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The Bible says God originally created us to live eternally - this would be congruent with number 4.
So, you're saying that you'd agree with medical science doing God's work for him? That puts you on thin ice in terms of medical ethics. For example, if you believe that God gives and takes human life at will, the same principle would lead you to condone such action in the field of medicine.
I don't know the scriptural basis for teaching that the human body was meant to physically last forever. I have heard it inferred from the supposed shortening of the human lifespan, but it is not explicit at all - and going from a few hundred to 100+, less than a factor of ten, is not the same as going from infinity to zero. It's a small quantitative difference when a radical qualitative difference is claimed. Is there actually a chapter and verse where we are told that eternal life on earth was the original intent? Also, if it was the original plan of an omniscient, omnipotent deity, how could it fail to come about?
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