He wanted some answers, an explanation, or at least a chance to ponder the great mysteries, before it was too late - love and death, the meaning and
purpose of human existence, moments of vision, the voice of God, the manifest indifference of the material universe to injustice and suffering, the insanity of war, the mysterious tug of beauty on the human heart.
At its heart would be the Christian proclamation that there is a sovereign God, incarnate in Jesus Christ and attested by the biblical revelation, and that this reality shapes the meaning and
purpose of human existence.
If the notion of revelation is to be of any real consequence to us, it must offer some response to our questions about
the purpose of human existence on this planet.
While money is considered to be one of the most important elements in society, the accumulation of which concerns almost everyone who participates in transactions with others, its position is secondary to the real
purpose of human existence, the worship of Allah.
The origin and
purpose of human existence is itself a mystery.
I do indeed believe, but I believe as one of a great company of men and women, from many ages, of all races and classes, rich and poor, simple and learned, who in one way or another have been drawn to find the truest key to the meaning and
purpose of human existence given focal expression in Jesus Christ.
The original
purpose of human existence, and the existence towards which we are headed because of what God has done and will continue to do until the last day, is to worship and glorify God in holiness.
Steve... that's not necessary... let's read those writings as the product of human imagination as it seeks the meaning and
purpose of human existence and never forget...» to err is human»... anything more is to turn them all into demi - gods.
It is the overarching meta purpose as in
the purpose of human existence as opposed to an individual self created self bestowed purpose of life (such as caring for ones family) that I was musing about.
Not exact matches
In the early days
of human existence, for example, it served a survival
purpose, helping us fight back when we were attacked by predators or other
humans.
If the
purpose of our
existence were to learn to know God, return to God, or some such thing
human history would be nothing like it is.
The emphasis has characteristically been on «a theology
of the infinite» — an inquiry into the identity and
existence of divine beings, divine activity in history and nature, the
purpose and destiny
of human life as these are revealed by a being called «God» to others called «persons.»
But self - conscious or
human existence, the fourth grade, «immensely extends this concept, «permitting
purposes far transcending survival and, therefore, exhibiting marked individuality that results from pursuit
of the better and the best.
This fanatic priest never thought
of the
purpose of the
existence of a
human being why we were created?
The Primary
Purpose of Sex and Marriage: Procreation Holloway's rooting of the purpose of sex in the Incarnation is a unique argument in favour of the conclusion articulated by the tradition and by many contemporary orthodox Catholic scholars, namely, that the «primary reason for the existence of sex in human nature in the intention of God is for children&
Purpose of Sex and Marriage: Procreation Holloway's rooting
of the
purpose of sex in the Incarnation is a unique argument in favour of the conclusion articulated by the tradition and by many contemporary orthodox Catholic scholars, namely, that the «primary reason for the existence of sex in human nature in the intention of God is for children&
purpose of sex in the Incarnation is a unique argument in favour
of the conclusion articulated by the tradition and by many contemporary orthodox Catholic scholars, namely, that the «primary reason for the
existence of sex in
human nature in the intention
of God is for children».
the
purpose why God allowed multiple religions to evolve and exist in the distant and even today is because our minds intellectual capacity has increased tremendously after we became civilized about 10,000 years go.Earlier when we were hunter gatherers our priorities was just to find food to survive, Then we became more knowlegible and our concern includes the intelle tual need to understand the meaning and
purpose of our
existence, so God allowed the founding and establishment
of many religions by
humans to conform with their intellectual, social and educational development, Since this is not static, it contiually diversify and change to conform with their times
of existince, History showed that this is continuesly improving, so the future expects changes towards Panthrotheism in accordance to His will.
If it is true, as Holloway argues, that the very foundations
of matter and the identity
of human nature are aligned upon the coming
of the Word made flesh, then a society which is uncertain about the
existence of God and whether Man has any meaning or
purpose must be subject to crisis, alienation and chaos even more inevitably than CiV is able to show.
Yet the basic certainties stand sure; they concern the dynamic reality who is God, God's pervasive action in the world, God's self - manifestation through the whole range
of creation, God's focal self - expression in Jesus Christ, the effecting
of God's
purpose through loving activity in the world and in
human existence, and the assurance that our
human life is not an end in itself but finds its fulfillment through reception into the divine life.
But I can point to the universal experience
of all
humans who have a yearning for something beyond our physical
existence — for ultimate
purpose, value and meaning.
Too great an attachment to the datum self as a methodological starting point commits one unwittingly to solipsism, Hartshorne holds, since one could never achieve a sound epistemological basis for inferring the
existence of anything beyond the datum self by this method.31 Further, if it is true that
human beings are social all the way down, resistance to a literal participation in the being
of a person by others (including their literal
purposes) is also a form
of impersonalism, according to Hartshorne's analysis — a charge from which Brightman would have reeled, had he realized that this was Hartshorne's implication.
What this all comes down to, then, in respect to the main subject
of the present book, is that all
existence, and particularly for our
purposes human existence, stands continually in a genuine relationship with God.
In the technical, economic, and political spheres
of his
existence he finds himself «in the grip
of incomprehensible powers» which trample again and again on all
human purposes.
The
purpose of this chapter is to describe what distinguishes the structure
of human existence in general from the structure
of subhuman animal
existence in general.
