CHAPTER SIX: WHY DO WE GROW OLD AND DIE?

SCIENTISTS do not know why humans grow old and die. It seems that our cells should keep on being renewed and that we should live forever.  The book Hyojun Soshikigaku (Standard Histology) says:  "It is a great mystery how the aging of cells is related to the aging and death of an individual."  Many scientists  believe that there is a "natural, inherent" limit to life. Do you think they are right?  ( Yes, the Bible says our hairs are numbered-we definitely have an expiration date and only God knows what it is)  

Humans have always yearned for longevity and have even  tried to attain immortality. Since the  fourth century B.C.>E, drugs supposedly designed to make immortality possible attracted the attention of Chinese nobles.  Some later Chinese emperors tried so-called elixirs of life-made from mercury-and died! (of course, they did, mercury is a poison)  Around the globe, people believe that death is not the end of their existence. Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, and others all have bright hopes of a life after death. In Christendom, many envisage an afterlife of heavenly bliss.    (It don't work that way! ) 

Concepts of happiness after death reflect  a longing for eternal life.  "Even time indefinite he has put in their heart," says the Bible concerning the idea of eternity that God implanted in us.  (Ecclesiastes 3:11) He created the first humans with the prospect that they could live forever on earth.  (Genesis 2:16, 17) Why, then, do humans die?  How was death introduced into the world?  The knowledge of God sheds light on these questions. -Psalm 119:105.

Next time: CHAPTER SIX: WHY DO WE GROW OLD AND DIE?/A SINISTER PLOT

From the book: KNOWLEDGE That Leads to Everlasting Life