What is the meaning of life?

[Who me]

12 hours ago, missmuffet said:

I am sure the Christian will have a different perspective on this than the unbeliever.

The only part of the Westminster confession of Faith I  know.

 

What is the chief end of man. The chief end/purpose of man is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.

 

[R. Hartono]

To know n to live in Jesus.

[Aimiel]

I believe that the purpose of life is the testimony of Jesus. Scripture says that the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of Prophecy. That makes our purpose to prophesy. Paul said that we are to covet to prophesy. Any child of the King can prophesy. All it takes is faith and a willing heart. 

[Mike Mclees]

You say what is life? I would say different like what is our significance. The mystery here is beyond our limited intelligence to comprehend. Im sure scientists are just as baffled. It seems the more man learns the more man is confounded by the immensity of it all.

Lets say we throw a little pebble into a lake. it makes a tiny splash nothing to significant in the over all of the lake. Now if a giant bolder was thrown into the lake we would see something much more significant when it strikes the water. We are more like the insignificant tiny pebble in a vast ocean  of infinity of the universe.

So how significant are we in the grand scale of things. Yet we do have significance in Christ who calls His own by name. Baffling indeed    

Edited June 1, 2019 by Mike Mclees

[Guest Luke11]

4 hours ago, Mike Mclees said:

You say what is life? I would say different like what is our significance. The mystery here is beyond our limited intelligence to comprehend. Im sure scientists are just as baffled. It seems the more man learns the more man is confounded by the immensity of it all.

Lets say we throw a little pebble into a lake. it makes a tiny splash nothing to significant in the over all of the lake. Now if a giant bolder was thrown into the lake we would see something much more significant when it strikes the water. We are more like the insignificant tiny pebble in a vast ocean  of infinity of the universe.

So how significant are we in the grand scale of things. Yet we do have significance in Christ who calls His own by name. Baffling indeed    

When the atheistic mainstream scientists and its believers say things like this that we are ''insignificant in the grand universe''.... I think sooo what ?. I don't understand the point of the negativity... why do atheistic Satanists always look at the negative in things ?. why not instead think out of all THIS GRANDNESS WE HAVE LIFE !! and see the positivity of it.  But ahh well.... if people want to be negative about stuff.... whatever makes them happy ahhh its because they are playing an agenda to get people to be depressed and negative it seems to me.

 

people ask the question whats the meaning of life ?.... Well why does they even need to be a meaning ?.

 

The meaning of life is to simply LIVE BECAUSE GOD AS GIVEN US LIFE.... LIVE, LOVE AND KNOW GOD !!!!… this ''life'' currently isn't living at all... it is just existing BUT ONE DAY WE SHALL KNOW REAL LIFE !!

[gordon7777]

The purpose of life is to let everybody who lives and loves life enjoy it till it is gone, for others, it may be to be dead, and their life to be hid.

Colossians 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

 

Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

 

John 12:25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hatethhis life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

 

Matthew 10:39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

 

Matthew 16:25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

 

 

Mark 8:35For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.

 

Luke 9:24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

 

Luke 17:33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

 

John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

 

1 John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

 

Psalm 34:11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.15 The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.16 The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

 

1 Peter 3:9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
 

[JustPassingThru]

On 5/29/2019 at 2:37 PM, missmuffet said:

I am sure the Christian will have a different perspective on this than the unbeliever. 

For me, the meaning of life, the sense, the explanation, the significance, the implication, the message, the intention of my life is, ....predestination, ...I was know in the mind of God before He created the heaven and the Earth, in His mind I was predestined to be conformed into the image of His Son Jesus Christ and I was predestined for a determined destination, ...to be with Him forever in Heaven.  Praise God!!!

Lord bless 

[gordon7777]

For me the meaning of life is the ones ordained to this condemnation, receive the just reward of the Lord, they never expected it, never heard the warning at all, but then again, they were never meant to, they were ORDAINED TO THIS CONDEMNATION..

 

Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

[Mike Mclees]

To ask the question what is the meaning of life clearly reflects a need or want to know and understand more than just status quo, but an inner yearning. Its not we are born, we live, we die, but search for greater meaning for our existence. I have always yearned for seeing the bigger picture. I could never be like the atheist  that thinks we just happened. No!  we know that God is and exists  simply by seeing all that exists around us that no mortal man could duplicate. We all have wanted to know the meaning of life, but it is to complex for us. We will have to settles with the wonder of it all for now.

God less

[gordon7777]

The meaning of life is to know the meaning of death, and then that tells you the meaning to have real life, which is by one being put to death in the flesh, so we live unto God. It is a mystery but that is why the world believes in God, even the devils, but they still do not know what life is, because their life comes and goes away again, it was never theirs, they never knew life was none of the things they ever knew.

John 1:⁴ In him was life; and the life was the light of men.⁵ And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

 

John 6:53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.

 

 

Psalm 78:39 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a windthat passeth away, and cometh not again.

 

Psalm 103:16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

 

Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

 

1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.