Originally posted by @uzless
why put us through this life then? Why not just send us straight to the afterlife?
And no i'm not assuming this life is it. That's your assumption based on statements I did not make. Reading critically will help you later in life when you grow up.
Do you understand something of what a vessel is ?
BY vessel I mean a container.
Human life was created to be vessel, a container.
Think of a glove as a container.
A glove is a hand shaped container designed to contain a human hand.
This may help you to see that man's life is made in a kind of "God shaped" way in order to be a vessel to contain God. This was God's purpose in creating man - to design a man in the image and likeness of the unseen God in order to contain God.
Before God could dispense Himself into this container of the vessel of human life His enemy rushed in to pollute and damage the container of humanity. The enemy does not fill the vessel of man in exactly the same way. But he imitates that function.
In rushing in to derail God's eternal purpose he came into man and brought sin and death into man.
So has the problem of being defiled with a wrong content. And death is the result. And separation from God is also the tragic result.
We are told that the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus.
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus." (Rom. 6:23)
I don't understand everything about this. But death is a reaping of wages for sin. It is like the salary paid for serving the employer of sin.