Life

Life, what is it? A question that biologists and philosophers do ponder, what is the essence of life? What separates animate from inanimate? Life is a property of certain objects. Is life a property of God? A basic answer to the question would be 'movement.' Any form of self-started movement characterizes living things. Things that have no movement, in and of themselves, aren't alive. Something made by a scientist that is able to move itself would be considered living by this definition. For example, a lawn mower, able to start itself, perform its function, shut down, and start itself again in 2 weeks to perform its function again, would be considered a life-form. Even when the lawn mower is shut down, it has tiny movement going on within in the form of a timer and maybe a sensor periodically scanning the grass. Should we think that life is something that must be given by God?