What makes you exist

Love transforms not just the receiver, but also the giver. You still have to live out your own dreams and desires. The research is clear : as people, we are happiest in anticipation of an event, rather than living the actual event itself. Hence, you need a vision.

You need something to look forward to. You need a goal in which are you exerting conscious and daily effort. Keep in mind that it is the vision, not the goal that brings meaning. Hence, once you hit one, you need another. These are something you should never stop doing. What does your ideal day look like? See, many people become limited by the goals they can see in their history. Indeed, you are both the designer and the creator of your life experience.

Each must be bold and powerful. In fact, for many years, it never even crossed my mind. I was too busy overindulging in video games and other online media to give it a second of thought. As Yuval Noah Harari has said :. If you know what you want in life, technology can help you get it. Eventually, however, I took a step away from the matrix. I unplugged from the screens and took up reading. Reading turned into writing, and writing turned into an audience.

Like Cal Newport said, once I began doing something that benefited the lives of others, I started to deeply enjoy was doing, and writing very quickly became a passion. You were created to become like God—to build perfect, holy, righteous character. God is reproducing Himself in human beings.

Just as you are the child of parents, and possibly have children of your own, God is your Parent. Again, as you physically look like your parents, and your children resemble you, God wants you to look like Him—in spiritual character!

In this life, God begins to spiritually re-form and re-shape those He calls. His Purpose is to build within them His nature.

He is creating children that will look and BE just like Him! To build the very character of God is the reason you exist! But there is more to understand. Satan will be removed Lev. A few will reject God, refusing to obey Him. They will reject building righteousness in their life and choose to remain incomplete — unfinished in purpose and character. It is supremely important—absolutely vital! We do not do the character-building works. Jesus Christ at work in us does them.

The Father guides this process as each person remains in contact with Him through the Spirit of Christ and God in him. Keep this clear. It is not anything that you do, of and by yourself, which produces works of righteousness.

It is a complete waste of effort to build your own character, your own works of righteousness. They gain you nothing with God. All spiritual growth comes from Him! But you must do your part in yielding to God.

This is profound understanding. God is building a Family. He is a Husbandman. GOD , not any man, is building His Church. Of course, every stable building has a proper foundation. It helps it remain solid.

This knowledge is certainly a mystery to most. Flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of God— but spirit can! Because Christ wanted to allow no room for misunderstanding, He likened spirit to wind. Like wind, spirit is invisible. It cannot be seen. Only at the resurrection are all true Christians changed from flesh to spirit— born again! Through His Spirit entering the mind of each of His newly converted children, a new spirit life is begotten.

A tiny, spirit-begotten embryo comes into existence. Both the Old and New Testaments make this absolutely plain! We will one day have the very likeness of Christ.

At that time, we will be born of God. So then—let me also repeat this—God is reproducing Himself in human beings who have received His Holy Spirit. He is creating children that will look and be just like Him! The following is a direct description of Jesus Christ, as He now exists in full glory. What this astounding description reveals about your future is not my personal opinion.

It is what your Bible reveals! Grasp this. The very Spirit of God in us will allow us to awake in the resurrection. He had fulfilled His task of becoming the Savior. Now, understand this point! It is the same Spirit, dwelling in us from the moment of begettal, which will raise us all those begotten of God to join God in His kingdom.

Christians are to grow in this lifetime. The context begins in Chapter 1. Watch the picture unfold of what your awesome future can be. Angels are not offered membership in the Family of God. This is why Satan as a fallen angel so hates the idea that puny, fleshly man can receive what he has never been offered nor can ever achieve.

And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to Me a Son? A scepter is a rod or staff used as a symbol of rulership or authority —and in His kingdom it is God who has all power. Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

This sets the stage for what we must understand! This amazing series of verses continues in chapter 2—and builds in understanding and impact. Paul quotes Psalm Since God is eternal, and sits over the entire universe and has all power under His control, no wonder David asked, and Paul repeated, this question. For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left nothing that is not put under him. This has not yet happened—but soon will.

This will start with the entire Earth. Then the vast universe, with all of its quadrillions of stars and one trillion galaxies, will eventually be put under the authority of men who have been born into the Family of God.

This is staggering knowledge! Take time to truly grasp it. Savor what can be your future. It is the reason you exist—it explains why you were born! Before continuing, consider a fascinating verse about another related aspect of salvation few understand. We have seen that Christians await a truly incredible salvation. This is part of your calling. Did you catch what was said? Do you grasp it? These verses contain the promise of a staggering future available to mankind.

