To be happy...
To follow "god"...
To live...
To love...
To be your own person...
To be free...
To laugh...
To grow...
To experience...
2007-08-19 12:06:36 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Every individual has their purpose. What yours is, I do not know. Mine is to tell everyone I can what the Lord means to me. The Lord is the most important part of my life.
2007-08-19 12:13:25 · answer #1 · answered by ♥Sunny Girl♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happiness
2007-08-19 19:15:06 · answer #2 · answered by Love Yahoo!!! wannabe a princess 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Purpose of life means that your life was intended, so by definition, that requires a Creator/God.
“Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.” –Bertrand Russell
We can't create our own purpose or "make it what we want it to be" unless we are going to claim to have created ourselves. When people talk about creating their own purpose, they are really talking about doing things that make them feel good about themselves. Look at your list of purposes in your question. Aren't they all things that were selected to make us feel good? So there's your answer hidden in your question, i.e. a self-selected use-of-life is always to seek good feelings.
I'm surprised at how many people answer "procreation". These people just like sex, I think. It's another thing to do that makes us feel good. George Washington had no offspring. Did that make his life purposeless? Excuse me, but procreation is a ridiculous answer.
And for those who say there is no purpose, well, they can say it but they can't live it. No purpose is no meaning and no point. This is nihilism and nihilism leads to insanity and suicide. Everyone has selected some use to make of their lives, even if they deny it.
Seek God or forever search for the next good feeling. Those are the two choices as I see it.
2007-08-21 05:39:06 · answer #3 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wise King Solomon gave the answer.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 - "The conclusion of the matter, everything having been heard, is: Fear the [true] God and keep his commandments. For this is the whole [obligation] of man"
This basic principle was supported by God’s Son, Jesus Christ. While on earth, Jesus made every effort to glorify his heavenly Father. Serving his Creator enriched Jesus’ life. It nourished and sustained him, enabling him to say: “My food is for me to do the will of him that sent me.”—John 4:34.
2007-08-19 19:22:33 · answer #4 · answered by evanlance 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The purpose of life is to worship God in a loving relationship.
God cannot worship himself. He created us to worship him, have a relationship with him. He is Holy. The most intelligent thing you can do is worship the Holy One.
2007-08-19 19:22:18 · answer #5 · answered by wassupmang 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The purpose of life is summed up in Frank Sinatra's "My Way".
2007-08-19 19:16:52 · answer #6 · answered by mcw 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why does life have to have some esoteric purpose. can't the purpose of life be to live it - to not let it destroy you?
damn, i think everyone should go to Heaven just for surviving birth.
2007-08-19 19:15:14 · answer #7 · answered by yarn whore 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think... my friend... that the purpose of life is whatever you want it to be... If you want your life to be horrible dark and mean nothing... you can make it that way... or you can make it the best thing that it possibly can be!
2007-08-19 19:08:23 · answer #8 · answered by Highlander 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All of those things listed above and to add one more I say
To give. Which I have been doing for a while now.
2007-08-19 19:15:15 · answer #9 · answered by cafescoop 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my purpose of life is to spread gods love
2007-08-19 19:24:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