‘Death is inescapable. Ten out of ten people will die. No one knows how many days are appointed for them by God. If you died today, what would happen?

Why Do We Die?

The Bible is the true history book of the universe. It begins with the simple phrase, “in the beginning God” (Genesis 1:1). The God of the Bible claims to be the self-existent, eternal Creator who made the heavens, the earth, and everything in them in just six days by the power of his word. He called his original creation “very good” (Genesis 1:31).

Unlike the animals, humans were created uniquely in the image of God (Genesis 1:27) with eternal souls. Originally, in God’s “very good” creation, bodies were designed to live forever too. There was no death, disease, or suffering: there was only perfect harmony between God and mankind, and between mankind and the creation, though God gave mankind dominion over it (Genesis 1:28).

But then everything changed. God had given the first two people, Adam and Eve, to eat of any tree in the garden he had designed for them, except one, “but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:17). Genesis 3 records the tragic day when Adam and Eve rejected God’s generosity and authority, instead rebelling against God’s single restraint. Thinking their Creator wasn’t being fully honest with them, they ate from the one tree they had been commanded not to eat from. Their choice to reject the Creator of life brought death into creation—just like God had said. No longer was the creation “very good”; now it was cursed and broken because of sin.