Contemplative Bible Reading

Romans 8:10 (New Living Translation)

10 And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life because you have been made right with God.

Why does a human body die? I have heard medical doctors say that they really don’t know a reason. I have hear from people who study aging, and they are unsure of why the human body ages to death.

Oh, here is the answer: your body will die because of sin.

It seems that I used to hear this type of thing said at funerals of my childhood. Nowadays, funerals are “celebrations of life” and such. No slight on these celebrations, but it is easy to forget that we die because of sin. Because of my sin or sin in general? Probably, yes to both.

This isn’t positive, is it? I mean, sort of a sad statement to make on a sad day, a funeral. Well, so be it. Our bodies age and die because of sin.