sermon: Imagining the Garden of Eden (Part 10)
Death and Being Alone
Richard T. Ritenbaugh
Given 18-Dec-10; Sermon #1024; 72 minutes
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Richard Ritenbaugh, focusing on mankind’s most fearful enemy, death—the cessation of all life processes, examines various definitions of death. Senescence, disease, malnutrition, accidents, suicide, and murder are all contributory causes of death. The Bible defines or describes death as the cessation of respiration. The context of the “day” you eat of it, you shall die, suggests a span of time one lives, or it could refer to the judgment of death (pronouncement of the death sentence) which happens immediately as one commits the act. The death penalty over our forebears on Sinai took place over many years. In Genesis 2, we learn that God created all forms of life and created the institution of marriage. This chapter describes God’s role in establishing the covenant with man, revealing Himself to mankind, that He is a God of law, order, love, providence, thoughtfulness, relationships, growth, and creativity. These attributes are apparent even if one does not have access to His Holy Spirit. The statement, “it is not good for man to be alone” is the first declaration that something was not good. Being alone denotes separateness. Man was created individually, but designed to need companionship or relationship with other people. When we have companionship with others, we are able to develop other-centeredness or the way of outgoing concern, looking out for the needs of others, developing the mind of Christ. Man has been designed by God to be a social creature, intended to interact with other people. We are designed to need God the Father just as Christ needed God the Father. Furthermore, we were born to procreate, with the ultimate end of reproducing the God-kind.
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Ability to communicate Adam Acts 5:5 Accident Alone Anthropocentrism Baby Boundaries of human marriage Brain death Breath of life Cave Celestial day Collection of bones Companionship Crypt Day of the Lord Day as a thousand years Day Death certificate Death Degeneration Double verb Ecclesiastes 4:8; 9:5, 10; 12:7 Exodus 32:35 Ezekiel 4:20 I Corinthians 15:26 Galatians 4:2-7 Gathered to his people Genesis 2; 3:17-19; 25:8; 35:29; 49:33 Given point in time Heirs with Christ In the day you eat of it Individuals Incomplete Isaiah 55:11 Job 1:21; 14:10 John 8:16-29 Literal day Luke 23:46 Matthew 19:11-12 Malnutrition Mark 15:37 Marriage Minor key 150,000 960 years Ossuary Philippians 2:3-5 Psalm 104:29 Psalm 146:4 Return to dust Romans 1:18-21 II Corinthians 6:17-18 Second Adam Self-centeredness Single Social interaction Theo-centric Three-fold cord Tree of life Wages of sin is death Woman Womb- man Yom
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