What is meaning of life

Question

how is it related to love how can we make out that we r in love or not

Answer 1

Here are my pre-conditions for the answer.

Just your willingness to search for that answer shows that there is almost a universal need for an answer. Why am I here etc. has been a question repeated again and again.  Many however will try to deny meaning because of the implied and explicit implications of there being an objective meaning. Others will hate the question and my answer for just those same reasons too!  Life having no meaning frees the individual from responsibility, from there actually being a right and wrong etc.  It "frees" the deniers to live as debauched a life as they want, just read up on Nietzche, he died with syphilis in a mental hospital.

Life without God is no more than chemical reactions and has no meaning, no true and false, no love just chemical reactions and a hopeless end.  That idea "frees" some to live the lifestyles they choose and gnaws away at the heart of most mankind who want justice, good to prevail and evil to be punished.   Like the atheist Aldus Huxley clealy said "I want this world not to have meaning becuse a meaningless world frees me to my own erotic and political pursuits."

C.S. Lewis was an atheist that declared God and Jesus were myths but after spending time with JRR Tolkien and looking at the evidence became a very strong Christian and pronouncer of the Gospel.  Here is what he says about life having meaning:

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

It was the philosopher Francis Bacon that said "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."

So given that you are willing to ask and (many many others) that there is an almost universal need for meaning, for there to be justice etc. then in my investigation there is the one philosophy that would best fit the heart of man as corrupt but offers the evidence and hope of justice is Christianity. We can see a good man cheat on his wife, steal etc. and by this see that man is fallen but those that honestly take Jesus into their hearts are changed and are men of great integrity and faith even though they may fail on occasion.  Jesus came to pay for our sins and to change our hearts and so that we may live better here, even persecuted, and better eternally!

John 10:10

"I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly"

So my conclusion given these is that the Bible best answers these criteria and evidences and that in it's simplest definition, Life is a test. In this test the results are based on how we serve God, Love God and accept Jesus as Lord and do God's will we  will be judged. Now we must recognize that all have fallen short and sinned, have false pride etc. so we need to sincerely repent and those that reject God's love and Jesus' sacrifice will fail the test.  God has provided a method of passing based on the sacrifice of Jesus as seen in John 3 verses 14 thru 19. The rewards of those that do pass are based on doing God's will and living for God and accepting Jesus as Lord.  I Don't believe from reading the Bible that all will be equally rewarded and you would be fooled if you deny every action in our life will have a consequence for good or evil.  

In the end our purpose is found in what Jesus said, that he came to save the lost and by following him we are to have "peace that the world cannot", so that we may "live more abundantly" and so that we can help those we can such as the poor, the orphans, the widows and the sick. So you see that the meaning of life is the relationship with God and another part is the relationship with each other. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...

Henry Drummond talks about love and our relationship with God in his book "The Greatest thing in the World", I think it is a good read and here is a link where it is available for free online.  

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16739

To summarize simply the meaning is found in worshipping God,  God's Love, Jesus' love and sacrifice and our love to others and that relationship.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...

May you learn as well as ask, may you invesitgate truth as well as hearing an answer.

Bai

Answer 2

Jesus :)   :)   :D  

Answer 3

the meaning of life is life itself. there is no real meaning of your life, you are here to provide a good casing for the genes inside you so they can survive and be transfered. your main purpose is to survive by any means and to reproduce. the rest is not important.

love is a chemical reaction in your brain, just like anything else you think about. science can provide the exact mixtures of hormones, endorphines and other chemical substances that make your body feel "love" and  the urge to have s*x (in the end).

Answer 4

Life originates from God( the almighty creator) and God is Love.

God's love is not making love; God's love is pure and holy.

God has put us on earth with the command to increase and multiply.

Answer 5

life is to live and let live...

love is related to everything i believe and ofcourse to living ur life!

Answer 6

Forty-two!

Answer 7

Meanning life is LOVE

Without love there is no life

It is different matter that whom do you love

Answer 8

the meaning of life is whatever you want it to be

Answer 9

life mean nothing if no love, but life is meaningful without love..

so don't make your life trouble with love....

Answer 10

Life is a period of time in which we should realize Our Self.

Look within and if the feeling of warmth,caring,kindness and respect comes, we are in love otherwise its just a crush or lust.

Answer 11

True love asks for nothing in return, this applies to Worship an expression of devotion to God.

All loving parents know this for their feeling for their children is this same love.

Words are symbols, love symbolizes mans highest value.

I disagree with one of your other contributors that We experience life in our brains. It is mind that is our Pilot of Life the citadel to all feelings and the pathway to knowing.

Mind, while not a physical evolution, is wholly dependent on the brain capacity afforded by purely physical and evolutionary developments.

P.738 - §3 The physical brain with its associated nervous system possesses innate capacity for response to mind ministry just as the developing mind of a personality possesses a certain innate capacity for spirit receptivity and therefore contains the potentials of spiritual progress and attainment. Intellectual, social, moral, and spiritual evolution are dependent on the mind. http://www.urantia.org/papers/paper65.ht...

P.670 - §1 The physiologic equipment and the anatomic structure of all new orders of life are in response to the action of physical law, but the subsequent endowment of mind is a bestowal of and in accordance with innate brain capacity. Mind, while not a physical evolution, is wholly dependent on the brain capacity afforded by purely physical and evolutionary developments. http://www.urantia.org/papers/paper58.ht...