Is There Meaning to Life?
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Is There Any Meaning to Life?
Y’know, nobody asked me if I wanted to exist.
Ha. You’re right!
Yeah, one day - boom - there you are! And you think to yourself, Why am I here?
Good question.
Well, what do you think? Is there a reason we’re here? Do our lives have any real significance?
Well, that depends.
On what?
On whether or not God exists.
Wait ... hold on. Are you saying that my life has no significance because I don’t believe in God?
No, not at all. I’m saying that if God doesn’t exist, it doesn’t matter WHAT you believe ... our lives would have no objective meaning, value, or purpose. Many Atheists themselves recognize this: If Atheism is true, life is absurd.
OK...and why do they think that?
For starters, if God does not exist, then the physical universe is all there is - which means you and I are just accidental byproducts of nature, right?
Right. So?
That means we were not intentionally designed. So there’s no purpose for us being here!
Woah.
It gets worse! If God does not exist, there is no absolute standard of moral value. You’ve heard of Richard Dawkins, the Atheist ... he points out that, in a materialistic universe, “There is at bottom no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pointless indifference...”
So you’re saying atheists can’t be good people?
No, I’m not saying that! Many Atheists live good lives. What I’m saying is Atheism fails to provide an objective basis for saying any particular action is good or evil.
Oh, come on. After millions of years of socio-biological evolution, humans have developed a sense of morality - we all know it’s good to feed a hungry child and bad to torture someone for fun.
Of course we do. But that’s precisely what Atheism cannot explain! If there’s no God, then what we consider right or wrong is nothing more than an accident of evolution or a human social convention.
So what? I’m good with that.
Really? Evolution implies survival of the fittest, not morality. And social convention means that racism, intolerance, and cruelty are not really wrong, they’re just currently out of fashion.
OK, so Atheists need to come up with some objective standard for rights and wrongs ... How about this: If an action leads to human flourishing, then we can say it’s objectively good. And if it doesn’t, it’s objectively evil.
But why think that human flourishing is good? Aren’t you being species-centric? Why not refer, instead, to the flourishing of rats? Or cabbages?
Well, uh...
And who gets to decide what contributes to human flourishing? Hitler was convinced killing millions of Jews would promote human flourishing. And Margeret Sanger thought forcing poor people to be sterilized would lead to human flourishing. As Kai Nielsen, an Atheist philosopher, points out: “Pure practical reason ... will not take you to morality.”
Hmmm.
So if Atheism is true, there’s no legitimate basis for saying that behaving one way is worse than behaving any other way. So it really doesn’t matter how you live your life! Your day-to-day choices are meaningless.
That’s depressing...
I recently converted from Atheism to Christianity.
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@@drcraigvideos I shall.
Did you have a frontal lobotomy?
@@rosemarybishop5776 lol
I went from Christianity to Atheism than to just believing in both lol
Brilliant
These videos are underrated because they are not just presenting a one sided “this is the truth” kind of argument, they address the common counterpoints to each point.
Seems to me that this was one sided, clearly towards religion, religion does provide theoretical objective morality but somehow it just forgot to put it to practice all the time, its objectively true but it doesnt apply all the time by everyone, doesnt seem so objective after all. Very funny they pretend as if religion is against racism, terrorrism and cruelty when pretty much all religions have allowed and consented for those very things until the last few decades.
Oh by the way if "all atheists must choose between being happy and being consistent" isnt proof this is absolutely one sided you probably dont know what that means
No. This video presents a strawman counterpoint to each point. That's not the same thing
@mattbrook-lee7732 Justification please
@YeshuaYaakov the claim that without a creator life has no purpose is false. We get to decide our purpose. To me that's a big improvement on slavery.
The idea that the universe is all there is being a problem. Sorry but I think the universe is amazing, and limiting yourself to a religious view of it actually stops you seeing that.
And all moral codes begin with something subjective. That can be God's opinion or man's.
The whole video is one strawman after another. No atheist sees the world that way
This is not an argument for the existence of God, it is merely showing the importance of theism vs atheism in relevance to objective meaning and morality, and, furthermore, explains the consistency of the worldviews in relation to morality, and its practical implications. It is not concerning epistemology, rather it is the ontological basis of meaning and morality that is being discussed in the video and dialog.
