¹³ God didn’t make death. God takes no delight in the ruin of anything that lives. ¹⁴ God created everything so that it might exist. The creative forces at work in the cosmos are life-giving. There is no destructive poison in them. The underworld^[a] doesn’t rule on earth. ¹⁵ Doing what is right means living forever.

²³ God created humans to live forever. He made them as a perfect representation of his own unique identity. ²⁴ Death entered the universe only through the devil’s envy. Those who belong to the devil’s party experience death.^[a]