All Life is God's Life And Only He Has the Right to Revoke It

I'm coming from the perspective of the Bible's own internal worldview as best I can see it. I'm not expecting those who disagree to be convinced by this, I just want them to understand this Biblical worldview and how it is internally consistent with regard to sacredness of life and God's rights over it.

1. In the Bible all life only lives because of God's own invigorating breath that never stops being His:

>Genesis 2:7, then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground **and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life**, and the man became a living creature.

and,

>Job 34:14-15, 14 If he should set his heart to it and **gather to himself his spirit and his breath, all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.**

and,

>Psalm 104:29-30, When you hide your face, they are dismayed; **when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust. When you send forth your Spirit, they are created,** and you renew the face of the ground.

2. From this perspective death is not as bad as in an atheist's worldview, and killing is morally just as bad for humans to do but morally permissible for God to do.

Death in this view is merely transformation, a usually painful change from one state of being to another, the body goes to the dust and the spirit returns to God, after which it will be reunited with its body, judged, and given all due justice and recompense, good or bad. This view of death is much less harsh than the atheist worldview where all death is annihilation forever (I'm specifically avoiding the topic of hell since that comes after judgement and justice anyway, and it's a topic many Christians and those who faithfully try to understand the Bible don't even agree on; suffice it to say in an internally consistent Biblical worldview hell, no matter what it is specifically, is definitionally justice).

>Ecclesiastes 12:7, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and **the spirit returns to God who gave it.**

and,

>Revelation 20:12-13 And I saw **the dead, small and great, standing before God,** and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea **gave up the dead who were in it,** and Death and Hades **delivered up the dead who were in them.** **And they were judged, each one according to his works.**

Morality of killing in this perspective depends on ownership and rights; God is morally permitted to kill any life that He freely gave and freely sustains continuously, because killing is merely Him revoking His own breath.

>Job 1:19-22 and suddenly a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, **and it fell on the young people, and they are dead; and I alone have escaped to tell you!”** Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he fell to the ground and worshiped. And he said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked shall I return there. **The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away;** **Blessed be the name of the Lord.”** **In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong.**

However, in comparison with an atheistic worldview humans killing humans is just as bad, because although death isn't so bad (mere transformation vs. an atheist view of annihilation), the wrong done involves much more than just the person killed, it also includes a Most High God whose ownership, rights, and image has been violated.

>Genesis 9:5-6 Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother I will require the life of man. “Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed; **For in the image of God** **He made man."**

I hope this helps any who want to embrace a Biblical worldview to see this, and any who do not to understand it so they don't accuse it of being morally reprehensible.