The point is, as the video clearly show, that you cannot live happily AND consistently on a atheistic worldview. You can live happily (ignoring the meaninglessness of life; being kind, loving and living what we all (theists and atheists alike) consider a good life, acting as if your actions do matter and so on), OR you can live consistently (in accordance with the tragic misery of living a pointless life, where love, family and so on really have no value, purpose, meaning). In addition to the atheistic philosophers mentioned in the video, Nietzsche was also aware of this dilemma. Atheism is truly a sad worldview. There is no hope in suffering, no point in going forward through pain and difficulty. There are no words of encouragement for those who struggle the most. That is why you see higher levels of suicide and depression among atheists.
That being said, this does NOT mean God exist. There are other arguments for that.
It’s describing how foolish it is to be an atheist
5:09 they even addressed your question..
She stated she agreed it does not proves god’s existence. She merely says if you believe in it you can live a life with happiness and consistency. I am in real dilemma, I am not an atheist btw.
@@professionalskj God delivers. Have hope!
You can't choose what you believe. If you do not believe in God you can't make yourself believe just so you feel more fulfilled. So none of this really helps
Great video.
I think the absurdity of life without God wouldn't really work on today's generation, like this generation has so many distractions that makes them forget about the shortness of life or any existential questions.
I agree bro.
I disagree. Religion has been indoctrinating children who don't know any better since birth for thousands of years. They'll have no problem continuing this.
Indoctrination thesis is shown to be wrong. Go and read some Justin Barrett.
@@besdereceli5987 Show me your source material
Ok. Justin Barrett is a researcher at Oxford. His book is titled "Born Believers". It summarizes the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science of religion with a developmental psychology focus.
This is soo good. Thanks❤
When I was a materialist (nothing exists but material world, i.e. mass and energy), I used to reason that even something as horrifying as the holocaust ultimately wasn’t really that bad because no matter how much someone suffered in it, as soon as they were dead it didn’t matter to them. Even a survivor might have grief, but when they die that didn’t matter to them either. And that at some point humans must go totally extinct, so none of humanity would ultimately amount to anything and all of experience would be as if it never happened, so no matter how good or bad we make things ultimately it makes no effective difference whatsoever.
It truly is a depressing thing to really believe.
Just because our lives don't extend to infinity doesn't mean that our finite lives are meaning less. People still feel pain and emotion. The Holocaust had objective negative consequences for humanity which can be observed without a god.
@@person8064
What I mean is that once they’re dead it doesn’t matter if they died in Auschwitz or the palace of Brunei. And once humanity is extinct it doesn’t matter if we did great and amazing things and spanned tens of thousands of years all over the local cluster or bombed ourselves into an inhospitable satellite
@@theoallred5105 "objective" wasn't the right word, but there are still clear consequences. Morality is about considering our impact on others. Hitler's actions caused needless suffering to other people. While pain may be a subjective experience, that doesn't make the experience of pain any less real.
@@littlefishbigmountain the same thing can be said of religions with afterlives. After everyone goes to heaven or hell, then our actions on Earth don't really matter.
@@person8064
How so? You lost me there
I'm totally binging these now.
This makes sense to what I have been searching. Thanks a million
Wow. That's a super good point.
Praise God😃🙏
Atheism made me heartless in time, Christianity has given me life❤
She is so pretty 😍
Thank you for sharing this valuable truth!
Here for my Christian Apologetics class at Oral Roberts University. Insightful video!!!
I've to accept that if God doesn't exist, life is meaningless.
Why would life be meaningless with God?
APPEAL TO CONSEQUENCE!
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@@drcraigvideos The video has nothing but appeal to consequence over and over as a logical fallacy.
Also was the guy in this your construct strawman of atheists?
I had a small round table with fellow atheists on the meaning of life, and we all seemed to agree that its up to the person to make there own path. No one is going to tell me what my meaning is but me.
Not even a god, if there was such a thing can tell me what my meaning is. Its mine.
Your religion, flips that on its head and says that our meaning is to worship GOD and Jesus to believe that Jesus died for our sins and all that other nonsense. That the whole point is to serve God. As if a god would need servants.
