If Their is No God, then Whats the purpose of Living?

Question

Alot of people really don't believe in God and this brings up the question stated above, Do we just life for a few years and then die and thats it? Their has to be more to life than just having fun and then dying, This purpose is what God has given us. Its pretty hard believing that we live for a little and then die and thats it, what about the children who die early, they didn't have a chance to have fun or experience earthly life, Their has to be more, The children will rise on that day of ressurection when our lord Jesus comes back

Answer 1

God offers a purpose for living that the world cannot. It is through His only begotten Son Jesus, that we are promised eternal life in a place where there is only joy and love, void of sin and suffering. The pipe dreams of this world will only last as long as the world endures, and that is temporary compared to the everlasting life attained through belief, surrender, and obedience to God through Jesus Christ. When we allow Jesus to be Lord of our lives til physical death, we will be rewarded salvation and "will reign for ever and ever" with Him in heaven (Revelation 22:5 KJV). We must keep our mind on the unseen, the eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18 KJV), for if we store up our treasure in the eternal, there will our heart be also (Matthew 6:19-20 KJV). Only unbelief in the eternal will we limit ourselves to short term purpose in living. It just takes a mustard seed of faith to reap an ROI or return on that initial investment of faith to gain a big-time upside - everlasting fellowship with God! Who wouldn't want to buy into such a low-risk large-cap high-yield investment like Jesus???

God Bless brother - keep "laboring"!!!

Answer 2

stay should not be an operative be conscious in something that replaced into alleged to have existed till now physicality. The term stay could verify with physicality which by potential of defintion of the creationist place ought to no longer be actual. At terrific some form of favourite information storage could be required in this prephysicality state--for intelligence to exist some mechanism for information storage, retrival and diagnosis. perplexing to learn in a non-capability-non-mass media (lol). greater desirable the quantity if one takes the creationist place--of information storage potential--must be plenty plenty greater desirable than the style of atoms latest interior the universe on the 2nd of creation--as each and each mass,x,y, and z coordinate and velocity vector could have had to be conventional all the way down to the angstrom point. All this accomplished in a media devoid of obvious potential for help of any intelligence. pass discern. perhaps the creationists require slightly too plenty once you seem on the hypothesis as actual and surely seem at what could have been required.

Answer 3

We all have purpose.
My Grandmother once said to me as I was a rebellious child of God doing the whole partying thing, "Jim, the saddest thing that ever happens is for a child of God to go through life and live in rebellion and never full fill their purpose in God and die and go to hell."
I have years I cannot remember because of drugs and alcohol, but I remember her saying this to me about 25 years ago.

Again, we all have a purpose.

Answer 4

You mean you can't think of anything else to live for other than to pray to God every five minutes? Whoa! What a waste of a freaking life!!!

You could live to observe others and learn about human nature!

You could plant things and watch them grow, in all their wonder!

You could have kids and marvel at them every day.

You could love a spouse and give 100% to them.

You could help the needy and sick and poor.

You could rescue a pet from the Humane Society and give it a comfortable life it may never have known yet!

You could vote and make a change in your community.

You could learn how to cook different cuisines.

You could take an evening course!

You could love your parents who will be gone all too soon, if they aren't already.

Man, there's TONS to live for besides just a God! And if there is a God, he put you on the Earth to do all the things I've listed, and MORE! If he'd wanted you to pray and praise all day, he could take your life and bring you up to him!

Think about it.

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Answer 5

Well really we aren't all that important. Our purpose of living is to support out species, and then we die. Yeah it's unfortunate but thats just the way nature works. It's fun to believe that we're all important and we have a purpose but well, we just have to accept the possability that maybe we're just another useless species, on this useless earth. I like your way of thinking though.

Answer 6

Humans have reached that magic level of consciousness where they are aware of their own mortality but they haven't gotten rid of that pesky biological urge to survive. The battle between these two forces is the source of myths like God. We're trying to find a way to get rid of that nagging discomfort.

Answer 7

The purpose of living, to some, is to create a purpose...and then to try and convince others to accept that purpose. Woe to the unconvinced. They shall face damnation, by the purposed, while alive and eternal punishment from the Purposer when dead.

Answer 8

Good question. Live as if there is a God and also as if there is no God at all. You get the best of both worlds that way. . . Okay? :)

Answer 9

The purpose has nothing to do with God. Otherwise there would be no hell and which is allegedly sitting opposite to heaven. The latter is supposedly God's home!!!!!

