What does the word life mean to you

by Brian Shilhavy

Life. It is one of the most common words in the English language. It is something to “live,” something to “spend,” something that begins and ends, something that is evaluated as “good” or “bad,” as “healthy” or “unhealthy.”

But how do we actually define it? Is it defined by our culture, or does it have an intrinsic meaning that transcends how the culture uses the word?

How you understand or define “life” affects pretty much everything you do, and I doubt that very many people have actually spent time evaluating their understanding of “life,” but passively just accept how the culture defines it.

“Life” is closely associated with “truth,” which means that the meaning of “life” is not dependent on people’s opinions or understanding of what it is.

It just is. It transcends even language, therefore it requires that we examine the language we use to describe and define life, and the closer we can come to its actual intrinsic meaning, the closer we come to understanding “truth.”

To help you decide whether or not you want to continue reading this article, I need to repeat my working premises that I have publicly explained in previous articles, and which are the premises I have accepted as true and are the foundation for all the articles I have personally written and published on Health Impact News for the past 12 years, which is that the Ancient writings of the Bible, also referred to as the “Scriptures,” are true in so much as they contain truth.

They are not the total embodiment of truth, as that originates from God (Yahweh/Jehovah) and his Son Jesus Christ, who is the “living Word of God.”

So for example, one of the “truths” found in the Scriptures is: Love your neighbor as yourself. This is written in English, so to properly understand this truth, we need to define “love” and “neighbor,” which is generally defined by our culture and language. It is also an “imperative” (command) truth.

But even if we come to an agreement on how these English words are defined so that we can properly communicate with each other about this truth so that we generally agree on how these words/concepts are defined, the truth of how that works out in your life, or mine, is not something we can find in the Scriptures.

Who I am supposed to be loving as my neighbor, will not usually be the same as who you are supposed to be loving as your neighbor, especially if we do not even know each other.

The general principle of this truth, “love your neighbor as yourself,” is always true, but how that truth is applied to someone’s life or situation is not the same for everyone.

And the knowledge of that kind of truth does not come from words written in a book, even if those words are true. They come from a relationship with the Living Word of God.

But that’s a topic for another article.

Where does Life Come From?

This is a question that is easily answered in the Scriptures, but when we closely examine just what the English word “life” means, it actually becomes more complicated.

As I have stated in other articles I have written, I have been studying the Bible for over 40 years, and I start each day by reading it and studying it.

I recently was reading through Paul’s two letters to his young associate, Timothy, and I recently wrote an article on what I found to be the main truth in Paul’s second letter to Timothy, and how that truth can be applied to us today. See:

Has Everyone Left You Because You are not Ashamed to Speak the Truth? Stay the Course!

But I came across something Paul wrote towards the end of his first letter to Timothy that Paul mentioned as an “aside.” In other words, it was not the main point he was making, but he stated it as a generally accepted fact.

I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession, that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ; which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen. (1 Timothy 6:13-16)

The “aside” here is the text I highlighted “who gives life to all things.”

I jotted down a note about this verse, and I thought to myself, “This would be a good topic for an article.”

I am familiar with this statement, and it is stated in many other places in the Scriptures, so I thought it would be a quick and easy article to write.

But as I dug deeper into the Greek words that are used in the New Testament which we translate as “life,” I soon learned that I did not understand this concept nearly as much as I thought I did, and so even though this would have been the earlier article I would have published before the one on 2 Timothy, I have now spent very many hours and days studying “life” as it is defined in the Scriptures, and I almost abandoned writing this article, so deep is the topic, and so inadequate do I feel in even attempting to write this article.

So I will be the first one to admit that I still have more to learn, but so important is this topic of “life,” that I felt I had to share what I have learned so far, as we are in desperate need today to identify the truth in our culture, and identify the lies, and it begins, in my opinion, with the proper understanding of “life.”

But before I start in examining the Greek words used by the New Testament writers that are translated into our English Bibles as “life,” let me give you other passages that confirm the truth Paul expressed here: God gives life to all things.

One of the most comprehensive statements of this truth is in Paul’s letter to the Colossians where he explains that Jesus Christ, in his pre-incarnate state, which means before he took on human form and was born to the virgin Mary, was the one who created everything in the universe.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. (Colossians 1:15-17)

Here is the same truth again written in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians:

For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live. (1 Corinthians 8:5-6)

Here is the apostle John writing the same truth:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. (John 1:1-4)

Here is the same truth being stated in the book of Hebrews:

In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe.

The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. (Hebrews 1:1-3)

I realize that the English word “life” is not in all of these verses, but I believe the truth that God gives life to all things is included in these passages as well.

Because God’s creative actions also include things that are not “alive,” such as the elements of the earth.

Genesis, the first book of the Bible, teaches us that God took some of these elements that we would not say were “alive” but then formed them into a living being, the first man.

The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. (Genesis 2:7)

So we can conclusively say that the Bible clearly teaches that ALL life comes from God, specifically from the person Jesus Christ. So now we just need to define what this “life” is.

What is “Life?”

The English noun life, and its corresponding verb, to live, along with other cognates of this word, such as alive, lively, lifeless, etc., have multiple meanings, and we generally understand the meaning the speaker or author is using by its context.

“Live,” for example, can be a noun or a verb based on usage. So “Live your life to its fullest” has a different meaning from “It’s being broadcast live,” for example. In written English we determine the meaning by context, but in spoken English the pronunciation is different based on usage, making it easier to distinguish.

This is true in Koine Greek also, but when we get to the usage of the English word life in the New Testament portion of the Bible, there is actually more than one word in the Greek that is translated into this single word in the English. And of those words in the Greek, which are mainly 3 different words, each of those words can have multiple meanings as well, based on the context in which it is being used, just like the English word group.

The primary 3 words in the Greek that are translated (sometimes) by the English word life, are ζωή (zóé), ψυχή (psuché), and βίος (bios).

Zóé and its cognates are by far the most common words translated to the English life, and it is found in all 27 books of the New Testament.

Psuché is the second most common, used hundreds of times including its cognates.

Bios is the least common (this actually surprised me), and is only used 11 times in the entire New Testament.

Zoe is almost always translated into the English word “life.” I surveyed a few English translations, and the only exception I found was in the older King James Version in Luke 16:25, where it is translated “lifetime,” which restricts its meaning to the duration of our physical lives in our natural body between our physical birth and our physical death.

Here is a verse where Jesus uses the word that seems to refer to our “life” between physical birth and physical death:

Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” (Luke 12:15)

Here is an example of Paul using it the same way:

If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men. (1 Corinthians 15:19)

As with the English word “life,” zoe has different variations of meanings, and besides “lifetime” can refer to the “natural life” that applies to humans, animals, and plants, but is also used with “eternal life” as exceeding the “life” of just our natural bodies, but including our “soul” and “spirit” which are not confined to just the existence of our physical bodies.

