(August 22, 2013 at 6:25 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Nowadays, some atheists (and I'm speaking for myself) can cope with the lack of mystical meaning for their life. They see the world as it is and understand it. They find meaning in other things, like their children and grandchildren; culture; entertainment; online forums; etc...
But to you all of that is just a byproduct of some kind blind unintentional natural whatever it was that made the universe and it's all going to be dust eventually anyway. There's no real permanence or real relevance to it. You may think there is but what you think doesn't ultimately matter as you're going to end up the same way yourself. In God everything has a permanence, everything has a purpose beyond your own opinion and you are partaking within it, everything you do in some way ultimately does matter in a real way. What would be central wouldn't be a blind chaos that somehow churned out a fully functioning life generating universe but at the heart you have love and that would be ultimate basis of human existence right there. It isn't nature red in tooth and claw or survival of the fittest, it isn't about shoring up treasure on Earth.
(August 22, 2013 at 6:25 pm)pocaracas Wrote: The world is not Black & white.... it has shades of gray.
Sin and Saintliness run on a spectrum though everyone (who isn't Jesus/part of the Trinity of God) is at least little bit grey. Not that it matters because we're saved through grace which washes all of that out of your system.
