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Do you want a real answer or just some silly comment like 42 or do you want a serious answer? I will assume you want an answer with some actual thought to it.
Now WHY you want to know is my question... Will you look at your life and try to have a life with meaning if you find an answer true? Are you willing to atleast seriously look into the answers and think about them?
Well here are my pre-conditions for the answer if you actually want an answer.
1) Yours and many others willingness to search for that answer shows that there is almost a universal need for an answer. Why am I here etc. has been a question repeated again and again.
2) A minority will try 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..
3) The implied and explicit implications of there being an objective meaning will be hated by those with the desire to deny accoutability, right wrong etc. and engage in a narscasitic. This self absorbed lifestyle "frees" the deniers to live as debauched a life as they want, just read up on Nietzche, he died with syphilis in a mental hospital.
OBSERVATIONS
The atheist Aldus Huxley clearly said "I want this world not to have meaning becuse 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 just chemical reactions and a 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 that declared God and Jesus were myths but after spending time with JRR Tolkien and looking at the evidence became a very strong Christian and pronouncer of the Gospel. Here is what he says 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
Like many things the search can take two levels a superficial search for the meaning of the day or a deeper search for an objective meaning. In that light 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 us 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 is Christianity. We can see a good man cheat on his wife, steal etc. and by this see that man is fallen but those that honestly take Jesus into their hearts are changed and are men of great integrity and faith even though they may fail on occasion.
Lostness of Man
CONCLUSIONS
Conclusion Summary
So my conclusion given these is that the Bible best answers these criteria and evidences and that in it's simplest definition, Life is a test.
In this test the results are based on how we serve God, Love God and accept Jesus as Lord and do God's will we will be judged. Now we must recognize that all have fallen short and sinned, have false pride etc. so we need to sincerely repent and those that reject God's love and Jesus' sacrifice will fail the test. God has provided a method of passing based on the sacrifice of Jesus as seen in John 3 verses 14 thru 19. The rewards of those that do pass are based on doing God's will and living for God and accepting Jesus as Lord. I Don't believe from reading the Bible that all will be equally rewarded and you would be fooled if you deny every action in our life will have a consequence for good or evil.
Conclusion details
In the end our purpose is found in what Jesus said, that he came to save the lost, so that we can help those we can such as the poor, the orphans, the widows and the sick and finally by following him we are to have "peace that the world cannot", so that we may "live more abundantly". So you see that the meaning of life is the relationship with God and another part is the relationship with each other. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...
Now Jesus came to pay for our sins and to change our hearts and so that we may live better here, even persecuted, and pay for the sins our actions never could!
John 10:10
"I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly"
Henry Drummond talks about love and our relationship with God in his book "The Greatest thing in the World", I think it is a good read and here i
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The Pursuit of Meaning: Regaining the Wonder
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