Though the focus of my theology of human embodiment has thus far been on life in the body, one of the great inevitabilities of life is death. Ecclesiastes describes the inescapable finality of death (
Eccl. 9:2-3), speaking of it in terms of an appointment that all people have (
Eccl. 3:1-2). Specifically, “It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment” (
Heb. 9:27). Because of universal human sinfulness (
Rom. 5:12-19;
1 Cor. 15:21-22), death inevitably comes to all human beings.
Scripture presents physical death as the cessation of the functioning of the material aspect of human nature. The body ceases its physiological activity, and the life principle that energized the body is withdrawn from it (
Eccl. 12:7; cf.
Gen. 3:19;
James 2:26).
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