Originally posted by twhitehead
I generally agree.
What I dont see is how you conclude: [b]No God No life.
Where does that come from?
Believe in nothing? No life is nothing. If one thinks that life ends at death, then that is believing in nothing.
Now I am not following you. How can the "life" you described earlier not end in death? I fully agree that life is more than tanding of "life" than you gave in the first part of your post? If so, lets hear it.[/b]
I generally agree.
What I dont see is how you conclude: No God No life.
Where does that come from?
All life is of God.
Believe in nothing? No life is nothing. If one thinks that life ends at death, then that is believing in nothing.
Now I am not following you. How can the "life" you described earlier not end in death? I fully agree that life is more than simply the organism that is alive, but it is nevertheless inseparable from said organism.
Life is the opposite of death. When I say life I mean life that has no death.
I would also like to understand why you use the word "nothing" to refer to "no life". Is a rock "nothing"? Why use that word in such an odd way?
I used the word "nothing" in conjunction with "believing in". If one believes that life ends upon death, and death results in "nothingness", then believing that life ends is believing in nothing.
By your usage of the word, I believe in nothing. Does this mean that you can conclude that I believe in no thing? Of course not, that would be just foolish word play.
Of course not! I am
not saying you believe in nothing in that sense. I am saying that if one does not believe in a creator that gives life that never ends, then that one believes in nothing, because nothing is what one gets when one dies if that's what one believes.
The Bible says that God breathed life into man. Does that life die when the body dies? If it does, then how is it "life"?
How is it not? Or is there more to your understanding of "life" than you gave in the first part of your post? If so, lets hear it.
How is it not you ask? The physical body lives as long as the life that occupies it remains in the body. When the physical body grows to old or weak it gives up the life in it. That life is the real man. The body is merely the vehicle.
If we are only a body, then death has no meaning. But if we are more than just flesh and bone, that is, if we have life within that can continue to live after the body ceases to function, then death to that life is...unthinkable.