The answer
God knows when we will die, but He does not determine our age.Answered by His Eminence Metropolitan Youssef (opens in a new tab)
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Death
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The question
Does our Lord delimit age a specific number of years of humans? I have heard that God knows when a man dies, but does He not specify the day of his death?
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