All
of this in an historical succession in which the past
of the tradition still lives in the present
of contemporary
human existence, with an aim toward fulfillment
of the dominant and dominating
purpose which in the earliest witness was declared as having been enacted in the originating event
of Jesus Christ himself.
It refers us for this
purpose to a long series
of extremely various documents, containing many contradictions and incongruities, subject to the flow
of time and change through many centuries
of human existence.
This is «redemption», not as if it were merely a rescue from
human failure but as an indication
of and an empowering for the «wholeness
of life» (shalom, as the Hebrew has it) which God
purposes for men and women both in their personal
existence and in their social belonging.
In my view, only individuals are actual, and for our
purposes that means that the final real entities with which we are dealing are momentary embodiments
of human existence.
The
purpose of the economy, according to Keynes, is to control the material basis
of a civilized society, enabling its citizens to explore the higher dimensions
of human existence, to discover their own full potential.
All other gods and
human religions regardless
of the nature attempt to express what it is to live in view
of that knowledge that points to
purpose for our
existence.
Jesus, he announced, «is God himself coming into the very depths
of human existence for the sole
purpose of striking off the chains
of slavery, thereby freeing man from ungodly principalities and powers that hinder his relationship with God... Jesus» work is essentially one
of liberation.»
True peace is achieved only by living in conscious connection to our Environment, to Christ our Bread
of Life, the Prince
of Peace: synthesising all the elements
of human life around the Person who gives them
existence and
purpose in the first place.
We should learn something
of the underlying
purpose beneath the shifting
human scene, and how we could cooperate with it; we should learn how we could make the best
of this limited imperfect world and how men could best prepare themselves for the next stage
of their
existence.
I believe that it is necessary for us to recover a certain salutary humility before we can discern pattern and
purpose in our present stage
of human existence.
Thus the first assumption as to the
purpose of demythologizing, namely that the kerygma is a religious symbol objectifying a
human potentiality for authentic
existence, fails precisely because
of what the kerygma symbolizes.
from individualism in religion and society to corporate
existence; from spiritual and economic selfishness to the truth
of the community and
of the world which God loves; from rigid doctrines
of private property to the original
purposes for which God gave his earth to his
human family; from privatization
of life to Trinitarian communion; from ritual preoccupations to pursuit
of justice; from law to grace and from sacrifices to mercy.
The reality
of death as a fact: the inescapable element
of decision and the consequences in searching appraisal: the social or communal nature
of human existence, coupled with the honest recognition that no man is in and
of himself a perfect agent
of the
purpose of God and the love
of God: the joy
of fulfillment with one's brethren in the imperishable reality
of God: and the terrible character
of evil — these were values which the older scheme somehow affirmed and expressed.
We do not know how much time is left before
human folly, not the fulfillment
of God's
purposes, may put an end to
human existence upon earth.
There may be — and one
of the
purposes of this book is to urge that there is — an abiding significance in our
human existence; and it may be that neither we nor anything else is to be utterly forgotten.
This requires an understanding
of the
human person's nature and
purpose of existence.
Clearly, while fit for evolutionary
purpose, it wasn't physiologically consistently reliable and this led to the dreadful death rates amongst mothers and infants for so much
of human existence — birth and then early infancy were incredibly risky.
Based on the beloved bestselling novel by W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's
Purpose shares the soulful and surprising story
of one devoted dog (voiced by Josh Gad) who finds the meaning
of his own
existence through the lives
of the
humans he teaches to laugh and love.
Official Premise: Based on the beloved bestselling novel by W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's
Purpose, from director Lasse Hallström (The Cider House Rules, Dear John, The Hundred - Foot Journey), shares the soulful and surprising story
of one devoted dog (voiced by Josh Gad) who finds the meaning
of his own
existence through the lives
of the
humans he teaches to laugh and love.
This prototype futuristic citadel, Would function as a framework for the transformation
of human societies
of the present and building the world
of tomorrow, in order to ensure the individual and collective welfare, which is, after all, the
purpose of existence of human beings.
We are here on Mother Earth as
humans, and our
purpose is to become truly humane, as we make our choices and decide the
purpose of our
existence, for we are already in Mars, in the universe, in the moon, but we are still looking for our soul...
human rights, and the economic, social and cultural rights
of peoples, and the practices for the care
of the planet are the ways to be about the exercise
of our full humanity.
Scully's Wall
of Light paintings serve this urgent
purpose, the surfaces teeming with the full complexity
of human existence.
Science believes in randomness as the basis
of existence, and so with
humans doing non-random things, and having a meaning and
purpose we perceive to our lives, and taking actions that we understand will lead to desired outcomes, then they have rebelled against humanity for the sake
of their randomist meaninglessness ideology.
... [O] urs is a useful trade, a worthy calling; that with all its lightness and frivolity it has one serious
purpose, one aim, one specialty, and it is constant to it — the deriding
of shams, the exposure
of pretentious falsities, the laughing
of stupid superstitions out
of existence; and that whoso is by instinct engaged in this sort
of warfare is the natural enemy
of royalties, nobilities, privileges and all kindred swindles, and the natural friend
of human rights and
human liberties.
Existential psychotherapy is concerned mainly with the individual's ability to preserve a sense
of meaning and
purpose throughout the lifespan in the face
of immutable biological limitations
of a mortal
existence (ie ageing, death) and issues associated with
human self awareness (ultimate aloneness, having sole responsibility for our actions, choices and freedom).