Oh sure, you can cherry pick your holy book for parts you agree with to be your meaning - and that pretty much proves the idea we all came to in the end - the meaning of your life is in the end, up to you - not god, not holy books, not anyone or anything else. You must make that path.
Sadly this video is just one more example of bad arguments from theists.
But hey, my comment got noticed, so that is a thing. I doubt you do have contact with WLC proper but if you do, I'd love for you to pass on a big giant middle finger from me to him on his defense of genocide that sick twisted evil vile human.
I do hope that the money you make from doing what you do helps you sleep at night knowing that you work for someone who thinks that genocide is fine if god commands it and who couldn't think of ANYONE who was hurt by the commands issued by god - what nonsense. Anyway yeah WLC is evil, but that doesn't negate his arguments... the logical fallacies in the arguments he has does that for him.
Hey maybe the next video can have a strawman atheist trying to explain to WLC why genocide is wrong subjectively and he can say its objectively okay when god orders it!
But if god says its not okay then its not okay, and of course god can change its mind whenever it wants! (making it subjective!)
Anyway, perhaps one day you will quit working for that evil man, and perhaps you will also leave behind the evil religion that you are part of! One can hope. The objective reality is over here, waiting for you and yours to be discovered - and the benefit is you get to use arguments that are sound! Wouldn't that be nice?!
.... anyway to recap: my problem with the video is that it has the repeated fallacy of appeal to consequence over and over again. My problem with WLC is that he is a vile scum of human who defends genoide if he thinks god said to do it. I guess my view of you is that your not a not very good human for working for that guy.
@DeconvertedMan good lord you're unhinged
@@UniteAgainstEvil I'm not the one who defends genocide. :D
*jesus dies*
indian guy: thank you, come again
wow
"As some of your poets have said,..."
Technically it's not impossible to be happy and consistent if you're an atheist if nihilism makes you happy.
It really doesn’t matter how u live your life. Spiritually true. If you’re mundane… probably not
2 things are true we are going to die just don't know when. We live to die. All religions do is brane wash. a religion is a cult cults are religion. What i do us humans are never satisfied. We born to survive. So guess what i just lost 10 minutes of my life writing this that i will never get back. I don't need heaven when i die . i need to live my life my way . what's best for me so when i do die it will be worth it. Remember one religions sin may not be a sin in another religion .
I feel as if agnosticism is a perfect middle to this. I don't like the restrictions of most deviations of Christianity but I also don't like the depressing thought of nothing. With agnosticism, I can accept there's no proof of a god but let my hope imagine there is one, and that there is justice without seemingly pointless restrictions. Suffice to say all I want is good people to have good things after death and bad people to be punished and learn what they did wrong
But there is proof?
-Kalam
-Cosmological
-Teleological
-Transcendental
I think you still a defacto atheist btw.
Why does it have to follow that atheism = no purpose?
Almost.
Evolution (Darwin) doesn't actually say Survival of the fittest. It speaks of those Fit to Survive. And they are two very different things.
I can see this two are same
The video does a good job of highlighting the problems associated with combining meaning in life or objective morality with atheism. So far so good - philosophical puzzles are hard to solves. But having proceeded with such skepticism, it then *assumes* that meaning/objective morality is straightforward with God, without explaining why, thereby implying that philosophical skepticism is out of place. The underlying assumption seems to be some kind of divine command theory--i.e., the logic being, that if God is omnipotent then whatever he/she/it commands is right, and thus might makes right/meaning! Sounds like a Pyrrhic victory to me.
Of course it assumes that - if you actually go through the rest of the videos you will even get the reasoning behind it. This video, however, is simply meant to show atheism cannot sustain any sort of meaning in life, making it necessarily absurd, nor can it provide any manner of grounding for morality that goes beyond one's own personal preference. To grossly simplify matters, however, Christianity holds that goodness is a sign of God, as it were. It is not so much that because God wills it, the thing/action is good, or that because it is good, God wills it. So your "might makes right" interpretation seems out of place to me, considering Christians do not even espouse that view.
@@BrokenFireMaiden "Of course it assumes that"
I don't know why you say 'of course'. It is not as if the lady says, 'I am simply going to beg the question in favour of my own position for now and offer an argument for it later on' (look at the question that the video is **supposed** to answer!). If a Muslim posted this kind of video, you would be laughing out loud at the poverty of the argumentation.
