If there were no God, and everything was a result of random chance, there would be no purpose to your life. It all starts with God.
The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That's because we typically begin at the wrong starting point.-ourselves. But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.
You did not create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for! If I handed you an invention you had never seen before, you would not know its purpose, and the invention itself would not be able to tell you either. Only the creator or the owner's manual could reveal its purpose.
So it is with us, God's Word the Bible has the answers to these questions, because we were created by God.
2007-06-06 04:13:09 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Amen!
(that is all I can say- I am speechless lol)
2007-06-06 06:27:28 · answer #1 · answered by Mandolyn Monkey Munch 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your god has no purpose for human lives because he is impotent contrary to your claim that he is all powerful. Your religion has purposes because human created religions to promote themselves to be close to the Almighty which is an imagination. Everyone has a purpose in life except that many things are not controllable. The survival instinct exists in all living things and survival of a group ensures the survival of oneself.
2007-06-06 11:45:59 · answer #2 · answered by ShanShui 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. You get to choose your own purpose, since gods don't exist.
Some christians are able to understand science - they wouldn't refer to evolution as "random chance". This is intellectual bankruptcy - "I can't understand how it happened, so it must have been a god, probably my specific god".
Even if any gods existed - they would not be yours.
Nobody can prove any gods, much less a specific god, exist; many people will tell you their god exists but no others, but will never be able to prove it, even if they think so. Some will threaten you with eternal pain or promise eternal joy to get you to believe in their god; these are all stories, created for people who were scared long before we understood the universe. Now we have no more reason for these superstitions.
How terrible the bible in particular is:
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/
http://www.evilbible.com/
What's the origin of the Jesus stories?
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5.htm
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen048.html
http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/jesus.html
How silly and horrible religion in general is:
http://godisimaginary.com/
http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/
The alternative:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/
http://www.infidels.org/
http://www.positiveatheism.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism
"heir to christ", huh? I guess that means you acknowledge christ is dead.
2007-06-06 11:17:49 · answer #3 · answered by eldad9 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not much of a question. More like a sermon
When I was younger (and Christian) yes I was very confused. I didn't understand why I was supposed to have all this great purpose and felt like I was letting every one down.
When I let go of Christianity, I found it all stopped bothering me. I didn't need a "purpose" to be great. To be happy. I just am. And that's okay too. The Gods give me strength. They don't dictate to me. I like it that way.
2007-06-06 11:17:52 · answer #4 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My purpose of life is just like everyone else's you live to die and have the best time you can have doing it. I will never worship a god it is a waste of time and we really don't have that much.
2007-06-06 11:17:20 · answer #5 · answered by joe d 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life is completely meaningless. There is no God, therefore there is no purpose to life. You are free to choose to do what you will while you are still living.
2007-06-06 11:17:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Suppose someone created a humanoid robot (ficticious).The robot is given emotion,freewill thought,etc.If the robot tells his builder he appeared from nowhere and the builder doesn't exist,would that make it true?
2007-06-06 13:09:38 · answer #7 · answered by robert p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The will to live is enough for me, I don't have to have a purpose, I just want to have fun and then die!
2007-06-06 11:16:40 · answer #8 · answered by samhillesq 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Used to wonder. Don't care anymore. There is no god, so life is good.
2007-06-06 11:17:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, not now, not any longer.
Fight injustice.
2007-06-06 11:22:20 · answer #10 · answered by Iain 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