What do you think is the meaning of life?

Question

What do you think is the meaning of life and what are we doing in this planet Earth?

Answer 1

Life – it has a meaning and loving purpose - you just have to find your purpose and live it.

I believe every person is here for a definite purpose. Each person is special and valuable; that refers to me, you, your family, friends, in fact everybody! There is a loving plan for each of our lives here on earth and there is no such thing as coincidence. I don't believe that anything in life happens by chance and that every aspect of our lives points to something deeper.

You need to decide now to live for God rather than for yourself. You spend your life on Earth preparing yourself (as best you can) for death. I don't see death as a scary, negative experience, but birth into a bliss filled eternal life with God. I believe that this is something you have to consciously choose or not during your life on earth.

The meaning of life is for us to discover that we are true children of an infinitely loving and merciful God, to find out what our responsibilities are to our Creator, and to fulfill those responsibilities. Each of us is called to affirm, accept and develop the talents God has given us. -

Answer 2

I can not give you t he answer anymore than a priest a teacher or the president can. The meaning of life is an individual belief. Why are we here? Where did we come from? where are we going? Those are the eternal questions. Thats what sparked religions hundreds of thousands of years ago. Primative man pondered that and said that stars where dead relatives looking down on them. so on and so forth religion tries to answer the questionby saying that we serve God and are here for His purpose all figured out and decided by other men a long time ago, wrapped up in a package for you so you don't have to think for yourself, just believe. Blind faith. However science also is looking for answers. That life is a mere chance in the solar system. That we are evolved from atoms combining and that we should be thankful to be alive. We can go on all day about it all. I think for me that the life I am living is just that. My one life to live that we shouldn't worry about why we are here how we are here but to take the time and enjoy we ARE here! Live a good life full of happiness. I am okay with that realization, and I am doing just that. Worrying and questioning the why where and how will just cause alot of anxiety because NO ONE can give the TRUE answer because that is one of the eternal questions that can not be answered. I am okay with out Knowing the true answer and moving on and being happy. Are you?

Answer 3

good answer - Love God and serve others. Life is a gift. the idea of having multiples of children i.e. like wild animals ruined the world by overpoulating it 100 times over if not 10's of thousands x over. The earth is anything but a garden and we can possibly have meaningful lives with the stress of cities and business. Its all bad and lends itself entirely over to non-spiritual empty lives. The idea was TWO TWO'S... 2 kids NOT 3,4,5,6,7,8,9, + ??????.

2 kids each have 2 kids is 4 is 16 is 32

3 kids having 3 is 9 is 27 is 54 see how easy to multiply? We arent meant to live as ANIMALS despite out physiology.

Answer 4

im thinking life..is about the watching of others growing from evolution from moving on from stage to stage. transforming and changing frm better or to worse. but. If i was lazy i would say life is about surviving and replicating until we are covering every part of the planet

Answer 5

I think we're all here to do something good with our lives, do what we do and do it well and honestly, whether it's for God, your family, yourself, or whoever, just to make the world a better place and help each other.

Answer 6

To worship God; not just in the sense that we should pray but that we should have good intents and try help others. That is what worship is; leading a good life. Peace and blessings.

Answer 7

Just to enjoy life. Not to be controlled or control others in any way.

Answer 8

Choices. For the average college student, the choice is whether to attend class or to continue to study the affects that our head has on our pillow. Eventually we will get up and go to class, going through our days just doing our own thing. But what are we doing that is worthwhile throughout the day? Are we making a difference?

Church. School. Work. Friendships. Dating relationships. Family. These are areas that fill up our everyday lives. We live in a society that is constantly moving, constantly going—and wanting us to do the same thing. But have you ever stopped and wondered if anything more is out there, or if your sole purpose in life is to obtain knowledge, acquire stuff and then die? The truth is, there is something more, and His name is Jesus. If you are a Christian, then you know this already, but I wonder if you fully understand the responsibilities of being a follower of Jesus Christ.

You’ve heard about how Jesus came and died for you on the cross and then rose again so you could live for the rest of eternity with Him. You’ve asked Him to come into your heart and forgive you of all your sins. For some of you, it stopped there, and a personal relationship with God was never formed. For others, it was just the beginning—the beginning of an amazing relationship with God.

We try to live our lives for Him, but since we are human, our imperfect nature causes us to do things that damage our relationship with our Creator. We end up choosing to do what we want instead of listening to God. The things of the world take hold of our lives, and we allow them to control us, while we push God farther and farther away, only pulling Him close when we need something. When we don’t get what we ask for or what we want, we get upset and push God away again. This is not what it means to be a Christian.

To be a Christian means to be set apart from the world. It means to live a life that is pleasing to God, not one that uses God as a convenient way to get what we want. He has called us to be set apart, to be different and to follow His commandments. These are not easy tasks. The rules and commandments that have been given to us in the Bible are the things that we are to live by, but we break these commandments every day.

