2007-01-30 01:38:19 · 18 answers · asked by rangeela 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-01-30 01:42:26 · answer #1 · answered by ♥LadyC♥ 6 · 0⤊ 5⤋
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.
2007-01-30 09:46:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life is the purpose of life
2007-01-30 09:43:26 · answer #3 · answered by Sean 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
1. To leave this planet a better place then when you entered it.
2. To seek out that (OR WHOM) which gives meaning and purpose to your life and then live your life accordingly.
2007-01-30 09:45:48 · answer #4 · answered by williamzo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are religious:
The purpose of life is to love your God with your whole mind, body, strength, and self, and to love your neighbor as yourself.
If you are not:
The purpose of life is to struggle to survive, and pass your genetic blueprint on to the next generation...thus continuing life.
2007-01-30 09:45:22 · answer #5 · answered by Jay 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To ask that exact question.
Asking yourself what is the purpose of life seems to be the purpose of life.At least that's my best guess.
2007-01-30 09:45:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The purpose of life is Love, God is pure love and we see a very pale reflection of this in each other,hopefully our parents gave us life because of love, it gives life and sustains life.
So to Love God and each other so that we will be part of Gods eternal love when we die is the real meaning of this life.
2007-01-30 09:46:21 · answer #7 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Human beings are created to know God. He instilled in us a thirst that will not be satisfied until we reach out to Him for companionship and love. Paul wrote in Philippians 3:8 (NAS), "More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ."
We were created to have an intimate, loving relationship with the Lord? and to bring Him glory. Paying respect with our gifts and good works is a natural extension of that design. But our primary responsibility is to spend time with Him.
2007-01-30 22:46:23 · answer #8 · answered by Freedom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The purpose of life is to know God and enjoy Him forever.
God created us, therefore we are his and he is ours. He created us for a relationship with him and for a partnership with him in the creative process that he called us to in Genesis 1:28, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
Since the fall of mankind required a program of redemption, an additional purpose for our existence as believers is to obey Jesus who said to love one another and also, in Matthew 28:18-20 "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you."
2007-01-30 09:48:57 · answer #9 · answered by pastorgregory2004 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Our sole purpose of this life is to serve God and share his love with others.
2007-01-30 09:42:56 · answer #10 · answered by Gummy 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
We are called to worship God and tell others about Jesus, but in addition to that we all have a calling on our life.
2007-01-30 10:27:34 · answer #11 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