Website author: Daniel Wright
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Does Life have a Meaning?
Who am I? |
What am I here for? |
Where am I going? |
What should I do? |
Does life reach beyond death? |
What can I know? |
What can I hope for? |
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These are the most pressing questions that you may wish to have answered.
This is only natural, since it is an essential part of what being human is about: exploring answers and responses to these questions, even living responses to these questions. It's important to realise that life always raises more questions than it does answers - but that's an invitation to go on the journey, part of its wonder, not part of its disappointment.
We all share a thirst for truth, a desire for justice and a love of beauty. To some, ideas like 'truth', 'justice' and 'beauty' are mere human inventions, things made up and specific to certain people in certain places at certain times. And there is some truth in this. But, if this is the whole truth, then this very idea itself can only be specific to those who hold it in a certain place and a certain time - it can make no claim beyond itself.
To others, though, such ideas may indeed differ from person to person, place to place and time to time, but it is important to try to uncover what's of eternal significance in them - what is, or should be, valid for all peoples in all places and for all times. This is what all the world's major religions are involved in. Whether we like it or not, life is intrinsically bound up with this search for meaning.
It is the Christian claim that this search for meaning begins in this life, but leads out from it.
