Why do humans have the urge to know what are purposes are?

Question

Where did the first concept that we aren't alone come from? O the idea that theres a higher power and theres more than what we see?

Answer 1

I know what my purpose is. It is to refute hogwash, live my life to it's fullest and enjoy all that life has to offer without fear of being tormented forever.

Answer 2

Maybe we humans started to think about our purpose in life because we are capable of understanding that we will die and we might toil through life thinking "What's the point" but when you think about it any other animal insect whatever if they had to capacity to visualise their own death or be totally aware of their place (on the leaf/in the field/whatever) they would be thinking also what is the purpose of me doing all these things day after day after day. We have the capacity to say look up at the night sky and wonder about it and nature in general and be awed by things in the natural environment as our early ancestors would have also probably done when they had a break from hunting/gathering????? The idea of a higher power I think is inate in us (well nations all around the world, indigenous people etc. etc. we seem all to have had and still have some form of worshipping Gods - the Aztecs did, the various tribes in the Americas did - totems etc - the N.Z. Maori did, the Australian Aborigines did with their concept of "The Dreaming", the early Greeks, etc. etc. the early people in the British Isles (Stone Henge??) - and that gets back to what I think - that humans have an inate sense of something higher than themselves - and also earlier people contemplating the sun and not understanding the science behind rising and setting and its relationship with the stars etc. well we would have been in awe of all of that and maybe worshipping it as a great bringer of light and warmth to our days. Yes the marvels of the weather, rainbows, thunder, lightning - all of that sort of stuff would have brought out the idea of worshipping these great mysteries that sustained us and something like the thunder would have frightened early man perhaps and he begain maybe to think Oh the noise god is angry with me and then think up ways to appease this Noise God etc. etc. and so on.

Answer 3

It is "human nature" to want to know all the answers, to be informed about our lives, to know for certain that there is an afterlife, that life is meaningful, that there is more to it than simply the finite time which we are allowed on Earth. Ancient people invented deities and mythologies to explain what they did not understand, and those have evolved into the Religions which people believe currently. However, those concepts are faith-based and unprovable. We just simply can not know with absolute certainty whether or not anything, including "God", exists beyond this "reality" which we experience as life.

Answer 4

Because of the competitive nature of survival, we are separated from each other. When we cooperate as a species, we progress. When we don't we regress. If all people were connected, and found fulfillment in each other, we wouldn't need to look outward to abstract "higher powers."

This probably won't change until all human suffering is eliminated, so gods will be around for awhile.

Answer 5

From a Judeo-Christian point of view, God revealed Himself to the first humans.

These human beings lived in complete “original” holiness. They loved God with all their heart, with all their soul, and with all their mind. They loved their neighbors as much as they loved themselves.

Then the first human beings disobeyed God, choosing to follow their own will rather than God's will. This was the Original Sin.

Consequently, they lost the grace of original holiness and sin became universally present in the world.

Besides the personal sin of the first human beings, original sin describes the fallen state of human nature, which affects every person born into the world, and from which Christ, the "new Adam," came to redeem us.

God has revealed Himself many times over the centuries, in the prophets, in Jesus Christ, and through the Church.

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 390 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt1art1p7.htm#390

With love in Christ.

Answer 6

For some reason humans need a reason to feel that there special. That some one created them. I think we're special for the simple fact that we're here. And the 1 st. concept of god, was to answer questions we could not answer. Notice how we got a lot of questions answered through science and yet people still want to use god, for answers not found yet.

Answer 7

Adam and Eve used to freely converse with God. This WAS our purpose. But then sin entered into the world, and we lost that direct fellowship, which is why we need Jesus - to get it back. That's why we feel the urge to once again fulfill our purpose. God made us that way from our beginning.

Answer 8

Curiosity about why we are put on this Earth for 80 or so years and what's the point of it all. If there is life on other planets in other galaxies then they probably wonder the same thing.

Answer 9

it came wen adam n eve disobeyed.b4 that they didnt need proof bcoz they saw God n spoke to him.but after that God kicked them out of his presence ,they only had a memory of the good times which they passed on to their kids thru word.and since we r created in his image we will always seek ou maker.wen God created man he put/gave them a purpose-to have dominion,'tend the garden' etc..its still here

Answer 10

nothing in post-fall time can bring us complete satisfaction. it is evident that God has placed “eternity” in our hearts, because men universally desire eternal life. all religion is based on that desire. all religions promise heaven or some variation of it. no one wants to die; all want to live eternally.