This concept of “eternal life” is, by far, the more common meaning found in the New Testament, referring to “life” as an eternal existence not confined to the duration of time we spend in our physical bodies. Some examples (note, in some of these verses the verb form, zao, is also being used):

“Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” (Matthew 25:46)

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:14-16)

Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” (John 4:13-14)

“I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself. (John 5:24-26)

In the context of the New Testament writings, zoe also is used with “new life” to describe the spiritual rebirth found only in Jesus Christ, the first man resurrected from the (physical) dead which added new meaning to zoe that the ancient Greek philosophers writing in Classical Greek, such as Plato and Aristotle, did not have.

Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” “Sir,” they said, “from now on give us this bread.” Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. (John 6:32-35)

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” (John 11:25-26)

We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body. (2 Corinthians 4:10-11)

For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. (2 Corinthians 5:4)

The quality of this “life” is often associated with “light” and “truth” shining into the domain of Satan, exposing his lies hidden in the dark.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. (John 1:1-5)

When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” (John 8:12)

Psuché, on the other hand, is translated into English as “soul” about as often as it is translated into English as “life,” and refers to more than just our physical bodies. This Greek word is behind our modern English words like psyche, psychology, etc.

Here are some of the verses where psuche is translated as either “life” or “soul” in English:

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not  life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? (Matthew 6:25)

Then Jesus asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they remained silent. (Mark 3:4)

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. (Matthew 10:28)

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. (Matthew 11:29)

Here the same word is translated “life” in one verse, and then the exact same word (psuche) in the following verse is translated “soul”:

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? (Matthew 16:25-26)

Another word used in English to translate psuche sometimes is “mind.”

But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers. (Acts 14:2)

In some verses, psuche is translated into the English word “heart.”

Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but like slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. (Ephesians 6:6)

Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. (Hebrews 12:3)

As should be obvious from just this brief look at the various uses of the two most common Greek words in the New Testament portion of the Bible that are translated into the English word “life,” it has a much broader meaning than its usage in modern Western culture today, which over-emphasizes only our physical life starting with physical birth and ending with physical death.

In the New Testament writings, “life” cannot be understood apart from Jesus Christ, who broke the power of physical death and instituted “eternal life” in heaven, the Kingdom of God, which also exists on the physical earth at this time in the spiritual realm, invading the Kingdom of Satan, the current world system, also referred to as “darkness.”

So using zoe, we come back to that famous statement made by Jesus Christ in John 14:6:

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)

Jesus did not just explain what “life” is, he claimed that he IS “life.” And this truth fits with what was written in the passage in Colossians I quoted above:

For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

And he is the head of the body, the assembly; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.

For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. (Colossians 1:16-20)

Jesus also used an analogy of a vine, a living plant, and the “branches” that lived off of the vine, but which “died” and were burned up once they were cut off from the vine, to illustrate how he IS the “life”:

I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine.

Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. (John 15:1-6)

Bios

But there is a 3rd Greek word that is sometimes translated “life” in the English translations of the Bible: bios. This noun is only used 11 times in the New Testament, and once in its verb form.

Notice how it is translated into English in each of these verses.

And he called his disciples to him and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.” (Mark 12:43-44)

And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature. (Luke 8:14)

And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and though she had spent all her living on physicians, she could not be healed by anyone. (Luke 8:43)

And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them. (Luke 15:12)

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’ (Luke 15:30)

No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. (2 Timothy 2:4 – note: some English translations say “every day life” or “affairs of life” for “bios” here.)

1 Peter 4:2-3 uses the verb form (only occurrence in the New Testament) in verse 2, and the noun in verse 3.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries. (1 Peter 4:2-3)

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s. (1 John 2:16)

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him? (1 John 3:17)

I think it is easy to see by observing how bios is used in these verses that this is a very different, and mostly negative, term that is sometimes translated into “life” in English.

It is obviously only dealing with physical life, and the duration of that life between our physical birth and our physical death. It includes the things that “empower” our physical life, such as finances and worldly possessions, but also the emotions and desires that are tied into the physical world and the current world system ruled by Satan, such as pride, lust, idolatry, etc.

So even though bios is the original Greek word used the least amount of time in the New Testament, is it any surprise that of the three Greek words used to translate into “life,” that bios is the one most often used today in English and Western Culture?

We are familiar with the common English words derived from bios, such as biology, biologist, etc., which are used in academic settings in the study of “life.”

The English word “life” comes originally from the Germanic languages, the language group from where English originated.

Old English life (dative lif) “animated corporeal existence; lifetime, period between birth and death; the history of an individual from birth to death, written account of a person’s life; way of life (good or bad); condition of being a living thing, opposite of death; spiritual existence imparted by God, through Christ, to the believer,” from Proto-Germanic *leiban (source also of Old Norse lif “life, body,” Old Frisian, Old Saxon lif “life, person, body,” Dutch lijf “body,” Old High German lib “life,” German Leib “body”), properly “continuance, perseverance,” from PIE root *leip- “to stick, adhere.” (Source.)

“Biology,” on the other hand, appears to be an introduced word, both into German, as well as into French (a Latin language), in the late 1700s or early 1800s.

Here is the entry from etymonline.com:

biology (n.)
“the science of life and living things,” 1819, from Greek bios “life, one’s life, lifetime” (from PIE root *gwei- “to live;” see bio-) + -logy “study of.” Suggested 1802 by German naturalist Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, and introduced as a scientific term that year in French by Lamarck; they seem to have hit upon the word independently.

They “seem to have hit upon the word independently“? Yeah, I don’t think so….

Merriam Webster, which today is owned by a Jewish financier in Switzerland, states:

First Known Use of biology

1799, in the meaning defined at sense 1

History and Etymology for biology

German Biologie, from bi- + -logie -logy

From Dictionary.com:

ORIGIN OF BIOLOGY

From the German word Biologie, dating back to 1805–15.

What they seem to agree upon is that the word we know today as “biology” was an introduced word from the early 1800s coming to use in the English from the German.

So what all was going on in Germany and Europe during this time period?

This was the period of history often referred to as the “Great Awakening” in Europe.

We have the rise of the House of Rothschild, for example, taking over the banking industry. We have the secret societies like the Freemason lodges, and the Illuminati, all taking form in Europe during this time, and influencing academics.

The theories of Marxism were written by Karl Marx and the theories of race development and the “Aryan Race” was written by Karl Ritter, and these two opposing theories would shape political and academic thought that shaped Western Culture in Europe, and was exported to the United States.

There were some positive influences also from the “Reformation Movement” during that time that at least worked at translating the Scriptures into the vernacular of the languages of the working classes.

But the biggest development from this time period, by far, which gave birth to “biology,” was Charles Darwin, and this theories of “evolution.”

Here is the entry on “biology” from encyclopedia.com:

BIOLOGY.

