The purpose of man’s existence

[plastiking]

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GO AND MULTIPLY....
thats the purpose for all of us....

[grovestreet]

“The world is like a ride in an amusement park.
And when you choose to go on it,
you think it’s real because
that’s how powerful our minds are.
And the ride goes up and down
and round and round.
It has thrills and chills
and it’s very brightly coloured
and it’s very loud and it’s fun,
for a while.
Some people have been on the ride for a long time
and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride?
And other people have remembered,
and they come back to us, they say,
“Hey - don’t worry, don’t be afraid, ever,
because, this is just a ride…”
And we…
kill those people.
“We have a lot invested in this ride.
Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry.
Look at my big bank account and my family.
This just has to be real.”
Just a ride.
But we always kill those good guys
who try and tell us that,
you ever notice that?
And let the demons run amok.
But it doesn’t matter because: It’s just a ride.
And we can change it anytime we want.
It’s only a choice.
No effort,
no work,
no job,
no savings and money.
A choice, right now,
between fear and love.

between fear and love.
The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors,
buy guns, close yourself off.
The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.
Here’s what we can do to change the world,
right now, to a better ride.
Take all that money that we spend on weapons
and defences each year
and instead spend it feeding
and clothing
and educating the poor of the world,
which it would many times over,
not one human being excluded,
and we could explore space, together,
both inner and outer, forever, in peace.
Thank you very much, you’ve been great.”

[great_jaq]

Originally Posted by Joal:

Served GOD

You right Joal!!!

God has a plan. This plan has everything to do with man. In the Bible, this plan is called God’s economy , dispensation (Ephesians 1:10), which in the original language is oikonomia, referring to God’s plan.]

God’s economy is just God’s entire plan for man. It explains the origin and destiny of man as well as the meaning of human existence.

[leo_trams]

Man's purpose is to fulfill the desire for the flesh and we were the accidental products.

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[chad_tukes]

it's a hard question to answer. i've asked myself this several times in my existence and i came up with only one answer---my parents were industrious enough to have made me so i'm thankful and it's all good.

[regnauld]

Such brilliance coming from no less than the man who is the protege of Albert Camus -- forester!
On that thought, there isn't as profound and as agreeable as "Existence precedes essence" or so the existentialists aver.

"What does it mean when we continue to behave as though all were as it should be, calling ourselves Christians according to the New Testament, when the ideals of the New Testament have gone out of life? The tremendous disproportion which this state of affairs represents has, moreover, been perceived by many. They like to give it this turn: the human race has outgrown Christianity." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

I love this great philosophy (Existentialism)!

[forester]

There are two hermeneutic idea about the term "purpose":

1. The predetermined;
2. The afterthought.

I can not pretend to know with certitude pertaining with the predetermined purpose of existence, however, every mind is free to think that there is.

Personally I maintained that our mind can entertain all kinds of purposes for our existence; meaning, we create our own purpose, we design our own, or we make it according to our capabilities of realizing it. This is the purpose of existence which flowed from the afterthought.

Forester.

[great_jaq]

realize the purpose of man, and begin a satisfied human life...

hmmmp?

[great_jaq]

GOD’S CREATION OF HUMAN EXISTENCE

1. MAN HAS GOD’S IMAGE

Please read the following verse:

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness....”
Genesis 1:26a

God’s creation of man is different from His creation of all other things. He created man in His own image.

A glove is created according to the likeness of a hand with the purpose of containing the hand.
Likewise, man was created in the image of God with the purpose of containing God.

2. MAN IS A VESSEL

Now read the next verse:

God “should make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy...even us.”
Romans 9:23-24

We are vessels of God.
God wants to be our content.
As bottles are made to contain water, we are made to contain God.


It is no wonder that knowledge, wealth, pleasure, and accomplishment can never satisfy us, for we were created to contain God!

[brownprose]

There are two hermeneutic idea about the term "purpose":

1. The predetermined;
2. The afterthought.

I can not pretend to know with certitude pertaining with the predetermined purpose of existence, however, every mind is free to think that there is.

Personally I maintained that our mind can entertain all kinds of purposes for our existence; meaning, we create our own purpose, we design our own, or we make it according to our capabilities of realizing it. This is the purpose of existence which flowed from the afterthought.

Forester.

Such brilliance coming from no less than the man who is the protege of Albert Camus -- forester!
On that thought, there isn't as profound and as agreeable as "Existence precedes essence" or so the existentialists aver.

"What does it mean when we continue to behave as though all were as it should be, calling ourselves Christians according to the New Testament, when the ideals of the New Testament have gone out of life? The tremendous disproportion which this state of affairs represents has, moreover, been perceived by many. They like to give it this turn: the human race has outgrown Christianity." ~ Søren Kierkegaard