Sanctity of Life?

[Uriah_Betrayed]

So a great-grandfather I personally didn't know died recently. It was of "natural causes" of which included organ failure and infection entering his system.

It made me think, how can God demand for us to glorify human life if it is nothing but suffering even until your end? Personally I'm abhorring the day I grow old and my body begins to decline and decay. What beauty is there in your final moments being you in total fright as you find your heart or other organ stop functioning? Where disease finally claims your body and eats you from the inside until your system simply stops?

Why love life if God clearly puts more suffering than good on our bodies, and for those who say it's because of our own damned and sinful nature then I say that God didn't have to make the punishment so gruesome. Why should I care about preserving any human life that people want to make disposable (Elderly, the unborn) when God clearly doesn't seem to care letting us experience such physical evils.

It makes me understand what the Gnostic heresy was all about...

[Pfaffenhoffen]

Originally Posted by Uriah_Betrayed

So a great-grandfather I personally didn't know died recently. It was of "natural causes" of which included organ failure and infection entering his system.

It made me think, how can God demand for us to glorify human life if it is nothing but suffering even until your end? Personally I'm abhorring the day I grow old and my body begins to decline and decay. What beauty is there in your final moments being you in total fright as you find your heart or other organ stop functioning? Where disease finally claims your body and eats you from the inside until your system simply stops?

Why love life if God clearly puts more suffering than good on our bodies, and for those who say it's because of our own damned and sinful nature then I say that God didn't have to make the punishment so gruesome. Why should I care about preserving any human life that people want to make disposable (Elderly, the unborn) when God clearly doesn't seem to care letting us experience such physical evils.

It makes me understand what the Gnostic heresy was all about...

"suffering even until your end"???
No, the end is not death. Death is the beginning of millions of years of Life.
I am old and you are saying that I decaying ? I can outrun most of the my limpy teenagers I know.

There is one thing that you must understand: the one who rules the world is God not you.
so when you ask why, you should listen, Because the Boss wants so. He is the Boss, He gives orders and expect them to be obeyed.

Oh! But you wanted another order of the world! Do you realize whether people wants your order of the world? Would it be better?

[JRKH]

Originally Posted by Uriah_Betrayed

So a great-grandfather I personally didn't know died recently. It was of "natural causes" of which included organ failure and infection entering his system.

My condolences to your family on the passing of your great grandfather.

It made me think, how can God demand for us to glorify human life if it is nothing but suffering even until your end?

If indeed life were as you say - "nothing but suffering even until your end" - then I might agree with you but that is not how I see life, not how God designed life, and not how we should life life.

Personally I'm abhorring the day I grow old and my body begins to decline and decay.

The simple solution to this is to not project...Jesus teaches us not to worry. I try to do just that (not very successfully I admit ). Nothing I can do about growing old and eventually passing away. Since I can do nothing about it, I figure it best to live my life in joy and to concentrate on what comes after this life.

What beauty is there in your final moments being you in total fright as you find your heart or other organ stop functioning? Where disease finally claims your body and eats you from the inside until your system simply stops?

Read the saints on this.

Why love life if God clearly puts more suffering than good on our bodies, and for those who say it's because of our own damned and sinful nature then I say that God didn't have to make the punishment so gruesome. Why should I care about preserving any human life that people want to make disposable (Elderly, the unborn) when God clearly doesn't seem to care letting us experience such physical evils.

Personally I am not concerned with all the talk about our "sinful nature" and "gruesome punishment". So perhaps I am not the best person to speak to this. All I know is that God has asked me to Live in and to be Love in the world - the the best of my ability. That one thing is sufficient to keep me quite busy throughout my life. My bodily end is of no concern to me at present, though I know that, based solely on my past sins, I deserve a gruesome end indeed. But I leave this to God.

Life is indeed sacred...but remember that it is the life of the soul, not the body, that is primarily sacred. How we treat our body and the bodies of others is a reflection of how we are treating our souls.

Not sure if my blabbering is of any help...I hope it is...

Peace
James