What is the meaning of life, death, and guilt? Does life even have meaning?

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  • čas přidán 29. 09. 2020
  • What is the meaning of life, death, and guilt? Does life even have meaning? Faith for Doubters Episode 4
    “Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.” Bertrand Russell
    “Is there anything meaningful in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destroy?” Leo Tolstoy
    “That man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon day brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of universe in ruins. All these things, if not beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only under the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built.” -Bertrand Russell
    In order to build your faith, explore Jesus' answers to life's most important and meaningful questions:
    Is there any meaning to life?
    Is there any true, objective morality? Is there such a thing as real guilt?
    What is the answer to death? Is there life after death?
    1 Corinthians 15:12-19: 'Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied. '
    1 Corinthians 15:32: 'If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink , for tomorrow we die . '
    1 Corinthians 15:42-58: 'So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. So also it is written, “The first man , Adam, became a living soul .” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly. Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly. Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “D eath is swallowed up in victory. O death , where is your victory ? O death , where is your sting ?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.'
    Humans are "meaning monsters." We want meaning...and meaning confirms a creator.
    Most doubt is just an attack on belief. People who doubt often don't doubt their own doubts enough.

Komentáře • 2

  • @Onelife.network
    @Onelife.network  Před 3 lety +2

    Do answers to these questions build your faith, or are they barriers?

    • @spartanstanley
      @spartanstanley Před 3 lety

      One Life Church They build my faith. Life, to me, feels far too meaningful to hold to Bertrand Russell’s worldview.