Yet again, *sigh,* I have a question?

Question

I just asked: "What does serving God imply?"

The most popular answers were those that referred to helping others.

Earlier, I asked what the purpose of life is. The most popular answer was serving God.

So: We're here to serve God, by helping those that are also here??

But.. when you think about it, if we weren't here, our purpose wouldn't need to be served; without people, there would be no one to help, and no reason to serve God.

Basically, from what all of YOU have told me, our existence CREATES our purpose to exist.

Does this make any more sense than the last post; any thoughts??

Answer 1

PEOPLE ON HERE TRY TO MAKE TOO MUCH OUT OF THEIR FAITH INSTEAD OF JUST LIVING IT.........######

Answer 2

Generally, as nonsensical as this may sound, I do believe that our existence creates our purpose to exist. Our purpose, if it is helping others, means that if the others didn't exist we wouldn't have a purpose either. As a whole, then, the reason for life to exist is to continue existing and perpetuating itself.

Maybe I'm just an optimistic or free-willed person, but besides simply living I think that each person creates their own purpose to exist theirself, and that there isn't really an outside force or drive behind existence except what we drive ourselves to do.

This is just my own opinion and doesn't factor God into the equation (I'm agnostic), but maybe it makes a bit of sense to you to. Hope I made sense, or at least gave you a little something to ponder. =)

Answer 3

Serving God has absolutely NOTHING to do with it! : )
People NEED other people! Period!
It honestly has nothing to do with God.... whether or not God even exists is so BESIDES the point! : )

As long as people inhabit this earth, all people will need other people! Think about it this way:
Could you be self-sustaining all by yourself? That means if you were the only person on this earth, could you: feed yourself, provide and grow your own food, build your own house, supply all your own supplies... etc... ??

The answer: probably not! NO ONE could! It is for THAT REASON ALONE that we ALL need other people.. and we should ALL SERVE other people... it has nothing to do with God... no matter what - we all need each other! : )
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Makes a lot of sense.. right?
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Answer 4

...and without people, you wouldn't exist and thus, couldn't ask this question. In a way, yes, our existence creates our reason for existence...but that's too "tree falling in the woods" for me to grasp this late at night *smile*.

God created us to serve him...he wants us to do that by taking care of the rest of his creation (other people especially, but not just that). If we didn't exist, would the rest of creation exist...maybe yes, maybe no, but if it did, God would have given some other life form instructions for caring for that creation...and they'd probably be asking the same questions!

Answer 5

note: the most popular answer is not always the right answer


the purpose of life is to serve and worship God, which come in hand and hand. Serving others does glorify God, but by serving God, we in turn serve others, but ultimately we serve Him.

How do we serve Him? By living for Him. How is that? By not conforming to the pattern of this world but being transformed by the renewing of our minds. Only then can we understand God's purpose for our lives.

Answer 6

That's interesting. I asked that same question several years ago. It can't be that our purpose for living is to serve other people since if nobody lived, there would be no need for it.

I think our purpose in life is to bring glory to God. I think God created us for that reason.

Serving God does involve doing good to other people, but I don't think that's the whole reason God created us.

Answer 7

If you want to serve God you will find ways and a reason to serve him. I tell you there is joy in serving God he is a friend that is there when no one else is.

If you do not want to serve God you will look for ways to justify not serving him. Gods ways are not our way he is God whether we like it or not. Peace and God bless.

Answer 8

I guess it depends on perspective. I believe that we're here to learn and appreciate. To conquer (so to speak) ourselves. I believe that we're naturally inclined to be self-serving but we have to learn to be selfless and think outside of ourselves. Again. it's perspective. The meaning of life to one is not the same as it is to another. You have to give your life meaning. I think that it's a process we live our whole lives completing. Sorry, I don't have answers that can satisfy anyone else, just what makes sense to me at this stage.

Let me clarify, I am a Christian, Catholic to be exact. This is why I believe what I do. If I was of no faith, I would imagine that life was just what it was on the given day in which I was living. But the reason that we have to learn, something, is that I believe it doesn't end here so we have to be evolved for what comes after our lives on Earth.

Answer 9

This is more easily understandable if one considers the actual scale of the components of an atom. If one takes into account the fact that the neutrons, protons and electrons of an atom actually have huge spaces between them it becomes clear that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are made up of 99+ percent empty space.

This alone does not seem too important till you add the idea that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are more of a loose conglomeration that share a similar attraction but never really touch each other.

At first glance this does not really seem relevant, but closer analysis reveals that this adds a tremendous amount of empty space to solid objects that are already made up of atoms that are 99 percent space. When so-called solid objects are seen in this light it becomes apparent that they can in no way be the seemingly solid objects they appear to be.

We ourselves are not exceptions to this phenomenon.

These seemingly solid objects are more like ghostly images that we interpret as solid objects based on our perceptual conclusions.

From this we must conclude that Perception is some sort of a trick that helps us to take these ghostly images and turn them into a world we can associate and interact with. This clever device seems to be a creation of our intellect that enables us to interact with each other in what appears to be a three dimensional reality.

I hope that helps to answered your question.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 10

I think that you are thinking beyond where you need to go. Implicating hypothesis isn't helping you here. Nix the hypothetical and it think you have it. We serve God by serving others - especially those who are seeking God, but always according to His will. You learn His will after you make peace with Him. You make peace with Him by trusting Him. You believe in what He did, especially by believing in Jesus Christ. He is our focus for peace with God, and through the life of faith.

Answer 11

our existence was for fellowship with the Lord and sin separated that. The point is to get back to the fellowship God intended in the first place. and until everyone has heard and has a chance to believe in Him who died for the sins of the world.