My point is we would be comfortable with a body that dies if that's all we ever had. We wouldn't know there was anything better if we had never had it before. That we even know what we got now isn't what we want, that we know there is better means it once was better.
You don't see bears having these problems. That's because a body that dies IS natural for bears. For humans a body that dies must be crucified right? Your beliefs deprive you of hope and many spiritual goods available to Christians.
Let's revisit this, because I really wasn't understanding your point.
What you are saying is that man should never be 'comfortable' with the death of the body, because man's body was not first made that way.
This, to me, says that instead of seeing all life of flesh on earth is mortal, we should be thinking of some immortality of the body we somehow lost long ago.
It says further to me, that man should be mourning the past, rather than looking to the future.
1. Mortality of flesh and blood on earth is not due to sin, but due to being made that way by Christ. Mortality is not sinful in nature, nor is it sinful for any naturally made flesh and blood to die.
The death of the body is not the enemy, but the enemy is spiritual death of the soul for sinning.
And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
2. Peter was more than comfortable with his upcoming decease:
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know
them, and be established in the present truth.
Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting
you in remembrance; Knowing that shortly I must put off
this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
Peter's only care about the upcoming death of his body, was to ensure he had left behind sound doctrine to help them still in the world.
It's not the natural death of the mortal body that is the problem, but the death of the soul for sinning with the flesh.
Paul was even more clear about how comfortable he was with departing this life, because they had fought the good fight, and were more than ready to be with the Lord in heaven.
They did not look forward to the manner of the body's death, but that was nothing compared to the glory that awaited them. In fact, Paul was in a debate with himself about whether it was better to remain on earth in the flesh for the church's sake, or to go on home to heaven without the flesh for his own soul's sake.
3. The error that makes life in the flesh intolerable to a man, is that we should be mourning for something we never lost int he first place.
And the same error is that man sins, because of being born that way in the flesh.
Both are false: No physical body is ever made immortal, nor is the soul ever created sinful by Christ.
Every body of flesh is made by Christ mortal on earth, and every soul of man is created by Christ good and pure of heart in the lowest parts of the earth.
The truth of Scripture is that all flesh is made naturally mortal on earth, but only man is created in God's image with spiritual knowledge: with the power to choose good or evil.
Man living in natural flesh on earth,
was always made a test for the souls of men to do good or evil,
while in the flesh. The angels are tested in heaven with spiritual bodies.
Adam was the first man tested with the best surroundings and he failed, because he allowed the same lust into his heart, that Lucifer allowed in his: it had nothing to do with the natural body made from the dust of the earth, and it still doesn't. The surroundings of the world we are in now, is worse than it was with Adam, but it's the same as it was with the 2nd Adam, and He did not do as the first man, and transgress against the commandment of the Lord.
What makes death of the mortal body tolerable for the spiritual man, is that this life
is only a test, not an endgame that starts
as inborn losers.
Knowing that we are created spiritual beings to love and please God, while walking in naturally made flesh and blood, gives us power of the truth to acknowledge freely the natural death of all flesh and blood, so that we are much more careful to care for our souls: Therefore we are to put our minds to good use while still in the flesh, and mind the eternal things of the Spirit, rather than the mortal things of the earth below:
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Conclusion: no man ever knew what it was like to have an immortal physical body, because there was not and never will be any such thing in heaven nor on earth.
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
No flesh and blood could ever be immortal, because no flesh and blood could ever inherit the kingdom of God. The vain hope of somehow attaining to something we never lost, some immortality of physical bodies on earth, is vainly imagined by false teachings of men.
Those who believe the lie of becoming mortal in flesh by the sin of some fool thousands of years ago, and so are also born captive to his sinful will, are those trapped in a delusional mourning over what was lost to them, before they were ever even born into the world.
I can freely say I care absolutely nothing for some man and woman called Adam and Eve, that threw away the best chance any man and woman ever had to live a long and happy and blessed life with the Lord God Himself personally raising them up for His good pleasure.
I say good riddance to bad rubbish. Adam is not my father, neither in the flesh nor in the spirit. At best, he's my father in law pertaining to the flesh only. Which has absolutely nothing to do with anything he did, but only with what Christ did, when making mortal man's body from dust of the earth.
The liberty of the truth, is that we are all created good souls with pure hearts by Christ in the lower tparts of the earth, and lightened with His true light coming into the world
to please God, not to serve the devil, as though he now makes us in his own sinful image.
Being born of again of Christ is exactly that: becoming newborn babes as though fresh from the womb, with regenerated and renewed cleanness of soul, purity of heart, and the mind of Christ.
We don't sit around mourning what we never lost, but rather believe the gospel for what we were first created to attain to: perfection of spirit and mind in heaven, with immortal resurrected spiritual bodies: Just like we see Jesus in Revelation 1.