These verses reveal the awesome potential planned for all Christians. The Bible reveals a connection between sons and heirs. An heir has not yet inherited what is to come to him. God will share rulership over His entire creation with all of His Sons. Christ is merely the first of many. The birth of a firstborn son does not preclude the birth of additional sons and daughters to that same family.

I have two sons and am a firstborn son with a younger brother. My father was a second born son, having an elder brother and so on. You see the point. This booklet has taught you the truth about why you exist! The cherished traditions and fables of men, about life after death, or about anything else, have no value.

The truth of the Bible is the only knowledge of permanent worth. Christians, having come out of a deceived, confused world, are set apart from the world by the TRUTH. Do you see what has been described here? The Christian goal is to be born into the kingdom of God —to become an immortal spirit being who will rule under Christ.

Earlier, this booklet spoke about the terrible suffering, misery and insoluble problems of a world cut off from God. His mercy will soon cut this short, bringing it to an end. But why has such terrible suffering been necessary—and for so long? What a profoundly important verse to grasp.

Suffering kicks the spiritual learning mechanism into gear. When people suffer, they learn Ecc. They gain experience—learn lessons. This is critically important to the character-building process—to fulfilling their purpose for being! Even Christ learned through suffering. Can you now understand why the world must suffer? Here is how Herbert W. The subheads are his:. Elohim means one God —not many gods. But that one God is a divine Family —a Kingdom. There is but one true Church— one Church, but many members I Cor.

Spiritually, there is the angel kingdom, and, high above all, the Kingdom of God. The purpose of your being alive is that finally you be born into the Kingdom of God, which is the divine Family of God. Our website uses cookies to function properly. By using our site, you agree to the use of cookies. We take your privacy seriously. For more information: See our privacy policy. The Restored Church of God.

Common questions: Are You Being Called? What Happens When You Die? Why Were You Born? About Us. News 7. My Bookshelf Continue reading, organize 0. Featured Item. Critics will accuse of him circular reasoning? Your central argument in the book focuses on the implications of brain transplantation. Tell me more. But they could not both be Alexandra; for then they would be the same person as each other — and clearly they are not. But that makes no sense, because in that case before the operation Alexandra would correctly expect to have parts of the experiences of each of the subsequent persons; but no subsequent person has experiences which are mixtures of the experiences of the two subsequent persons.

Can one ever prove the existence of a soul? Is personal identity in danger of being eliminated by technology? But we would only have grounds for believing robots to be conscious if the events in them which cause this behaviour were similar to the brain events, themselves caused by conscious events, which cause such behaviour in us. Does philosophy provide any answers? A theologian finds the cat.

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This nuclear state, known as the Hoyle State , was discovered just five years later by nuclear physicist Willie Fowler, who also discovered the triple-alpha process that formed it, just as Hoyle predicted. The prediction of the Hoyle State and the discovery of the triple-alpha process is perhaps the most This process is what explains the creation of the majority of carbon that's found in our modern-day Universe.

Another time the anthropic principle was successfully applied was to the puzzle of understanding what the vacuum energy of the Universe is. In quantum field theory, you can try to calculate what the energy of empty space is: known as the zero-point energy of space.

If you were to remove all the particles and external fields from a region of space — no masses, no charges, no light, no radiation, no gravitational waves, no curved spacetime, etc. But that empty space would still contain the laws of physics in them, which means that it would still contain the fluctuating quantum fields that exist everywhere throughout the Universe. Clearly, the answer we get from doing that calculation is wrong. Even in the vacuum of empty space, devoid of masses, charges, curved space, and any external fields, If you calculate the lowest-energy state, you may find that it is not exactly zero; the zero-point or vacuum energy of the Universe appears to be positive and finite, although small.

The energy of empty space determines how quickly the Universe expands or contracts, even apart from all the matter and radiation within it. If that expansion or contraction rate is too high, we could never form life, planets, stars, or even molecules and atoms within the Universe. If we use the fact that our Universe has galaxies, stars, planets, and even human beings on one of them, we can place extraordinary limits on how much vacuum energy could possibly be in the Universe.

Even without the necessary tools to perform the calculations needed to obtain the answer, the anthropic principle got us remarkably close. The string landscape might be a fascinating idea that's full of theoretical potential, but it cannot Still, understanding why this value takes on the particular one it does is a fine-tuning question that most scientists assume has a physically-motivated answer.

Just a few days ago, theoretical physicist John Barrow died, a victim of colon cancer. In that book, they redefined the anthropic principle as the following two statements:. Although these statements might seem equivalent on the surface to the prior ones, they add up to something very different. The existence of complex, carbon-based molecules in star forming regions is interesting, but isn't