Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

Human life, lived without the knowledge of the presence of God is meaningless.

If God does not exist, both man and the universe exist to no purpose - because their end is in death — and they came into existence as only blind products of chance. Thus, life is without reason or purpose.

This is true of the universe and of the human race, it is also true of us as individuals. If God does not exist, then mankind is just a "spontaneous byproduct of nature," randomly thrust into a purposeless universe to live a purposeless life.

The alternatives are grim, for if God exists, there is hope for man. If God does not exist, we are left only with despair. The question of God's existence is vital to man, for, "If God is dead, then man is dead."

Philosophers who believe and teach this theory, however, continue to live as though their own life matters. Sartre argued that one may create meaning for his own life by choosing a certain course of action. Sartre himself chose Marxism.

Atheistic humanists verbally affirm the traditional values of love and brotherhood, as they inconsistently hold both to the absurdity of life and the ethics of human love and brotherhood. The two are logically incompatible.

Bertrand Russell, too, was inconsistent. Though an atheist, he was an outspoken social critic, denouncing war and restrictions on sexual freedom, admitting that he could not live as though ethical values were merely personal taste, and he found his own views "incredible." "I do not know the solution," he confessed."

If there is no God, then objective right and wrong cannot exist, for as Dostoyevsky said, "All things are then permitted."

Such men cannot help themselves. They reveal the total inadequacy of living on earth without acknowledging God, for He has placed within every person a conscience.

An atheist who is able to live consistently with his own self-professed belief system will never be found.

The only way "modern" man faces death is by borrowing the belief in immortality that his forefathers held, though without a basis for this belief, without belief in God. Borrowing the remnants of a belief in immortality, he saves his sense of self-identity. Modern man has no right to such support, because he rejects God, but to live purposefully, he is forced to makes a leap of faith to affirm a reason for living.

This same inconsistency exists among all those who say that man and the universe came about without reason or purpose, but solely by chance. Their inability to live in an impersonal universe causes them to bizarrely ascribe personality and motives to the physical processes themselves.

Biblical Christianity succeeds precisely where atheism breaks down providing the two necessary ingredients for a meaningful, valuable, and purposeful life, on earth and in Heaven:

God's presence and His immortality, received through repentance and faith in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross of Calvary, paying in full the sin debt of mankind.

"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." – Romans 6:23

"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." – 1 John 1:9


Resource: Man without God
https://www.reasonablefaith.org

bahmer

Amen and Amen Excellent as always Zemirah thanks for the post.

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

Excellent and thoughtful post. Thank you.

Rose42

I echo what NPP said. Excellent and thoughtful.