It's not about you...
The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment,your peace of mind,or even your happiness.It's far greater then your family,your career or even your wildest dreams and ambitions.If you want to know why you were placed on this planetyou must begin with GOD.You were born by HIS purpose and for His Purpose.

The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for a thousands of years.That's because we typically begin at the wrong starting point--Ourselves!

We asked self-centered questions like, "What do i want to be?What should i do with my life?,What are my goals,my ambitions and my dreams for my future?"

But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.
The bible says.."It is GOD who directs the lives of HIS creatures;everyone's life is in HIS power"

You wont discover your life's meaning by looking within yourself.
You didn't create yourself,so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for.If i handed you an invention you had never seen before,you wouldnt know it's purpose.And the invention itself wouldnt be able to tell you either.Only the creator or the owner's manual could reveal its purpose.

You exist only because GOD wills that you exist.You were made by GOD and for GOD-until you understand that life will never make sense.It is only GOD that we discover our origin,our meaning,our purpose,our significance and our destiny.Every other paths leads to dead end.

Many people try to use GOD for their own self-actualization.They want GOD to be theri personal "genie" who serves their self-centered desires.but that is a reversal of nature and is doomed to failure.You were made for GOD,not vice versa.AndLife is about letting GOD use you for HIS purposes,not your using HIM for your own purposes.The bible says,Obsession with self in this matter is a dead endattention to GOD leads us to an openinto a spacious free life./i]

The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator to explain it.The same method works for discovering your life's purpose.You can find what GOD,your creator,has revealed about life in this WORD.the BIBLE.Revelation beats speculations everyday.

GOD has not let us in the dark to wonder and guess.He has clearly revealed HIS five purposes in our lives through the bible,it is our owner's manual,explaining why we are alive,how life works,what to avoid and what to expect in the future.

GOD is not just the starting point of your life;HE is the source of it.To discover your purpose in life,you must turn to GOD'S WORD,not the world's best guesses.You must build your life on unchanging,eternal truths,not the ever changing opinion of talkshows,pop psychology fads,or success motivation seminars.Bible says.."[i]It's in CHRIST that we find out who we are and what we are living for.Long before we first heard of CHRIST and got our hopes up,HE had HIS eyes on ushad designs on us for glorious living,part of the overall purpose HE is working out on in everything and everyone.

ASK YOURSELF

Have you ever wondered about,or felt confused about,the purpose of your life?

What ways have you tried to discover your life's purpose that haven't worked?

Why do you think people are trying to discover their life's purpose without turning to GOD,their creator?

I hear tell of those who believe that God created the earth over 6
million years meaning each day of creation is 1 million years. My
question is this. IF there is anyone who believes both creation and
evolution do you think that God created the earth in the same order it
supposedly evolved?

Tail Coats

Hello Darian Briscoe and welcome here..

Well you know evlution is not a teaching from the bible.I dont believe neither.
And the earth's age according to the bible computation is 6 thousand years,not billion years.
Creation is found in the book of Genesis,it is said that in six days God created the heaven and the earth and all that is in them,including man.
In the bible prophecy,1 day is equivalent to 1 year,it is used in computing prophecy times.
But in creation i believe that it is a litteral days.Why i believe?Because God instituted the seventh day as the sabbath ,to be rested and made it holy.
God also placed sabbath rest at the heart of the ten commandments,which is on the fourth.
God will not command us to "remember the sabbath day to keep it holy" if He means 1 billion years to it.Sabbath day is a memorial of creation.

What kind of faith is required to believe that all the orderly processes of nature were produced by chance?
The Bible suggests that the animals and earth should be asked about their own origin. In Job 12:7–9, we read: "But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee
If we believe the bible,evolution has no meaning at all.

Every culture has a myth about how life began -- that is, if we call science a culture and evolution a myth. The Judeo-Christian tradition, again relying on the authority of the Bible, claims that God created each individual being, from sea creatures to humans. Evolutionists believe that beings adapted and changed over time, developing from simple organisms, like amoeba, to complex ones, like humans.

Science's Answers:

Life on earth appeared about 3.5 million years ago, as the fossil record shows. First there were cyanobacteria and stromatolites about 3 million years ago. Eukaryotes appeared less than 2 million years ago. The last million years saw the appearance of animals with backbones, flowering plants and -- recently, in the scheme of things, humans. This means that there was a gap of over 3 million years between the first appearance of life and the advent of human beings.

