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What led you to God?

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Omnivorous

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Message 134 of 300 (278692)
01-13-2006 2:03 PM

Reply to: Message 131 by Faith
01-13-2006 1:00 PM

Re: Purpose in life

Faith writes:

Within the usual atheistic/evolutionistic framework it is hard to see anyone having much sense of that kind of purpose to one's life. The Biblical perspective gives one's life enormous purpose by contrast.

Hi, Faith. I'm curious: what do you see as the Purpose of life from the Biblical perspective?

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Message 138 of 300 (278729)
01-13-2006 4:08 PM

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01-13-2006 3:47 PM

Re: Purpose in life

Okay, thanks--I was just curious.

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Message 294 of 300 (280089)
01-19-2006 7:35 PM

Reply to: Message 293 by nwr
01-19-2006 7:19 PM

Re: objective purpose

nwr writes:

We choose our purposes of our own free will. I suppose you could call that "ultimately arbitrary," but thats an unusual way of describing free will.

I prefer to think of it as my "Special Purpose."

All our lives we scuttle along, hugging our Special Purposes. Those Purposes are only apparent in full right at the end, to someone who knew you a long time, and just for an instant when you are both finished at last and still quite fresh.

I made that up. On purpose.

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