What is the meaning of life??
2007-04-17 09:57:34 · 26 answers · asked by FrozenFlowers 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God’s word tells us that He is self-existing and ever-existing. In eternity past God was there. At a certain point he made a decision to create man. God’s desire was to have this man express Him in His image and represent Him with His authority earth (Gen 1:26-28) The bible tell us in the very first page of Genesis that God’s creation of man was different from His creation of all other things. He created man in His own image. Let us illustrate this matter by using a glove. A person’s hand cannot fit into a handkerchief because it does not have the image or form of the hand. Because the glove is in the image, the likeness, and the form of a hand, it is able to contain the hand. A glove is made in the form of a hand for the purpose of containing the hand. In the same way, the human life was created according to the image of God so that God could dispense Himself as the divine life into the human life. Man was created not only to express God but also to be God’s representative authority. The unique way for man to express God and represent God is to receive God as his life that man may become a counterpart of God. Man was created with the capacity to receive and contain God’s divine life. All of man’s human virtues, such as love, honor, and goodness, were created by God so that man may have God’s live and live out the divine attributes
2007-04-17 10:15:48 · answer #1 · answered by show me the way 2 · 0⤊ 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.
2007-04-17 10:00:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Go to this website http://www.dnai.org/ and click on the links to the left and watch the cool animations and do the little lessons. Once you have learned and been totally blown away about how DNA works, then take a trip into nature. You will then know the meaning of life.
2007-04-17 11:28:03 · answer #3 · answered by goto jahosopher yahoo group 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-04-17 10:04:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2007-04-17 10:00:37 · answer #5 · answered by Cpt. Amazing 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2007-04-17 10:00:11 · answer #6 · answered by Rogue Scrapbooker 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Great question. First we need to go to the one who Created and learn from our Creator Jehovah God. Jehovah teaches us through his word the Bible why we are here, what our purpose is, and gives us a hope for the future. When you read the Bible you need to be honest and humble, and realize that man don't have the answers for us. God knows us better than we know ourselves. Once we learn about Jehovah we will have true meaning in our life.
2007-04-17 10:04:43 · answer #7 · answered by Jason W 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God made us and he wants us to life a pure life on earth
until... u know, im not really good at explaining this so just read the bible, that'll give u the best answer u can get
Goodluck and God is waiting for u!
2007-04-17 10:01:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is a GOD who is THAT intelligent being who created life....!!!There is an intended direction!There is a best-suited direction!Life isn't breathing.....Life is knowing God.....Relationshipw/Daddy God! He is so obsessed with you and I....That he gave up his son while we still hated him all to gain our love.. The bible says in Ps139:17-18 his thoughts towards us outnumber the very grains of sand on the earth!!! U have a purpose...YOUR purpose is realizing u have been sought&FOUND by GOD who is relentlessly&ferociously chasing you down!!& u r a Son!! U r royalty....heirs of the most high God...If you'd only believe. #relationshipnotreligion
2016-05-15 06:57:54 · answer #9 · answered by Humbly In Service! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is only a short journey or pilgrimage on our way to eternal life,but first we must use this life to know,love and serve God so that we may be happy with Him forever.
Basically life is just a short blip between two eternities.
2007-04-17 10:05:41 · answer #10 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