Uzima wa milele

Fountain of Eternal Life huko Cleveland, Ohio, Marekani. Inamaanisha "Binadamu kuinuka juu ya kifo, akimuelekea Mungu na Amani".

Uzima wa milele ni hali ya kuishi bila mwisho.

Biolojia inaonyesha kuwa uhai wa mwili una mipaka, wala sayansi na teknolojia hazijaweza kuivuka.

Hata hivyo, toka zamani binadamu ameonyesha kwa njia nyingi hamu ya kuendelea kuishi namna moja au nyingine.

Hadithi ya Gilgamesh, kimoja kati ya vitabu vya kwanza vya fasihi (karne ya 22 KK hivi), kinasimulia habari za mtu aliyetaka kuishi milele.

Katika dini

Katika dini mbalimbali, uzima wa milele unatarajiwa kutoka kwa Mwenyezi Mungu (au miungu) kama tuzo kwa matu aliyefuata uadilifu wakati wa kuishi duniani.

Uzima wa milele ndio ahadi kuu ya Yesu kwa wafuasi wake, hasa kadiri ya Injili ya Yohane. Sura ya 17 ya Injili hiyo inafafanua uzima wa milele kuwa uhusiano na Mungu na Yesu Kristo mwenyewe.

Kwa ahadi hiyo, sisi wanyonge tunaweza kushiriki uzima wa milele wa Mungu: hapa duniani katika mwanga hafifu wa imani, na kisha kufa katika uangavu wa utukufu usiofifia kamwe. Kwa kuwa lengo la Baba ni kwamba tuungane na Yesu Mwanae kwa uwezo wa Roho Mtakatifu ili tuwe na utukufu wake. “Na uzima wa milele ndio huu, Wakujue wewe, Mungu wa pekee wa kweli, na Yesu Kristo uliyemtuma” (Yoh 17:3). “Kwa kuwa uweza wake wa Uungu umetukirimia vitu vyote vipasavyo uzima na utauwa, kwa kumjua yeye aliyetuita kwa utukufu wake na wema wake mwenyewe. Tena kwa hayo ametukirimia ahadi kubwa mno, za thamani, ili kwamba kwa hizo mpate kuwa washirika wa tabia ya Uungu, mkiokolewa na uharibifu uliomo duniani kwa sababu ya tamaa” (2Pet 1:3-4). Sisi tuliobatizwa tunaitwa “wana wa Mungu; na ndivyo tulivyo!” (1Yoh 3:1). Kwa sababu tumesadiki kwamba “Mungu ni upendo” (1Yoh 4:8) na kwamba “hakuna lisilowezekana kwa Bwana” (Lk 1:37). “Na kwa kuwa ninyi mmekuwa wana, Mungu alimtuma Roho wa Mwanawe mioyoni mwetu, aliaye, ‘Aba!’ yaani, ‘Baba!’ Kama ni hivyo, wewe si mtumwa tena bali u mwana; na kama u mwana, basi, u mrithi kwa Mungu” (Gal 4:6-7).

Marejeo

• Allen, Richard James (1999). Thursday's Fictions. Wollongong: Five Islands Press. ISBN 0-86418-596-0. 
• Alexander, Brian (2003). Rapture: How Biotech Became the New Religion. Basic Books. ISBN 0-7382-0761-6. 
• Bolonkin, Alexander (2010). Rapture: Human Immortality and Electronic Civilization. Publish America. ISBN 978-1-4489-3367-9. 
• Bova, Ben (2000). Immortality: How Science Is Extending Your Life Span-and Changing the World. Avon: New York. ISBN 0-380-79318-0. 
• Cave, Stephen (2012). Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How it Drives Civilization. Crown. ISBN 0-307-88491-0. 
• Cullmann, Oscar (1955). Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead?. 
• Endsjø, Dag Øistein (2009). Greek Resurrection Beliefs and the Success of Christianity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-230-61729-8. 
• de Grey, Aubrey (September 2007). Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs that Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime. New York, New York: St. Martin's Press, 416. ISBN 0-312-36706-6. 
• Edwards, Paul (1997). Immortality. Prometheus Books. ISBN 1-57392-130-0. 
• Elixxir (2001). The Immortalist Manifesto: Stay Young & Save the World. Authorhouse Books. ISBN 0-7596-5339-9. 
• Freitas Jr., Robert A. (2002). Death is an Outrage. Iliwekwa mnamo 2008-02-14.
• Hall, Stephen S. (2003). Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-618-09524-1. 
• Immortality Institute (2004). The Scientific Conquest Of Death. Libros En Red. ISBN 987-561-135-2. 
• Perry, R. Michael (2000). Forever For All: Moral philosophy, Cryonics, and the Scientific Prospects for Immortality. New York: Universal Publishers: New York: Universal Publishers. ISBN 1-58112-724-3. 
• Pickover, Clifford (2007). A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 1-56025-984-1. 
• Rohde, Erwin (1925). Psyche: The Cult of Souls and Belief in Immortality among the Greeks. New York: Harper & Row. 
• Salmond, Stewart (1903). The Christian Doctrine of Immortality. 
• West, Michael D. (2003). The Immortal Cell: One Scientist's Quest to Solve the Mystery of Human Aging. Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-50928-6. 

Viungo vya nje

• Scientists are Close to Finding a Way to be Immortal
• Turritopsis nutricula:Palscience Meet The Only Immortal Species on Planet Earth
• The Methuselah Foundation Aubrey de Grey's non-profit organization dedicated to finding a cure for aging
• KurzweilAI.net Ray Kurzweil resource site
• BiologicalGerontology.com Chris Smelick's Biogerontology site
• Vitae Institute Chris Smelick's non-profit organization
• ELPIs Theory Marios Kyriazis' theory of human biological immortality
• Immortality Institute Scientific and sociological discussions, activism, research

Mtazamo wa kidini na wa kiroho

• "Death and Immortality" Dictionary of the History of Ideas, etext at the University of Virginia Library
• "Immortality" Immortality – What Will Eternal Life Be Like?
• The Immortality of the Soul and the Resurrection of the Body Lecture by Heinrich J. Vogel
• An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality by James Challis
• Eternity: Christ’s Return, Chiliasm, Resurrection of the Dead, Judgment, Hell, Luther on Eternity, Heaven J.P. Meyer, The Northwestern Lutheran, August 22, 1954, Vol. 41, # 17 to April 14, 1957, Vol. 44, #8
• "How you Can Have Eternal Life" Jack Graham, PowerPoint Ministries, Christianity.com
• Got Eternal Life? Got Questions Ministries
• Immortality Taoist essay, personaltao.com
• The Trial to Conquer Death Ancient Scientific Yoga – The First Atom's Final Attempt
• [1] A review by Dr. Peter Fenwick of the book Human Immortality by Mohammad Samir Hossain
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Katika fasihi

• Mary Shelley's The Mortal Immortal

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