You Can Live Forever on Earth

WHAT AN AMAZING PROSPECT!  Our Creator has promised to give us everlasting life, right here earth.  Many, however, find that difficult to believe.  'Everyone has to die sometime,' they say.  'It is part of a natural cycle of life and death.'  Other feel that living forever is possible, but not here on earth.  They say that everlasting life is attained only after you die and go to heaven. What do you think?

Before you decide, why not consider the Bible's answer to these three questions:  What does the way man was made show as to how long he was meant to live? What was God's original purpose for the earth and for mankind? How did death come upon the human family?

MAN'S UNIQUE NATURE

 Of all the forms of life that God created on earth, humans are truly unique. How so?  The Bible indicates that humans alone were created in God's "image" and "likeness." (Genesis 1:26, 27) What does that mean?  It means that human-kind was given characteristics and qualities that mirrored God's own, such as love and a sense of justice. 

In addition, humans were endowed with thinking and reasoning abilities, coupled with moral and spiritual capacities.  That is why we can appreciate the grandeur of the universe and the wonders of nature, as well as art, music, and poetry.  Above all, mankind has the unique capacity to worship the Creator.  Such attributes put an immeasurable  gulf between humans and all other living creatures on earth.

Thus, consider.  Would God have given humans such remarkable qualities, along with a seemingly limitless potential to develop and embrace them, if  he meant for us to live only short years?  The truth is that God gave humans these unique qualities and abilities so that we would enjoy life right here on earth forever. 

Note: But only after Armageddon and the Resurrection; and only the righteous.  Right now, our hairs are all numbered/ we have a limit to our living right now. Also, after Armageddon, the earth will be new and beautiful just like Adam and Eve's paradise, they one they ruined by disobeying God.  And in my opinion, I have observed people that didn't seem to have any of those qualities at all, except for themselves.  

Next time: You Can Live Forever on Earth - GOD'S ORIGINAL PURPOSE

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