RE: do religious people really believe?
March 2, 2013 at 10:35 am
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2013 at 10:36 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
(March 1, 2013 at 2:32 am)Esquilax Wrote: Who says an atheistic life has no purpose? I've got a number of purposes, all self determined and just as valid as the one in your holy book, only far more personal and meaningful because I've chosen to devote the one brief existence I do have to them. Is not a purpose freely chosen more significant than one dictated to you from on high?Sure you can have proximate meaning. It doesn't come to anything. Everything you worked for, everything you loved and valued, all the people for whom you cared. All gone like it never even happened. Believers strive for what endures.
You assume that believers have no freedom to define their own purpose, but that is not the case. You failed to distinguish between general Provision and specific Provision. We can express our love for the Lord and our neighbor in any way we we feel like doing and still satisfy God's ultimate purpose of making a Heaven out of the human race. The concept is called 'Christian Liberty'.
