical birth but a spiritual birth, where Christ’s teaching gives life, a life that continues after death, whether a spiritual death or the physical death.
Peter said that God has “given us all things that pertain to life and godliness”. 2 Peter 1:3
It is hard for many to understand that a person can be living physically and yet be dead spiritually. Instead of their having life, they are dead because of sin they had committed. I want us all to think about this point and next week we will discuss this further.
Feel free to visit with us at the Macon Church of Christ on Hwy. 63 S, or visit our website: www. histruth.net .
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