[ Back ] [ Home ] [ Next ]

 The website of good reasons for why you can be a Christian

Why bother looking for hope, meaning and purpose ?

Because:

1.  We can't understand our selves 

2.  We have needs

3. It is reasonable to pursue the possibility of hope, meaning, and

If we do have needs and it is reasonable to pursue answers, then what are the ...

4.  Possible sources of hope and meaning

Is it possible that a relationship with God could provide hope, meaning, and purpose in one's life ?

The short answer is Yes, but such a life is not an easy life.  

"We need to be happy in this wonderland without once being merely comfortable.  It is this achievement of [ the true  Christian creed that makes it worth pursuing]"¹

If you need evidence that God exists, then go back to the home page and begin working through the arguments.  If you want to get right to a way of getting meaning and purpose in this world, start with 3 ways of living.

1. G.K. Cherstson, Orthodoxy, (New York: Doubleday, 1990) , 11.