Biology comes from the Greek word for life, bis, and the Greek word for thought or reasoning, logos. It denotes the science that studies life, the properties and processes that sustain life, the evolutionary history of life, and particular living organisms. It is a science of enormous diversity, breadth, and heterogeneity unified only by the conceptual framework provided by the theory of evolution.

Indeed, as famously noted in 1973 by the Russian evolutionary geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975), “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”—a quote now replicated in so many university-level textbooks that it is almost a dictum in modern biology.

During this time period the definition of “science” began to evolve from a meaning that historically was synonymous with “knowledge” and “philosophy” and began to limit its study to strictly the bios of life, concerning only the physical life between our physical birth and physical death, and all the elements of Satan’s world system such as pride, lust, greed, etc., and eliminate all other meanings of “life” as “unscientific.”

Today, in American academics, you are generally not allowed to challenge Darwin’s theories of evolution, theories which have undergone many changes over the years, as it is presented as a scientific “fact,” even though it is only a theory which is really not supported by science at all.

The actual science that Darwin (and others) observed were primarily species adapting to their environment, in order to survive, and not evolving into a higher life form which in this theory takes BILLIONS of years to happen, and could never be observed by science, but just accepted by faith.

What we have completely lost in modern day academics, is the teaching that life comes from our Creator, and our Savior, Jesus Christ. And along with this view of “life,” is a declining emphasis on the humanities and arts, the creative expression of human life, as “science” is now regulated to only physical science, based mainly on Darwinian Biology, which, among other things, has given us modern medicine and the pharmaceutical industry with its very narrow, and very evil, view of “life” that came from bios.

Transhumanism’s False Claims

I have wanted to write an article for some time now debunking all the false claims for “transhumanism.” But as I began to study the language used to define and describe “life,” I quickly realized that the easiest way to debunk transhumanism is to first properly define “life.”

Once we realize what life really is, we can easily see that the promises, or warnings, depending on who you are reading or listening to, regarding transhumanism are all based on a false definition of “life”.

Transhumanism is nothing more than the 21st Century version of Darwinian biology, based on bios, instead of zoe and psuche. Modern academic teaching has turned the meaning of life upside down, putting the lowest forms of “life” that deal only with physical life and the elements of this world system on top, and eliminating the human soul and spirit completely.

If you want to live your life like that, ignoring your soul and your spirit, go ahead. You will fit into modern society just fine, along with the modern belief in the religious cult of “medicine” and their priests called “doctors.”

This false belief that originates with the Greek concept of bios, and popularized and institutionalized with academic thought built upon “biology,” is what produced the false science known today as “genetics,” which was originally called “eugenics,” until it was associated with Nazi Germany and Hitler and perceived as negative.

Therefore it was rebranded as “genetics,” and it is what fuels most “scientific” research today that gives us modern day drugs and vaccines, which never promote a healthy life, but merely manage disease at best, or kills life prematurely at its worst. For more information on this topic, see our previous articles:

Mapping the Genome and Modern Genetics: Eugenics Repackaged for Modern Times

Eugenics in the United States Today: Are We on the Same Path Nazi Germany Followed?

Dr. David Martin Exposes the False Foundation of Eugenics: “You Don’t Have DNA”

To understand the false science of “genetics” and “biology,” you first need to understand what true “life” really is, which includes your eternal soul and your spirit.

All life originates from God, through Jesus Christ. I quoted these verses above, and the Greek word for “all” is pas, which really means ALL, or the WHOLE.

That means neither man, nor Satan, can create life. Period. End of story.

They can affect our physical bodies and the bios that we live from physical birth to physical death, but neither man nor Satan has control of our soul or spirit.

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. (Matthew 10:28)

We are created in the image of God, and nothing can change that, because all life originates and is upheld by God through Jesus Christ. There are no exceptions, according to the language used in the Scriptures.

What about procreation? Cannot a man and women create children through sex?

No!

We just established the fact that all life is created by God. When a man and women join together and produce a child, they are participating in the creative process with God, but they are not creating anything. God created the sperm, and the egg.

Every single person born from their mother was created by God.

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.

All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. (Psalms 139:13-16)

If a man and a women do not have the power to create a human being, therefore, then Satan and his demons most certainly cannot create “transhumans”!! And neither can the technocrats.

I am currently seeing two forms of transhumanism being discussed in the popular culture and also in the Alternative Media.

One is put forward by the technocrats such as those who work with the World Economic Forum and have defined what they want to do with “transhumanism.”

The second is promoted mostly by Evangelical Zionist Christians who believe that Satan can procreate and produce hybrid demons/humans, and much of this is based on the Book of Enoch, which was rejected as an authentic piece of literature to be included in the Bible.

And as I have shown here in this article, probably the main reason why the Book of Enoch was not included in the Bible is that it has a false definition of “life.” The Biblical definition of “life” sees ALL life as originating with God, and even being upheld in the universe today by God.

The writers of the New Testament dealt very strongly with the issues taught in the Book of Enoch, which deal with “bloodlines” or genealogies and hybrid demon-human beings. Here are a few of the warnings from Paul to NOT get involved with these debates and arguments:

As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain men not to teach false doctrines any longer nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. These promote controversies rather than God’s work–which is by faith. The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. Some have wandered away from these and turned to meaningless talk. (1 Timothy 1:3-6)

Therefore, rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of those who reject the truth. To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. (Titus 1:13-15)

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. (Titus 3:9)

As far as the false claims of the technocrats, no machine, robot, or artificial intelligence can ever be defined as “life.” It is also based on the false science of “genetics,” and it is all cow dung.

These are the false prophets of our day. The Christian false prophets are terrorizing people who foolishly took a COVID-19 injection by telling them that they now cannot be healed or saved, and that their DNA has been altered and they are no longer human.

They say these things because they have a false understanding of “life,” and there is no room for God in their thinking to overcome the negative effects of the pharmaceutical cult. They need to repent.

The technocrats are from my generation, and they grew up watching Star Trek and Star Wars and actually believing all that science fiction, because they too have a false concept of “life.” They are actually not even very smart people, most of them, and as soon as their technology developed to the point where almost everyone started using it, the Globalists came in and bought them all, as they sold their souls to the Wall Street Bankers and Billionaires.

But transhumanism is only science fiction, and it always will be. AI, robots, etc. are all creations of man, corrupted by Satan, and cannot create life, nor be called “life.”

It is mainly a distraction to the real dangers of technology, and things like artificial intelligence, which is massive data processing that allows new levels of tracking and surveillance that we have never seen before.

It is one thing to spy on every single person on the planet through technology, and it is another thing to be able to process all that data and use it for evil purposes, and that is the true danger of the technocrats who are now owned by the Wall Street bankers.

But here is the truth:

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)

End of story.

Jesus controls life, and if we know him and have his Spirit living inside of us, we have absolutely nothing to fear, because the worst thing our enemy can do to us is kill our bios, our physical life, which is going to pass away at some point anyway, as our soul lives on into eternity without the physical body.

I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed–in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.

