Is death a curse ??????

God, when He created the heavens and the earth in the beginning, also the eternal worlds, Heaven and Hell. He created mankind in His own image, but, since the first man, Adam, sinned before God, all people have to die once.

" And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this judgement." ( Hebrew 9:27)

Source : Preface - Have You Truly Been Born Again of Water and the Spirit , written by Paul C. Jong

Actually, what is the meaning of death? I'm sure that many people have ask about it. Philosophers also think about this question. A philosophical question that influences all the peolple in this world. Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, and etc are answering with own wisdom and philosophy experince since their pre-Scratic period. However, they cannot avoid death. Death is some how came to them. Is death a curse?

As a christian, I think that death is pathway to the eternal life rather than a curse. As we all know , men are sinned that we inherited from our ancestor, Adam and Eve. Since we are sinned , the penalty of sin is death. The meaning of death in the bible literature is we are seperate from God. We have no eternal life but will be thrown into ' the lake of fire and brimstone' (Revelation 20:10)

However, we should not be obsessed about this statement. We have a solution to overcome death. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." For me , the only solution to overcome death is believing in Jesus that was came by water, blood and the Spirit.