Appreciating Life

Appreciating Life

Nov 8-9

Genesis 9:5-6;
Psalm 139-13-14;
Exodus 21: 22-23

Life the one thing Science can not duplicate! The "something" that departs at the time of Death... we call Life! The body weighs a little less when the spirit [that thing that we call life] departs the body at time of death. Life has substance and that substance is distinctive with every person. So at seems that every person is unique! There are those that say, "I met my double." By this they mean, "I met one who looks like me on another part of the world." A closer look reveals the outside shell may appear similar, but the DNA for the person is different, the quality that makes the most difference is the value structure. This may not easily discerned from the outside. The values are more determinate to what a person will do than any outward appearance. Never the less the most determinative predictor of future action would be the value structure. What does the person believe? We hope to shed light on some of those beliefs and assumptions as we outline this topic.

We call those who kill the life of an adult with out conscience a psychotic murderer. His actions are unnerving in that they seem to have a different set of rules regarding Life. How can a person predict what that person will do in any given situation. The essence of trust is to be able to be comfortable with expected reactions to any given stimulus or situation. Their actions are psychopathic when those actions deny the life of another person without cause. In Littleton Colorado the murdering students not only did not value the lives of those different from themselves. Investigation revealed that they felt compelled to eliminate all those different. This compulsion was particularly strong for any found who worshiped the Living God! (Psychologists call psychopathic another word for sick. This is not generally accepted in the world. We call one who would mistreat a child an abuser; a criminal. We are so very easy to judge the one who takes the life of another with no respect. Right we should be! stepping back down the scale of utility, why do we make devalue the life of these certain members. Why do we permit the special class of persons called mothers to extinguish the lives of the most helpless members of our world. If a person does not produce money, the person's valuation in the eyes of our society falls. The more the lessening of the productivity, the less the value. People with various handicaps seem to come out lower on the scale of importance. Turning the job of valuation over to some governmental potentate gives him god like powers. As such, how much will the society permit? how far will the society work to defend the rights of the dependant person. How far will the people permit this person to go in the destruction of human life. Does this process or turning the decision over to another absolve guilt from the whole?

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Genesis 9:5-6

5 And surely the blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.

6 Whosoever sheds man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

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Psalm 139:13-14

13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.

14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knows right well.

If you ever wondered

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Exodus 21:22-23

21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.{If a man hurt his slave!}

22 ¶ If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

This passage indicates that the unborn child has value. Torah awards personhood to the unborn, and he accrues damages for hurt experienced before the mother delivers. It prescribes that a judge should defend those rights in awarding damages. The only problem for the unborn baby today is that judges have declared that this life is not suitable for defending. Many of those same judges have discovered more value in an endangered species of mammal than in the unborn of the human experience.

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Death

Death is the termination of the biological functions that define living organisms. It refers both to a specific event and to a condition, the true nature of which it has for millennia been a central concern of the world's religious traditions and philosophers to penetrate; in particular, the possibility or otherwise of what is known as life after death.

Spiritually: Death takes place when the spirit departs form the body. there are these who do not believe the existence of the spirit. The persons who assert this do not seem to have any problem with the concept of "subconscious!" because this is not the essence of this article, I will

Numerous factors can cause death: predation, disease, habitat destruction, senescence, suicide, conflict, malnutrition, or mere accidents resulting in terminal physical injury. The principal cause of death among those in developed countries is disease precipitated by aging. The chief concern of medical science has been to postpone and avert death. Precise medical definition of death, however, becomes more problematic, paradoxically, as scientific knowledge and technology advance.

This definition is a copy of the Wikipedia definition. Interesting that through medical science we work so hard to "extend the life of the aging" there by postponing the eventual ending of all living things.

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Who is the most Valuable?

Luke 9:48 and [Jesus] said to them, "Whoever for my sake receives this little child, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives Him who sent me. For the lowliest among you all he is the greatest."

Another translation uses the word more "important than all." Jesus by definition is applying a different standard to the value of this person from that used by the people he is speaking with! A complete understanding of valuation can be obtained by Looking through the Epistles for the phrase "in Him", "through Him", or "by Him." The concept is this:

Who we are and how valuable we are can be obtained

from a comparison with out friends, our leaders,,

or even what a very important person thinks of us.

Try God!

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made:
Genesis 2:22

And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

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