Who wants to live forever?

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One of the newer threads on the forum has the question: 'Would you want to live to be 1,000?' So far, one young lady has said 'yes,' if her sweetheart still lives and still loves her. Another said as long as he had 'no pain;' that's not likely to happen, eh? Others are not so sure.

I choose immortality, eternal life myself.

For many people, the ultimate goal is to live and never die. They want immortality. Some of the presumed loftier types put it another way. Woody Allen said he wants to achieve immortality through his work. In many television fiction shows, such as in 'Highlanders,' immortality is offered, but only to some, some live and some can be killed. Other shows show immortality as a curse, such as in 'Pirates of the Caribbean' where, as a curse, a bunch of pirates are made to live forever but without feeling and without doing many of the things we normally, such as eat! Then we have 'Arwen' the elf. :) In 'Lord of the Rings,' she comes to view immortality as a curse because she has to outlast her husband, family and everyone she knows.

Maybe living forever wouldn't be the greatest thing, you think?

The ancient Greeks believed in the immortality of the soul, i.e., the body dies, but the soul lives forever. Hindus believe likewise but they are condemned to be reincarnated over and over again until some kind of perfection is attained between the universe and/or a god. At least that's my understanding of it.

For me, a Christian, I ask myself, 'what's the score?' I can’t even prove that a person has a soul, never mind prove what happens or doesn’t happen to it after death. Did we lose our chance for eternal life because of what Adam and Eve did in Eden? It appears immortality was a sin, else why was God angry that they sought it? The punishment for seeking immortality was death. They were thrown out of Eden and cursed with death.

That's not the end of the story for the Christian, not according to the Bible. We are once again offered immortality, God's way of removing the 'curse.' We may be resurrected. Again, that can be good or bad, for we are resurrected to face the judgement. The righteous will live; the unrighteous will die the spiritual death.

NonChristians won't believe a word of it, but the Bible says it's true, which is my 'proof.' I see nothing to believe that the words in the Bible are not true. There's no other 'book,' no other 'proof,' any better and many 'sources' are a lot worse. Anyhow, it's all a matter of faith. You can believe in the words of God in the Bible or believe in a stone or a patch of grass or whatever you wish. I choose to believe what makes sense to me (and many millions of others, now and before).

So, we will all be resurrected as the Bible says. The final act of being completely righteous will have to await that final resurrection, but the decisions we make now will determine what happens then. We have the option to accept forgiveness, to allow God to work in our lives to make us righteous, to choose to live a life devoted to God and if that is the case then we can enjoy immortality and creation the way God intended it to be. Life eternal with God and without sin, paradise. Life after, life after death. The choice is ours. I hope you will think about it.. seriously. Eternity is weighed in the balance.