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    The meaning and definition of life remains a mystery in the scientific community. Scientists who seek not only to understand life, but to create and prolong life have tested and failed to reach their goals. Part of the problem is that science is trying to understand what science does not have the ability to understand. Human life is not anything that can be measured or understood on a biological, empirical level, for life has one critical element which science cannot measure – the spirit.

     The attempt to attach a general definition to the meaning of life has resulted in discovering four characteristics that all life shares. First of all, all life can sense and respond to stimuli. Secondly, all life can process and utilize materials for energy. Thirdly, all living organism have the ability to store information in the form of DNA. And finally, all life can reproduce.

     Much of the problem with the scientific approach is that it is usually based on a false premise as the search for the meaning and definition of life is rooted in the assumption that all life came from a chemical reaction of proteins in some primordial soup billions of years ago. Then over the process of evolution, life developed into several varieties. However, when pursing answers based on such a faulty premise the truth will never be forthcoming.

     The meaning and origin of life is not so difficult to understand when the Creator of life has already revealed the answer. In Genesis one the inspired writer shows that it is God who is the origin of life. Furthermore the text shows that man is of all creatures unique and cannot be grouped together with other forms of life such as plants and animals. Unlike every other form of life that God had made, man was created in the image of God as God breathed into man’s nostrils filling him with an eternal soul and giving him a distinct nature unknown to the animal kingdom. (Gen. 1.26; 2.7). And just as human life began with the joining of body and soul, so also does life end with the separation of body and soul (James 2.26)

     Life is mysterious, complex, and elusive when one removes the possibility of God. However, when God is understood to be the source of life, then everything comes into view. If God is the source of our life, then should not submitting ourselves to God be the purpose of life (Ecc. 12.13,14)? CLP