What is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

The meaning is different for everyone. It's up to you to figure out what it means to you.

Answer 2

In the beginning there was God.

God existed before all this even began. The only thing that matters is God.

The meaning of life is to walk with God because he is Existence and life itself.

We cannot live without the life that God gives us.

Hell is apartness from God.

Many people are in hell because they are far from God.

I have been in hell myself at times until i realized the only thing that matters that is God.

THE MEANING OF LIFE=

1. WALK WITH GOD
2. FIND SALVATION

Perhaps you don't understand what I mean at this time. But if the time ever comes that you do, then that is when you have found the answer.

Answer 3

Nihilist: There is no meaning, anyone who tries to find it will end in failure

Absurdest: Life has no meaning. Yet if it does, it is all too absurd

Theist: To serve thy God with all your attributes

Atheist/Humanist: To serve thy fellow Man

Marxist: To serve thy State

Capitalist: To serve thyself

Existentialist: To Give it meaning by following the examples above and others.

Answer 4

I like the answer from City Slickers. There's only one meaning to life, but its different from one person to another. Its what brings your life joy and meaning.

Answer 5

Matthew 28: 18-20 Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."


We are living for Jesus Christ

Answer 6

We get meaning when we live for a purpose. Purpose requires God:

“Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.” –Bertrand Russell (noted philosopher, mathematician and Nobel Laureate)

Without God all we can do is to invent activities that make us feel good about ourselves, to focus on good thoughts and to keep so busy that we don't have time to think about our meaningless existence.

If God exists, then we can see He must have put our need for meaning into our human nature to point us to seek Him. Seeking God is our purpose and in seeking Him, we find our meaning.

Answer 7

Life on this earth is an opportunity to chose to follow God or reject Him.

Answer 8

do follow God! to have an everlasting life with him after you die!

Answer 9

Some excerpts from an interesting talk.

What, then, is the meaning of life? What are its central purposes? Can they ever be identified and understood by mortals? These are questions which in one form or another have occupied the time and attention of thoughtful men and women throughout the ages. Some believe that there is no God and that the end of all human life is personal annihilation—a dark philosophy of despair that leads to the inevitable conclusion that life is meaningless and that it matters not what one does, nor how one treats others. Such persons think that cruelty and compassion, love and hate, good and evil are all equally meaningless; there is no place in such thinking for sin or repentance or forgiveness.

As belief in God wanes, so too does the view that life has real meaning. The contention that the aim of life is to “eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die” is widespread in Western societies. This philosophy, which seeks to maximize pleasure and minimize pain, ultimately too is a philosophy of despair. But faithful adherents to the religions of the Abrahamic tradition—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—do not in general share the pessimism so pervasive among other views of human existence. They unite in their understanding that God, the Supreme Creator, gives meaning to human life. The Psalmist sang, “For thou hast made [man] a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet. … O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!” (Ps. 8:5–6, 9).

Perceptions about the nature of mankind influence our understanding of the meaning of life. If, as the scriptures teach, we are imbued with divinity, with infinite power and capacity to grow and progress, eventually to become as God Himself, our lives are innately important and meaningful. When we understand who we are and who we may become, then and only then will the full meaning of life unfold to us.

Latter-day Saint views on the nature and destiny of God’s children are expressed cogently in these teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith: “All those who keep his commandments shall grow up from grace to grace, and become heirs of the heavenly kingdom, and joint heirs with Jesus Christ; possessing the same mind, being transformed into the same image or likeness, even the express image of him who fills all in all” (Lectures on Faith [1985], 60).
Against the context of the Father’s infinite eternal love for His children, and within the framework of His “great plan of happiness,” we can discern several purposes for mortal life. They include the following:

1. We come to earth to obtain a body. “We came to this earth that we might have a body and present it pure before God in the celestial kingdom,” said the Prophet Joseph Smith (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, comp. Joseph Fielding Smith [1976], 181).

2. We come to earth to be tried and tested. “I will try you and prove you herewith,” the Lord has said (D&C 98:12). Only thus can we be prepared to receive the glory God has in store for us. “My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them, even the glory of Zion; and he that will not bear chastisement is not worthy of my kingdom” (D&C 136:31).

3. We come to earth to learn to be like Jesus Christ—one of the greatest purposes of life. President Joseph F. Smith said, “One of the main purposes of our existence is that we might conform to the image and likeness of Him who sojourned in the flesh without blemish—immaculate, pure and spotless! Christ came not only to atone for the sins of the world, but to set an example before all men and to establish the standard of God’s perfection, of God’s law, and of obedience to the Father” (quoted in F. W. Otterstrom, “A Journey to the South,” Improvement Era, Dec. 1917, 104). This sublime truth, with its implicit, lifelong challenge to endure to the end, is an intrinsic part of the gospel.

4. We come to earth to establish an eternal family as children, siblings, and (if the proper opportunity permits) parents. Marriage is ordained of God and, by virtue of the sealing power and obedience to gospel laws and ordinances, can endure eternally (see D&C 49:15, D&C 132:19). The family, President Spencer W. Kimball proclaimed, “is the great plan of life as conceived and organized by our Father in Heaven” (The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, ed. Edward L. Kimball [1982], 324). Heaven is but an exalted extension of righteous family life.

These, then, are the major purposes of life: to obtain a body; to be tested and tried as we walk by faith; to come to know and understand God and His divine Son, Jesus Christ, and at the end of our mortal journey to present ourselves worthy and pure before God; and to establish an eternal family. With this knowledge we understand that life is rich and full of meaning, an ineffable gift given to us by Him who loves us and works unceasingly that we might return to His presence. At this Christmas season, let us each rejoice again and again in His great gift, our very lives.

Answer 10

sex, drugs, and rock and roll