For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. (1 Corinthians 15:50-58)

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Published on January 23, 2022

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This is your life flashing before your eyes, this is your ~life~ passing you by. ❋ Wendchymes (2007)

This literature tends to show subjects ‘self-ratings of well-being or happiness are based partly on pleasure, partly on the absence of negative affect, and partly on their views of how well they are achieving the ends they regard as important in life (their ˜life satisfaction™). ❋ Katz, Leonard D. (2006)

If what I have found so far and my search has not ended yet, nor will it ever likely is accurate- that life begins at fertilization both by the independent definition of “life” and a scientific understanding of the life cycle- then abortion must end. ❋ Unknown (2005)

He also credits Aristotle with saying: “Teachers who educated children deserved more honour than parents who merely gave them birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life” (p. 463). ❋ Unknown (1989)

_The girl must prepare for life work in the home, or life work outside the home, or a period of either followed by the other, or perhaps a combination of both during some part or even all of her mature life_. ❋ Marguerite Stockman Dickson (N/A)

Now those who regard literature as an important thing, playing a significant part in the life of a nation, must, as I have already indicated, seek in it something more positive than a _distraction_ from life; for them it must be an _addition to life_. ❋ Rolfe Arnold Scott-James (N/A)

Now, relying on these discoveries, as well as upon the successful demonstration, by inorganic means, of organic acids in chemistry, and starting from the supposition that the first appearance of life must necessarily be explained by those agencies which are already active in the inorganic nature, many scientists have attempted the so-called _mechanical explanation of life_. ❋ Rudolf Schmid (N/A)

There are, as I suppose, the following several kinds of life: (1) _Spirit life_; (2) _Moral life_; (3) _Electric life_. ❋ Daniel Clark (N/A)

In New York the frontier was just beyond the posts on the Hudson River; and in Virginia life outside of the oldest settlements was strictly «_life on the border_.» ❋ William Worthington Fowler (N/A)

_After the death_, &c. 172, l. 3. _or_ else it _should cost life for life_; and that in a short time they should be like hogs kept for slaughter, by this vitious ❋ John Knox (N/A)

Not enough that you would barter my life — yes, my _life_ — for gold, sell my heart’s blood for your own ease and comfort? ❋ Lawrence L. Lynch (N/A)

It appears to be the only kind of matter with which life is ever associated, and for this reason protoplasm is called the _physical basis of life_. ❋ Francis M. Walters (N/A)

By nature it is implanted in man that he should live in civil society, for since he cannot attain in solitude the necessary means of civilized life, it is a Divine provision that he comes into existence adapted for taking part in the union and assembling of men, both in the Family and in the State, which alone can supply adequate facilities for _the perfecting of life_. ❋ Various (N/A)

“The life of the kings of Egypt, ” says Diodorus, “was not like that of other monarchs who are irresponsible and may do just what they choose; on the contrary, everything was fixed for them by law, not only their official duties, but even the details of their daily life…. ❋ Unknown (1922)

“Private life, ” Weems avowed, “is real life”; and though, lacking first-hand knowledge, he was obliged to invent, he seemed intimate and credible to an audience somewhat overwhelmed by the heavy splendor of the more official orations and odes and sermons called forth by Washington’s death. ❋ Unknown (1921)

As Platonism began with the ideal of the good or the object of life, so the new idealism begins with the conviction of duty, or _the story of life_. ❋ Ralph Barton Perry (1916)

NATURAL phenomenon of human life brings us to the scientifical source of ethics and I prove that the so-called “highest ideals of humanity” have nothing of “sentimentalism” or of the “_super_natural” in them, but are exclusively the _fulfilment_ of the _natural laws_ for the _human class of life_. ❋ Alfred Korzybski (1914)

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life, —life passed through the fire of thought. ❋ Unknown (1909)

We may then take it, without prejudice to any special belief, that the spiritual life we wish to study is _one life_; based on experience of one Reality, and manifested in the diversity of gifts and graces which men have been willing to call true, holy, beautiful and good. ❋ Evelyn Underhill (1908)

❋ Anonymous (2003)

[Life’s a bitch], [and then] you [die]. ❋ Mr. Cynic (2005)

[Insert Name] is reading UrbanDictionary because it is the most intriguing activity that Insert Name could think of doing at the moment in his life.
([Sailor Jerry] [says hi]) ❋ Wittyname (2010)

At age 4, success is…not peeing [in your pants].
At age 12, success is…having friends.
At age 16, success is…having [a driver’s] [license].
At age 20, success is…having sex.
At age 35, success is…having money.
At age 50, success is…having money.
At age 60, success is…having sex.
At age 70, success is…having a driver’s license.
At age 75, success is…having friends.
At age 90, success is…not peeing in your pants. ❋ Ay Yo (2004)

god damn [eve] and her [fat ass] for eating [an apple], life is her fault. ❋ DoUNoTylrDurden (2005)

[My life] is rapidly becoming a [pun] for a seriously [disturbed] joke. ❋ Bulletproof Marshmallow (2003)

[Boy 1]: [how do] you think [your life] is?
Boy2: Shit ❋ Megumisgf (2022)

Don’t take life to seriously. [You’ll never] [get out of it] [alive] ❋ Garabaldi (2003)

[Life] is like [a dick], when it gets [hard fuck] it! ❋ I’ll Never Tell (2003)

life in the ’emergin’ [countries] ❋ Cordelia (2004)

In 2019 they set out to find it by carrying out a survey of scientists and other scholars. They put together a list of things including people, chickens, Amazon mollies, bacteria, viruses, snowflakes, and the like. Next to each entry the Lund team provided a set of terms commonly used to talk about living things, such as order, DNA, and metabolism.

The participants in the study checked off all the terms that they believed to apply to each thing. Snowflakes have order, for example, but they don’t have a metabolism. A human red blood cell has a metabolism but it contains no DNA.

The Lund researchers used a statistical technique called cluster analysis to look at the results and group the things together based on family resemblances. We humans fell into a group with chickens, mice, and frogs — in other words, animals with brains. Amazon mollies have brains, too, but the cluster analysis put them in a separate group close to our own. Because they don’t reproduce by themselves, they’re set a little apart from us. Further away, the scientists found a cluster made up of brainless things, such as plants and free‐living bacteria. In a third group was a cluster of red blood cells and other cell‐like things that can’t live on their own.

Furthest away from us were things that are commonly not considered alive. One cluster included viruses and prions, which are deformed proteins that can force other proteins to take their shape. Another included snowflakes, clay crystals, and other things that don’t replicate in a lifelike way.

The Lund researchers found that they could sort things pretty well into the living and the nonliving without getting tied up in an argument over the perfect definition of life. They propose that we can call something alive if it has a number of properties that are associated with being alive. It doesn’t have to have all those properties, nor does it even need exactly the same set found in any other living thing. Family resemblances are enough.

