Post by mommadee48 on May 20, 2021 12:08:57 GMT -5
IN THE BOOK "101- IMPORTANT WORDS of the BIBLE. by Len Woods.
DIE ( To cease to be alive).
According to ecology.com, about 200 people will pass away in the time it takes you to read this page (hopefully not you!). That's roughly 6,300 folks departing this life every hour, which comes to some 150,000 earthlings per day, and more than 53 million souls-slightly more than the populations of Florida and Texas put together - going to the Great Beyond each year.
Because the grim reality of the grim reaper makes us squirm, we use euphemisms. We speak of people "shuffling off this mortal coil" or " entering eternal rest." Yet when the Bible first broaches the subject of mortality-in just the second chapter-the language is blunt, straightforward, and euphemism-free*. God tells the first human, in essence, Try to find life and meaning apart from me, and you will surely die.
The Hebrew word translated "die" means exactly what we think: to stop living. In Genesis 2:17 it's an imperfect verb form paired back to back with an infinitive absolute of the same verb! Since you've forgotten all that fascinating grammar you crammed into your cranium back in high school, or (no school at all), here's all that it means: this is an intense declaration from God about the consequence of rejecting Him. We could translate it "dying , you will die".
In a practical level, death means "separation". We know this tearful reality all too well. In death the soul exits the body. This personal separation leads to relational separation: survivors are left to mourn departed loved ones. In Genesis2-3, we read about an even worse separation. Defying God is like unplugging from God. The result of sin is death in the spiritual sense.
Death as a consequence for sin is an entirely logical theological truth. What other outcome could there be when we separate ourselves from the holy One who is the essence of life and who first animated us with the mysterious "breath of life" (Genesis 2:7)? In the New Testament, the apostle Paul summarized this grimmest of realities this way, "Sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned" ( Romans 5:12 ).
The rebellion in Paradise is beyond tragic. The first book of the Bible opens with life in all its pristine beauty and marvelous goodness. Eden is a deathless world, just as God meant for it to be. But sin comes crashing into the picture, and as a result, Genesis concludes with talk of embalming fluid, coffins, and burial plots.
In Genesis, death quickly moves from possibility (Genesis 2) to ugly (Genesis 3).
The good news, however, is that Genesis is only the beginning of God's great story. All has been lost, but all is not lost. The Almighty has a plan to put death to death.
"BUCKLE UP".
DIE ( To cease to be alive).
According to ecology.com, about 200 people will pass away in the time it takes you to read this page (hopefully not you!). That's roughly 6,300 folks departing this life every hour, which comes to some 150,000 earthlings per day, and more than 53 million souls-slightly more than the populations of Florida and Texas put together - going to the Great Beyond each year.
Because the grim reality of the grim reaper makes us squirm, we use euphemisms. We speak of people "shuffling off this mortal coil" or " entering eternal rest." Yet when the Bible first broaches the subject of mortality-in just the second chapter-the language is blunt, straightforward, and euphemism-free*. God tells the first human, in essence, Try to find life and meaning apart from me, and you will surely die.
The Hebrew word translated "die" means exactly what we think: to stop living. In Genesis 2:17 it's an imperfect verb form paired back to back with an infinitive absolute of the same verb! Since you've forgotten all that fascinating grammar you crammed into your cranium back in high school, or (no school at all), here's all that it means: this is an intense declaration from God about the consequence of rejecting Him. We could translate it "dying , you will die".
In a practical level, death means "separation". We know this tearful reality all too well. In death the soul exits the body. This personal separation leads to relational separation: survivors are left to mourn departed loved ones. In Genesis2-3, we read about an even worse separation. Defying God is like unplugging from God. The result of sin is death in the spiritual sense.
Death as a consequence for sin is an entirely logical theological truth. What other outcome could there be when we separate ourselves from the holy One who is the essence of life and who first animated us with the mysterious "breath of life" (Genesis 2:7)? In the New Testament, the apostle Paul summarized this grimmest of realities this way, "Sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned" ( Romans 5:12 ).
The rebellion in Paradise is beyond tragic. The first book of the Bible opens with life in all its pristine beauty and marvelous goodness. Eden is a deathless world, just as God meant for it to be. But sin comes crashing into the picture, and as a result, Genesis concludes with talk of embalming fluid, coffins, and burial plots.
In Genesis, death quickly moves from possibility (Genesis 2) to ugly (Genesis 3).
The good news, however, is that Genesis is only the beginning of God's great story. All has been lost, but all is not lost. The Almighty has a plan to put death to death.
"BUCKLE UP".