God wants us to to raise the dead and defeat death and live forever right here on Earth.

The Bible tells us how God wants us to use our brains and use science to raise the dead and defeat death.

Life is Good

Have you ever had one of those mornings where you just love being alive? The kind of morning where the air is crisp and clean, and when you walk outside and look out on a blue and cloudless sky, the world seems so perfect. The sounds of birdsong fall upon our ears like a gift from God. The sound of children playing sounds like music. 

Life is so precious to us at these times. We drink it all in through our senses like a fine wine, this rich and wonderful world. It’s good to be alive, isn’t it?

We Are Told To Accept Death By Our Societal Institutions

But life has to end. Doesn’t it? Isn’t that what society tells us? That death is proper and natural? Turn on your TV set. Listen to it. It won’t be long until you hear a reference to death. Maybe you will hear someone refer to a departed relative as looking down on us from heaven. It is comforting to think of our departed loved ones in such a way. And although we all feel an aching void inside us when we think about the prospect of death, mainstream society encourages us to accept death. Popular culture seems to want us to see death as something that is natural and something that we cannot fight against.

God Does Not Want Us To Accept Death

But when it comes to the idea of accepting death, the Bible does not encourage us to accept death. Quite the opposite, in fact. The Bible itself does not see death as something to be meekly accepted. Instead, the Bible encourages us to aggressively seek out immortality right here on earth.  In fact, the Bible — which is the voice of God speaking to us –- commands us to take the necessary actions for living forever right here on earth. The Bible gives us a set of  instructions on how we can have immortal life right here on earth.

God Has A Plan For Us To Live Forever

God’s plan for us to live forever here on Earth is perhaps best shown to us by how the Bible explains to us God’s ultimate goal for us. And just what is God’s Big Plan, as expressed in the Bible?

If you look at 1 Corinthians, chapter 15 verses 25-26 (from the World English Bible), it says as follows:

He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

The “He” in this verse is referring to Jesus, referring to the Second Coming of Christ, when he returns again to Earth.  So we see that the last enemy, the toughest enemy to defeat, is Death. We see here that God’s plan is to rid mankind of death.  But God will not accomplish that goal until all other enemies have been defeated. Everything leads up to that final battle between God and Death. Beating Death is the ultimate goal.

As further evidence of this plan, let’s turn to Isaiah chapter 25 verse 8 in the English Standard Version Bible:

He [referring again to Jesus here] will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces…

So, no more tears and no more death. That is in our future, if we do as God wants us to do. Sounds like a good plan.

The Bible Gives Us Instructions On How To Live Forever

Does God tell us how to live forever? Let’s take a look at John chapter 8 verse 51 (from the World English Bible):

…if a person keeps my word, he will never see death….

Now, this verse is one of the many verses in the bible that show that God knows you are thinking about how to beat death. In this verse, God is talking to those readers who want to beat death, who want to live forever. God knows we don’t want to die. And through the Bible God is giving us directions, instructions on how to live forever. What instructions? Keep his word. That is what he wants us to do. The word “keep” in the verse above means “to guard”or to “watch over”, which is based on the Greek noun “teros,” meaning “guard.” Teros is the primary Greek root word from the original biblical text of John 8 51 (see Strong’s Concordance).

As noted above, if you go to the website biblehub.com for John chapter 8 verse 51, and click on “Greek” near the top, you will see the original Greek translation of this verse. It reads as follows: “I say to you, if anyone my word keeps, death never not shall he see, to the age.” The word “keeps” here is based on the Greek word tērēsē — which is shown on the left hand side of that page (see http://biblehub.com/text/john/8-51.htm ). If you place your mouse over the word tērēsē, you will see the words “tērēsē: keeps in-tact.” So, the original translation of John 8 51 tells us to keep God’s word intact. Not just follow his word. But to keep his word intact. All in one piece. Together. Preserve it. Watch over it. Guard it. Keep his word intact inside your brain for all time.

Another verse which shows that God knows what we are looking for, which is a way to beat death, is 1 John chapter 2 verse 17 from the Weymouth New Testament:

And the world, with its cravings, is passing away, but he who does God’s will continues for ever.

God Knows That We Want To Live Forever

Here we see that the Bible is talking to those of us who want to continue forever. To never really die, in other words. Or, if we are to die, to rise and live again.

So, from the Bible we see that God knows that death is always on your mind. And his plans include immortality for mankind. And he is talking to us through the Bible, telling us the way to achieve our goal of living forever. All we have to do is follow these commands. The Bible is a set of instructions on how to live forever right here on Earth.

God Understands How Horrible Death Is For Us

And let me tell you something else—God understands how horrible death really is.  See Acts 2 24, from the World English Bible:

…whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

The agony of death! That’s God talking to us, and he wants us to know that he understands the agony we experience when we think about how death awaits us. We may not feel the sting of death right now, if we are healthy and young, but when the time of death comes upon us, when death draws near, we will feel the agony of death more sharply. And God is telling us here that he understands. If you listen to the television set, to Hollywood, they would have you believe that death is inevitable, something to be accepted. But the Creator of this universe is telling us something different. He is looking for people who want to live forever, and he is speaking to those people, telling them how to achieve that goal.

In the New Living Translation bible version of this same verse (Acts 2 24), the bible uses the phrase “the horrors of death”. (NLT)

So God knows that you think death is horrible, and he agrees with you. Also see Hebrews 2 15, from the NET Bible, which reads as follows:

…and set free those who were held in slavery all their lives by their fear of death.

