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What is life and where does it come from?
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Who is responsible for protecting it?
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Who determines the quality of life?
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Is there such a thing as a poor quality of life?
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What makes life in mankind unique?
The "germ" of life is programmed into the various elements of
creation which include physical elements and the elements of the laws of that
God has set up to sustain life.
Evolutionary scientists have yet to understand what life is.
They are coming to research with a skewed view on the origin of life, therefore,
they can not understand it. Life has been dubbed as the "germ" that evades
being found out, but does it really evade them or are they just blind to the
truth because their skewed view?
These evolutionary scientists think that if they were to take
two atoms and smash them at high rates of speed, life would emerge. There is
even talk of a "god particle" that they need to find to complete this
experiment.
Let Us Look At Where Life Began
God created the earth and it appeared empty and
mysterious. This was before life as we know it entered the equation.
"The Spirit Of God moved upon the face of the
waters". The beginning of Life is a direct result of being energized by the
Creator. He has endowed part of who He is to His creation giving it
life.
We could talk about the significance of life in
animals, birds, and the rest of creation, but I want to focus on the
significance of life in mankind.
As God created mankind He needed to breathe into
man's being to bring him to life. A lot went on in that episode that we can
only begin to understand.
God, when He breathes on something, makes it
become alive because He imparts His living self to the object. In this case,
however, God puts part of His Spirit within man as a means of setting up mankind
as a spiritual, relational, emotional as well as physical being. These are all
characteristics of God that He imparted to mankind on that initial
encounter.
The key aspects to human life are:
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Spiritual (a never dying soul)
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Relational (able to correspond and show you care)
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Emotional (able to laugh or cry)
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Physical (we have a body that allows our spirit that is alive to move and physically serve others)
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We are able to rationalize (think)
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able to build things that have not yet existed
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We have the capability of blessing or cursing others.
There may be many more aspects to human life but
this gives an idea of how unique we are in the creation of the world.
Who is responsible for Protecting Life?
While the sacredness of human life was
established at creation, very soon afterward man chose to disregard life, even
if it was the life of his brother. Cain killed his brother Abel and tried to
cover up by asking whether he had to know where his brother was.
Cain as a murderer that was unrepentant was
driven from the presence of all other humans with the exception of his wife. It
is evident that God values life and will not allow murderers to go on killing/
destroying life that God specifically imparted to the individual.
Mankind had become so debased that God sent a
global flood to get rid of the debauchery, the murders, the infamous men who
were destroying God's plans. After this flood, God gave instructions to those
who were left, not to allow anything human or animal who had taken a human's
life co-exist with mankind.
God has given the responsibility of protecting
life, whether adult, child/ unborn baby to the fellow humans that populate this
sphere. Inasmuch as they are alive, they have been imparted with the very
character of God and carry His seal upon their life.
Who determines the quality of life?
There is a lot of talk these days about the
quality of life, but I raise the question, Is there anything such as a poor
quality of Life? The fact that God has imparted His life to us as His creation
should speak for itself. We may be physically or mentally impaired but the
quality of life never changes. God does not withhold His life from anyone nor
does He desire that anyone should suffer alone.
God has given life and He alone determines
whether life as we know it should cease. We as humans have no business
interfering with God's plan for life and must recognize that life does not end
with death. Life is eternal and the carriage for the spirit gets transferred.
Pain does not end with physical death so suicide will not alleviate your pain.
Suicide is always sin... it is nothing else than
a disbelief in the grace of God to be with you in what you are going through
that is carried out in murdering yourself. God may be asking you to go through
a hard time so you bring Him Glory through it. If what you are going through is
His will, and it is, then to step out to avoid it is to step out of His
will.
Do not take your life in your own hands, to do so is to set
yourself up as God.
Life In The New Birth
To deepen the mystery of life, God has called
each one of us to partake in eternal life. Our souls and spirits were made for
eternity, but to experience it to its fullest we must make choices that are
conducive to the favored eternal destination.
When a person is born of God, his spirit is
conceived of the Holy Spirit producing a spirit that will change the behavior of
the soul and body. To be born of God is to have God impart yet a bigger part of
Himself to you, making you completely alive.
To turn your back on Christ in you is to commit spiritual
suicide and to commit spiritual suicide is to desecrate the life of God within
you.
When we have been born of the Spirit of God, our desires will
be different. We will desire to continue to partake in the goodness of God,
fashioning our lives after the likeness of Christ. Our desire to serve our
flesh will be diminished as we become more like Jesus.
May God Bless you with a full life as you live in the Spirit.
