Surely the fearful thing about death is its inevitability, its relentless progress towards us as life goes on, the loss of function as each gets wrenched away. We might not fear a choice involving risk of death because we feel in control. But if we survive it we still have to face a greater enemy which always threatens to ruthlessly take more and more from us irrespective of our own will to live. It is at enmity with us. It hates us. It will not even stop when we pray. Our prayers do not prevent its advance against us. God alone can truly save us from it. This does not stop death being an enemy. It is always our enemy. We can overcome it by trusting God. This will not make it a friend but it makes it a toothless enemy. Resurrection is the only weapon against it. If you or I want to overcome the enmity of death we have to first overcome its chief weapon, guilt. Denial of guilt does not work. It still remains along with the extra guilt of denying it. The ways to kill guilt are twofold; first overcoming the cause - wrongdoing and shameful practices, then overcoming the effects of the guilt we already have. Getting rid of existing guilt while eradicating the causes that might create future guilt or add to what is there already. We need good priests for this, not bad scientists. Not all science is bad and not all priestliness is good. Bad scientists destroy good priestliness. Bad scientists side with death against us (and against themselves) by hindering priesthood from helping us overcome guilt, the chief weapon of death. Thus they side with the devil. Then there is the Second Death, God's great judgement of the living and the dead to come when the time is complete. Resurrection by Christ will be the answer to this too for those worthy to be raised and those who are worthy but still alive when Jesus Christ returns.
