I am a theist, I believe in a God. I believe he created the universe and so on. But I still don't believe that life has any inherent meaning. Why should there being a God all of a sudden give life meaning? I see this argument a lot, directed at Atheists, of how can life have any meaning without God, or some form of this argument. I am asking, why does God or Gods give life meaning? I'm not interested in afterlife (which I am personally ambivalent about) or such things. My belief is, God or no, life has no ultimate, inherent meaning or value. We all end up dead and dust, and there probably is no afterlife in my opinion (and even if there were, it still wouldn't give this life meaning).
So, how does God or Gods give life inherent meaning?
I've often wondered the same thing.
Often (not always) the answer I have received is something related to eternal life. It makes my brain ache to think how a temporary life can have no value, but extrapolating this out to permanence suddenly adds meaning.
Meaning seems to be what we bring to it, regardless of our theistic (un)beliefs.