(October 22, 2021 at 4:52 pm)Spongebob Wrote: One thing I think of when I heard Christians pose the question of the meaning of life to atheists is this. To Christians, shouldn't the meaning of life be essentially static? Shouldn't the main purpose of a Christian living in 5th century Rome, 10th Century Constantinople, 15th century France, 18th century Germany, 19th century America and today all be very close to the same thing? Well they aren't, not even close. Just read a little history and you'll be astonished at the various "purposes" that Christians have devoted themselves to over the centuries. They are wide, varied and sometimes contradictory. So lets stop pretending that Christians know some secret that no one else knows. Its nonsense.
With respect to Divine Providence, it is sufficient for believers only to trust that there is a plan, rather than needing to know what that plan is or specific details of it. That isn't interesting to me. What does interest me is how there can be any "meaningful" relationships in the sense of warranted correspondence between our semiotics-based understanding of the world and physical reality.
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