Body and soul

No sir, I've not read it. But knowing that Enoch walked with Adam and he is mentioned as having favor with God, I can't help but wonder why his book was not included?

I wanna be shot by a jealous husband when I'm 99.
Or instantaneously vapourized in a nuclear blast.

A discussion not for this thread, but suffice to say, it was never a question of Enoch's status before God, but rather his writings were not inspired to reveal God character anymore than what we have today.

Or in a brawl with Bigfoot over a beaver

The big unknown does scare me some, I have faith but I'm not the judge

For some death is only leaving this world for eternity with the lord, For others, death is a place of uncertainty.

Billions have gone before us so we know it's doable.

If you believe in God and know you are destined for heaven what's to fear?
If you don't believe in God and do not worry about hades what's to fear?

I have come close to death multiple times, both injury and disease have nearly taken me. I never had much fear of it. When I was married we thought for awhile my wife was pregnant, it gave me me a near instantaneous fear of death, I still climbed trees but I was more careful and thoughtful.

Upon my divorce I nearly completely lost my fear of death, nothing phased me, I got knocked out cold in a tree (being wreck less) and when I woke up with an obvious concussion I went straight back to work, I didn't come down from the tree until it was done.

I recently met a girl who is excellent, someone who I could see having a family with someday, my fear of death has started to return.

My fear of death seems to be tied in with my potential legacy and from a biological and evolutionary perspective it makes alot of sense.

The answer to both is (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman)

The fear stems from the unknown perhaps. The list we can conjure being able to control is shorter than the list our mind develops as to "what might happen."
Covid has opened a can of "what if's" that continues to prosper.

Humans have this cursed sense that we can control our destiny. Some go so far as to freeze their corpse for a future date thinking humans will develop the elixir of immortality.
That's a sure way to live less than 100 years.

Not afraid of dying , just hope I live long enough to enjoy some retirement.
Reading other posts , makes a guy think I can relate.
Company I work for has pretty healthy amounts of life insurance on
Everyone here so yes I'm worth more died than alive. (Crazy but true)
But for now I'm glad to be alive.
Very good post Mark

I hope our legacy isn't wrapped around money. Rust and moths.
150 years from now, who will remember how much you left behind? No one you know. And no one they know. And most won't know your name 30 years after you die.

For millennia our faith prepped in this life for the next and now -
Atheists suggest we swap our soul in this life for goodies that we can assure our kids and gkids to swap their souls in their lifetimes also?
Not on this dude's watch.

Blessings,
Mark

Boy howdy isn’t that the truth!

Well said Mark

I think knowledge of our inevitable demise is what separates us from the beasts... Animals flee that which is immediately dangerous to life or health, but I see no indication that they instinctively know that "one day..." We learn it fairly young and it shapes the course of our lives.

The biological imperatives boil down to 3 basic rules:

A) Stay alive

B) Make copies of yourself

C) Keep the copies alive long enough to make copies of themselves.

I think that's why a lot of folks instinctively have trouble with matters of faith. If you have faith you can ignore the 3 basic rules because you know something larger is at play... In fact, faith often instructs you to ignore or overcome many of the baser instincts.

There's no getting around it... It's inevitable. I just hope mine isn't long and painful. And I hope I meet it well.

Mike

I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid that after death my wife will sell my stuff for what I told her I paid for it.

Actually I'm more afraid that I won't have left my wife with enough to live on. Although her retirement plan is much better than mine.

I witnessed to my father and mother about Christ shortly after I became a Christian. I wanted to, but also felt I needed to. My mother looked at me like I was crazy and my father was so offended he wouldn't talk to me for months.

I understand he finally "accepted" Christ just days before he passed. I wasn't there and can't speak to whether the transformation was real or not but his lifelong conviction of the afterlife passed just before he did. Was it the fear of the unknown? I don't know. My mother never did give any indication of changing her opinion.

They say most people die much they way they've lived.

If he got final rites he's all set.

Faith at its core is a transference of trust.

FYI - More and more Christian funerals are moving away from the Roman pagan era garb of black and despair over someone's ultimate death and burial,
to the historic orthodox funerals where Christians dress in white and rejoice at the end of one life as the next begins. Still sad but hope is eternal with the Lord.

Blessings,
Mark

I guess to me, death is part of life. Everyone gets a turn.

What's the answer to fear?