If death is simply the absence of life and the expiration of some cold chemical process, human grief is seemingly irrational. In fact, it represents one of the most catastrophic design failures in evolutionary history.
Under the cold logic of nature, survival is everything. Evolutionary models dictate that an organism only expends vital energy if it preserves its genes or aids the survival of the collective (Hamilton’s Rule). When an animal dies, the pack moves on because wasting precious calories on a corpse puts the rest of the group at risk. But humans do the exact opposite.
When we lose someone we love, our biology practically revolts against our own survival. Acute grief floods the body with destructive cortisol, suppresses the immune system, and triggers chronic systemic inflammation. We even experience broken-heart syndrome—where the sheer emotional agony of loss physically deforms the heart muscle and mimics acute heart failure.
From an evolutionary perspective, mourning this harshly makes no practical sense. It is seemingly irrational behavior for a survival machine—unless we aren’t just machines, and death was never part of our original design.
And this irrational behavior starts long before anyone is buried.
Look at what we do while people are still breathing. In the wild, nature doesn’t do charity. When an animal can no longer hunt, keep up with the herd, or protect itself, the pack moves on. It sounds brutal, but under pure survival rules, keeping a non-contributing member alive is an evolutionary liability.
Yet humans do the exact opposite every single day. We routinely throw our own survival metrics out the window for people who can offer zero practical utility in return. Family caregivers regularly drain their personal savings, give up career promotions, and ruin their own physical health to nurse an aging parent who may not even recognize their face anymore.
Think about someone sitting bedside for months or years beside a spouse in a coma or a vegetative state. That person cannot work, cannot talk, cannot protect the family, and cannot contribute a single calorie to the household. If we were just biological computers running Darwinian code, pouring finite resources into someone who will never wake up is pure insanity. A survival algorithm would flag that ledger in bright red and tell you to pull the plug.
Why do we stay? Because we intuitively understand that a human being’s value isn’t based on what they can produce.
A machine only cares about what you can do for it. A loving Creator cares about who you are. When you sacrifice your own comfort, money, and sanity to care for someone who can’t even squeeze your hand back, you aren’t acting like an animal in the wild. You are acting in the image of God—showing unconditional grace to someone who has no way to pay you back.
Earlier in this series, I wrote about our reasons for being here:
I want to amend that second point. Having the opportunity to choose everlasting life isn’t just about avoiding an end or getting a ticket to heaven. The real reason is so much deeper: we are here to choose everlasting life so we can reunite with God as His favorite creation.
We aren’t just cosmic accidents, and we aren’t mere servants. Think about the difference between an angel and a human. Angels are God’s holy servants (Hebrews 1:14). They dwell in direct, unbroken glory. They see God face-to-face in all His power. They’ve never had a broken heart, never buried someone they loved, and never had to walk through the pitch black.
Humans, on the other hand, are asked to love and trust God through a veil of blindness, pain, and physical suffering. When you cling to faith while your life is falling apart, when you sit beside a hospital bed on this cursed ground, and when you choose to love through the dirt and the tears, you forge a bond with the Father that an angel simply cannot share.
We are His favorite creation, and spiritual forces have always known it.
In Genesis 6:1–4, the Bible describes rebel spiritual beings looking down at humanity. As the New Testament points out, these angels “abandoned their proper dwelling.” These spiritual creatures lived in heavenly perfection—they didn’t starve, get sick, or face decay. Yet they looked at fragile creatures made of dust and envied what we had. They craved physical sensation, human passion, and the experience of living inside a physical world. They envied us so much that they abandoned their posts, stepped into flesh, and caused utter chaos on earth just to touch what God had given to us.
We spend so much time complaining about our weak, fragile bodies and the aches of this fallen earth. Yet spiritual beings threw away eternity just to get a taste of human skin.
That ache we feel in the face of death and decay isn’t a malfunction. It’s homesickness. We walk this cursed ground yearning for a return to paradise, craving a reunion with the Father. We feel out of place here because we are out of place—eternal beings walking through a temporary wasteland.
Yet, even through the chaos and cruelty of an ungodly world, we still mirror His love. That’s why scripture tells us:
“For God so loved the world…” (John 3:16)
Notice it doesn’t say He so loved the cosmos, the galaxies, or even the heavenly host. He loved the world—the fragile, suffering people right here in the middle of the mess. He loved us enough to step onto this cursed ground Himself, take the thorns, and pave the way for our return.
You are not an accidental product of universal circumstances. You are an eternal soul made in the image of a loving Father, walking through a temporary wilderness, holding out for the day we finally go home to the One who loves us most.
WHY ARE WE HERE?
As sort of a part two of Proof God Exists. Instead of adding more to it, I decided to make a new entry.