One philosopher has taken a far more radical stand. Carol Cleland argues that there’s no point in searching for a definition of life or even just a convenient stand‐in for one. It’s actually bad for science, she maintains, because it keeps us from reaching a deeper understanding about what it means to be alive. Cleland’s contempt for definitions is so profound that some of her fellow philosophers have taken issue with her. Kelly Smith has called Cleland’s ideas “dangerous.”

Cleland had a slow evolution into a firebrand. When she enrolled in the University of California, Santa Barbara, she started off studying physics. “I was a klutz in the lab, and my experiments never turned out right,” she later told an interviewer. From physics she turned to geology, and while she liked the wild places that the research took her to, she didn’t like feeling isolated as a woman in the male‐dominated field. She discovered philosophy in her junior year and was soon grappling with deep questions about logic. After graduating college and spending a year working as a software engineer, she went to Brown University to earn a Ph.D. in philosophy.

In graduate school Cleland mulled space and time, cause and effect.

When Cleland finished grad school, she moved on to subjects that were easier to talk about at dinner parties. She worked at Stanford University for a time, contemplating the logic of computer programs. She then became an assistant professor at the University of Colorado, where she remained for the rest of her career.

In Boulder, Cleland turned her attention to the nature of science itself. She examined how some scientists, like physicists, could run experiments over and over again, while others, like geologists, couldn’t replay millions of years of history. It was while she was reflecting about these differences that she learned about a Martian rock in Antarctica that was posing a philosophical conundrum of its own.

[The Martian rock, a meteorite designated Allan Hills 84001, was examined in 1996 by a NASA team led by David McKay. They reported seeing signs of ancient life in it, including microbial fossils, but most scientists dismissed the evidence as too ambiguous to be credible.]

A lot of the arguments over Allan Hills 84001 had less to do with the rock itself than with the right way to do science. Some researchers thought the NASA team had done an admirable job of studying it, but others thought it was ridiculous to conclude from their findings that the meteorite might contain fossils. The planetary scientist Bruce Jakosky, one of Cleland’s colleagues at the University of Colorado, decided to organize a public discussion where the two sides could air their views. But he realized that judging Allan Hills 84001 required more than running some experiments to measure magnetic minerals. It demanded thinking through how we make scientific judgments. He asked Cleland to join the event, to talk about Allan Hills 84001 as a philosopher.

What started as a quick prep for a talk turned into a dive into the philosophy of extraterrestrial life. Cleland concluded that the fight over Allan Hills 84001 sprang from the divide between experimental and historical sciences. The critics made the mistake of treating the meteorite study as experimental science. It was absurd to expect McKay’s team to replay history. They couldn’t fossilize microbes on Mars for 4 billion years and see if they matched Allan Hills 84001. They couldn’t hurl a thousand asteroids at a thousand copies of Mars and see what came our way.

Cleland concluded that the NASA team had carried out good historical science, comparing explanations for the ones that explained their evidence best. “The martian‐life hypothesis is a very good candidate for being the best explanation of the structural and chemical features of the martian meteorite,” she wrote in 1997 in the Planetary Report.

Cleland’s work on the meteorite impressed Jakosky so much that he invited her in 1998 to join one of the teams at NASA’s newly created Astrobiology Institute. In the years that followed, Cleland developed a philosophical argument for what the science of astrobiology should look like. She informed her ideas by spending time with scientists doing different kinds of research that fit under the umbrella of astrobiology. She traveled around the Australian outback with a paleontologist searching for clues to how giant mammals went extinct 40,000 years ago. She went to Spain to learn how geneticists sequence DNA. And she spent a lot of time at scientific meetings, roaming from talk to talk. “I felt like a kid in a candy store,” she once told me.

But sometimes the scientists Cleland spent time with set off her philosophical alarms. “Everybody was working with a definition of life,” she recalled. NASA’s definition, only a few years old at that point, was especially popular.

As a philosopher, Cleland recognized that the scientists were making a mistake. Their error didn’t have to do with determinate attributes or some other fine philosophical point understood only by a few logicians. It was a fundamental blunder that got in the way of the science itself. Cleland laid out the nature of this mistake in a paper, and in 2001 she traveled to Washington, D.C., to deliver it at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She stood up before an audience made up mostly of scientists, and told them it was pointless to try to find a definition of life.

“There was an explosion,” Cleland recalled. “Everyone was yelling at me. It was really amazing. Everyone had their pet definitions and wanted to air them. And here I told them the whole definition project was worthless.”

Fortunately, some people who heard Cleland talk thought she was onto something. She began collaborating with astrobiologists to explore the implications of her ideas. Over the course of two decades she published a series of papers, culminating in a book, The Quest for a Universal Theory of Life.

The trouble that scientists had with defining life had nothing to do with the particulars of life’s hallmarks such as homeostasis or evolution. It had to do with the nature of definitions themselves — something that scientists rarely stopped to consider. “Definitions,” Cleland wrote, “are not the proper tools for answering the scientific question ‘what is life?’”

Definitions serve to organize our concepts. The definition of, say, a bachelor is straightforward: an unmarried man. If you’re a man and you’re unmarried, you are — by definition — a bachelor. Being a man is not enough to make you a bachelor, nor is being unmarried. As for what it means to be a man, well, that can get complicated. And marriage has its own complexity. But we can define “bachelor” without getting bogged down in those messy matters. The word simply links these concepts in a precise way. And because definitions have such a narrow job to do, we can’t revise them through scientific investigation. There is simply no way that we could ever discover that we were wrong about the definition of a bachelor as being an unmarried man.

Life is different. It is not the sort of thing that can be defined simply by linking together concepts. As a result, it’s futile to search for a laundry list of features that will turn out to be the real definition of life. “We don’t want to know what the word life means to us,” Cleland said. “We want to know what life is.” And if we want to satisfy our desire, Cleland argues, we need to give up our search for a definition.

From the book Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer, published by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 2021 by Carl Zimmer.

What does the word «life» mean to you?

Princeton’s WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 6 votes

1. lifenoun

   a characteristic state or mode of living

   «social life»; «city life»; «real life»

2. life, livingnoun

   the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities

   «he could no longer cope with the complexities of life»

3. lifenoun

   the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living

   «he hoped for a new life in Australia»; «he wanted to live his own life without interference from others»

4. animation, life, living, alivenessnoun

   the condition of living or the state of being alive

   «while there’s life there’s hope»; «life depends on many chemical and physical processes»

5. life, lifetime, life-time, lifespannoun

   the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)

   «the battery had a short life»; «he lived a long and happy life»

6. lifenoun

   the period between birth and the present time

   «I have known him all his life»

7. lifenoun

   the period from the present until death

   «he appointed himself emperor for life»

8. lifenoun

   a living person

   «his heroism saved a life»

9. liveliness, life, spirit, sprightlinessnoun

   animation and energy in action or expression

   «it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it»

10. lifenoun

    living things collectively

    «the oceans are teeming with life»

11. lifenoun

    the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones

    «there is no life on the moon»

12. biography, life, life story, life historynoun

    an account of the series of events making up a person’s life

13. lifenoun

    a motive for living

    «pottery was his life»

14. life sentence, lifenoun

    a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives

    «he got life for killing the guard»

WiktionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. lifenoun

   The state that follows birth, and precedes death; the state of being alive and living.

