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There is a way to look at how the two greatest commandments could be used as the ultimate purpose for the creation of the universe and life. Peace on Earth is the vision I seek.
NO GOD?
If there is no God then there can be no clear purpose to life. According to some ‘evolutionists,’ life could have started by random chance about four billion years ago. Part of this life evolved into mankind, as we know it today. I am here today because of random chance; I don’t have to answer to anyone or to any creator. I can live my life as I please. Laws were invented by people in power who wanted to enforce their will on others. Why should I have to comply with their law?
This is the moral path I could take if I thought that life was the result of random chance.
TO FIND THE ULTIMATE PURPOSE.
For an ultimate truth to exist, there must be a God.
If a God who has no beginning even contemplates creating the universe and life, there must be a reason, or purpose, that would motivate him to do so.
What would this ultimate motivating force be that would compel God to create a whole universe so that intelligent life could exist on at least one planet - a planet like Earth
The greatest reason God can have to create life is love.
Therefore the ultimate God humanity can have is a God who loves in the greatest way.
1. There must be a God who willingly loves all of mankind as he loves HIMSELF, for all time and unconditionally.
This is the greatest reason to create life.
If the greatest reason God can have to create mankind is to love each and every one of us as he loves himself, then God must have created mankind with the freedom to return God’s love
2. All of mankind is created with the freedom to love God the creator unconditionally.
God willingly loves everyone as he loves himself; we also need this same freedom to love everyone in the same way, so that the truth can be complete for God and mankind.
3. All of mankind is created with the freedom to love all of God’s children (neighbours) as they love themselves, unconditionally.
We can marvel at the great attention to detail that is evident in everything from the tiniest single cell of life right up to the giant structures of galaxies. The greatest reason for all this to exist is so that God and humanity may have the freedom to fulfill one uncompromising purpose.
Look at some choices that must have been available to an all-powerful God. If God wanted to create everyone as a Christian, or Muslim, or Hindu he must have had the power to do so. Can it be that God needed everyone to have the freedom to love rather than to have everyone conform to any one way of life?
You can find the ultimate purpose for the existence of the universe and life for yourself by challenging the above statements in your mind in an honest way, test them against any religious beliefs, test them against any form of logic.
Can there be any greater purpose for God to create life? Can there be any greater purpose for humanity to exist? In human terms this is the ultimate truth, the ultimate purpose for the existence of the universe and life.
As you challenge this purpose in your mind it will become final and ultimate - by this you will perceive and understand it for yourself.
CREATION
To make any sense of the creation of the universe it is necessary to start from an ultimate purpose.
If God were to create life with one supreme purpose in mind, it follows that he would sacrifice other less important elements so that he could then satisfy this one main intention.
What would God have to sacrifice if his one uncompromising goal is to create life that can love?
What price would humanity have to pay if they were created to love?
PURPOSE- DESIGN AND RISK.
When you design anything and have a demanding and uncompromising purpose to accomplish, it means some other aspects are sacrificed so that you may achieve your one aim. The more demanding the purpose is that you are trying to fulfill, the more you must be willing to sacrifice so that you may achieve your one goal
For example, if you were to design a car purely for speed and acceleration it would look something like a dragster. This car is intended to reach its maximum speed in the shortest time then come to a stop. This design for a car would be useless if you wanted to comfortably carry a family. If you have a very exacting purpose to achieve such as speed then there is a price to pay - you must be willing to forgo comfort, quietness, economy, and the choice of shape so that you may obtain maximum speed. Throughout humanity’s history countless thousands of people have died in the pursuit of speed in many different ways, from horse racing right to space travel.
These people, like test pilots or racing drivers, who were aware of the dangers in advance, knowingly risked their life to try and achieve a purpose.
Look at the risks involved in making the first flying machines; the pilots must have known that if they ascended a few hundred feet from the ground they would be risking injury or death. Without these risk-takers humanity’s feet would still be firmly on the ground.
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Is Freedom of Belief Orthodox? Jean Jaindl | Apr 6th, 2004
Though I am only on p. 16, this article is, on the whole, pretty logically layed out. However, I have detected some modernist tendencies (as condemned in Pius X's encyclical Pascendi), which I would like to question. God the mother? Really, this is quite unorthodox. Also, I cannot see how you or any other Catholic can say that we should not try to convert Musilims, Hindus, atheists, etc. to the one, true faith. Certainly God created us with the freedom to believe whatever we want to believe and to do whatever we want to do. Does that mean we have a right to do so in either case? Is it not owed to God that we serve Him in the way He has planned, and to attain to Heaven and the fullness of His love through the Church which He established? If it is owed to God to be loved, honored and obeyed by individuals, how much more so must He be obeyed by society, which is made up of these individuals? It is only through conversion to the truth that there is one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church that we will achieve the social reign of Christ the King. This is very well outlined in The Social Reign of Christ the King by Fr. Fahey
-JJ
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