We Are Designed to Live - EVIDENCE FOR HOPE

Would it surprise you to know that it was never God's purpose for humans to die?  The Bible book of Genesis provides evidence that it was God's purpose for humans to live forever on earth.  Jehovah God took great care to prepare the earth for human habitation.  Then he created the first man, Adam and placed him in a paradise, a garden in Eden.  After that,  "God saw everything he had made, and look! It was very good." - GENESIS 1:26, 31.

Adam was created perfect, in God's image.  (Deuteronomy 32:4) Adam's wife, Eve, too was without defect of any kind, perfect in mind and body.  Jehovah said to them:  "Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue  it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving on the earth." - GENESIS 1:28. 


To fill the earth with their offspring would take time. Even would have children, and those children would bear children until the earth became fully inhabited just as God intended. (Isaiah 45:18)  Is it reasonable to think that Jehovah would offer Adam and Eve  that prospect if they were meant to be only enough to see their children and perhaps grandchildren, and never know the outcome?

Think, too, about the commission to have the animals in subjection. Adam was told to name the animals, and that would have taken time.  (Genesis 2:19) But to have them in subjection would have meant that he would have had to learn about them and to understand and how to care for  them.  That would have taken more time. 

So God's instructions to fill the earth and to have animals in subjection indicate that the first human couple were designed to live for a long time. In fact, Adam did live for a very long time.

Next time: We Were Designed to Live -  THEY LIVED VERY LONG LIVES

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