Death is Unavoidable

"Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he will never see death." The Jews said to Him, "Now we know that You have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets also; and You say, 'If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste of death.' "Surely You are not greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets died too; whom do You make Yourself out to be?" (John 8:51-53)

Your are certainly crazy; we know it now, for you are claiming that it is possible to live outside of the restrictions and implications imposed by death. Everyone knows that death is unavoidable. Everything we deal with, everything we believe, all of religion and all of our heritage and culture revolves around the reality and the threat of death.

Now you come along and make this wild assertion that it might be possible to live outside of the threat of death. But you must remember that the threat of death is the power that lies at the very foundation of our own ability to intimidate and manipulate others and keep them under our control. The very foundation of our religion is fear of death. If you come along and pull the rug out from under us by claiming that people can escape death, you are undermining everything we have spent centuries developing. Our whole way of life is threatened by your assertions and you are damaging the very essence of our religion. We cannot tolerate that. You are a direct threat to the way we do business and we cannot tolerate that. It is time to impose on you the very thing you claim people can escape. Then after we kill you people will see that you were crazy and wrong and even dangerous.

Death and its related aspects of pain and fear are the glue that keeps everything together for our government, our religion and our society. Death is woven through nearly everything we believe and teach. Why do you make such wild claims like this about being able to live outside of the threats of death? What do you think you can accomplish by spreading such dangerous ideas that cause false hope to spring up in people's hearts? Your are ruining everything we have spent so long working to perfect. You are contradicting what everyone knows is reality on this earth. Why after all, God Himself has imposed death on us as punishment for our sins. And even our revered forefathers and the godly prophets that we hold in such high esteem have never escaped death. So what is this nonsense you propound about escaping the curse of death by simply accepting your words? This is absolute rubbish and worse. You are out of your head. You must be speaking lies with such outrageous claims and since you accused us of being children of the father of lies, now it is obvious that it is really you who is the son of the devil and who is not speaking truth.

We have successfully been using the threat of death to keep evil in society in check ever since the dawn of our people and religion. Everyone knows that the threat of pain and death keeps people in line. And if they get too far out of line they are required to suffer that punishment. But beyond that, even all the good people on the earth eventually have to die. Its just that their death doesn't have to be so painful or imposed on them by others. Our religion believes that if you are good and live in God's favor that you will not suffer from sickness and disease and that you can die with little discomfort. Those moving more quickly toward death obviously have offended God too much and are suffering under His curse. Those who live pious lives are blessed with wealth and health until a good old age when they can die in peace.

But one thing is absolutely certain which evidently you seem to have forgotten – everyone who is born on this earth eventually will die. So don't come along with some hair-brained idea that people can avoid death simply by agreeing with your strange ideas about religion and your dangerous notions about God.

Obviously it is time to put you in your place. You claim that your words have the power to give people a ticket to avoid death? Well then maybe it is high time we let you experience the penalty prescribed by the law of Moses for making such blasphemous statements.

Therefore they picked up stones to throw at Him, but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple. (John 8:59)