Another version of Romans 7 24, from the International Standard Version bible, says as follows:

Who will rescue me from this body that is infected by death?

Enslaved by death! Infected by death! That is God talking to you through Paul, and he is referring to death as an infection, as slavery. Yet Hollywood tells us death is natural and to be accepted. Our preachers tell us we will go to Heaven when we die. But the Bible portrays death as the horror it really is. Quite a contrast.

So, God understands how horrible death really is, the agony of death, the slavery of death, the infection that is death. God feels your fear of death, and he understands it, and God does not want us to go meekly to the grave. Isn’t that what all these Bible verses quoted above are telling us?  That God does not see death as natural. That God does not want us to accept death meekly and go to the grave? Hollywood and the media and your friendly neighborhood preacher all tell us otherwise–that death is natural and that we should accept it and that Heaven awaits us. Who is right?

Do you remember–back when you were a young child–when you first began to realize that people die and that you were also going to die?  God understands that empty feeling, that deep sense of loss that you felt when you first realized that you were going to die, that all people die, that you were going to lose all this, this wonderful world around you. God sees that empty aching spot inside all of us, the emptiness we try to hide from ourselves, the emptiness that is our awareness of death.  However, the Bible shows us that God wants to end death forever for all of us. There is hope.

And isn’t it true—are we not all our lives held in slavery by our fear of death? Death hangs over all our heads, ever since that first day as a child when we learned that people all die.

We Can Defeat Death

From Romans 7 24 (New International Version), Paul speaks to us, and he says to us:

Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?

We have all secretly wished for that ourselves, haven’t we? Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? I don’t want to die…but my body, unfortunately, is destined for death. Or at least that is the way it has been for all mankind up to this point in time. But can we change that?

All of us have read various news media articles about scientific studies that speculate on possible cures for old age and cancer, heart disease, and just death in general.  We have all seen reports on various scientific studies in the area of aging and so forth, which speculate on how science might be used to defeat aging and death someday. We have all seen articles on how we might be able to upload our minds into computers someday and thus live forever. And of course there are the cryonicists, who practice the science of cryonics, which involves filling the brain of the recently deceased with sophisticated anti-freeze solutions, and then storing the body or head of that person in liquid nitrogen so that decades or centuries from now, advanced science might revive them.

When we read these articles, we all ask ourselves, “When will it be possible for science to stop death? Will science rescue me in time from this body subject to death? Or will I also die like every other human?”

And God might hear you and answer your question this way: ”Rescue yourself.”  Remember, God helps those who help themselves, those who help themselves through their own good works and deeds.

God Wants Us To Live Forever Right Here On Earth

And where does God want us to spend eternity as immortal beings? In heaven? To answer that question, let’s look at Luke Chapter 18 verse 30 from the World English Bible. It says that:

who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.

The world to come–that is where we will live forever. That is where we will get eternal life—in the world to come, and not in heaven. Not the present world. The world to come.  The future world. Do you know of anyone who is immortal in this present-day world? No, the world to come is where we will have immortality. Most likely the distant future. But we are not there yet.

And if we look at Mark 10 30 (Webster’s Bible Translation), it tells us that:

in the world to come  [the faithful shall receive] eternal life.

Do these Bible verses say anything about living forever in heaven? No. It will be Earth for us. This planet is our home. That is what God is telling us. But eternal life is only for the faithful. But what exactly does that mean? We shall delve into that later in this document.

Jesus Christ Said That No One From Earth Has Ever Gone Into Heaven

Jesus Christ said in John 3 13 (New International Version) that:

No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven–the Son of Man.

So here Jesus is speaking at a point in time after Moses, David, Aaron and many other Hebrews have already lived and died. And yet Jesus is saying that no one from Earth has even gone to heaven (except Jesus himself). Moses could not get into heaven, but yet Hollywood wants you think that you can get into Heaven. Who is right–Hollywood or the Bible?

And who else tells you are going to Heaven if you are a good person? Your friendly neighborhood preacher, that’s who.  Every Sunday morning, hundreds of preachers get up on a pulpit and tell us about how we can go to Heaven. But that is not what the Bible says, is it? Why are our churches, Hollywood and our other American institutions telling us that we will go to Heaven when we die?

God Will Use Mankind To Defeat Death

So the Bible tells us that God’s ultimate goal is to defeat death. But how is God going to defeat death? What are his tools for defeating death?  Is it possible that we, mankind, are going to defeat death for God?

The Bible does tell us that we have been designed to do great works for God. In 2 Timothy 3 17 (New Living Translation), it says:

God uses it [meaning scripture] to prepare and equip his people to do every good work. (NLT)

Every good work! Think about that. If there is a good work that God wants done, then he has prepared us to perform that good work for him. And since defeating death is God’s ultimate goal (see 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verses 25-26), wouldn’t it make sense that he has prepared us to do that good work for him, that he has prepared and equipped us to do that ultimate good work–to defeat death?

And from Ephesians 2 10 (New Living Translation), we see the following:

…we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.” (NLT)

The Bible is telling us that we need to do these good things for God. Whatever “good things” that God has planned, he is looking to us to do them for him. Surely defeating death is one of the good things he wants us to do? After all, 1 Corinthians 15 25-26 (World English Bible) tells us this:

[Jesus] must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

So if defeating death is the ultimate goal for God, and if mankind is equipped to do all of his good works, then defeating death must surely be something we need to do for God, and for ourselves.

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