2006-11-20 21:08:51 · 26 answers · asked by Hazim 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Faith is our beliefs and our beliefs define our reality. Religion is a set of beliefs. Your life is your set of beliefs. Therefore, no, without faith your life can't have meaning. You would have nothing to believe in, no existence.
2006-11-20 21:23:15 · answer #1 · answered by weism 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely not. Without unbridled faith in God, nothing has any meaning. Having a family, friends, good health, warm weather, cold beer in the hand, a great game on television, pah, these have no meaning if I don't have faith in God. Beautiful beaches and mountains, thrilling adventures and festivals and movies and awesome art and music and architecture? Nah, there is no meaning in any of them if I don't have got the necessary faith. It's just hopeless. I would be just a worthless sack of potatoes without faith, and I'd never do anything or amount to much or help anyone. If I don't have the faith, let everything just rot and die. What would be the point of it all, huh?
2006-11-20 21:26:02 · answer #2 · answered by Scythian1950 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Absolutely. When I was young, and believed in G-d, my meaning came from outside. When I was older, and still believed in something that I would call G-d, the meaning of my life expanded to come from inside of me. Now that I'm older still, I find no need to call anything G-d, and I understand that it is up to me to give my life meaning.
Anyone who says that there is no meaning without faith is denying my experience in life. They have no right to do so.
2006-11-20 21:22:51 · answer #3 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The truth is nobody knows about if another life truly exist.I think all you need to do is respect others and find a truth within yourself.Alot people live life for tomorrow and never truly change or live life today therefore our action is now passive,we cannot be passive and afford to sacrifice what might be nothing later.If you live right you wont be punished for this in this life or another life if it exist!Its all about a inner faith!
2006-11-20 21:17:32 · answer #4 · answered by G Rock 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without faith, life has MORE meaning. Because there's no heaven at the end. So you have to make the most of what limited time that you have. theists have it easy, they're just waiting to die so they can go somewhere better. The atheists live for life, not death.
2006-11-20 21:24:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
For some life with out God is a life without direction. God is their guide and through his guidance they find life's meaning. Others find life's meaning through their own hand. They find meaning in positive human interaction and live to make this world a better place. Others abuse themselves and find life meaningless and fruitless. The moral of the story is life has meaning if it has purpose... God is a purpose, but is not the only purpose.
2006-11-20 21:21:21 · answer #6 · answered by Zloar 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of course.
Faith in God results in the meaning of life as following the lords commandments. The greatest of which is to love God and the second to love people, in summary "to love".
However, many people can choose many different reasons for living, including personal achievement through wealth or fame, having a large family through kids (see Mormonism), a good marriage; there are also those with very little meaning as seen in many teenagers who spend their time playing video games, doing drugs, having promiscuous sex, and sleeping as often as they can.
2006-11-20 21:19:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It does for me. No need for gods of any kind. I'm sorry for those who can only find any meaning through faith, it suggests that without that they cannot appreciate what is good about life for its own sake. But if it works for them, that's fine with me. Thanks for asking.
2006-11-20 21:12:34 · answer #8 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes why is it on this planet if your life is not run by a fake god your life has no meaning it has your life is your owen with no fairy tale gods telling you how to live your life but in the usa if you do not beleave the fairy tale you are the lowest form of life and sent to hell religion has got a lot to answer of this planet it is the worst thing on the planet
2006-11-20 21:24:03 · answer #9 · answered by andrew w 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life has much more meaning without religious fairy tales and magical sky daddy's than with them. It's only those with small closed simplistic uneducated minds that think otherwise.
2006-11-20 21:41:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