2. lifenoun

   The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant, a star) is alive.

3. lifenoun

   The span of time during which an object operates.

   This light bulb is designed to have a life of 2,000 hours.

4. lifenoun

   The period of time during which an object is recognizable.

   The life of this milk carton may be thousands of years in this landfill.

5. lifenoun

   A status given to any entity including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, etc. and sometimes viruses having the properties of replication and metabolism.

6. lifenoun

   The essence of the manifestation and the foundation of the being.

7. lifenoun

   the subjective and inner manifestation of the individual.

8. lifenoun

   The world in general; existence.

   Man’s life on this planet has been marked by continual conflict.

9. lifenoun

   A worthwhile existence.

   He gets up early in the morning, works all day long even on weekends and hardly sees his family. That’s no life!

10. lifenoun

    The most worthwhile component or participant

11. lifenoun

    A biography.

    His life of the founder is finished, except for the title.

12. lifenoun

    Something which is inherently part of a person’s existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc.

    She’s my love, my life.

13. lifenoun

    A life sentence; a term of imprisonment of a convict until his or her death.

14. lifenoun

    One of the player’s chances to play, lost when a mistake is made.

    Scoring 1000 points is rewarded with an extra life.

15. Lifenoun

    God.

16. Etymology: From lif, lyf, from lif, from līban, from lībanan, from leyp-. Cognate with life, leif, liff, liif, Dutch lijf, lif, German Leib, Swedish liv, líf. Related to belive.

Samuel Johnson’s DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lifenoun

   plural lives.

   Etymology: lifian , to live, Saxon.

   1. Union and co-operation of soul with body.

   On thy life no more.
   —— My life I never held but as a pawn
   To wage against thy foes; nor fear to lose it,
   Thy safety being the motive.
   William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   She shews a body rather than a life,
   A statue than a breather.
   William Shakespeare, Ant. and Cleopatra.

   Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life.
   Gen. i. 20.

   The identity of the same man consists in nothing but a participation of the same continued life, by constantly fleeting particles of matter, in succession vitally united to the same organized body.
   John Locke.

   So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days,
   And steal thyself from life by slow decays.
   Alexander Pope.

   2. Present state.

   O life, thou nothing’s younger brother!
   So like, that we may take the one for t’other!
   Dream of a shadow! a reflection made
   From the false glories of the gay reflected bow,
   Is more a solid thing than thou!
   Thou weak built isthmus, that do’st proudly rise
   Up betwixt two eternities;
   Yet canst not wave nor wind sustain,
   But, broken and o’erwhelm’d, the ocean meets again.
   Abraham Cowley.

   When I consider life ’tis all a cheat,
   Yet fool’d by hope men favour the deceit,
   Live on, and think to-morrow will repay;
   To-morrow’s falser than the former day;
   Lies more; and when it says we shall be blest
   With some new joy, takes off what we possest.
   Strange cozenage! none would live past years again,
   Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain;
   And from the dregs of life think to receive
   What the first sprightly running could not give:
   I’m tir’d of waiting for this chemick gold,
   Which fools us young, and beggars us when old.
   Dryden.

   Howe’er ’tis well that while mankind
   Through life ’s perverse meanders errs,
   He can imagin’d pleasures find,
   To combat against real cares.
   Matthew Prior.

   3. Enjoyment, or possession of terrestrial existence.

   Then avarice ’gan through his veins to inspire
   His greedy flames, and kindle life devouring fire.
   Fa. Qu.

   Their complot is to have my life:
   And, if my death might make this island happy,
   And prove the period of their tyranny,
   I would expend it with all willingness.
   William Shakespeare.

   Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv’st
   Live well, how long or short permit to heav’n.
   John Milton.

   Untam’d and fierce the tyger still remains,
   And tires his life with biting on his chains.
   Matthew Prior.

   He entreated me not to take his life, but exact a sum of money.
   Notes on the Odyssey.

   4. Blood, the supposed vehicle of life.

   His gushing entrails smoak’d upon the ground,
   And the warm life came issuing through the wound.
   Alexander Pope.

   5. Conduct; manner of living with respect to virtue or vice.

   Henry and Edward, brightest sons of fame,
   And virtuous Alfred, a more sacred name;
   After a life of glorious toils endur’d,
   Clos’d their long glories with a sigh.
   Alexander Pope.

   I’ll teach my family to lead good lives.
   Jane Barker.

   6. Condition; manner of living with respect to happiness and misery.

   Such was the life the frugal Sabines led;
   So Remus and his brother god were bred.
   John Dryden, Virg.

   7. Continuance of our present state.

   And some have not any clear ideas of the greatest part of them all their lives.
   John Locke.

   The administration of this bank is for life, and partly in the hands of the chief citizens.
   Joseph Addison, on Italy.

   8. The living form; resemblance exactly copied.

   Galen hath explained this point unto the life.
   Brown.

   That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express, no, nor the first sight of the life.
   Francis Bacon, Essays.

   Let him visit eminent persons of great name abroad, that he may tell how the life agreeth with the fame.
   Francis Bacon.

   He that would be a master, must draw by the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.
   Jeremy Collier, of the Entertainment of Books.

   9. Exact resemblance.

   I believe no character of any person was ever better drawn to the life than this.
   John Denham.

   Rich carvings, portraiture, and imag’ry,
   Where ev’ry figure to the life express’d
   The Godhead’s pow’r.
   John Dryden, Knight’s Tale.

   He saw in order painted on the wall
   The wars that fame around the world had blown,
   All to the life, and ev’ry leader known.
   John Dryden, Æn.

   10. General state of man.

   Studious they appear
   Of arts that polish life; inventors rare!
   Unmindful of their Maker.
   John Milton, Par. Lost.

   All that cheers or softens life,
   The tender sister, daughter, friend, and wife.
   Alexander Pope.

   11. Common occurrences; human affairs; the course of things.

   This I know, not only by reading of books in my study, but also by experience of life abroad in the world.
   Roger Ascham.

   Not to know at large of things remote
   From use, obscure and subtile; but to know
   That which before us lies in daily life,
   Is the prime wisdom.
   John Milton, Paradise Lost.

   12. Living person.

   Why should I play the Roman fool, and die
   On my own sword? whilst I see lives the gashes
   Do better upon them.
   William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   13. Narrative of a life past.

   Plutarch, that writes his life,
   Tells us, that Cato dearly lov’d his wife.
   Alexander Pope.

   14. Spirit; briskness; vivacity; resolution.

   The Helots bent thitherward with a new life of resolution, as if their captain had been a root out of which their courage had sprung.
   Philip Sidney.

