It is appointed

Michelangelo's fresco

In order for a proper understanding of why God has appointed man to die, we need to go back to the beginning. Genesis 1:1 states"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Two immediate points with this first verse of the Bible need to be made.

1) In the beginning there was God. Before anything was made there was God. He is eternal, having no beginning or end. Therefore, everything in this universe is subject to Him. It means that He is sovereign and in control. Nothing that takes place in this world or the heavens is without God's knowledge.

2)God created everything out of nothing (ex Nihilo) meaning that all matter was made by God's design and power. To think that the universe created itself by some cosmic burp is just not logical thinking. I know, some will argue that belief in creation is religious and not scientific. Well to believe in a big bang is just as religious because it takes faith to believe that the entire universe came into existence from a speck of dirt.

Which leads to the question, where did the dirt come from? Who made the dirt? The dirt didn't make itself because that would destroy the First law of Thermodynamics. After all, we are talking scientific here, right? What is the meaning of the word "science?"

This is from Wikipedia: Science (from Latin: scientia, meaning "knowledge") is a systematic enterprise of gathering knowledge about nature and organizing and condensing that knowledge into testable laws and theories.[1] As knowledge has increased, some methods have proved more reliable than others, and today the scientific method is the standard for science. It includes the use of careful observation, experimentation, measurement, mathematics, and replication — to be considered a science, a body of knowledge must stand up to repeated testing by independent observers.

The big bang is not observable, testable, measurable or replicable. Please don't insult my intelligence by stating that the big bang is science and belief in God is religious. Both theories are religious; one believes in the beginning dirt and the other, in the beginning God.

Tomorrow we go back to the creation of man. Why is man so special? Of everything created by God, only man was created in God's image (Genesis 1:27). Good night and God bless.