I'm an atheist and I agree. The pointlessness and temporality of life and all other things haunts me. But even if Christianity is true, wouldn't the lives of the majority of people who go to Hell forever be just as pointless?
@Rick Soldier of God Even if, perhaps especially if, Hell, as described in the Bible is a metaphor for something we can't comprehend, that shouldn't give anyone any comfort.
They live a life with a chance to follow God and be with Him eternally. That chance alone is reason to live.
Not all Christians believe in eternal hell.
Why is life pointless if it is temporary? Meaning may not be intrinsic to life, rather one gives meaning to their life.
I agree completely
hppines is not meaning but i mainly agree
Child of God: This is the meaning of Life: th-cam.com/video/QP9BUYIrfRs/w-d-xo.html Blessings to you and your household good soldier. Stay strong. You’re on the right track, when you seek the truth. Seek and you will find it. Open your eyes and you will uncover it. Keep your head up with the spiritual nutrition of the Word of our Father! Now, chin up! Remember now, the spiritual battle is real, and ongoing. Stay diligent, stay alert. STAY strapped up in that Armor of TRUTH, of the which only God can provide. Now, Carry on good solider. Fight another day. God’s got you. Rest in His Love 💪
Question it self is wrong and i agree with people who thinks like that. You can't really ask it. (42) They are being not completely correct in the video at 3:35. If you want "objective" meaning than the goal really is to make everyone to live kind, generous and thoughtful life. To make less people live horrible life. We are already here and so what if i was not asked to be here than i should just die? I think no. You can't know it until you just try. So you don't really need to believe in god to try and live a good life. Because god will not solve our problems. Without problems you can't appreciate them when you don't have them. We already live a lot better than people lived before us. Appreciate it and maybe just try your best to say at the end that it was totally worth it. That is what i figured out at this stage of my life.
How did aspects of society like socially accepted stuff evolve just based on many people's ideas like big stuff Luke how you dress or putting a nakin in your lap ay dinner table
What's with the two cups of coffee ☕☕ ?Are you saying that life is meaningless unless you are highly caffeinated?
Some converted to atheism because they don't want accountability of their moral choices and truly they loved to sin because it feels good and pleasurable. Repent. Don't delay . It's not too late.
You guys deleted my comment (it wasn’t even bad, just minor constructive criticism) , so I’ll add it back again.
I am an atheist, and I have some criticism for this video.
You don't really seem to legitimately argue against atheists. This video seems to just be saying,
"if atheism is true morality isn't really real, and that's kinda depressing. So join Christianity!". And you talk about a bunch of stuff we already know about, yeah, if this is all there is it will all end eventually and be nothing. And yes there is no objective morality to follow. This isn’t some discovery, atheists already know.
I believe both morality and religion are human constructs.
Sure it is sad to believe that, but the sad truth (or atleast what I believe is to be true, aka atheism) is better than a happy lie. Yeah, our lives don’t have an objective meaning, big woop. Atheists can create their own meaning. And just because at the end of our lives it all comes to nothing, that doesn’t mean we cannot enjoy the journey. There is no “choice” between being happy and being consistent for atheists. Living like an atheist doesn’t mean being depressed, like you say it is. We still have our own morals and can be good people. This comment is not insulting christianity or any beliefs. And I’m not arguing in favor of atheism, I’m just saying this video doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
Edit: Just wanted to add, just because atheists aren’t constantly depressed, and pessimistic, and some of them look on the bright side of things, doesn’t mean they aren’t living like atheists.
I agree with you. Not buts or what ifs. From a Christian to you. I simply believe because i sleep well at night knowing my conscience is redeemed from internal havoc.
That would be right if there was a proof that atheism is true, but if it is just an hypothesis and it can't even explain that Hitler was objectively evil, it seems like a bad and useless hypothesis.