   They have no notion of life and fire in fancy and in words; and any thing that is just in grammar and in measure is as good oratory and poetry to them as the best.
   Henry Felton.

   Not with half the fire and life,
   With which he kiss’d Amphytrion’s wife.
   Matthew Prior.

   15. Animated existence; animal being.

   Full nature swarms with life.
   James Thomson.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Life

   Life is a characteristic that distinguishes physical entities that have biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased (they have died), or because they never had such functions and are classified as inanimate. Various forms of life exist, such as plants, animals, fungi, protists, archaea, and bacteria. Biology is the science concerned with the study of life.
   There is currently no consensus regarding the definition of life. One popular definition is that organisms are open systems that maintain homeostasis, are composed of cells, have a life cycle, undergo metabolism, can grow, adapt to their environment, respond to stimuli, reproduce and evolve. Other definitions sometimes include non-cellular life such viruses and viroids.
   Abiogenesis is the natural process of life arising from non-living matter, such as simple organic compounds. The prevailing scientific hypothesis is that the transition from non-living to living entities was not a single event, but a gradual process of increasing complexity. Life on Earth first appeared as early as 4.28 billion years ago, soon after ocean formation 4.41 billion years ago, and not long after the formation of the Earth 4.54 billion years ago. The earliest known life forms are microfossils of bacteria. Researchers generally think that current life on Earth descends from an RNA world, although RNA-based life may not have been the first life to have existed. The classic 1952 Miller–Urey experiment and similar research demonstrated that most amino acids, the chemical constituents of the proteins used in all living organisms, can be synthesized from inorganic compounds under conditions intended to replicate those of the early Earth. Complex organic molecules occur in the Solar System and in interstellar space, and these molecules may have provided starting material for the development of life on Earth.Since its primordial beginnings, life on Earth has changed its environment on a geologic time scale, but it has also adapted to survive in most ecosystems and conditions. Some microorganisms, called extremophiles, thrive in physically or geochemically extreme environments that are detrimental to most other life on Earth. The cell is considered the structural and functional unit of life. There are two kinds of cells, prokaryotic and eukaryotic, both of which consist of cytoplasm enclosed within a membrane and contain many biomolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids. Cells reproduce through a process of cell division, in which the parent cell divides into two or more daughter cells.
   In the past, there have been many attempts to define what is meant by «life» through obsolete concepts such as odic force, hylomorphism, spontaneous generation and vitalism, that have now been disproved by biological discoveries. Aristotle was the first person to classify organisms. Later, Carl Linnaeus introduced his system of binomial nomenclature for the classification of species. Eventually new groups and categories of life were discovered, such as cells and microorganisms, forcing dramatic revisions of the structure of relationships between living organisms. Though currently only known on Earth, life need not be restricted to it, and many scientists speculate in the existence of extraterrestrial life. Artificial life is a computer simulation or human-made reconstruction of any aspect of life, which is often used to examine systems related to natural life.
   Death is the permanent termination of all biological functions which sustain an organism, and as such, is the end of its life. Extinction is the term describing the dying out of a group or taxon, usually a species. Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of organisms.

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1. Lifenoun

   the state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that state of an animal or plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of performing all or any of their functions; — used of all animal and vegetable organisms

2. Lifenoun

   of human beings: The union of the soul and body; also, the duration of their union; sometimes, the deathless quality or existence of the soul; as, man is a creature having an immortal life

3. Lifenoun

   the potential principle, or force, by which the organs of animals and plants are started and continued in the performance of their several and cooperative functions; the vital force, whether regarded as physical or spiritual

4. Lifenoun

   figuratively: The potential or animating principle, also, the period of duration, of anything that is conceived of as resembling a natural organism in structure or functions; as, the life of a state, a machine, or a book; authority is the life of government

5. Lifenoun

   a certain way or manner of living with respect to conditions, circumstances, character, conduct, occupation, etc.; hence, human affairs; also, lives, considered collectively, as a distinct class or type; as, low life; a good or evil life; the life of Indians, or of miners

6. Lifenoun

   animation; spirit; vivacity; vigor; energy

7. Lifenoun

   that which imparts or excites spirit or vigor; that upon which enjoyment or success depends; as, he was the life of the company, or of the enterprise

8. Lifenoun

   the living or actual form, person, thing, or state; as, a picture or a description from the life

9. Lifenoun

   a person; a living being, usually a human being; as, many lives were sacrificed

10. Lifenoun

    the system of animal nature; animals in general, or considered collectively

11. Lifenoun

    an essential constituent of life, esp. the blood

12. Lifenoun

    a history of the acts and events of a life; a biography; as, Johnson wrote the life of Milton

13. Lifenoun

    enjoyment in the right use of the powers; especially, a spiritual existence; happiness in the favor of God; heavenly felicity

14. Lifenoun

    something dear to one as one’s existence; a darling; — used as a term of endearment

15. Etymology: [AS. lf; akin to D. lijf body, G. leib body, MHG. lp life, body, OHG. lb life, Icel. lf, life, body, Sw. lif, Dan. liv, and E. live, v. 119. See Live, and cf. Alive.]

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1. Life

   Life is a characteristic that distinguishes objects that have signaling and self-sustaining processes from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased, or else because they lack such functions and are classified as inanimate. Biology is the science concerned with the study of life.
   Any contiguous living system is called an organism. Organisms undergo metabolism, maintain homeostasis, possess a capacity to grow, respond to stimuli, reproduce and, through natural selection, adapt to their environment in successive generations. More complex living organisms can communicate through various means. A diverse array of living organisms can be found in the biosphere of Earth, and the properties common to these organisms—plants, animals, fungi, protists, archaea, and bacteria—are a carbon- and water-based cellular form with complex organization and heritable genetic information.
   Scientific evidence suggests that life began on Earth approximately 3.5 billion years ago. The mechanism by which life emerged on Earth is unknown although many hypotheses have been formulated. Since then, life has evolved into a wide variety of forms, which biologists have classified into a hierarchy of taxa. Life can survive and thrive in a wide range of conditions. The meaning of life—its significance, origin, purpose, and ultimate fate—is a central concept and question in philosophy and religion. Both philosophy and religion have offered interpretations as to how life relates to existence and consciousness, and on related issues such as life stance, purpose, conception of a god or gods, a soul or an afterlife. Different cultures throughout history have had widely varying approaches to these issues.

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1. life

   1. An ante-mortem statement; the intrigue of force and matter; the insomnia of death; a log-jam on the stream of life. 2. The pursuit of the superfluous. 3. The cupola of a tomb. 4. A game something like Blind Man’s Buff. 5. The paradise of liars. 6. A compromise between Fate and Freewill. 7. A warfare between the sexes. 8. What you choose to make it. 9. A bank-account with so much divine energy at your disposal. 10. Just one improper number after another. 11. The interval between the time your teeth are almost through and you are almost through with your teeth. 12. An affirmative between two negatives.

