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The meaning of Life 1/15/2015 6:35:25 PM
Here is a Blog I shared a while back. I would like to share it with you. Because you have ask the question like every one has (What is the meaning of life) The Ultimate Question from the Beginning
Meaning of Life? –
This has been the ultimate question since the beginning of humanity. It seems inherent in our nature to ask questions such as
“Where did we come from?
How did I get here
What’s my purpose on earth?
Where do I go when I die?
What’s the meaning of all this?”
Meaning of Life?
The Answer Without God
Meaning of Life? -- Through the teaching of evolutionary science, materialism and moral relativism in our popular media and public school system, we have removed God from the potential answers to these ultimate questions of life. Without God, we lose any transcendent purpose for the universe in which we live.
Without God, we lose any transcendent purpose to give meaning to our individual lives.
We are nothing more than bugs struggling with survival until we die. All the achievements, the sacrifices, the good and beautiful efforts of people, the ugly and dark acts of people, are ultimately futile things of life.
Without God, we also lose any possibility for life after death. When you remove the hope of heaven, you remove the ultimate value and purpose of life.
What difference would it really make whether we lived like a Billy Graham or an Osama Bin Laden? Everyone's fate would be the same anyway. This is the hopeless outlook of those who base their belief system on materialism, naturalism and the presupposition that life on earth is all there is.
Meaning of Life?
The Answer with God
Meaning of Life? -- The answer to this question cannot come from human intelligence or reason, but only from the Creator himself who transcends our material world. As we see in today’s naturalistic society, once we remove God
from the equation, we start to lose all sense of purpose for humankind. Which includes Integrity, Ethics and Morality But, if God exists; we really do have a transcendent purpose, and really do have meaning for our lives.
Not only do we find day-to-day significance in our lives, but an ultimate significance through our hope in eternal life. If God exists, we remove the moral relativism (that’s people who believe that as long as your OK with it, it is OK to do it.)
This is the dark side of today’s society. The existence of God replace this standard with a standard of absolute right and wrong residing in the character of God Himself. This gives our day-to-day choices significance too.
God gave us the ability to choose whether we live by His moral laws or by whatever values we assign to ourselves through our own reason. As we find, we are not mere robots placed on this earth by God. Rather, we have absolute free will to follow what He says or not.
We can either recognize God as the Creator of the universe, or we can deny that He exists. We can choose to live a meaningless life or a life with absolute and eternal purpose.
Humanity was created to be loved by God first and then by other people and even animals.
People were created to beloved; things were designed to be used. In our culture to day people are being used and things are loved.
Consider this, people long to love and to beloved. Consider the countless love stories, songs and poems that have been written! Romanticists sing the praises of love, as in the song. It seems the world is in love, with love. When people fall in love, the results is always a great joy that comes from the deepest parts of your Soul.
God also wants us to experience a greater love that transcends human emotions. Sadly, many people go through life receiving very little human love. However.
God's plan is for every person too eventually experience His love
Flowing from God to you through him—so fully that each can honestly says, "My cup runneth over with love."
