When Will you Die, and Why?

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

I was carefully wording a prayer to God for the desolation of the Democrats when I glanced out of the window at the Red Maple swaying in the breeze and wondered how long they live for. Well, it turns out that they live for about 150 years.

Now, I can understand an apple tree living that long because if you planted one, you, your children, grandchildren and their children, etc., would have apples before another one needed to be planted. But all the maple does is “be red”.

Then I thought of Maga, my faithful nigrahound – gone at 12 years. He was a fine dog who would attack anyone who looked as if they were about to do something. A sad loss.

Of courses, at this point your thoughts will be turning to

Psalms:90:10: The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Psalms:90:11: Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
Psalms:90:12: So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

And

Isa:65:20: There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

And

Ge:6:3: And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

So it is true that we live for 70 or 80 or 120 years - yet a tree lives longer!

Anyway, I got to thinking about other critters and I was amazed that

1. Bowhead whales have lived at least 211 years of age
2. A tortoise made 255,
3. A Greenland Shark (old name, now called an American Shark) can live for 400 years.
4. And some “Glass Sponges” are so old that they must have been actually created by God in Person.

So, what’s God doing here? What’s the theology?

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Anyway, I got to thinking about other critters and I was amazed that

1. Bowhead whales have lived at least 211 years of age
2. A tortoise made 255,
3. A Greenland Shark (old name, now called an American Shark) can live for 400 years.
4. And some “Glass Sponges” are so old that they must have been actually created by God in Person.

So, what’s God doing here? What’s the theology?

Brother Bathfire, I don't know where you get these "facts" from but I have it on reliable authority that men can live far longer than some stupid tree.

Genesis 9:28-29
28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

The key is to live a Godly life obeying every single word of the Bible. It couldn't be simpler yet most don't succeed. Many of God's secrets are explained in the upper tithing tier library where members have access to proprietary teachings passed down directly from Noah in an unbroken lineage.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Genesis 9:28-29
28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

The key is to live a Godly life obeying every single word of the Bible. It couldn't be simpler yet most don't succeed. Many of God's secrets are explained in the upper tithing tier library where members have access to proprietary teachings passed down directly from Noah in an unbroken lineage.

Both you and Pastor Bathfire make profound observations about the length of our lives. When it comes to longevity, it's clear God awards more to some than to others. In the case of Noah, the world was full of sinners. God needed someone to rid His world of sinners, yet begin anew with a Godly society. God rewarded Noah with extra centuries of life.

Is it possible God is looking for someone to do the same right now? The world is rife with homers, liberals and atheists. Perhaps ridding the world of these sinners and laying the foundation for the kind of world God wants would find the person who pulls it off awarded with 950 years of life.

I think both of you have that potential.

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

In the case of Noah, the world was full of sinners. God needed someone to rid His world of sinners, yet begin anew with a Godly society.

Solid theology, Mr Mayor, and thereafter the lower age limit applied.

I suppose it makes you wonder how long Jesus would have lived if he hadn't been set up by Jewish conspiracy theorists.

I'm still bothered about those critters though. Could it be that tortoises, whales, and sharks live in a more Christian, or, at least a less sinful, environment?

I take it sponges don't sin as, although they may recognise good and evil, they don't have much chance to do anything - it's suck, eat, squirt every day for eternity. Perhaps that is Paradise for them.

On the other hand, in Genesis, God punishes humans by making them mortal but doesn't do this to the serpent or any of the other animals, and yet they all eventually die.

[MitzaLizalor]

Hebrews 9:27 … it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment

A number of people were resurrected, for example the dead-and-buried coming out of graves Matthew 27:51-53 who—having already died once—don't get to die again. Would these still be awaiting judgement somewhere and thus older than Noah's 950?