LIFE

Is life a mere accident?  Does human life have meaning, if so how and through whom?  Science has answered many questions about the ‘how’ but not the ‘why’.  But as beings that seek identity and purpose, failing to answer why there is life is more than unsatisfactory, for it leaves humankind in an existential vacuum that few can bear.  Attempts to fill that vacuum include the accumulation of wealth or experiences, frenetic activity or developing addictive, destructive lifestyles.  But nothing ultimately works – the gaping hole remains a chasm at our very core.

In this post, I attempt to explain that only when we face the fact that we are creatures and we have a creator, and moreover, wish to restore the relationship with our creator that life has meaning.

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DEATH

Barker, Thomas, 1769-1847; The Bride of Death

While warrior cultures like that of the Vikings sought a heroic death, today death is feared or ignored.  Western medicine is given over to the pursuit of protracting life, even at the expense of its quality.  For humankind, however, death was not and is not God’s intention but is the result of men and women’s rebellion.

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