Why do you exist—why were you born? What is the meaning of your life? Were you put here for a reason? You can know—you must know! Think for a moment. What could be more important to understand than the purpose for your life?
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Atheists refuse to know and do not accept the existence of God.Cynics scoff at the possibility of knowing and conclude this question can never be answered.
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Scientists cannot discover this knowledge through laboratory analysis. Honest astronomers, microbiologists and others acknowledge that God exists, but this alone does not reveal His Purpose for mankind.
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Philosophers cannot determine it through meditation or discussion. Educators cannot teach what they themselves were never taught.
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Astrologers dazzle with tricks that reveal nothing of value. Do any reasonable people seriously think that such people who supposedly are in contact with the “dead” and the “spirit world” (actually demon spirits), hold the meaning of life?
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Thelogians offer humanly-devised counterfeits. All religions profess to hold the answers to life’s questions, but their ideas pale as cheap substitutes—empty counterfeits—when the awesome truth of God’s Plan is fully understood.
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But which God?
I Corinthians 8: 5-7 “For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and fro whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.
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Colossians 2:21 “These (rules and basic principles of this world) are all destined to perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings. such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.
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The SOURCE That Reveals
The Creator of human beings sent with them a detailed Instruction Book containing vital information. It explains the nature, design and purpose of His greatest of all creations. It identifies the hidden key—the missing dimension—to the right and proper use of the mind. It explains the way to peace, happiness, abundance and universal prosperity.
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God gave an Instruction Manual—the HOLY BIBLE—that contains vital revealed knowledge. It explains how to live, not just how to earn a living. It explains history, prophecy, important knowledge of doctrine and thousands of other points and principles that govern every aspect of life.
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But this greatest Instruction Book is almost universally ignored, misrepresented, misunderstood and rejected. As a result, the problems, troubles and evils of civilization mount. With no solution in sight, conditions only grow worse.
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The result of 6,000 years of misery, unhappiness and every conceivable evil, ill and woe that humanity has suffered is because people did not carefully heed the Instruction Book of revealed spiritual knowledge. Yet, man continues to reject God’s spiritual revelation.
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Stop and think! Apply basic logic. Would God create His own marvel of engineering—your mind—and send it without an Instruction Book explaining how to use it?
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Evolution
_It takes far more “faith” to believe in the intellectually chic and fashionable evolutionary myth, than it does to believe in the existence of God. The reality is that the theory of evolution is full of inconsistencies:
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_1) It goes against the First Law of Thermodynamics, which states that, “Matter and energy can be neither created nor destroyed.” Therefore the universe cannot come into existence from nothing.
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_2) It is totally incompatible with the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that everything moves towards disorder (entropy), things keep getting worse. But evolutionist teaches that everything is constantly evolving into a higher and more complex order.
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_The Story of Creation
_Genesis 1 in the Bible records the Creation account: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (verse 1). These are the first words of the Bible. It is an all-encompassing statement. It is inclusive and straightforward, with no ambiguities or room for doubt. God says this is what He did.
_On the 1st day, God created “light” (day) and separated it from darkness (night).On the 2nd day, God created the “sky”.On the 3rd day, God created “land” and plants and trees that bear fruit and seeds in it.
_On the 4th day, God created 2 great lights – the sun (to govern the day) and the moon (to govern the nights). He also created the stars in the sky.On the 5th day, God created sea creatures & birds.
_On the 6th day, God created creatures on land, wild animals, livestock and all creatures that move along the ground. Then God made man in His image to let them rule over all the creatures. (verse 28) God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.”
_On the 7th day, God rested from all his work, and blessed the 7th day and made it holy.
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_ Why did God create us?
_I) Created to obtain knowledge.
_All knowledge falls into two categories: (1) The physical knowledge of how to work with matter and physical things, and (2) the spiritual knowledge necessary for people to develop personal relationships with both God and their fellow man. All knowledge is either physical or spiritual.
_Physical knowledge is acquired through the five senses—sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. People understand that they must acquire certain knowledge and add to it throughout their lives. The senses permit this.
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II) Product of God’s workmanshipEphesians 2:8-10 “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”Isaiah 64:8 “But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the CLAY, and You are our POTTER; and we are the WORK OF YOUR HAND”.
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-III) Created to be God’s children
_Ephesians 1:5 “In love he (God) predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ.”John 1:12 “To all who received him (Jesus), he gave the right to become children of God – children born of natural descent, not of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
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How to become God’s children?
_1) Know / Finding out about God
_Romans 10:17 “Consequently faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard thought the word of Christ.”How? Go to church– hearing God’s word (The Bible) being preached, Join Christian activities, Reading the Bible
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2) Have Faith
_Ephesians 2:8-9 “For it is by grace that you have been saved, though faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.”Faith is the trust and reliance on God and believing in something that you do not see.
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3) Believe
_John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.”
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4) Saved
_John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.”Ephesians 2:3 “All of us also lived among them (the disobedient) at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.”Romans 6: 23 “….. for the wages of sin is death.”
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5) New Life
_2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”We enter into a new relationship with God and with the family of God (the church).This consists of – the study of God’s revelation in His Word, - living by His every Word, - constant prayer- & daily experience with trials and testings
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IV) Born to Build Character
_Character is understanding—knowing—right from wrong and doing what is right instead of what is wrong! God reveals what is right, but it is through the power of free moral agency, deciding to DO what is right, that righteous character is built.
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Character is consciously choosing the right way, against resistance. It is not the easy way. It is swimming against the current, rather than drifting lazily in the direction it is flowing.
_It is building love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance (self-control), wisdom, knowledge, understanding and humility. This takes time, because character is built through experience.
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You were created to become like God—to build perfect, holy, righteous character. God is reproducing Himself in human beings. Just as you are the child of parents, and possibly have children of your own, God is your Parent. God wants you to look like Him—in spiritual character! In this life, God begins to spiritually re-form and re-shape those He calls. His Purpose is to build within them His nature.
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Purpose in life
_Ephesians 1: 11-12 “It is in Christ that we find out who we are, and what we are living for. Long before we heard of Christ and got our hopes up, He (God) had His eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose He is working out in everything and everyone.
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Conclusion
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When you fully grasp this tremendous, wonderful truth, your mind will be filled with transcendent joy and glory. It gives a new meaning to life so wonderful you’ll never comprehend the full heights of its splendor.
_1 Peter 1: 8 “Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for u are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls. “
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