The Bible Claims a Fountain of Youth



We've all heard there was once a myth a fountain of youth existed. Explorers, Juan Ponce de Leon, searched for it. Today you can buy endless products that claim the stop the aging process. No marketing of the fountain of youth is as persuasive as that in the Bible. If you tithe and believe you will live forever. Hallelujah!

There are legitimate scientists looking for ways to stop or reverse aging. Some of the earliest surviving writing told about interest in finding some way to stop aging.

Today scientists are debating whether aging is some inevitable process baked into humans or whether it is a disease that can be cured or delayed. Arguments and experiments continue.

The problem with treating aging as a disease is the notion is can be cured. This would not be a concern were is not for the universal experience of aging. This inexhaustible market invites treatments that experts say are "intentionally false, misleading, or, exaggerated for commercial purposes."  It is also noted that "humans' susceptibility to wishful thinking and magic bullet promises ensure demand for these products."

For reasons we all know, government does disallow to some extent false or unjustifiable claims by businesses. There are no such rules in religion. The fountain of youth, also called heaven, sold by Christianity can be sold when products with such outlandish claims have to stop.

Three or four dozen times I have been told in the comment section of this blog I must stop criticizing Christianity or I will suffer in the hereafter. Implied is that if I stop blogging and accept the faith I will be allowed to drink from the fountain of youth and remain forever in paradise.

Many times I have challenged Christians who post here with this: Would you remain a believing and practicing Christian if you were told there is no heaven? Not once has anyone said yes. Susceptibility to wishful thinking makes the promise of a fountain of youth powerful.

Comments

  1. little helperMarch 3, 2020 at 8:48 PM

    re. "...stop blogging and accept the faith";--"Would you remain a believing and practicing Christian if you were told there is no heaven". Typical approach from a "works- reward " mentality. Decision Theology. A business model. An economist's model. Do as I say, and I will give you an "A" model.

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  2. Matt NoahMarch 4, 2020 at 10:49 AM

    We sure don't want to elect a person who believes in all these crazy notions of Heaven, fountain of youth, eternal life, etc.

    We would prefer to elect a person who is telling people to vote on Super Thursday, who claims to be running for the Senate when he is running for President, who claims his son was the AG of the USA, and who could order the nuking of Germany if he was ever elected.

    Or we would prefer to elect a person who looks to Cuba and Russia for models of government, who doesn't believe billionaires should be legal, who has advocated for government programs that would require more than the combined wealth of every USA citizen to pay for and whose Cabinet would make for a group of leftists that would bankrupt the company?

    I'll vote for Trump.

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  3. Jon LindgrenMarch 4, 2020 at 3:13 PM

    Matt..."claim to be running for the Senate when he is running for President."

    Are you referring to Bullock? It doesn't matter. Romney and Rubio ran for the Senate right after running for President.

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    1. Matt NoahMarch 4, 2020 at 4:54 PM

      I am referring to Joseph Biden. He told a South Carolina rally that he is running for the US Senate. More recently he told a crowd he hopes they all go out and vote on Super Thursday. He also stated recently that is son was Attorney General of the United States. He never has been.

      You seem to be as confused as Joseph Biden.

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  4. Jon LindgrenMarch 4, 2020 at 5:24 PM

    "You seem as confused as Joe Biden."

    I think he is doing fine. It's my view (and I've been wrong before) yesterday's primary sealed the November election. Biden will choose Amy Klobuchar for VP. They will win in November.

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    1. tsmMarch 4, 2020 at 5:53 PM

      you may well be right about Klobuchar. as to the rest don't count you votes before they are cast.

      Delete

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