Eoghan
Puritan Board Senior
With a calvinist mindset I realise
I apologise if this appears dispassionate and unemotional but I seem to find my belief in sovereignty makes me less anxious or worried.
Maybe I am all over the place with this but my grandfather bless him was impatient to go home to the Lord. I confidently expect to die within the next 30 years or so, if not before.
I am at peace with my own mortality and the final journey. Just not sure anyone else is.
- we all have to die. (2,813,503 registered deaths in the United States in 2017)
- we will probably die from something. Something like 80% of men die WITH prostate cancer but NOT from prostate cancer. The distinction is important. The cause of death may be a car crash or pneumonia in a strictly causal sense but it is also the will of God (Alzheimer’s 121,404, Diabetes 83,564
Influenza and pneumonia 55,672
- statistically you are more likely to die in winter than summer (December, January, February). This is in part due to cold weather, low U.V. (sunshine) and seasonal illnesses
- Taking reasonable steps is well, reasonable, but should we ever feel responsible for someones premature demise? If I give the flu to my Dad who suffers from pulmonary emphycema and he dies at 83, am I responsible for his death? As a calvinist who believes in sovereignty I don't think so. Agency perhaps but responsible no.
- When there is a particularly virulent winter flu, and death rates are higher are they lower for the rest of the year? This I think touches on "agency" people are going to be called home every year/enter eternity but what is "premature"?
I apologise if this appears dispassionate and unemotional but I seem to find my belief in sovereignty makes me less anxious or worried.
Maybe I am all over the place with this but my grandfather bless him was impatient to go home to the Lord. I confidently expect to die within the next 30 years or so, if not before.
I am at peace with my own mortality and the final journey. Just not sure anyone else is.