If nature trying to kill us were a bad thing we would be destined to live forever. As spirit we can in fact live forever by being united with the Spirit of God that permeates existence.
As a created life our span is short and brutal. It is the enigma of all life that wishes to be eternal. We wish to be as Gods.
Consciousness, sense of self and place, is the universal reality increasingly acknowledged by science that leads inexorably to the knowledge of God. As scientists reach the peak of the mountain they find an ancient colliquy of theologians well advanced in the very conversation that has so recently engaged the scientific world.
The Lord Jesus said clearly, “God is Spirit.” “No man has seen God at any time.”
Science cannot know spirit.
But faith can. And so can spirit.
When the Holy Spirit opens one’s spiritual eyes, he sees what he has never seen before - and after seeing - he KNOWS!