THE BIG QUESTIONS OF LIFE

Posted by Mark Lindley on 31 January 2016 | Comments

For ages man has pondered the big questions of life. Questions such as, where did I come from? Why am I here? And where am I going? These are the questions some of the greatest minds of the ages have attempted to answer.

            I am persuaded that we are as eager today as ever to know the answers to these questions. We want to know the answers that we might live with a sense of purpose and direction, instead of aimlessly wandering through life.

            Science has offered theories concerning the origin of man, but the prevailing theory, Darwinian evolution, is not to my mind, believable. No one has ever observed a non-human give birth to a human, nor can an experiment be conducted to prove that our distant cousins were apes. The “missing link” is still missing. “True” science has made amazing advances in medicine, technology, cosmology, but science cannot tell us the origin of life and man. Of course there are theories, but scientific theories regarding these matters are ever-changing and remain theories.

            Even if science could tell us our true origin, it still could not answer the questions of “why” we are here or “where” we are going. For answers to these questions, we must turn to a different source.

            For those who believe in the inspiration of the Bible, these questions have been answered. God created man in His own image (Genesis 1:26-27). Our purpose is to bring glory and honor to God by fearing Him and keeping His commandments (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14). We are all destined for the grave, the resurrection, judgment, and heaven or hell (Hebrews 9:27; Acts 17:30-31; John 5:28-29). Having an understanding of these things radically changes our perspective on life. Instead of being highly-evolved blobs of matter-in-motion, we are created “a little lower than the angels” (Psalm 8:3-5). Rather than dying as a beast of the field and ceasing to exist at death, we can anticipate that when this life is over, we will “fly away” as our spirits return unto to God who created them (Psalm 90:10; Ecclesiastes 12:7). Rather than facing death with fear and dread, Christians can view death as a happy departure to be with the Lord and the saved of all ages (Psalm 23:4; Philippians 1:21-23)!

            Thanks be to God for giving us His Word which answers the great questions of life! The real question is this: Will we believe and obey it?