I am going to answer your question from my perspective and what I see as the significance of death to bring new life as expressed in the the Bible. My answer may or may not be an accurate reflection of RedDragon's view.
I believe death is God's way of dealing with and eliminating sin from the universe forever. Many or pretty much all other religions, including Buddhism, are based on the concept of reform or doing things to fix the broken human nature, whereas I believe the Bible shows that the sinful nature cannot be fixed, but must put to death and be replaced with a new nature, a Christ-like, eternal life.
I understand the logic behind that. My belief is that not every "evil deed" needs to be put to death in order for others to live.
For example, in abortion we say we need to kill the child in order for the mother to live and the child wont live a worst life. Death to give life.
You have capitol punishment where the sins of the criminal is not punished by confinement and rehabilitation but by death and "okay, he's out the picture."
You hear Buddhists (which I don't know if this is true) wont kill a fly or insect because they do not want to kill a life in expense of their being annoyed by their continuous presence in the ceiling and or around light bulbs in the kitchen. (Soo annoying!)
As a country we don't value life as much as we think we do. Even some of our religions Not just Christianity advocate death to save people.
I wont mention the name, but I will say Jane feels that its helpful to take lives in order to avoid overpopulation. While, in my point of view, I disagree with the moral and its still done anyway as if its some type of necessity that death somehow saves the lives of many.
You have wars that don't need to exist. Yet, we say its human nature giving us an excuse to kill at the expense of our egos and "so-called" protection over something that the individual, if handled in proper terms, would not be angry at each other for if properly handled assertively.
You have slave owners and the government, say VA years ago killed many slaves at the expense of white peoples lives because of overpopulation.
I'm sorry, I can continue; but I'll stop there.
The easiest way to put it is I don't see sins as cancer that is slowly killing a person. We kill cancer cells to save a person's life, yes.
In Christianity, it is completely different. The germs are not something we can see under a microscope. I do not have original sin and many people do not have that either. Yet, when someone has cancer, all doctors and people with medical knowledge regardless their field of medicine will know that someone is sick based on the tests done and updated in present day not tests that failed in the past but still used today as if past operations are still useful today. It isn't.
Christianity, in my humble opinion, sounds like it's using old methods to cure new illnesses. It is also not using something physical (say what we can
do) but abstract things like faith. (Protestant point of view).
I feel that is the wrong approach to Christianity. If a Christian wants their sins to be covered they need to
do what Christ
did for them. They have faith of a mustard seed but without deeds, it means nothing.
Lol, anyway. I understand where you come from. I respectfully disagree. Other things I can't disagree with because I dont understand it enough to say so. It's not a part of my life but it influences our world so much in a negative not just positive way that to address it seems important. Hopefully, we can address it without our own bias (negative or positive) and work with people of all faiths rather than try to bring death to those who don't seek god (stay in their sins) and look towards the living.
You don't have to comment on all of this. Just sayin.
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