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
2007-04-18 07:00:48
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answer #1
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answered by show me the way 2
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80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.
I've come to two conclusions recently:
1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.
First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.
Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasurable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping other kinds of things.
So the bottom line is, we only have a temporary meaning to life, to reduce pain and increase pleasure, other than that everything is lost to oblivion.
To be or not to be? "To be" is temporary and "not to be" is inevitable.....
2007-04-19 18:23:18
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answered by Its not me Its u 7
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2007-04-18 04:25:23
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answer #3
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answered by emmittnervend 4
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Meaning of life is living with fear of God and love for fellow human beings.
2007-04-18 04:29:45
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answer #4
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answered by gabriel j 2
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If only you had asked it with more detail about your inner thoughts, I would have answered
with many thoughts.
But since it's not the case,
check the following site.
www.watchtower.org
which gives a whole new fresh view
on life.
2007-04-18 04:27:18
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answer #5
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answered by Anonymous
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Living it.
2007-04-18 05:22:02
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answer #6
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answered by Izen G 5
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i thought alot about that question, and guess for me its to share all aspects of it with pepole you like and love
2007-04-18 04:26:43
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answer #7
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answered by troll_gumma 1
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life is purposeful journey and it doesn't stop when you have died
2007-04-18 04:30:20
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answer #8
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answered by m11 1
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Have you nothing better to do than to ask the same questions as hundreds others on here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-04-18 05:42:27
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answer #9
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answered by Anonymous
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