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  What does the Bible say about death? Having no other way to face life than always looking forward to death, we look for comfort, cures, and cause to help deal with death. Today, man places his confidence in science. His hope is in a cure to help maintain life without death. Hormones, steroids, antidepressants all keep us going physically, but spiritually we are still sad, helpless, and hopeless. The psychologist is employed to help assuage emotional sickness. The medical doctor is employed to alleviate physical disease. Values are taught from a humanistic standpoint without any absolute standard considered. Morals are based upon the HR department, but the church, the Bible, and the home has no say. Death is God’s unalterable consequence to sin.

  The only treatment plan for death is Jesus. Death will come because man has sinned. God, in the beginning, promised this factor when He said: “…for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” (Genesis 2:17). Now, if the scientist wants to know why man dies, the only absolute answer lies in the Bible. The apostle later would write: “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23). Spiritually man will live forever, but physically man will die, and the reason again is one: Sin. Another passage in the Bible confirms this: “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:” (5:12). Now the Calvinist says that sin is inherited genealogically, and thus man dies; but the Bible does not teach so. Because of sin, man will die. Sin is not inherited, but a choice. It is the consequences of sin that leads to death, but notice here what the prophet said relative to this point: “The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.” (Ezekiel 18:20). Again, man must work very hard to overcome sin, but without Christ this is impossible. In Christ we live, and in Adam we die (1 Corinthians 15:45-58). Victory is in Christ alone, and death is in Adam alone. More to come…