Answer 10

PROVING THE EXISTENCE OF ALLAH (SWT)TO AN ATHEIST by Dr. Zakir Naik
CONGRATULATING AN ATHEIST
Normally, when I meet an atheist, the first thing I like to do is to congratulate him and say, " My special congratulations to you", because most of the people who believe in God are doing blind belief - he is a Christian, because his father is a Christian; he is a Hindu, because his father is a Hindu; the majority of the people in the world are blindly following the religion of their fathers. An atheist, on the other hand, even though he may belong to a religious family, uses his intellect to deny the existence of God; what ever concept or qualities of God he may have learnt in his religion may not seem to be logical to him.
My Muslim brothers may question me, "Zakir, why are you congratulating an atheist?" The reason that I am congratulating an atheist is because he agrees with the first part of the Shahada i.e. the Islamic Creed, ‘La ilaaha’ - meaning ‘there is no God’. So half my job is already done; now the only part left is ‘il lallah’ i.e. ‘BUT ALLAH’ which I shall do Insha Allah. With others (who are not atheists) I have to first remove from their minds the wrong concept of God they may have and then put the correct concept of one true God.
LOGICAL CONCEPT OF GOD
My first question to the atheist will be: "What is the definition of God?" For a person to say there is no God, he should know what is the meaning of God. If I hold a book and say that ‘this is a pen’, for the opposite person to say, ‘it is not a pen’, he should know what is the definition of a pen, even if he does not know nor is able to recognise or identify the object I am holding in my hand. For him to say this is not a pen, he should at least know what a pen means. Similarly for an atheist to say ‘there is no God’, he should at least know the concept of God. His concept of God would be derived from the surroundings in which he lives. The god that a large number of people worship has got human qualities - therefore he does not believe in such a god. Similarly a Muslim too does not and should not believe in such false gods.
If a non-Muslim believes that Islam is a merciless religion with something to do with terrorism; a religion which does not give rights to women; a religion which contradicts science; in his limited sense that non-Muslim is correct to reject such Islam. The problem is he has a wrong picture of Islam. Even I reject such a false picture of Islam, but at the same time, it becomes my duty as a Muslim to present the correct picture of Islam to that non-Muslim i.e. Islam is a merciful religion, it gives equal rights to the women, it is not incompatible with logic, reason and science; if I present the correct facts about Islam, that non-Muslim may Inshallah accept Islam.
Similarly the atheist rejects the false gods and the duty of every Muslim is to present the correct concept of God which he shall Insha Allah not refuse.

(You may refer to my article, ‘Concept of God in Islam’, for more details)
QUR’AN AND MODERN SCIENCE
The methods of proving the existence of God with usage of the material provided in the ‘Concept of God in Islam’ to an atheist may satisfy some but not all.
Many atheists demand a scientific proof for the existence of God. I agree that today is the age of science and technology. Let us use scientific knowledge to kill two birds with one stone, i.e. to prove the existence of God and simultaneously prove that the Qur’an is a revelation of God.
If a new object or a machine, which no one in the world has ever seen or heard of before, is shown to an atheist or any person and then a question is asked, " Who is the first person who will be able to provide details of the mechanism of this unknown object? After little bit of thinking, he will reply, ‘the creator of that object.’ Some may say ‘the producer’ while others may say ‘the manufacturer.’ What ever answer the person gives, keep it in your mind, the answer will always be either the creator, the producer, the manufacturer or some what of the same meaning, i.e. the person who has made it or created it. Don’t grapple with words, whatever answer he gives, the meaning will be same, therefore accept it.
SCIENTIFIC FACTS MENTIONED IN THE QUR’AN: for details on this subject please refer to my book, ‘THE QUR’AN AND MODERN SCIENCE – COMPATIBLE OR INCOMPATIBLE?
THEORY OF PROBABILITY
In mathematics there is a theory known as ‘Theory of Probability’. If you have two options, out of which one is right, and one is wrong, the chances that you will chose the right one is half, i.e. one out of the two will be correct. You have 50% chances of being correct. Similarly if you toss a coin the chances that your guess will be correct is 50% (1 out of 2) i.e. 1/2. If you toss a coin the second time, the chances that you will be correct in the second toss is again 50% i.e. half. But the chances that you will be correct in both the tosses is half multiplied by half (1/2 x 1/2) which is equal to 1/4 i.e. 50% of 50% which is equal to 25%. If you toss a coin the third time, chances that you will be correct all three times is (1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2) that is 1/8 or 50% of 50% of 50% that is 12½%.
A dice has got six sides. If you throw a dice and guess any number between 1 to 6, the chances that your guess will be correct is 1/6. If you throw the dice the second time, the chances that your guess will be correct in both the throws is (1/6 x 1/6) which is equal to 1/36. If you throw the dice the third time, the chances that all your three guesses are correct is (1/6 x 1/6 x 1/6) is equal to 1/216 that is less than 0.5 %.
Let us apply this theory of probability to the Qur’an, and assume that a person has guessed all the information that is mentioned in the Qur’an which was unknown at that time. Let us discuss the probability of all the guesses being simultaneously correct. At the time when the Qur’an was revealed, people thought the world was flat, there are several other options for the shape of the earth. It could be triangular, it could be quadrangular, pentagonal, hexagonal, heptagonal, octagonal, spherical, etc. Lets assume there are about 30 different options for the shape of the earth. The Qur’an rightly says it is spherical, if it was a guess the chances of the guess being correct is 1/30.
The light of the moon can be its own light or a reflected light. The Qur’an rightly says it is a reflected light. If it is a guess, the chances that it will be correct is 1/2 and the probability that both the guesses i.e the earth is spherical and the light of the moon is reflected light is 1/30 x 1/2 = 1/60.