Why are we here?

Question

I was just born yesterday and I don't know what the Hell is going on...


if ur religious, then why is God here, why are we all here? I'm already a good person, now what?

If you're atheist, what started it all? Who made the universe?

Answer 1

Because of a bunch of "selfish genes" .The destabilisation of a singularity of infinite energy and zero mass, then Big Bang. Who done IT? well nobody knows. Curiously enough quantum physics allows for the probability that no one is responsible. Now that to me is by far more mind boggling than having someone actually create the universe. That the easy way out...Ah god did it. The world of physics is literally out of this world.

Answer 2

I'm a christian who believes in evolution, I'm the rarest creature in the world, LOL
We are here to bear witness to reality and to share that when we die with everyone who came before and everyone who comes after, that's how come you will have all your questions answered when you get to heaven

Answer 3

1. Satan represents indulgence instead of abstinence!

2. Satan represents vital existence instead of spiritual pipe dreams!

3. Satan represents undefiled wisdom instead of hypocritical self-deceit!

4. Satan represents kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on ingrates!

5. Satan represents vengeance instead of turning the other cheek!

6. Satan represents responsibility to the responsible instead of concern for psychic vampires!

7. Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more often worse than those that walk on all-fours, who, because of his “divine spiritual and intellectual development,” has become the most vicious animal of all!

8. Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification!


9. Satan has been the best friend I have ever had, as He has kept me happy all these years!

Answer 4

Well, Kurleyloves, there are 3 kinds of people in the world:
those who make things happen, those who watch them happen, and those who say, "What happened?!!"

You must be of the middle group!


AS FOR THE ORIGINAL Q:
I'm going to mainly work backwards through your questions, etc:


So. No wonder you don't know what's going on if you're in hell [as you say]!!

As for your being "good", I think it was Jesus Himself who said, "Call no man good [well, He meant women as well, of course]..."

But, If you want to be saved, nevertheless, you need to keep/or gain HUMILITY before God.
Remember, as scripture says, "ALL have sinned, and come short of the Glory of God."


When a young man came to Jesus and asked Him how he could inherit eternal life, since that he had kept all the commandments of God from his early youth up, and then he said, "What lackest I yet?"; the Master said to him, "Go, sell all that thou hast and give to the poor, and come and follow me."
Scripture records that the "young man went away sorrowing, because that he had many riches".

We have all fallen short, and require the Redemption of God through the grace and sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ, on our behalf, if we want to go to Heaven.


NOW: for your All-Important questions:

1. Where did I come from?
2. Why am I here? ... and
3. Where am I going after this life?

Firstly, you have always existed ... though, initially, only as an Intelligence.

God the Father and His wife, your Eternal Mother, then spiritually begat you; so that you now have an Eternal Immortal spirit, having been born of Eternal parenthood.
Therefore, your body might not be immortal yet, but your spirit already is - having been literally born of God, "our Father who art in Heaven".

While in Heaven, As children of perfect heavenly parents, each of us wanted to become just like our Father/Mother, who also have Immortal bodies and wanted us to have the chance to become like them as well.
We wanted to become just like them - more than anything!
Because of their great love for us, as their children, they, also, wanted the very best for us, and wanted to let us have the choices that we wanted to make, and perhaps, become like them.

So, the Father made an earth, and gave us bodies to grow with and practise with, and trial 'run' with, and to try to learn to live as He does - that is, obey all the laws and commandments of Heaven.
Now we could only do this and be properly tested, if we were no longer living in His presence and could not remember Him.

So, we have these 'Fallen', mortal bodies, whereby we can be properly tested.
When we gradually repent and get better in life, we slowly begin to become more like Him - that is, for those who believe and try to follow.

When we have finished having our best shot, even in the Afterlife - to become like Him, we will be judged and then will receive Immortal Bodies - just like His, which is what we wanted in the beginning! ... but we will have had to work for them to deserve them!

Now, because we have ALL sinned, even the repentant need to have someone who'll pay the price for their sins.
Jesus paid that price for all that forgiveness may be available for all.

So, we are here to develop faith in God when NOT in His presence.
We are also here to gain bodies that can be tested and which will eventually be raised to Immortality - no more to taste of death, weakness and pain...
And We are also here to learn and grow and learn to obey the commandments of God.

Eventually, all of this will lead us back to God, and to Joy and Peace eternally with God and where we may help Him in His great work of the entire eternities.

SO ... Does that answer your questions??

Answer 5

i'm just here as an observer in life. i have a good time and you should too.

Answer 6

Life is a stage and you choose your own character.