I think I would rather replace atheism with nihilistic Atomism. For example, Buddhists and Taoists don’t exactly believe in a creator God as such. The point rather is that if you believe in a universe that is dumb and absurd, a product of particles colliding with each other completely chaotically and producing order somehow, then yes life is pretty absurd and you are fighting to make meaning for yourself. Yes you can be happy, but it would be a type of forced happiness. You know that poem that goes “rage! Rage against the dying of the light!“? Yeah it would be something like that. A lot of the 19th century nihilistic philosophers realized this. They could only say that you must fight against the creeping darkness of nihilism and dare to make meaning for yourself in an absurd universe. Rage! Rage against the absurdity of existence! Dare to have meaning! Dare to create some purpose for yourself because otherwise you might as well just blow your brains out!
This is pretty pathetic if you ask me.
Even Taoists who don’t have definite views about things like the afterlife or absolute morality still have the Tao as the standard of conduct. The Tao is A mysterious order in the universe and a type of first principle and ground of all existence. So they believe the universe is not chaotic and meaningless. Even that which appears chaotic is really order with unknown variables. So their morality is based on trying to learn from the Tao and emulate it. They try to live according to the natural order they believe exists in a universe that is essentially rational and makes sense.
@@mystique-1337 1. You're shifting the burden of proof. A baby is born with its beliefs defaulting to nothing. Proof must be supplied to get the baby to believe in something, like gods.
2. Hitler's actions caused harm to others, which can be observed without objective morality. That's why atheists see Hitler as evil.
The video is not saying 'if atheism is not real so join Christianity'. Why you need to make up your own phrases and lie just to prove your point? Please watch the video again carefully. And Repent.
Why did god created the universe ?
Was god not content by himself ?
Only bible the Torah gave 7 days in week no other books 📚 ever
I would be curious on a critique of Carefree Wanderings recent post.
ex agnostic here
Indian accent
We’ve evolved and so did our natural selection. Survival of the fittest doesn’t imply the best spear thrower lives, anymore. It’s way more complex as to what it means to be “fit” in terms of survival. And morality is a huuuuuuge piece of that. With or without god, with or without intentional creation, we are in a place where life is meaningful regardless. Whether religious or atheist, I wish you the best and hope you find meaning in your life. I had my first child 7 months ago and quite frankly, my life has never had more meaning.
I think I would rather replace atheism with nihilistic Atomism. For example, Buddhists and Taoists don’t exactly believe in a creator God as such. The point rather is that if you believe in a universe that is dumb and absurd, a product of particles colliding with each other completely chaotically and producing order somehow, then yes life is pretty absurd and you are fighting to make meaning for yourself. Yes you can be happy, but it would be a type of forced happiness. You know that poem that goes “rage! Rage against the dying of the light!“? Yeah it would be something like that. A lot of the 19th century nihilistic philosophers realized this. They could only say that you must fight against the creeping darkness of nihilism and dare to make meaning for yourself in an absurd universe. Rage! Rage against the absurdity of existence! Dare to have meaning! Dare to create some purpose for yourself because otherwise you might as well just blow your brains out!
This is pretty pathetic if you ask me.
Even Taoists who don’t have definite views about things like the afterlife or absolute morality still have the Tao as the standard of conduct. The Tao is A mysterious order in the universe and a type of first principle and ground of all existence. So they believe the universe is not chaotic and meaningless. Even that which appears chaotic is really order with unknown variables. So their morality is based on trying to learn from the Tao and emulate it. They try to live according to the natural order they believe exists in a universe that is essentially rational and makes sense.
I choose to be a Hindu
Why?.. let me say if christianity is not true then there will be no difference at all in anything..
But if its True then our whole eternity depends on it. To be more specific the resurrection of Jesus.
The bible doesn't contain objective morality as taught by Christianity. Christians even abandon the commands of Jesus and outright reject the law as a standard of righteousness. The reject commands of the Apostle Paul too like women covering their heads or being in leadership positions. Your video sounds good but is fundamentally flawed.
Orthodox churches don't have women in leadership positions. Paul's teaching on head covering makes sense when you consider that, in that society, women not having their head covered was a signal the woman was a prostitute.
The call by apostle Paul was to a specific church. That church was planted in a place where that was standard dressing for women. Same Bible says that the hair is the covering of the woman. Please try and ask questions and research before taking one surface text you saw out of context. Thank you.
@cannonbolt14 just plain stupid. So what you're saying is unless Moses, Jesus, Paul specifically use your name it's to someone else? This is the problem with people today. The reason given by Paul was "because of the angels". Try again......eye roll.
