{"id":8107,"date":"2018-10-09T20:49:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T01:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8107"},"modified":"2018-10-09T20:56:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T01:56:29","slug":"secular-stoic-or-scripture-on-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8107","title":{"rendered":"SECULAR, STOIC, OR SCRIPTURE ON DEATH?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?attachment_id=8110\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8110\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8110\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/nypl.digitalcollections.510d47e2-781c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.001.r-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I read things on a regular basis that trumpet the glories of the Stoic way of life.\u00a0 It got me thinking about three options when it comes to death:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SECULAR folks think death is something we should not think of.\u00a0 We need to get distracted with lesser things.\u00a0 Ernest Becker talked about these things in his Pulitzer winning book, <em>The Denial of Death<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>STOICS say we ought to face death bravely as it is so &#8220;natural.&#8221;\u00a0 Everyone has to experience it.\u00a0 Hunker down and face the music.\u00a0 Stop complaining you weak-willed soul!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SCRIPTURE tells us that death is our final enemy (I Cor. 15:26).\u00a0 Satan uses death to terrorize us (Heb. 2:14,15).\u00a0 Christ says he has abolished death (II Tim. 1:10).\u00a0 We long for eternity (Ecc. 3:11).\u00a0 Death is not the way it was suppose to be.\u00a0 We can face it (contra the SECULARIST), but we don&#8217;t face it in our own strength (contra the STOIC).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read things on a regular basis that trumpet the glories of the Stoic way of life.\u00a0 It got me thinking about three options when it comes to death: SECULAR folks think death is something we should not think of.\u00a0 We need to get distracted with lesser things.\u00a0 Ernest Becker talked about these things in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,43,49,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-christianity","category-death","category-suffering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8107"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8115,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions\/8115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}