You must read the prior blog entry, Proof God exists, because that is the mindset I am in while writing this.
It is simple why we are here. God never gave us anything that is too difficult for us to understand. I believe there are two major reasons why we exist.
Now for the first one, if you are even fairly familiar with the Bible. You will notice how it goes on and on endlessly about the beauty in creation. The book of Job comes to mind immediately. Where God himself just can’t stop talking about how awesome his creations are and we should be so lucky to even witness it… So suck it up.
Just try to imagine a man who is ready to give up on life because he is suffering so badly. He’s lost everything. His entire family. All his money. All his vast estate is being attacked, burned down and his servants killed. And he is in constant debilitating pain to top it off. He cries out, only for his remaining friends to tell him to kill himself and curse God because Job must have done something wrong. Job is steadfast that he is blameless and then cries out to God…
and God literally replies by telling Job to grow a set and stop whining:
God then basically goes on a 700 bar battle rap response where he reminds Job who his daddy is. Quite a fascinating tale when you put things in perspective. Whether you believe this story is pure parable, or an actual historical account, I believe it’s a very important story. It is important in understanding how much we take just being alive for granted. We get to experience some amazing things. We get to experience things that the very angels in the Bible were jealous of. Life itself is a gift that we are very quick to overlook when things don’t go our way.
There are people out there with NOTHING. Literally paraplegics that depend on someone for each and every breath… they still find a way to appreciate creation and being alive!
Did Job have an honest gripe? Sure. Saying he was uncomfortable is an understatement. I couldn’t imagine how much more pissed Job would have been if he knew all these terrible things were being deliberately done to him because of a bet lol. I do not think God was trying to say Job’s complaints were insignificant. I think God is really standing on his business that He made us and we should be a bit more grateful even when we THINK that we are having just the worst life ever. Not to say our worries aren’t valid. What I’m saying is- no matter how bad things seem, life is STILL a gift.
Ultimately, we are supposed to be here waiting for our real reward in the afterlife, no? So why SHOULD God be so worried about our day-to-day aches, pains, wars, deaths, or really anything we complain about? They affect us dearly and harshly. Our pain affects our mental health. It hurts. It sucks.
It hurts bad to lose loved ones. It is AWFUL being poor, especially in the western world.
But do you care about the big picture? Listen, the vast majority of our pain is caused by US, Not God, in the first place. God gave us a specific set of rules to follow and pretty much promised us that life will also be difficult along the way. God gave us everything we need to thrive and be happy for free. Water literally falls out of the sky. Food grows from the trees. Air is all around. What do we do? We ignore his rules, make things infinitely harder for ourselves and then blame God for life sucking.
Life is hard. But it should only really be as hard as we are willing to work to farm the land and hunt for food and deal with cold winters and sicknesses here and there. Maybe a disagreement now and then at most.
But that’s not what happened is it? We humans needed to construct a massive system of pretend wealth that requires non-stop violence and chaos all over the world in the pursuit of this cartoonish avarice. And we are all pretty much complicit in it.
And all the while we are killing each other for various made up reasons- Angels in heaven look down at us with envy. They want to also feel love, lust, endorphins, and maybe even a little rage. Feeling the cool night winds and a warm rain in the summer. They want to experience how it feels to cool off in the water when it’s hot. They want to feel a warm person in their arms.
Things we take for granted every single day. Because we choose to further separate ourselves from God. We’d rather be in awe of whatever celebrity is popular at the moment. We worship billionaires. We only listen to the rich and we crap all over the poor, even when we are also poor.
That’s how amazing God is! He created us so wonderfully, so perfectly that we have convinced ourselves confidently that we don’t even need God. No God required! Only the joyless “pursuit of happiness”, which translates to money. In fact, People have come up with very convincing arguments that somehow there was once NOTHING, and from this NOTHING came everything we know of. I guess magically? Just kinda popped into existence, I guess, for no reason? Yep. There’s nothing, doing it’s thing and then all of a sudden boom… or bang? God? What for? What do we need God for?
Let’s switch gears. Look up at a star. What you are actually seeing is the light from that star as it was MILLIONS of years ago. At least according to our science books. You can look up and you are seeing millions of years into the past. These are merely the decorations that God gave us to simply ENJOY! His majesty, his awesome creation.
What did we humans do? In a hurry, we depleted God’s resources and polluted the sky nearly beyond repair. So now we can barely see the stars thru the light pollution and actual pollution. But we gotta make money right? That means we need the night sky flooded with artificial lights for our endless chain of commerce. People are tired, miserable, working graveyard shifts just to pay bills for services that God gave us for free. It’s kinda laughable.
Just imagine
