Sin death and beyond

SIN, DEATH AND BEYOND: M.M.NINAN
of Egypt to go into the land of Canaan and take possession of it They refused to take
possession being afraid of the Anakims. God says that because the adult Jews (20 years and
older) refused to trust and obey God and go into the Promise Land they will all die and none
(except the two believing) will enter the Promise land. So, dying they did all die over a period
of 40 years.
This would indicate that dying is to be a process. The process of death started from that very
day as a result of the cursing of the ground. Actually Adam lived 930 years. (2 Peter 3: 8 With
the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." Thus Adam died
within "a Day" in that sense.)
All living dies as a process. Death is not an instantaneous event. Each individual cells within
the body have a finite life span. When they die off they are replaced with new cells by the life
force. There are over 50 trillion cells in the human body.
The regeneration process, unfortunately, doesn't continue forever and is influenced by our
lifestyle habits and behaviors.
Each kind of tissue has its own lifecycle, depending in part on the workload endured by its
cells. For example,
• adult humans produce their body weight in red blood cells, white cells, and platelets
every seven years" (M.C. Mackey, "Cell Kinetic Status of Haematopoietic Stem Cells,"
Cell Proliferation, Vol 34 Issue 2 p71, April 2001),
• The surface layer of the skin, known as the epidermis, is recycled every two weeks
• The cells lining the stomach last only five days,
• it takes only two years for all of the cells of the liver to be replaced by new ones
(Nicholas Wade, "Your Body Is Younger than You Think," The New York Times 2005,).
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