I wish I had an easier answer as to why some things in the Bible happen the way they do. For that matter, I wish I had better answers as to why some things in the world happen the way they do. To be alive is to know heartbreak, in one way or another, for ever since Genesis 3, the world has been separated from the way it was created to be. That means that death, decay, and heartbreak are part of our lives, unfortunately. It will continue to be that way until the fullness of time. All I can do is read these passages of dismay and know that God didn't ask anyone to sacrifice what God was unwilling to sacrifice. God gives up Jesus Christ, God's own son, to experience a painful death on the cross, and Jesus descends to hell for 3 days, separated from the eternal joy that he had experienced beforehand.
I don't think that makes it any easier to understand the death in Scripture, but it does give me comfort to know that God understands what it is like to suffer, and so when I go to God in prayer with my own suffering, I pray to someone with compassion for me.
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