RE: Open discussion of the Christian Why We're Here thread
May 23, 2018 at 5:15 pm
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2018 at 5:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 23, 2018 at 4:45 pm)SteveII Wrote: My 2 cents: This is not an argument, just an observation of the different worldviews.
Meaning is tied to value and purpose. Value and purpose are relative to a person. There is only one transcendent person: God. Therefore God is the only one that can be the basis of transcendent meaning. Any meaning derived from a godless worldview is necessarily both fleeting and subjective. Fleeting and self-assigned meaning is not enough for a lot people. Some are not equipped to supply it or circumstances in their lives make it difficult to find it and it leads to all kinds of unhappiness.
That's ridiculous. God is hardly the only transcendent x from which meaning in human lives is drawn. We've been discussing a bunch of other transcendent x's for a couple of pages now.
Why would meaning drawn from "other than god" be necessarily fleeting or subjective..and how does meaning drawn -from- god escape that even if god itself escapes? Do gods escape, for that matter? There are alot of dead gods that used to mean alot to alot of people who don;t mean anything now.
I agree, however, that for some people, any number of things x just isn't enough. God wouldn;t be close to enough for me, for example. More depressingly, though...for people incapable of finding meaning in any given moment, why would they assume they;d find meaning in eternity rather than an eternity of meaningless moments? Perpetual unhappiness.
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