Why do we perish

John is making a contrast between the words perish and life. If John is using the word perish to mean physical death only, then it would stand to reason that the word life would only mean physical life.

The fact is that everyone physically dies regardless if you believe in Christ or not. John is referring to eternal life during and after God raises us from physical death. John shows this in the following verse. Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example, in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

For their worm shall not die, And their fire shall not be quenched; And they shall be an abhorrence to all mankind. And there he will bind them forever. Verily, He is, from the beginning of the world. The Apostle Paul, in 1st Corinthians 15, explains in detail how, at death, the body is raised as an imperishable body.

All people have an imperishable body after death. And with what kind of body do they come? That which you sow does not come to life unless it dies; 37 and that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else. They would cut a vein and drain blood from the patient.

Because people thought that diseases started in the blood. So, by getting rid of some blood, it would help the sick person get well. In December of , George Washington became very sick. His doctor bled him four times in one day.

In a few hours, he died. Today, most doctors know that bleeding does not help a sick person; rather, it does just the opposite. That is because the blood carries to every part of the body the things we need to stay alive.

Removing blood makes it harder for the blood that is left in the body to do its work. One of the most barbaric ancient practice is human sacrifice; it was a widespread practice in many cultures all around the world. Not only is taking the life of a fellow human being wrong; but also the very method employed in human sacrifice was extremely callous. The whole practice of human sacrifice was as a result of lack of knowledge.

This act of ignorance cut the lives of many people short in the Maya kingdom in Mexico. The Mayan fought many wars with their neighboring tribes. Through warfare, they seize and transport many captives back home. They convert some of the captives to slaves for labor and reserve the high-status captives for sacrifice.

The captive is stretched on an altar face-up, and the priest would cut through the torso of the captive; whiles he is still alive and bleeding and hurting, the priest would insect his hand into his body and reach for his still-beating heart and plug it as though he was plugging an apple.

Aside from captives, Mayan natives, especially children, were victims of this human sacrifice. Other methods the Mayans employed in conducting human sacrifice were decapitation, bloodletting, and arrow shooting.

Carla Alvarez Carla Alvarez is the founder of Raised to Walk and a contributor at An Unexpected Journal where she writes about the Christian faith, a Communications Director at Legacy Marketing Services where she uses her BS in Marketing to create communication strategies for business, and a third grade Sunday school teacher where she uses her MA in Apologetics to keep up with questions from eight-year-olds.

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