I need answers !
2007-01-31 04:44:16 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Join the club. Love Jesus the Christ. Trust Him. He loves you and will care for you. That is all you need to know. YBIC
2007-01-31 04:53:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
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.
2007-01-31 12:49:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"He has shown thee, oh man, what is good and what the Lord requires of thee......But to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God." Micah 6:8
The Purpose Driven Life, by Rick Warren is a good book to read about "what are we here for?"
There is no doubt that we all have a purpose and a gift in life. I believe that the answers lay outside of ourselves, that when we give and minister to others, we find fulfillment in ourselves and do the will of God.
2007-01-31 13:07:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 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.
2007-02-01 02:29:15 · answer #4 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why must your life have purpose? Is it not enought simply to "be"? How empty must a life be for one to demand a "purpose"...
2007-01-31 12:50:56 · answer #5 · answered by Blackacre 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
1. We are part of a gene pool.
2. To continue living and possibly contribute to the gene pool.
There is no meaning, no reasons... we just are.
2007-01-31 12:50:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
To know, love and serve God. To become who we are, the living presence of Jesus Christ. To get to Heaven.
2007-01-31 12:52:17 · answer #7 · answered by Gods child 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
According to the bible we were created to worship God and tell others about Him.
2007-01-31 13:03:58 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