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Life does not need an ultimate meaning. Find something that makes life worth living. Maybe just to see my son grow up and raise a family and love people for who they are without judgement or telling them they are incomplete as people with out Jesus is enough to make life meaningful. You are creating a false problem. There is nothing wrong with death, creating a false crisis scares people into thinking they need to change something that never was messed up in the 1st place."Inevitable doom" more like a beautiful end. If you don't understand the small scale of your life you are not able to live out each day with purpose, because you are relying on the promise of forever. Relativism does not ignore any issues, it addresses them with logic. This post just makes me sick. This is pure Propaganda based on a book full of it. You're the ignorant one, thinking that your religion is the only "consistent" one. Christianity has used the power of fear to control and enslave people and prevent them from thinking on there own by providing them with one book full of some pretty twisted stuff. I was a christian for many years, and always had a problem reading the book of Matthew then reading some of the crazy things in the old testament. Any God who kills every single human on earth is not a good God. To even allow a place like "hell" to exist makes God awful. Any god who would make humans, and not be there to guide them like a good parent should is not a good god. God is not good, the idea of god is a poison. But Jesus as a human and nothing more had some awesome ideas and thoughts. See you not in heaven.
ReplyHello Bryan! THANKS for your comment!
I believe that people do indeed have a choice to make – we can either believe that we indeed have no purpose in life, as you evidently have, or we can believe that we do. It appears to me, that most people believe that they do have a purpose in life, and actually live their lives that way – that life is more than ‘nice things to do that we enjoy’ such as watching our kids grow up. You’re right that there certainly is nothing wrong with death, at least as understood in a long term type of view. To most people death is quite scary, and the thought of it being the end of purpose can be debilitating. The promise of purpose actually gives us meaning to our current lives!
Now just because we ‘want’ something to be true certainly doesn’t make it true, although it does imply that there may be an actual something that satisfies (a la Lewis’ analogy of hunger implying that food actually exists.) All I’m arguing in the post is that many people go thru life acting like there is a purpose without thinking what it is, and why it can ONLY be something transcended to have real purpose – can you give me that? OR people can choose a life with no purpose, as you ascribe to, although with nothing really there. The whole purpose is intended to get us all thinking. And indeed, I do think on my own…
Now – I am glad to hear that you experienced the blessings of Faith, but sad to hear you have abandoned it. The essay I am currently working on addresses the issue you brought up – God’s seemingly terrible acts of cruelty in the OT. I of course have reconciled these issues, and I hope to help those who need it addressed in language that isn’t I hope you read it and contemplate. I pray that your dilemmas can be cleared up, and hope to call you ‘brother’ again soon… Tell me- have you reconciled the issues of non-belief in your head? Issues such as 1) Everything from nothing; 2) Order from Chaos; and 3) Life from non-life?
Grace and Peace to you Bryan!
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