Can someone answer my questions?

[DeadlyXScreams]

Okay I kinda believe in god but I have a few questions that will help me to actulay be a real believer and choose who I want to follow it's only four questions but it seems that no one can really answer them.

1. What is the purpose of life. Why live if you know you're just going to die?

2. If god really wanted us in heaven with him wouldn't he just let us all in, and not have created "killers murderers siners et cetra?

3 Is it true that god has your life planed out before you are born?

4. If god forgives all why didn't he forgive adam?

If anyone has answers or opinions or anything that could help me in my search for the truth ANYTHING you have to say would be much appriceated Thank you

[krt]

Possible answers, treat them just as food for thought

1. I doubt that you are supposed to know

2. God probably didn't intend for anyone to sin

3. Depends on which level you are thinking... in short, I think not

4. It was unintended and not to be expected? Anyway, I don't believe the stories in the Bible to be real events, but that they are metaphorical. In this case, I might think that this is a reminder that you will not be guaranteed and should not always expect forgiveness for committing evil

[clpo13]

Does life really need a predefined purpose? Isn't it enough to create your own purpose?
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[wayforyourpride]

[DeadlyXScreams]

I don't know if I can add to my own post but I just wanted to say thanks to all of you who answerd, it helps with understanding =D I'm only 15 and I read the bible but it's kind of hard to answer the questions on my own. Well anyway THANKS!
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[gonz]

Just wanted to tell what I think.

I'm not sure if god exists. Now doesn't mean I don't believe in god its just that I believe more in science and the fact that earth and universe were created by accident and were not created by supreme creature. You see thousand years ago people couldn't explain simple things like rain, sun, sky, trees etc. so they created gods. There are tons of things that man cannot understand and I think that instead of trying to find the answer that might never be found we believe that god created all that surrounds us. That might be true so sometimes I think to myself what if this is true. So do I believe in god ? I do but I'm not sure. So I can't answer much of your questions but for question number one I think that you have to set a purpose on your own. Why do you want to live and accomplish something in your life rather than just die.

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[Neil]

[marinaroz]

There is most likely no purpose to life. Why would there be any? You have a life and you got to live it the best you can. Would you really feel better if you were told that your life has certain meaning in the grand scheme of things? If you read Genesis, it's my non-religious opinion that God created earth for their personal amusement, at least it sure looks this way to me.
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[wahedmenelnas]

1.purpose of living:
god created the universe and created us to build in it and live in it
and in islam there is paradise for good people and hell for bad people
so we have to live well to go paradise and dont go hell

i'll answer 3 before 2
3.god doesnt plan ur life
he created u
and he gave u the mind
he let u do what u want
but he know the future
he knows every thing u 'll do
but he let u do it and dont plan for u

and there is paradise if u did well and hell if u did bad


i'll answer 4 before 2

4.god doesnt forgive all people
he lets them do what they want
he forgive them on only 3 conditions
they have to regret what they did
and intend not to do it again
and regive the things they have taken from innocent people if they had taken anything

if i made sins more than good things and didnt do those 3 conditions
i'll go to punishment(hell)


now i'll answer 2 although i think u can answer it urself now

2.god (thats all in my religion islam)dont want us in heaven
he knew that adam would mistake and he will send him to earth
we have a phrase inquor'aan says(allah told angels that he will make asuccessor on EARTH) so he knew it before he even created adam

so he want us on earth not in heaven
and he created people and make them choose what they want to be
some become killers and some become good doers
and on the judgement day .
all will take as he did

i think i answered all
any questions ,, here is my e-mail
wahedmenelnas0@hotmail.com
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[thunderboltz]

I dont have answers to your questions. I only have opinions. And I have chosen to answer only one of your questions. This is mostly because my own opinion on the others is divided. I could explain them to you, but in your position, it would only lead to more confusion.

[Artakserksis]

First of all I should say that I don't believe in God, and I stopped believing by thinking the answers to questions like these. Anyway I'll tell you what I think about these.

[wellingtonboots]

[Xtreme]

Purpose of life?

Simplest answer I can give you: to love. To learn to love, to learn what love is, and how to give it; to see it's power, it's goodness; to learn to be loved and to unselfishly give love in return just for the sake of the other.

This is life's ultimate purpose. But we still have to get to the point where we can acknowledge, understand (to a degree, if not fully), and act upon this Truth.

Let's take the relationship between two people into consideration - don't you WANT someone you love (parent, friend, sibling, romantic parter, etc etc) to FREELY love you in return? Sure, we go through all these absurd ways of attracting people to us and such, but don't we ultimately just want them to love us freely?

What good would it be if your wife/husband was just an automaton who went through the "actions" and did everything you asked them, but truly had no love for you? Maybe for a short time, our imperfect human nature would be satisfied with this; but ultimately, it would be useless. We long, at our deepest, to love and be loved.

So wouldn't it make sense, if we are made in reflection of God, that He would not force us to love Him? Even if he gave us everything short of omniscience and omnipotence, wouldn't we still have to FREELY love Him (if we were to love Him at all) and thus logically have the opportunity to deny His love?

This is free will. The choice to A) love God or B) forfeit his love. If we are made in reflection of God, who is perfectly good, then it makes sense that denying God is anything BUT good. This is sin - the denial of God. It's effects are all around us.

Think about it. When we wrong another human person (a finite, temporal being), we incur finite repercussions. If God, though, is infinitely good, then choosing a finite good (or finite evil, for that matter) before God's love is an infinitely grave transgression with a proportionally infinite penalty.

How can we pay an infinite debt, if we are finite beings? Since we can only incur finite punishment, we must then, if God is perfectly just, incur finite (if unimaginably immense) penalty over infinite time. And so even the slightest misdeed by the earliest man - Adam, be he a single person or representative or symbolic - would incur penalty forever. And even the slightest misdeed by ourselves would justly incur personal penalty forever.

But God, though he is just, is also merciful. We would otherwise have to suffer forever for our sins, but instead of us paying our infinite debt over infinite time, God paid it for us! If He is an infinite being, then he can pay an infinite debt. And He did. By dying on the cross, Christ paid an INFINITE debt in finite time, which we ourselves would otherwise have to pay over an infinite time.

So after we have sinned, we now have the choice to turn away from our sin freely. Just as before though, the choice must be made freely. If we choose not to love God and accept His sacrifice, then we can pay our infinite debt forever. Clearly, by dying for us, God has demonstrated that this is not His desire for our eternity. But the choice must be given if He is to respect logic and free will.