Religion's Answers:

Creationists believe that the creation myth presented in the Book of Genesis is true, although some do believe that the six 'days' described therein were longer than twenty-four hours each. God created animals and humans on the fifth and sixth days. (For info about the first four days, click "the Earth" in the left-hand column). On the fifth day, He created the beasts of the waters and birds of the skies. On the sixth day, he first created the beasts of the land and all the cattle. Then, "God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created them; male and female, he created them" (Genesis 1:27). The story goes that God fashioned a man, first, out of clay and "breathed" life into him. This man, Adam, named all the creatures of the world. Later, God made a companion for Adam, woman, using one of Adam's ribs for a template.
It is interesting to note that Genesis 1:27 has male and female being created together, but in 2:21-25 details how woman was created after man. The reason? According to Jewish commentary (midrash), Adam's first wife, created at the same time, was Lilith. She was disobedient and was banished from the garden. Adam's second wife, Eve, was more to his liking.
Adam and Eve had many children, and (obviously) their descendants populated the Earth. Many critics have a problem with this incestous beginning to humankind. Creationists defend their beliefs by claiming that God probably did not stop creating after Adam and Eve, so Cain and Abel did not necessarily mate with their sisters. Humankind was scattered into different cultures with different languages after the flood, with the Tower of Babel story in Genesis 11.

Science versus Religion




Which is the best path to truth? Science or faith, or some mix of both? You be the judge. The truth of science may not be what you want it to be. It may be an unpleasant truth (eg possibly there is no after-life, no immortal soul), and it will have been hard work to get there (ironically sometimes referred to as "soul-searching"), whereas faith usually appears out of an emotional acceptance, that "Yes, it must be true!" (I can't bear to think about the alternative).







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Ok let us put it this way..saan ba nagmula ang lahat? sa molecules,sa atoms etc? at saan naman nagmula ang lahat ng iyon? Mahirap ba paniwalaan ang isang sanggol na nabubuhay sa sinapupunan ng babae,humihinga,kumpleto ang utak,ang parts ng katawan..sinong tao ang pwdeng gumawa ng ganun?
I stand where the bible is..the bible is our guide,sceince will help us understand what is electricity ,forces,lightnings,typhoons,etc..pero may pinagmulan sila at yan ang hindi maipaliwanag ng evolution.
Napakadaling malaman ng lahat ng pinagmulan..magbasa lang ng bible ,at paniwalaan ang Dios na all powerful,almighty and creator of heaven and earth.

usapan dito ay panay earth at earthlings.. what about aliens? who are they? do you believe them?

there are lotsssssss of things that are unexplainable.. may it be ghosts, lost souls, creation, evolution, etc... and these are the things that divide us. we have different opinions and way of thinking. and we are also entitled to our own belief and to believe on what we think is right.

somehow, at the end of our life, we all end up as "dust"... physically. so where did the human race really start? is it really evidence vs faith? or the main issue is my belief vs your belief?

To see is to believe...I have not seen yet so I don't believe that aliens thing.
Everyone says there’s no evidence or I have faith. You can’t convince
someone with faith, and you can’t convince an investigative
personality to have faith.
We may have things in common where other social and political attitudes are concerned.
Whatever a person believes in can become truth to them.

Marami ang hindi nagkakasundo pagdating sa religion kc iba iba ang doctrine na itinuturo...

It is your faith vs.the bible..If a person only understand the "Great controversy" that was happened,is happening and will happen,we will understand how the devil is doing his job of deceiving many people.
We came from the dust..Genesis 2:7 " at nilalang ng Panginoong Dios ang tao sa alabok ng lupa,at hininahan ang kaniyang mga butas ng ilong ng hininga ng buhay;at ang tao ay naging kaluluwang may buhay"..
wala pong kaluluwang ligaw..dahil ang turo ng bible,ecclesiaste 12:7 ganito po ang sinasabi: " at ang alabok ay mauuwi sa lupa gaya ng una,at ang diwa ay mababalik sa Dios na nagbigay sa kanya"..
ano ba ang kaluluwa? tulad ng nabanggit sa genesis 2:7 ang kaluluwa ay ikaw mismo..na galing sa alabok at hiningahan ng Dios..ang kaluluwa ba ay namamatay? ofcourse..ezekiel 18:4 "Behold all souls are mine;as the soul of the father,so also the son is mine:the soul that sinneth,it shall die"
Ang tanong ,pag ba namatay ay may alam pa? nakikita ba nya ang kamag anak nya? gumagala ba sya? ecclesiates 9:5" for the living know that they shall die:but the dead know not any thing,neither have any more reward;for the memory of them is forgotten."

maliwanag ang turo ng bible na ang tao namatay,wala syang alam,ang tawag ng bible sa patay ay natutulog na kaluluwa,dahil lahat ng namatay ay muling mabubuhya sa huling paghahatol.

Bakit may mga ghost,nagpaparamdam,at nakakauspa ang kaluluwa?
Alalahanin natin na si lucifer nang ibinagsak sa lupa ay natangay nya ang 1/3 ng mga anghel sa langit.Marami an sya naloloko dahil sa maling turo.

To know the truth,go back to bible..search for the truth,,Jesus said.." I am the way,the truth and the life"..