Death is not the natural end of all living beings, as deluded romantic notions would have it. Rather, death is a great evil, an unnatural force that finally, inevitably, unstoppably defeats all men and women. In the face of this enemy, the Bible says that all mankind groans in slavish fear and dread. Our own experience, and indeed history itself, graphically confirms the plain affirmations of God s Word. Death, therefore, is the last great enemy for each of us.
Death is inevitable because it is the sad, bitter fruit of sin.
Contrary to the views of modernists, atheists, and agnostics alike, at the dawn of history, man recklessly revolted against his Creator. Adam and Eve defied their Maker s command and ate the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The result, as God had warned, was death. Thus, sin came into the world, and through sin, death spread to all mankind because all sinned. The apostle Paul would sum it up by saying that now, because of this historical tragedy, the wages of sin is death.