What is the purpose of life?

Answer 1

i'll try to explain...

Consider a hammer. It's designed to hit nails. That's what it was created to do. Now imagine that the hammer never gets used. It just sits in the toolbox. The hammer doesn't care.

But now imagine that same hammer with a soul, a self-consciousness. Days and days go by with him remaining in the toolbox. He feels funny inside, but he's not sure exactly why. Something is missing, but he doesn't know what it is.

Then one day someone pulls him out of the toolbox and uses him to break some branches for the fireplace. The hammer is exhilarated. Being held, being wielded, hitting the branches--the hammer loves it. At the end of the day, though, he is still unfulfilled. Hitting the branches was fun, but it wasn't enough. Something is still missing.

In the days that follow, he's used often. He reshapes a hubcap, blasts through some sheet rock, knocks a table leg back into place. Still, he's left unfulfilled. So he longs for more action. He wants to be used as much as possible to knock things around, to break things, to blast things, to dent things. He figures that he just hasn't had enough of these events to satisfy him. More of the same, he believes, is the solution to his lack of fulfillment.

Then one day someone uses him on a nail. Suddenly, the lights come on in his hammer soul. He now understands what he was truly designed for. He was meant to hit nails. All the other things he hit pale in comparison. Now he knows what his hammer soul was searching for all along.

We are created in God's image for relationship with him. Being in that relationship is the only thing that will ultimately satisfy our souls. Until we come to know God, we've had many wonderful experiences, but we haven't hit a nail. We've been used for some noble purposes, but not the one we were ultimately designed for, not the one through which we will find the most fulfillment. Augustine summarized it this way: "You [God] have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in Thee."

A relationship with God is the only thing that will quench our soul's longing. Jesus Christ said, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty." Until we come to know God, we are hungry and thirsty in life. We try to "eat" and "drink" all kinds of things to satisfy our hunger and thirst, but yet they remain.

We are like the hammer. We don't realize what will end the emptiness, the lack of fulfillment, in our lives. Even in the midst of a Nazi prison camp, Corri Ten Boom found God to be wholly satisfying: "The foundation of our happiness was that we knew ourselves hidden with Christ in God. We could have faith in God's love...our Rock who is stronger than the deepest darkness."

Usually when we keep God out, we try to find fulfillment in something other than God, but we can never get enough of that thing. We keep "eating" or "drinking" more and more, erroneously thinking that 'more' is the answer to the problem, yet we are never ultimately satisfied.

Our greatest desire is to know God, to have a relationship with God. Why? Because that's how we've been designed. Have you hit a nail yet?

Answer 2

Do whatever you possibly can to meet Jodie Foster & Rory Emerald. No! How about, try to be happy & help others who are not as fortunate as you. I stopped trying to figure out the purpose of life a long time ago. I guess when I die I'll have all the answers then? Til then, be patient with yourself and be cool to others.
Thought provoking question!

Answer 3

The purpose of life is to worship God. We must prepare for eternity.

What must one do to be saved?

1-Hear the gospel- Acts 15:7
2-Believe the Gospel -Mark 16:15-16
3-Repent of our Sins-Acts 17:30
4-Confess Christ-Romans 10:9-10
5-Be Baptized for the remission of sins-Acts 2:38

Answer 4

The purpose of life is to live your life as best as you can, because you only have one life. So live it.

Answer 5

The purpose of life is whatever you want it to be.Each person on this beautiful blue ball has their own definition and we're all right.

Answer 6

mayne people are probably gonna answer 42 ;P

The purpose of human life is to multiply, ensuring the future of our race.

Answer 7

from 9:00 til 5:00
is to answer as much questions as possible so I can get points and make my day at work less bored and fun

5:00 till bedtime
to spend as much time as possible with my family

Answer 8

To experience each individual aspect of that which the creator is. The creator is it all. We are each an individual aspect of the mind of god or the creator. An individualized spark of god's consciousness. We are all one.

Answer 9

Any expansion is life, all contraction is death. All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore, love for love's sake. Because, it is the only law of life -- it is the life .... !

Answer 10

God who created you fully expects you to have a higher purpose than to just please yourself. He wants you to glorify and honor him. The apostle Paul wrote: “That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Romans 15:6)

You are very special to God that he invites you to have a personal relationship with him. The Bible tells us that God has a wonderful purpose for every one. This purpose includes receiving his love gift, his Son Jesus Christ. Jesus said “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10). Jesus made this possible by his sacrificial death on the cross. He then rose from the grave on the third day so that you may have life everlasting. When you receive Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour, you are remade into the image God’s Son Jesus. Paul says “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son...” (Romans 8:28-29). We were created to bear the image of Jesus Christ and to make God’s truth known to men.

Your mission on earth once you are saved is to tell others that have meaning in life what Jesus has done in your life, and how they can receive Jesus as their personal Saviour.

-------How to get saved-------
Do you know for sure that Jesus Christ is your personal Saviour, and that you are going to heaven when you die?

First, realize that God loves you...
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Next, realize everyone is a sinner...
Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”

Then, realize that sin has a price that must be paid...
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

And, realize that Jesus Christ died to pay your price...
Romans 5:8 “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

Finally, pray, asking Jesus Christ to be your Saviour, claiming his promise of eternal life...
Romans 10:13 “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

You could pray something like this...
“Lord Jesus, I know I am a sinner, and I am sorry for all my sins. I ask you to forgive me. The best I know how, I am receiving you as my Lord and Saviour right now. Amen.”

Source(s):
The King James Bible.