how can the search for meaning and purpose in life, lead to, or support the beleif in god?

Question

this is for an exam question
for about 8 marks

Answer 1

All seeking is humanities innate desire to find God. The meaning of life is unconditional love,the purpose of life is to awaken to your unity with God in unconditional love.We had a oneness with God before, read romans 1-19/21. It is the spirit of God within our heart that prompts us to seek. Again, all seeking is seeking God.

Answer 2

Humans are like the reflection of the trees in the lake, and God is like the tree's on the bank of the lake. A reflection is always dependent upon the water and upon the light which shines to create the reflection. When the sun goes down, the reflection disappears until morning, but the tree's never vanish and remain for ever.
God can be concieved as
*omnipotent
*omniscient
*omnipresent
All powerfull, all knowing and present everywhere in everything. He is eternal, unmanifested and unborn. He has no begining, and no end. He is therefore the only cause of the temporary material universe.
As our universe has a beginning and an end, God is the cause of both whom exists before and after the material universe. You do not get something from nothing. God is all that one could describe something to be, and he is everything else you couldn't imagine to exist.
Life is about stilling the water so the true reflection is present. The water becomes rippled when the mind is led astray by the senses. When one gives up sense gratification as a motive for action, and rather simply enjoys working for works sake, then the water will remain unrippled. The wise man looks upon success and failure with the same contempt, for it was the work he relished.

Answer 3

Searching for the meaning of life, we tend to analyze phenomena, which leades to deeper and deeper contemplation of what life and reality are all about. Going even deeper it seems like analyzing doesn't really help to understand anything, and in fact understanding everything might not even seem like a goal anymore. Thats where one starts to encouter an entity that some call God. At that, it may seem like it was there all along, it just there was too much contemplation, that was overpowering a direct experience of God that doesn't have anything to do with contemplating of it....and yet it does somehow?

Answer 4

It puzzles me how human beings can believe that the only purpose of this existence is to do what you are able to to get to the subsequent one. I for one choose to stay for in the present day. My purpose is something it is real and significant to me; to be the terrific guy or woman i'd be and to enhance my toddlers to be effective, open-minded those with objectives and aims. I dont would desire to stay for God or everyone else because of the fact my existence is strictly that....mine. i will understand why people who've not something to stay for seek for out a non secular which means, yet you cant tell me that outdoors of concept in God, existence has no purpose. If that became into actual, extra atheists would be committing suicide, that's clearly not the case.

Answer 5

It sometimes leads to the false hope in the existence of God.

If a person takes on the search with the need for an answer or the need for a purpose in life, then they will inevitably find one, whether it is fabricated or imagined.

Answer 6

It cannot. Belief in god implies that any meaning or purpose in life is given to you by a religion. This is the antithesis of a search. Think of googling something. If you "feel lucky" you are no longer searching, you are just trusting in Google. Similarly, if you just let your religion tell you what the purpose of life is, you are no longer searching, you are just trusting in them.

All things considered, of the two I'd trust Google more but I trust myself more than either one. Still, this would probably not be a good answer for your exam.

Answer 7

An exam question!!!??? You're supposed to answer this in an exam situation??? The world's greatest philosophers have spent their lifetimes trying to answer this question and not come up with one!

It reminds me of the Woody Allen joke: "I sat my Religious Education exam. The student next to me was disqualified. He had looked into my soul"

and the other Woody Allen one: "I sat my philosophy exam. There was a question: how would you define God? I left my page blank. I signed myself 'An Existentialist'. I got full marks."

Answer 8

The Bible tells us the purpose of life. God put man on the earth to be happy, live a peaceful, never-ending life. He meant for man to fill the earth and subdue it. Satan got greedy and wanted worship for himself, so he messed everyone up. God intends to put everything back the way it was in the beginning. It's all in the Bible. Read it.

Answer 9

The only way I can think of is: if you think there is a purpose to your life, then maybe you begin to think, well, who made up the purpose? It sure wasn't me! So then you figure it must be someone/thing more important than you or other humans. So it must be a supreme being.

That's the best I can give you.

(P.S. The meaning of life is 42.)

Answer 10

what else could it lead to? Without some sort of deity there is no meaning to life, just random events and that led up to everything in the known universe today.