{"id":8081,"date":"2016-08-16T23:47:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/lifemeaning-of\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T23:47:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:47:53","slug":"lifemeaning-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/lifemeaning-of\/","title":{"rendered":"LIFE,\nMEANING OF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b><i>See also: Meaninglessness<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Are we to regard it as the product of pure chance, and believe that everything happens at random without rhyme or reason?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Colin Brown<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>What we call the world is intrinsically unintelligible, apart from the existence of God.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Fredrick Copleston<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The issue is whether the world is explicable solely in terms of itself, i.e., is the world itself ultimate, or is there a being other than the world to which the world is related?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>David H. Freeman<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>When we try to think about this infinitely fascinating universe in which we live we find that we are faced in the end with the mystery of existence, of why there is a universe at all.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>John Hick<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>I never asserted so absurd a proposition as that anything might arise without a cause.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>David Hume<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The first question which should rightly be asked is: Why is there something rather than nothing?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The question, \u201cWhy is there something rather than nothing?\u201d is regarded even by some skeptical philosophers as a significant one.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>H.D. Lewis<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Nothing in this world is able to explain its own existence; thus, there must be a God in order to explain the world in which we find ourselves.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>John Warwick Montgomery<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Man cannot find the ultimate explanation of his own being anywhere but in God himself.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Edward Sillem<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>\u2026 the riddle of all riddles \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Paul Tillich<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Ludwig Wittgenstein<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Ludwig Wittgenstein<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See also: Meaninglessness Are we to regard it as the product of pure chance, and believe that everything happens at random without rhyme or reason? Colin Brown What we call the world is intrinsically unintelligible, apart from the existence of God. Fredrick Copleston The issue is whether the world is explicable solely in terms of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/lifemeaning-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LIFE,<br \/>\nMEANING OF&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}