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If death was a choice how can one explain those who live against all odds or those who die for no apparent reason?

I used to listen to my parents say that no one dies before their time and it didn't make sense. What about the aborted babies? The innocents killed by a drunk driver? But as I grew older and experienced so many brushes with death either personally or from friends I began to wonder if maybe they had been right all along.

Most of my older life I've had a strong faith. But I was a big risk taker as a child and young adult. I was in a car racing down the street at 70 mph and crashed head on into another car. This was years before air bags. Yet all of us walked away without a scratch. I always wondered why. That was just one of the most obvious times I should have died.

One day I was reading in the Bible where it says; "It's appointed unto man once to die..." That's when it hit me. An appointment is a set date.

But this is not to say we're predestined to die on that date. I believe when God created us He knew in advance (foreknowledge)when we would die. Whether by sin, self, accident, disease or whatever that would be our day to die. Thus it's an appointment with death.

Though God has power over death He rarely intervenes for several reasons. One of those reasons being we are saved from what's to come. How many times have you said or heard someone say that someone would kill themselves with grief if they were alive to witness it? Also if God continually intervened no one would die, thus no reason to care how one lives. I'm sure there are as many reasons as there are people. But death is not a choice even when it's successfully carried out. It simply means that was their set date to die, anyway.

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