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Course 101 (What is Life? (People always wonder about the meaning of life,…

- - - - Nature of Man
        
        Theism
        
        Identity: child of God, thus eternal being with a soul with the goal of glorifying and relating with God
        
        We have a soul
        
        We yearn for something outside the world
        
        We have an eternal desire that cannot be satisfied by food or pleasure, that we are made for another world after the present
        
        Genesis
        
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        Trying to find our purpose apart from creator makes no sense
        
        Who is this creator?
        
        Does God Exist?
        
        No airtight proof God exists, but that's assuming strong rationalism, which has no airtight proof to prove itself. Instead, there are a lot of clues about God
        
        Kalam Cosmological Argument
        
        Everything with a beginning has a cause. The universe has a beginning, thus the universe had a cause. The source has to be outside the universe
        
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        Atheism (Naturalism & Scientism)
        
        Survival Machines (pleasure; preserve genes; life has no meaning)
        
        Our destiny is to die, nothing we do here means anything in the long run including love, achievement, or wealth
        
        We're just physical matter, no soul
        
        We're accidents
        
        Only Goal: Maximize pleasure, minimize pain
        
        Life is too short and we all die anyways, so might as well feed our desires in this world because we may die tomorrow
        
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        Parable of the Rich Fool
        
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        To answer nature of man, we have to ask: What is our origin?
        
        Our purpose is tied to our identity. It's hard to figure out anythings purpose by its description (dog, chair, picture, lamp, our relationships) without giving it an identity