In Mark 12:28-34, Jesus is teaching the people, and a teacher of religious law asks, “Of all of the commandments, which is the most important?” This sounds like what we ask ourselves. People in general love the easy way out, and it seams that college students have mastered this trend of laziness. How hard can it be to follow one commandment? In verse 30 and 31, Jesus answers the teacher, “You must love the Lord your God with all of your heart, all your soul all your mind and all your strength. The second is equally important: Love your neighbor as yourself. No other commandment is greater than these.”

This is how to live a life for God: Love Him and love others. A life lived with love for God and love for others is what He commands us to do. In order to do this, we have to deny ourselves. We have to get over the “me” mentality. Our love for God and for others cannot take place while we are in love with ourselves.

In John 13, Jesus gives us the awesome example of how to put others first. During the Last Supper, Jesus washes the feet of His disciples. The significance of this is that the task of washing someone’s feet was reserved for the lowest of servants. Jesus, the Son of God, humbled Himself and became a servant to His disciples, showing them what they needed to do for others.

When talking to a group of college students, a pastor made this thought provoking statement: “Everything you own is either a tool or an idol! The things you have been given by God—money, car, video games—should be used as a tool to express love for Him and others.” If they are not used to His glory, then they are things that are selfish and stand in the way of your relationship with Him. God is calling us to sacrifice ourselves and live to serve Him and to serve others

Answer 9

Love God and to serve others.

Answer 10

God created us for His glory. One has the most meaningful life when they are united to God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour.

The sin of our first parents (Adam and Eve) brought about the fallen state of mankind. Humans are sinful because of their iniquity, sins bring curses and both iniquity and curses pass down the generations if they are not cleansed by the blood of Christ. Children are born with defects and suffer unfortunate circumstances because of curses due to their ancestors’ unrepented sins. Hereditary illness is an example of a curse. In the future, God will make a new Heaven and earth, and there will be no more suffering, sickness, sin, evil, old age or death. God’s people (those who accept His Son Jesus Christ as their Saviour and Lord) will joyfully and peacefully live in this new and perfect earth, with the Lord Jesus Christ as their King forever. See chapter 21 of the Book of Revelation.

Almighty God was, is and will always be triune (one God in three persons, not three gods). God is comprised of the Father, the Son (Lord Jesus Christ) and the Holy Spirit. Each person of the Triune Godhead has a different role. There is only one God (Isaiah 43:10-11; 44:6,8; 45:21-22; 46:9; John 17:3; 1 John 5:20-21). The Father is God (1 Peter 1:2; Philippians 2:11), the Lord Jesus Christ is God (Matthew 1:23; John 1:1; 20:28; Hebrews 1:8; Hebrews 13:8; Revelation 1:7-8; 2 Peter 1:1; Titus 2:13) and the Holy Spirit is God (Acts 5:3-4; Acts 28:25-27; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 2 Corinthians 3:17).

Without God, man’s spirit is unilluminated. This illumination happens at the time one’s spirit is united to the Holy Spirit (which happens only after one has accepted Christ as their Saviour). The Light went out of the spirit after the fall of man. Man had lost communion with God. Christ, the second person of the Triune Godhead made the sacrifice for our sins so the Light could be lit in the spirits of all. There is no redemption or unity to God apart from receiving Christ as one’s Saviour and Lord. The infilling of the Holy Spirit was possible only after Christ’s sacrifice. Before the death of Christ, the Holy Spirit only fell on persons who worshiped and served the true God (Judges 15:14; Ezekiel 11:5). Hebrews 9:6-8 (KJV) tells us that unity to God “the way into the Holiest of all” was also possible only after Christ’s sacrifice which brought an end to the Old Covenant. Christ made the sacrifice for our sins as the spotless lamb (1 Peter 1:9) and took the place of the Jewish high priest and became our eternal High Priest (Hebrews 6:20). The Book of Hebrews explains how the Old Covenant was replaced by the New Covenant.

The blood of Christ was shed so our sins could be paid for and we could have direct unity to God. The Holy Spirit leads us to remain focused on God so we can grow spiritually. God the Father lives within believers (John 14:23), God the Holy Spirit lives within believers (1 Corinthians 6:19-20) and God the Son also lives within believers (2 Corinthians 13:5, Galatians 2:20). Because Christ lives in us, we are a new being, having our old self with its evil practices stripped off, and we are being renewed and remoulded after the image of God, in order to bring us to a full knowledge of Himself (Colossians 3:9-10). Because He lives in us, we have His peace (John 16:33), we have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16), we have His strength to do all things (Philippians 4:13) and we are a chosen race, the King’s priests, the holy nation and God’s own people, chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God (Peter 2:9). As Christians, the Lord Jesus Christ is always interceding for us (Romans 8:34, Hebrews 7:25), He is preparing a place for us in heaven (John 14:1–3) and He baptizes us with the Holy Spirit and with fire (Matthew 3:11).

