2007-01-22 03:48:16 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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. -
2007-01-22 13:06:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are actually asking two different questions:
1. What is the purpose of life?
2. What is the meaning of life?
By way of example -- if I hold up an empty water balloon and ask you what it's purpose is, the most basic answer is 'water transportation via aerial mode.' That's all the purpose is -- it is a reason for existing. If it is sitting on a shelf in a store, it has that purpose, if it's in my hand filled and ready to go, it has that purpose.
Meaning, however, is something that is ascribed to an object. I fill such a balloon with water so that I can tag my mother during the next family reunion summer-fun party. That is now its meaning -- joy and playfulness. It did not have that meaning on the store shelf. There, at the store, its meaning was profit -- the owner of the store hoped someone would buy it and thus the owner would make profit off it.
So to go back to your questions -- what is the purpose of life? It has none. To have a purpose means that an intelligent being must have created it. Purpose is an intended direction, a best-suited direction, and life has no creator nor an intended direction. Life is inherantly purposeless.
What is the meaning of life? Because we are self-aware, even in acknowledging the purposelessness of life, we can ascribe a meaning to it. For many people, this meaning is little more than that they hope to live day by day. Some people make religion their meaning, others knowledge, others intentionally make hate or cruelty their meaning -- no one said all meaning has to be good. It just gives us a reason to wake up in the morning and defy our purposelessness.
2007-01-22 03:52:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Life is just a stage for each and everyone of us to go through and reaching another world -- eternal life. It is affirmative , as the creations of God, to obey the life guidance commanded by God,
in order to reach the eternal life either in Heaven or Hell. That is the reason why God had allowed Satan and The Holy Books (as the representative of God) to exist within us. In order to find out
how good or evil human is either to follow the God or the Satan.
This is the way God sets trial on our faith. As a reminder, no matter how good or bad a person is , it is to the God that our soul will return.
2007-01-22 04:05:28 · answer #3 · answered by S.K. Chan46 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-01-23 06:27:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-01-22 04:05:24 · answer #5 · answered by implosion13 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life doesn't really have a definite meaning.
But as intelligent beings we're able to give it meaning. This is what makes us as human beings so special.
You're the one that gives meaning to life. Every individual does. It could be anything but what matters the most is that it's something.
And when you stop doing this, as a conscious, intelligent being...
When you're no longer able to find meaning for your life...
You're as good as dead.
2007-01-22 03:58:57 · answer #6 · answered by shiroi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ecclesiastes 12: 13 states: 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 14 For the [true] God himself will bring every sort of work into the judgment in relation to every hidden thing, as to whether it is good or bad. This is why we are not to be judgmental, for God is the one who judges.
2007-01-22 03:55:06 · answer #7 · answered by Nancy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're asking stupid questions that have been asked hundreds of times before, you're alive. That's the meaning of life. The ability to move. When you can't move, you're at room temperature, and flies are beginning to gather on you, you're dead. It's really not hard to tell the difference.
2007-01-22 04:00:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To have nothing but the biologic use of calories and O2 as the purpose in life is very sad indeed. We have a purpose that everyone should know but the time they leave adolescence and head into adulthood. We are here to Love, we are here to except Love from others.. Without this me may as well die... Jim
2007-01-22 03:54:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Companionship for a Creative God.
A universe without companionship of other creative beings that can appreciate creation would be lonely.
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He is building a remnant of people who can get along without making eternal war, who appreciate His creativity.
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Isaiah 65:19 I will rejoice over Jerusalem and take delight in my people...
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2007-01-22 04:15:08 · answer #10 · answered by Jimmy Dean 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