Immortality through Science Inherently Evil?

n the Old Testament reading today, God tells Elijah that he wants him to anoint a successor, essentially telling him that he will die, and God needs someone else to continue the work.

This brings up an interesting question. No doubt having recently reread the Genesis 3 account of man's fall and how the Tree of Life was denied him, the question is made more pressing. If you could indefinitely prolong your life by means, for example, of replacing your used up organs with synthetic ones, cleaning out the gunk of oxidized, misfolded or glycosylated proteins from your body's natural cells that would otherwise eventually kill you, would it be inherently morally wrong to do so?

I suspect the answer is Yes. God has limited man's years on Earth as a mercy to Man, and it is not right to take that Mercy away. The real impending nature of death, its inevitability, gives urgency to Life, and causes us to approach our lives with vigor.

Accepting one's death, and the reality that we are only a small part of God's plan for the salvation of this world is perhaps the final test of Faith, the final dying to the flesh that the Spirit may live on and rise up to God. So now to die is gain, but to live is Christ.

But since organ transplants are already performed that prolong people's lives, the question is, where would you draw the line? I'll leave that one to the Vatican.




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