What is the meaning of life?

Do you want a real answer or just some silly comment like 42 or do you want a serious answer?

By the way according to E.W. Bullinger (died 1913) 42's meaning is found in man's rejection of God and the AntiChrist.

http://philologos.org/__eb-nis/13666.htm

But before I start let me ask some questions for you to think about...

Why do you want to know if there is meaning?

Why do you even care if there is an answer?

What difference will it make to you to find out there is one?

There isn't near enough space for a complete argument and explanation here but lets start.

Well here are my pre-conditions for the answer.

1) Yours and many others willingness to atleast question if there is one shows that there is almost a universal need for an answer. Why am I here etc. has been repeated thousands of times on here alone.

2) Some want to deny meaning because a meaningless life frees them of any responsibility and accountability to anyone but themselves but to most this rings false and hollow. Many compensate by creating a subjective meaning with no regard to if there is a higher meaning.

3) The implied and explicit implications of there being an objective meaning and purpose presents the fact there is a standard of accountability, right wrong etc. and to some this is very offensive to their lifestyle.

OBSERVATIONS

The atheist Aldus Huxley clearly said "I want this world not to have meaning because a meaningless world frees me to my own erotic and political pursuits.". A life without meaning is no more than chemical reactions and has no meaning, no true and false, no love and an empty hopeless end. That idea "frees" some to live the lifestyles they choose and gnaws away at the heart of most mankind who want justice, good to prevail and evil to be punished.

C.S. Lewis was an atheist but after spending time with JRR Tolkien and looking at the evidence became a very strong proclaimer of Christian. He says this about life having meaning:

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

METHODOLOGY

It was the philosopher Francis Bacon that said "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."

So let's we dig past the surface and given the almost universal need for meaning, justice, hope, love, etc. then in my investigation there is the one philosophy that would best fit the heart of man as corrupt but offers the evidence and hope of justice and a changed life is Christianity.

Lostness of Man

http://www.rzim.org/CA/Resources/Listen/LetMyPeopl...

http://www.rzim.org/CA/Resources/Listen/LetMyPeopl...

CONCLUSIONS

Given these criteria and evidences of men that were failures in so many ways and yet were greatly used by God that I see in the Bible (King David - murderer...) it implies at the simplest definition, life is a test. In this test the results are based on our relationship to God, how we serve God, did we sincerely repent of sins and accept Jesus as Lord. We must recognize that all have fallen short and sinned, have false pride etc. so we need to humble ourselves and sincerely repent and those that can't or won't are rejecting God's love and Jesus' sacrifice and will fail the test. God has provided a method of passing based solely on the sacrifice of Jesus as seen in John 3: 14-19. Only the rewards mention in the Bible for those that do pass and are as consequence of our actions, not salvation.

To find a Purpose we need to find what God wants us to do with our lives. Jesus said, that He came to save the lost, as well as helping those in need (the poor, the orphans, the widows and the sick). By letting Jesus in our hearts and following Jesus we will have a "peace that the world cannot", so that we may "live more abundantly".

John 10:10

"I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly"

Henry Drummond talks about our relationship with God and Love in his book "The Greatest thing in the World", Here is one of the places it is available for free online. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16739

If you were sincere enough in your search to read this far then finally and simply the meaning is found in worshipping God, Glorifying God, God's Love, Jesus' love and sacrifice and our love to others and that relationship.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Co...

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthe...

"Jesus said The problem in your life and mine is not the availability or the lack of availability of truth it is the hypocrisy in the search." Ravi Zacharias

May more find that there is love, meaning and purpose in life.

Bai

What you do with each precious second of today.To live to your greatest potential In the 24 hours you are sure of Tomorrow like the future never arrives. When your eyes open each morning it is a new day to fashion. People who live in the past or future do not use the building block of today for the firm foundation needed for a secure life.

For your growth live not in the past or future.

42

hee hee, only if you're a fan of Douglas Adams.

Just live your life to it's fullest. The meaning of life is simply to give life meaning.

Before you ask that, ask yourself if why you think that there has to be a meaning to life. Have you ever considered that we are just the products of thousands upon millions of random cause and effect type reactions? That's what I believe.

I have no idea. I can make some educated guesses.

To die, to attain and exert energy, to live, to learn.... life seems to be comprised of an infinite or eternal amount of things, maybe the reason and the meaning is all of them, maybe it's only a few. It's very subjective.

The meaning of life is whatever YOU make it or want it to be.

lets hearts sore till life shines, burn like a sun but don't get burned..find meaning in a butterfly or a money sign, where we find meaning is defining of who we are, who you are, i can find meaning in anything but i can never get anything that answers everything,g but i like it that way, so beautiful sometimes, i like not knowing the meaning of life, if i knew it i don't think i could take this life, it is so ironic that in finding the meaning of life, my life would lose all meaning completly

i think everyday or at every point of life there's a different meaning to it.

Acceptance of actuality so that one can love/enlighten, thus gaining the knowledge of reality.

since i am slow to Type, i will refer you to the webster dictionary. read carefully #1 Definition