Colossians 4:16 KJVS
And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.
@@realchurch2693 The person didn't even say that, he warned you to be more serious, but apparently you didn't listen to him.
A note in the Jerusalem Bible says of Paul's argument that it is "very much dependent on the customs to which he was accustomed, which greatly diminishes the value of his conclusions." Here, therefore, the covering of women's heads during prayer is classified as culturally determined and changing religious customs. In fact, today's reader could even sense unfair discrimination against women in these lines, which today - at least on this level - fortunately, we have overcome.
@kenandzafic3948 at 1:13 she said without God there's no absolute standard for moral value. This is false and I gave my examples. Learn to listen and read.
Completely wrong. Scripted to muddy the actual truth. My point is don't try to convince me that your way is the correct way. I will attain my belief using logic and reason.
So which part is completely wrong?
God is not the only way to lead a meaningful life. That's just common sense. You can lead a meaningful life using logic and reasoning. Is that not correct?
@@lj6278 I suppose that depends on what you mean by "meaningful". You can lead a subjectively good life and be a decent person and contribute positively to society without God.
However if you follow logic and reasoning then you should conclude that morality without good is just subjective preference, not objective morality.
Religious pepole do not have sole rights to the term "Morality." Look up the definition for "objective morality," and "morality without good" is a meaningless phrase. If a person lives his life without the knowledge of God but has led a moral life, has he not earned a good afterlife? Would not a just and caring God grant him heaven? Please do not go into semantics about everyone has heard of God. I asked a thought experiment.
@@lj6278 that doesn't really seem very fair to ask me to participate in this thought experiment with you but then for restrictions on what I can utilize regarding this thought experiment especially when they are important to the matter. Additionally I would like you to tell me what you think morality means to you if we do not have a moral law giver IE an objective stance of morality from an objective moral law giver such as god.
Objective morality is a lie.
All that exists is subjective morality.
Society comes together and forms a subjective moral consensus, which then goes through a process in which it becomes law: something most people agree with and will agree deserves punishment should the rule not be followed.
Good luck with that 👍
Then how does everyone know what is right and wrong.
Then again, if that is true then what makes Nazi Germany morally wrong if they established their own subjective moral system in which it was ok to commit mass genocide on jews etc. If all there was is subjective morality then what gives you the right to tell a Nazi of that time that your *subjective* moral system is better than his *subjective* moral system?
Besides, the idea of a moral system contradicts evolution, which is based upon survival of the fittest.
With that said, to live within a moral system is futile and inconsistent accoring to the very same atheism you subscribe to and there's no hope, no beauty, no love, nothing meaningful outside of God who made your inmost being and knows you fully.
Repent and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved
@@sola.gratia Well said 👏👏👍
@@NotChinmayi I don't like pain. I have no reason to believe I am special, so to avoid hypocrisy, I don't harm others. That's about it, understanding the consequences of our actions and minimizing harm to all.
"If Christianity is true, then each one of us is here for a reason." I would contend with this statement, somewhat.
Contend with the bible :)
@@turquesacarolina Scripture doesn't specifically state that every individual has a reason that they are here and alive, outside of the obvious parents had sex and Mom's gave birth to us.
@@lizicadumitru9683 Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope
Romans 8:28
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose
Psalm 138:8
The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands
Psalm 57:2
I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 1:11
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will
This is the key one:
Exodus 9:16
But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
We are but a manifestation of God. The sole purpose of us existing is to be in a loving relationship God and for others to see it so they can love Him too.
@@turquesacarolina As a reader of scripture I'm trying to keep all passages in context. The passage in Jeremiah is the Lord talking to Jeremiah specifically. I cannot attach that to all individuals.
David was the anointed of the Lord so of course a specific purpose but again concentrated on David not all people. Same with the passage in Exodus that's talking about pharaoh, not a broad swipe for all.
Yes those who are in Christ are purposed for salvation but is that what you're suggesting is the specific purpose, just like those in the texts you brang up? Unless I misunderstanding what you're saying.
Yes all individuals should come to Christ but they won't and for those who do, that act of faith is not tantamount to being born for a specific work/reason like Moses or even Christ himself.
