Deaths in the Family

On Earth, all living things die. Humans die. I just saw in the online 11/7/09 RBL (Review of Biblical Literature; see bookreviews.org) a listing of a 2007 book by a Robert M. Price, Jesus is Dead (Cranford, NJ: American Atheist Press). Join the club, Jesus. My grandparents are dead. My Dad is dead. My brother Michael is dead. My Aunt Ida, my Aunt Edith are dead. My Uncle Bob and his wife, Aunt Mill, are dead, too. My cousin Tommy is dead. At some point, I guess I'll be dead. May God have mercy upon the dead! I think there are more people dead than alive. Jesus, before he died, said that all are alive to God (cf. Mt. 22:32). As an article of faith, I believe that Jesus is not dead, though he died.
George Washington, first President of the USA, is dead. The great Abe Lincoln, orator extraordinaire, is dead. I can think of certain religious figures who didn't die, according to the Bible, namely, Enoch and Elijah. The Taoist religion is big on immortality. Immortality also has its place in Greek myth. Plato and other ancient philosophers, taught that humans possess an interior component which is immortal, the soul. What is the truth of the matter? There is life. There is death. Moses told his fellow Israelites that I Am (YHWH) had sent him. There is God.