I live close to an old people's home and a very old man once gave me a nice little card with a few Bible verses (also Joh 11:25-26, 1 Joh 4:9-11). It is about God loving the world and that those who believes him shall have eternal life.
Ty så älskade Gud världen, att han utgav sin enfödde Son, på det att var och en som tror på honom skall icke förgås, utan hava evigt liv. Joh. 3:16
If you haven't seen the movie "Highlander" och can't remember it, click here, a 30 sec version of the movie. It is about some people who have eternal life on earth. So the live and get to see their loved ones live and die while they have to wander the earth, not ageing a day. The only way to get killed is to be decapitated (halshuggen). They have only one, main objective in their several hundreds of years long lives and that is to win The Prize at the Gathering. The Gathering is the last remaining immortals meeting to fight for The Prize because it is only the last living immortal who can win it, "it can be only one". "The Prize, which is revealed to be mortality, the ability to sire children, and a telepathic/empathic gift wherein he can communicate with and influence the greatest minds or most powerful people on the planet." (Wikipedia) So what they strive for is mortality and having a somewhat normal life, and that goes for the evil immortals as well.
Reading the Bible verse that is put up on my wall next to articles and other things, made me think of the perspectives forwarded by the verse and the movie. It made me think of an open question...Is there an intrinsic importance to have an eternal life, whatever the form of life is? I am not questioning whether there is some kind of eternal life or not, I am just wondering if it is good in it self and therefore worth striving for?
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Its very interesting this post.. greetings
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