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What is the purpose of life, according to you?
‘Life’ is not an entity, and thus purpose does not apply.
For individual entities there isn’t ‘a purpose’. There are many ephemeral conditional purposes.
We swing from tree to tree.[/QUOTE
O.K. Then say not 'purpose of life' but 'intention of individuals'
I believe the purpose of life is to develop a virtuous character.What is the purpose of life, according to you?
The purpose to life is living.What is the purpose of life, according to you?
What is the purpose of life, according to you?
What is the purpose of life, according to you?
What is the purpose of life, according to you?
What is the purpose of life, according to you?
There is no purpose to life. Just ask the universe and listen closely to the answer.
The purpose of life is life itself. God created us because he was lonely and it is his purpose for all of us to enter Heaven when we die, live together with God, and take part in the resurrection. Zechariah 14:5. God established a covenant of life with us and if we keep it we will live beyond this earthly life. Ecclesiastes 12:13-14.What is the purpose of life, according to you?
We don't know what the universe wants.
We don't know what the universe wants.
Yes we do.
We are the universe living.
No. We are composed of dead star dust. We know our individual goals and dreams, well some of us do, but ultimately we don't know what our purpose is until it's revealed. Nobody goes through life knowing anything until it happens. When we see the universe or space we don't look and say we know why we exist unless we take some metaphysical/philosophical/religious position.
Just like individual lives grow and advance into adulthood, the entirety of life is to grow to *be* God.
...The Catholic Church teaches us that one day, we will be gods.
The Word became flesh to make us “partakers of the divine nature” (2 Pet. 1:4): “For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God” (St. Iranaeus, adv. haeres 3, 19, 1: PG 7/1, 939). “For the Son of God became man so that we might become God” (St. Athanasius, De inc., 54, 3: PG 25, 192B). “The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods” (St. Thomas Aquinas, Opusc., 57:1-4).
Are We Gods?
Theosis (Eastern Christian theology) - Wikipedia