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| THE QUESTION: If you are only a man, as you so claim to be, then how is it that you have enjoyed that god-like privilege of immortality? And even more importantly, do we Christians actually have immortality? |
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THE ANSWER: The answer should be very obvious; if I'm not a god in that mythological sense, then I'm certainly not immortal. The subject of immortality has naturally plagued much of mankind for at least as long as there has been a recorded history. This sense of immortality is an instinctive intuitive intellectual behavior experienced in most all cultures of the world. It has only been in this Age of Reality that man has finally recognized the true source of this shared belief that somehow the soul and/or spirit of man survives beyond death. I don't have, nor does this man to whom you are now addressing, possess a full and technological understanding of this modern field of knowledge designated as genetics. The more recent discoveries in the field of DNA and its almost infinite components has clearly explained that every human being is the product of countless generations believed to have originated from some single source, which might also explain the felonious ideas of creation that purport the source of life as having come from "a" singular god. Of course, there are those religious people who would still wish to postulate that that very source is this one mythological God to whom they pay so much undue homage. The fallacy of this explanation is that it simply does not match the timetable that is so explicitly expressed in the Bible. Our countless ancestors have certainly achieved immortality with the transmission of their genetic material to the subsequent generations; you are evidence of that reality. And even had some given individual failed to have had any children of their own there was still the strong likelihood that much of their own genetic material would still be transmitted by other related family members; the only thing missed would be that individual's own personal experiences and memories. So if you personally or any other individual wish to achieve some realistic form of immortality, it's as simple as having children. Beyond that uncomplicated reality are only the natural imagined fantasies of individuals who hope for a life beyond death that is hopefully more pleasant than the only one to which they were bore; a promise once made to slaves to pacify their sad state of oppression. |