are we born with a meaning to life?

Question

and we end up losing it? or do we only think we need meaning as adults?

Answer 1

If there were no God, there would be no possibility of life beyond the grave and certainly no possibility of immortality. Life would end in the finality of the grave. There would be no transcendent purpose to give meaning to our lives. Our lives would have no more significance than any animal or insect straining for survival until the moment of death. All the achievements, the sacrifices, the good and wonderful things men and women do would ultimately be futile efforts in a universe awaiting its own ruin.

When you remove the prospect and hope of an afterlife, your life is without value and without purpose. What difference would it ultimately make whether we lived like a Mother Teresa or an Adolf Hitler? Everyone's fate would be the same. The good contributions of people would make no difference to their fate or the fate of the universe.

This is the bleak outlook of those who base their beliefs on atheism, evolution and the assumption that this life is all there is.

But, if God exists, our lives have an eternal significance because our hope is not death but eternal life. If God exists, we have a standard of absolute right and wrong residing in the nature of God Himself. This makes our moral choices profoundly significant.

Answer 2

We appear to be born without any meaning to life. However, we are also born into societies that think it is their duty in life to make us THINK we are born with a meaning to life and these societies force themselves on us until we either crack under the strain and go along with it, or else we resist to the point where we're tortured by the absurdity of believers.

Answer 3

Meaning is tied to worth. There is something in our human nature that demands that our lives to worth living. Without purpose, life has no meaning nor worth. We know that from our own life experience that things that have no purpose have no worth.

And worth is very serious business:

"There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide. Deciding whether or not life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question in philosophy. All other questions follow from that." Albert Camus, philosopher, author

As children, we found our worth simply through a relationship of love with our parents. We didn't have to do anything to earn our worth.

As adults, we usually seek our worth in the eyes of others; through their real and imagined praise. So we're always having to work for our worth, e.g. "make a difference in the world" or "learn all you can" or "live life to the fullest". All those pleasant sounding phrases earn imagined praise and therefore we use those to estimate our worth. The problem is that when we understand our own motives, we see that we're seeking praise and seeking praise is not a worthy reason for living.

Christians believe that our worth comes simply from being sons and daughters of our Creator who loves us and wants us to love Him. This gives rise to a liberation from this process of seeking our worth through the eyes of others.

Answer 4

some believe that we pick out life before we get here cause we need to learn something, like enrolling in certain courses if you think of it like that, you pick something you need to learn more about so you pick your family and life circumstances. Others believe other things

Answer 5

Maslow's (pretty sure that the spelling of the name) heirachy of needs....
He says that self actualizations is the top need, and once you have that you usualy have meaning in your life.

So i guess born with it

Answer 6

Its up to you to give life meaning, and nothing is religions or superstitions can fillful your destiny. Today is a great day to start.

Answer 7

To enjoy life as God intended and live with him for ever.

Answer 8

Why do people ask questions like this? No one knows the answer.

Answer 9

Our purpose is to reproduce and die. The end.

Answer 10

not that were aware of