@@lizicadumitru9683 Baby God does not waste any of his words. So when he said let there be Lizica he designed you in a specific way... With a specific purpose. If you don't want to live in purpose that's fine but you have gifts and talents and they're not there just because.
I know context is important but another important ingredient is faith.
Dr Craig made me an Satanist :)
I thought all you have to do to be so is just take it for granted?
Some of your videos have comments turned off. Maybe you are scared of rebuttals. Maybe because Yahweh is weak.
You said that God is the best explanation for fine tuning? Wrong. Plato's cosmic world soul is more qualified than Yahweh.
This Yahweh is a weak god. Earth was made first before the sun? Is that your designer?
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Okay Dr.Craig (or whom ever respected person behind the video) :-
Can you explain why racism is evil if God exists with evidence? I dont want to hear "God is by definition against racism" - that answers nothing.
First, it should be noted that the video itself is simply noting that if atheism is true, then life is ultimately absurd and there is no objective meaning, value, or purpose. It's not an argument for the existence of God. It's merely showing the dire consequences should atheism turn out to be true.
Second, Dr. Craig has provided a powerful case for the truth of theism generally, and Christian theism specifically. If Christian theism is true, then everyone was created in the image of God and has intrinsic value. If everyone has intrinsic value, then devaluation based on skin color is objectively immoral. - RF Admin
Galatians 3:28
Christian Standard Bible
28 "There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male and female; since you are all one in Christ Jesus."
Romans 10: 12, 13 " 12 since there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, because the same Lord of all richly blesses all who call on him. 13 For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
Devaluation based on skin color, economic status, and gender is unacceptable to God.
Also, read Acts 8:26-39 which is the story of God sending Philip to an Ethiopian man who had biblical questions, and the man received Jesus into his heart and was baptized. Also, in the book of Numbers ch. 12, Moses married an African woman and God was okay with it. God even punished Moses's sister because she criticized Moses after he married his African wife. I hope this helps answer you question.
@@drcraigvideos those are a big "if".
Your entire point in this video is without god there is no values or meaning or morals . So its upto to prove if god were to exists we would have morals and meanings.
You don't begin with "if Christianity was true..". Because Christianity assumes god gives us morals, values and meaning. Its basically a circular argument. You might as well say "if objective morals exists, objective morals exists."
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Not really. This isn’t circular. And I say this as someone who isn’t even Christian. The argument is simply that Christians believe all humans have intrinsic meaning as image bearers of God. God did not create anyone group of people to be superior and or inferior. Discriminating on the basis of these superficial characteristics is an act of injustice against people who have intrinsic value according to God.
Because it discriminates and it shows superiority to other races. Do you love to hear different races insulting and killing each other because of just their own races and skin?
I disagree on her statement that atheist can be good people who live good lives from her perspective.
Cause according to christianity, no one is good. There no one righteous, not even one.
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, both atheists and religious people. No one can meet Gods standard of good and thus no one is able to go to heaven on their own.
So her answer is fault.
well, you have to understand the definition of good. I would say she means "good" as in good in the eyes of society, or our perceived morals. But obviously no one is considered "good" before God, because he is Holy.
She was saying good in worldly way
The definition of good of that 'guy' is different to the definition of 'good' of that Indian woman (Biblical side). She is just assumes that their definition of 'good' is 'living a moral life'.
Have you read the Bible? Lol. Its inconsistent and full of God commanding war.
Even if that were true, what relevance does that have to the content of this video? - RF Admin
@@drcraigvideos do you not know what you posted? Jesus Christ is in the Bible.
@@jesusisdead Right. But the video isn't making an argument for the truth of Christianity. It's illustrating the absurdity of life without God and noting that if Christianity is true, then life does have meaning. So, what was the point of your first comment? - RF Admin
@@drcraigvideos there is no point really. I have come to the realization that we cannot know truth at this point because if there is a God he is hiding. Seems to me this video is making the point that meaning comes from believing in the God of the Bible.
@@drcraigvideos Jesus Christ can't be true because the basis of Christianity through the eyes of the Bible was based on miracles which is evidence and now we are expected to live on the lack of evidence. Lets say Jesus comes back then faith no longer will exist as a belief and we cannot please God because we then will have no faith and according to the Bible without faith its impossible to please God.