The truth about Jesus Christ can be found only in the word of God which is the Holy Bible. Three days after the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, He resurrected from the dead (Luke 24:1-8; Acts 10:40; 1 Corinthians 15:4) and 40 days later, He ascended into Heaven (Acts 1:3; Luke 24:50-53; Acts 1:9-11).

1 Timothy 3:16
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.”

Jesus Christ is Lord over all:

Philippians 2:9-11
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

False doctrines claim that there are several paths to God. The word of God tells us that THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO GOD AND THIS IS THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST AS ONE’S LORD AND SAVIOUR.

John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

John 3:36
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him

Shortly after physical death, humans pass into either Heaven or Hell. Before Christ’s sacrifice, access into Heaven was not possible for human souls. The souls of those who loved and served the true God were kept in the paradise part of a spiritual place within the earth called Sheol, and the other part of Sheol was a prison of torment where the souls of those who rejected God ended up (Luke 16:19-31). There was a spiritual gulf fixed between these two parts so no soul from one side could cross over to the next (Luke 16:26). Access into Heaven was made possible for humans by Christ’s sacrifice and right after He died on the cross He went into the paradise part of Sheol, told the good souls (who were there for thousands of years) what He did and took them up to Heaven (Matthew 12:40; Ephesians 4:8–10; 1 Peter 3:18–20). The paradise part of Sheol no longer exists but the prison part of Sheol still does. This part of torment is called Hades or Hell. Those who reject God by not receiving Christ or any one of the Triune Godhead (Jeremiah 15:6; Matthew 12:311; Chronicles 28:9; 1 John 2:23) end up there and then go into the Lake of Fire after the Millennium (Revelation 20:15). Earthly fire, Godly fire (the type Jesus baptizes with) and the tormenting fire of the Lake of Fire are three different types of fire. There is also demonic fire which demons can produce.

Reincarnation is a false teaching (Hebrews 9:27). The Lord Jesus said that the human being’s afterlife state whether torment or paradise, will be eternal (Matthew 25:46). In the original text, the Greek word for eternal, aiōnion is used. He didn’t say that we would be born again and again until we got it right and received liberation. He would not have made that huge sacrifice for us if we could have had unity to God another way, and if there was another way, He would have taught that. The Lord said he could have employed legions of angels to prevent His crucifixion (Matthew 26:53), but because of His great and perfect love for humanity, He chose to endure a very painful death so we could be redeemed and united to God.

Salvation, redemption, reception of the Holy Spirit and adoption as God’s own children happen the instant a human being has faith in Christ as their Saviour and Lord and not at some future time in the believer’s life.

People who have not accepted Christ can become better individuals, but only to a certain extent. The Holy Spirit calls out to everyone but only those who have let the Holy Spirit (the third person of the Triune Godhead) into them by accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour are the ones who are transformed and experience abundant and constant spiritual growth.

Iniquities (tendencies that cause one to sin) pass down the generation line (Numbers 14:18). After one accepts Lord Jesus as their Saviour, God forgives their sins as they truly repent and removes their iniquities (evil tendencies) in the transformation process which makes one more and more like Christ (2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Titus 3:5; Hebrews 9:12-14). After genuinely accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour, ALL sinners (alcoholics, liars, drug addicts, fornicators etc.) will be saved and transformed. Each believer is cleansed by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and receives the infilling of the Holy Spirit who renews them.

REDEMPTION BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH

Because mankind is incapable of meeting God’s standard of perfection necessary to abide in God’s presence (Romans 3:19-20,23), God sent His Son Jesus Christ to pay the total debt for the believer’s sins and mercifully credits to his account Christ’s righteousness (Romans 3:21-28,5:1-11; 2 Corinthians 5:18-21). Jesus’ gracious act of atonement was complete and covers all sin (Colossians 2:13-14; 1 John 1:9). Salvation is not based on good deeds but according to the mercy of God (Titus 3:4-5). Believers are justified by faith; it is a gift by God’s grace (Romans 4:3-8; Ephesians 2:8-9). A true, living faith will result in a desire to live a holy, loving life of good works (Ephesians 2:10; Galatians 5:6; James 2:14-26), but failure to be absolutely successful at righteous living does not negate the believer’s justified status.

If you sincerely say this prayer, your sins will be washed away, you will be redeemed to God, be saved from eternal torment and inherit the Kingdom of God:

"Dear Jesus, I am a sinner. I repent of my sins. Please forgive me and save me by your shed blood. Come into my heart. I want to receive you as my own personal Lord and Savior. Amen"

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