Answer 7

Quite a number, who observe the profusion of views among the world’s religions conclude that it really does not matter what one believes. They feel that religion is just a diversion for the mind, something to provide a little peace of mind and comfort so that one can cope with life’s problems. Others feel that religion is nothing more than superstition. They feel that centuries of religious speculation has not answered the question about life’s purpose, nor has it improved the life of the common people. Indeed, history shows that this world’s religions have often held mankind back from progress and have been the cause of hatreds and wars.
16 Yet, is it even important to find the truth about the purpose of life? Mental-health professional Viktor Frankl answered: “The striving to find a meaning in ones life is the primary motivational force in man. . . . There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.”
17 Since human philosophies and religions have not satisfactorily explained what the purpose of life is, where can we go to find out what it is? Is there a source of superior wisdom that can tell us the truth about this matter?
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter stated: “We’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. . . . Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.” And another political leader said: “I have for several years now been engaged in an intensive search for truths about myself and my life; many other people I know are doing the same. More people than ever before are asking, ‘Who are we? What is our purpose?’”
Conditions More Difficult
4 Many doubt that life has a purpose when they see that living conditions have become more difficult. Throughout the world more than a billion people are seriously ill or malnourished, resulting in the death of some ten million children each year in Africa alone. Earth’s population, nearing 6 billion, continues to grow by more than 90 million a year, more than 90 percent of that growth in developing countries. This constantly expanding population increases the need for food, housing, and industry, which brings further damage to land, water, and air from industrial and other pollutants.
5 The publication World Military and Social Expenditures 1991 reports: “Every year an area of forest equal to the whole surface of [Great Britain] is destroyed. At present rates (of clearance) we shall, by the year 2000, have removed 65 percent of forests in the humid tropical zones.” In those areas, according to a UN agency, 10 trees are cut for every 1 planted; in Africa the ratio is more than 20 to 1. So desert areas increase, and each year an area the size of Belgium is lost for agricultural use.
6 Also, this 20th century has had four times as many deaths from war as the previous four centuries put together. Everywhere, there is a rise in crime, especially violent crime. The breakdown of the family, drug abuse, AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, and other negative factors are also making life more difficult. And world leaders have not been able to provide solutions for the many problems plaguing the human family. Thus, it is understandable why people ask, What is the purpose of life?
7 How has that question been addressed by scholars and religious leaders? After all these many centuries of time, have they provided a satisfactory answer?
What They Say
8 Confucian scholar Tu Wei-Ming said: “The ultimate meaning of life is found in our ordinary, human existence.” According to this view, humans would continue to be born, struggle for existence, and die. There is little hope in such an outlook. And is it even true?
9 Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Nazi death camps in World War II, observed: “‘Why are we here?’ is the most important question a human being has to face. . . . I believe that life has meaning in spite of the meaningless death I have seen.” But he could not say what the meaning of life was.
10 Editor Vermont Royster stated: “In the contemplation of man himself, . . . of his place in this universe, we are little further along than when time began. We are still left with questions of who we are and why we are and where we are going.”
11 Evolutionary scientist Stephen Jay Gould noted: “We may yearn for a ‘higher’ answer—but none exists.” For such evolutionists, life is a struggle for survival of the fittest, death ending it all. There is no hope in that view either. And, again, is it true?
12 Many religious leaders say that the purpose of life is to lead a good existence so that at death a person’s soul can go to heaven and spend eternity there. The alternative offered for bad people is eternal torment in hellfire. Yet, according to this belief, on earth there would continue to be more of the same unsatisfactory existence that has prevailed throughout history. But if God’s purpose was to have people live in heaven like angels, why did he not just create them that way to begin with, as he did the angels?
13 Even clergymen have difficulty with such views. Dr. W. R. Inge, a former dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, once said: “All my life I have struggled to find the purpose of living. I have tried to answer three problems which always seemed to me to be fundamental: the problem of eternity; the problem of human personality; and the problem of evil. I have failed. I have solved none of them.”
The Effect
14 What is the effect of so many different ideas by scholars and religious leaders on the question of life’s purpose? Many respond as did an elderly man who said: “I’ve been asking why I’m here most of my life. If there’s a purpose, I don’t care anymore.”
15 Quite a number who observe the profusion of views among the world’s religions conclude that it really does not matter what one believes. They feel that religion is just a diversion for the mind, something to provide a little peace of mind and comfort so that one can cope with life’s problems. Others feel that religion is nothing more than superstition. They feel that centuries of religious speculation has not answered the question about life’s purpose, nor has it improved the life of the common people. Indeed, history shows that this world’s religions have often held mankind back from progress and have been the cause of hatreds and wars.
16 Yet, is it even important to find the truth about the purpose of life? Mental-health professional Viktor Frankl answered: “The striving to find a meaning in ones life is the primary motivational force in man. . . . There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.”
17 Since human philosophies and religions have not satisfactorily explained what the purpose of life is, where can we go to find out what it is? Is there a source of superior wisdom that can tell us the truth about this matter?

Answer 8

You will get the answer in this site
http://www.sunnahonline.com/ilm/dawah/0008.htm

Answer 9

no matter what religion or having no religion, i encourage spirituality.

Answer 10

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