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1. life

   1. A cellular-automata game invented by John Horton Conway
   and first introduced publicly by Martin Gardner
   (Scientific American, October 1970); the
   game’s popularity had to wait a few years for computers on which it
   could reasonably be played, as it’s no fun to simulate the cells by
   hand. Many hackers pass through a stage of fascination with it,
   and hackers at various places contributed heavily to the
   mathematical analysis of this game (most notably Bill Gosper at
   MIT, who even implemented life in TECO!).
   When a hacker mentions ‘life’, he is much more likely
   to mean this game than the magazine, the breakfast cereal, or the
   human state of existence. Many web resources are
   available starting from the Open
   Directory page of Life. The Life
   Lexicon is a good indicator of what makes the game so fascinating.A glider, possibly the best known of the quasi-organic
   phenomena in the Game of Life. 2. The opposite of Usenet. As in
   “Get a life!”

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1. Life

   The state that distinguishes organisms from inorganic matter, manifested by growth, metabolism, reproduction, and adaptation. It includes the course of existence, the sum of experiences, the mode of existing, or the fact of being. Over the centuries inquiries into the nature of life have crossed the boundaries from philosophy to biology, forensic medicine, anthropology, etc., in creative as well as scientific literature. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed; Dr. James H. Cassedy, NLM History of Medicine Division)

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. life

   Time from birth to the present moment.

   This life is so precious which is why we are always loving, caring and kind to each other.

   Submitted by MaryC on February 16, 2020  

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   life

   To exist as a being with a brain, heart, mind, soul, subconscious, conscience, consciousness and spirit.

   Our life on earth is a precious gift of which we all have an ethical and moral duty to create optimum health, human rights and shared prosperity for every human being and animal on planet earth.

   Submitted by MaryC on April 22, 2020  

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   LIFEverb

   Its just the FLOW OF TIME

   Your own life, ur past experiences, your affection’s, and finally the END OF THE LINE. Do u like Music? I do. So do you.

   Etymology: Trust the process. EVOLVE…
   There is more to life and death than u know it. BELIEVE.

   Submitted by 12b004_a on December 28, 2021  

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1. LIFE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Life is ranked #37591 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

   The Life surname appeared 592 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Life.

   79.7% or 472 total occurrences were White.
   13.5% or 80 total occurrences were Black.
   2.8% or 17 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   2.7% or 16 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.1% or 7 total occurrences were Asian.

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word ‘life’ in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #136

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word ‘life’ in Written Corpus Frequency: #330

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word ‘life’ in Nouns Frequency: #12

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of life in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of life in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of life in a Sentence

1. Richard Walton:

   It is an extremely dangerous place and we have seen reports of what life is like for them and how restricted their lives become.

2. Amenorhu kwaku:

   Life is all about choices.

3. Angie Estes:

   I couldn’t be happier to see the Kingsley Tufts Award go to a person who has lived her life with art as her highest priority, at whatever personal cost.

4. Deepak Bhatt:

   With this drug, we are not only preventing that first heart attack but potentially the second stroke and maybe that third fatal event, prevention of such subsequent cardiovascular events could improve patient outcomes and quality of life and may lower the total cost burden of medical care.

5. Von Humboldt:

   The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.

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Is it a dream or a nightmare? Is life meaningful or meaningless? Planned or an accident? Some interesting thoughts…

Life is like a book; if you don’t travel, meet people or enjoy its varied experiences, you have read but one page of it,” said a friend. “I have always thought of life as a dream,” said another. “All that we experience and live through is but a dream”. “Or a nightmare…,” piped up the third.

This exchange had me turn to social networking for more responses, and I wasn’t disappointed. The debate got deeper and richer on Facebook. Here are some nuggets. For Anil Kumar, life is “a journey full of dreams and nightmares; meaningful and meaningless moments.” Vinod Dhir calls it “a blessing of God … a journey with ups and downs that you enjoy as they come.” Sakshi Bhardwaj says, “Life is neither a dream, nor a nightmare. It is reality – it is what I make it!” Surabhi Awasthi calls life “a journey which has planning, accidents, dreams, nightmares, meanings, emotions and feelings.”

“No, no, no,” said Jyotirmaya Sharma across continents. “Life just IS. Full stop. We overload meaning and significance to life. Do we ever ask a dog or a cat if their lives have any significance?” Sri Velagalketi agrees, “Life is not a serious phenomenon. If we take it seriously, we will go on missing it!” Khuman L Rathod says there is no meaning to life per se. It is an empty canvas that we can fill up as we please.

Interesting to realise each of us has our own confident take on this question that has been the topic of much scientific, theological and philosophical debate over the ages. For Plato, the meaning of life was to attain the highest form of knowledge. For Aristotle, life’s objective was to attain the “highest good”. Epicureans defined it as a seeking of modest pleasures and freedom from fear. Nihilism suggests that life is without objective meaning. For pragmatic philosophers, a practical understanding is far more important than seeking abstract truths of life. Existentialists opine that each of us creates the essence of our lives. Absurdist philosophy finds disharmony between our search for meaning and the meaninglessness of the universe! And Confucianism suggests that we can realise the ultimate meaning of life in ordinary human existence.

And that is perhaps what I was trying to do with this exercise – discover what we ordinary human beings think of life, as we go along our everyday living. What does life mean to most of us, apart from the philosophical, scientific or theological discussions? Do we pause to think about the purpose of living? Or should we even do so? Are we overloading meaning and significance to life? Or are we not ascribing it enough significance? Difficult to figure out, particularly if one decides to consult the vastness of material available from thinkers, theologians and scientific minds, not to talk of poets and writers.

Hence, let us rely on our instinct and experience. Most agree that we want to be happy. Then comes the need for fulfillment and contentment, which will come from a feeling of self-esteem. This leads to the quest for spiritual benevolence and exaltation, which may be defined as the ultimate goal.

Back to Facebook, Debasish Roy defines life as “getting closer and closer towards the paramatma through external and self-realisation through deeds and knowledge”. To Nivedita Abraham, life is “a purpose”; to Indoo Seth, it is “a gift”, to Nirmala Singh “a shagun, a blessing”. To Mandvi Sharma, it is “a climb to the highest mountain”, with all its exhilarations and tough moments. Bidisa Sarkar says life is “a cradle of joys and sorrows”. Krishna Subramanian looks at life as “a chance to make a difference” while Girish Mahadevan says “life is a series of open-ended questions”. Birinder Ahuja says, “Life is our destiny planned by God. The script is His!”

To me, life is a beautiful learning experience, and to a great extent, it is what we make of it. It is a package with its attendant high and low points. If the high points help us gain self-esteem and happiness, the low ones too help speed our journey to self-actualisation by making us introspect. Nobody knows for sure whether there is life after death, or rebirth. So, if the only known truth is the one life in our possession, we should live it to the hilt – as best as we can in the most conscionable manner.”

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