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IM5688 I love to hear different thoughts on this subject. I'm still not seeing anything wrong with it. There's a lot of things that we're not done in the past that we have accomplished today and helped people have better and longer lives. I don't think that's against anything or God's will, because his will will be accomplished and people will die when they're time is up anyway and at the right time. God does most certainly use doctors to extend people's lives with medicine or transplants or new modern equipment and other things. It is God who gives that wisdom and I thank God that he does. If he didn't want us to use those things I don't think he would have given us the knowledge and wisdom to do so.
The verse you mentioned....Hebrews 9:27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment.
I see that only as helping people understand that there's no such thing as reincarnation. That verse clarifies that. I don't see it as transplants affecting or bending God's will. Sometimes it is God's will that people's lives are extended and we can see that in the Bible where some have prayed for God to extend a person's life and he did. God's will, will always be done no matter the circumstances. He knows what's best for each one.
Notice how that scripture doesn't just say it is appointed for man to die, but he emphasizes only once. His reason is to highlight the finality of earthly life and the certainty of judgment after death, emphasizing the importance of living a life of faith and living according to scripture and God's will if we want the best life. But he takes it a step further saying, so we won't have to guess about what all happens when we die, that immediately after dying we face the judgment.....which leaves no room for doubt or others to come in and say oh we wander from one place, to the other worlds and are reincarnated. He puts that theory to rest. He's wanting people to know
exactly what will happen after they die, so there's no surprises, no guessing, and to let them know they should prepare very carefully for where they wish to spend eternity.
And notice the first two words of that scripture... AND JUST. That's very important because he's saying that just as it was appointed for
Christ once to die and RESURRECT, so was it also appointed that man die AND RESURRECT only once.
That phrase "appointed to die once" signifies that death is a natural and inevitable part of the human experience, and there
is no second chance after this physical death. Christ wants people to know that there are no second chances. Once you die, you die and immediately after comes the Judgment so they better plan carefully because their soul and eternal destination depends on it.
