PHILOSOPHICAL FEARLESSNESS OF DEATH

Some people say they do not fear death, or they are ready to die not because that is what they really desire or what scripture says but because they are philosophically misled. Before the incarnation of Jesus Christ, humanity sought various ways to escape death. By the influence of some evil spirit beings, numerous myths about death were postulated, many of which were supplanted by the philosophies of the Greco-Roman era. These myths and philosophies are the foundations of the religions of this world which all have one thing in common: a promise of a better place or state of life after death. Physical creation and even the body were considered the enemy of the human soul which escapes after death into its true state. When the scriptures like the one above are not well understood against the background of life that sleeps in death and resumes at the resurrection, then Christianity seems to offer the same hope as the religions of this world. Hence, some have been deceived into saying, "We are not afraid of death, after all, it is an entrance into a better life". Yes, you don't have to fear death, but philosophy and religion should not be your basis but the Word of God.