Eternal Life - in the Deep Freeze

Eternal Life - in the Deep Freeze

Dear Editor:

Our local news is buzzing about Scottsdale's Alcor Co. where for $75,000 you can have your head frozen in liquid nitrogen or for a mere $120,000 you have can have a full-body preservation freeze.

The son of baseball great Ted Williams deposited his dad there for preservation. Rumor has it he hopes to sell Williams DNA material for cloning future baseball champions. Our fellow Arizonan Dave Pizer has his deep freeze coffin already paid for because "he wants to live forever."

It's a high risk to place ones hope of eternal life on Alcor. An earthquake, a fire, a tornado, a war, a power failure, a bankruptcy, a mistake by an employee who forgot to keep the refrigerators operating, or even a saboteur who disrupted the service could wreck the best laid and most expensive plans.

On the other hand, Jesus said, "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never die" (John 11:25-26).

Isn't it interesting that highly educated, sophisticated modern men will scoff at the promise of Christ and then invest $120,000 in hope of (not a sure bet mind you) that future scientific developments will allow them to live again?

Christ's promise is reasonable because even though his enemies murdered him, he came forth from his tomb alive. Above 500 witnesses saw him (I Cor. 15:4-8). Credible witnesses not only saw him on repeated occasions, they touched him, talked with him and witnessed him eating. He that had power to raise himself can raise us as well (John 10:18).

Well did a wise man say, "The man who refuses to acknowledge God and believe His Word will fall for anything."

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