2006-12-22 11:35:27 · 12 answers · asked by ak_chick24 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ecc 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
2006-12-22 11:39:17 · answer #1 · answered by scriptureman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible has much more than just one passage regarding this matter! The answers to the following questions are found in the articles that they name ...
Humans-Who Are We?
- What Is the Purpose of Life?
- What We Believe Makes a DIfference!
http://www.watchtower.org/e/19980622/article_01.htm
(Notice also the other articles in this series.)
What Is the Purpose in Life? :
- Is There a Purpose?
- Who Can Tell Us?
- A Unique Source of Wisdom
- Life Has A Grand Purpose!
- Why So Much Suffering and Injustice?
- God's Purpose Soon to Be Realized
- Live Forever on a >Paradise Earth<
- If You Could Live Forever, Would You Choose To?
http://watchtower.org/e/pr/index.htm
What Is God's Purpose for the Earth?
- Why did Jehovah create the earth?
- Why is the earth not a paradise now?
- What will happen to wicked people?
- In the future, what will Jesus do for the sick? elderly? dead?
- To share in the future blessings, what do I need to do?
http://www.watchtower.org/library/rq/article_05.htm
2006-12-22 19:46:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The need to find meaning in life intrigued the ancients. Let us turn the pages of history back three thousand years to the kingdom of Israel under the rule of Solomon. Of him, the Queen of Sheba said: “True has the word proved to be that I heard in my own land about your matters and about your wisdom. And I did not put faith in the words until I had come that my own eyes might see; and, look! I had not been told the half. You have surpassed in wisdom and prosperity the things heard to which I listened.”—1 Kings 10:6, 7.
In writing the Bible book of Ecclesiastes, King Solomon informed his readers of the results of an experiment that he conducted to illuminate the purpose of life. It was an experiment in opportunities to enjoy life that fit a typical king of the ancient East. In chapter 2, verses 1-10, he painted a life of pleasure that is hardly conceivable today. He tried everything that life offered in the way of material riches and fleshly pleasures. What was his assessment of the meaningfulness of such pursuits? His answer should startle the overconfident.
When he looked back on all these things, his judgment was often negative. They were futile, a waste of time. He wrote: “I, even I, turned toward all the works of mine that my hands had done and toward the hard work that I had worked hard to accomplish, and, look! everything was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing of advantage under the sun.”—Ecclesiastes 2:11.
He concluded that, at best, earthly pleasures bring only temporary pleasure. Even human wisdom cannot deliver man from the pain and anguish of life.
Jesus Christ concluded similarly when, in response to a man’s undue concern over a material inheritance, he said to the listening crowd: “Keep your eyes open and guard against every sort of covetousness, because even when a person has an abundance his life does not result from the things he possesses.”—Luke 12:15.
Only Jehovah God can totally overcome human frailty in everyday life and give wise purpose to man’s actions. Thus, life without God is futile. As recorded at Ecclesiastes 12:13, Solomon explained: “The conclusion of the matter, everything having been heard, is: Fear the true God and keep his commandments. For this is the whole obligation of man.”
2006-12-22 19:46:34 · answer #3 · answered by Just So 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life, the universe, and everything else: 42. From the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
2006-12-22 19:46:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
all passages in the bible is about life.
2006-12-22 19:38:13 · answer #5 · answered by jp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is to love unconditionally. That love, you take with you when you go. What a wonderful feeling...if Love, and only love were all you could feel.
2006-12-22 19:38:45 · answer #6 · answered by lahag66 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You were meant to find your own meaning in life.
2006-12-22 19:37:56 · answer #7 · answered by Atlas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your life is just that your's. You find your own meaning. Tha's how I look at it. You make what you will with your life just try to keep Jesus in your thoughts everyday. Bless you.
2006-12-22 19:42:14 · answer #8 · answered by Nobody_nice 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our meaning: To love the Lord thy God with all your heart, mind, body, and spirit - and to love your neighbor as yourself."
Eve / Adam chose to love their self perception of pleasure/good more and thus began humanity's struggle. Forsooth.
2006-12-22 19:41:33 · answer #9 · answered by Joe Cool 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it does say Choose Life" and it explains we must repent and be born again John 3:3
2006-12-22 19:40:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