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I'm an 29 year old guy.I'll always do my best to give well considered and sincere advice - give me your best shot. P.S. Don't be afraid to ask me private questions, I rarely spend a lot of time answering non-private questions.
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If God gives humanity purpose and meaning, what gives God purpose and meaning?
Is God meaningless and purposeless?! If so, wouldn't that mean that humans are just meaningless and purposeless, and that their "meaning" and "purpose" given by God is purely arbitrary?
This is where Philosophy class comes in handy.
I don't know if you're Christian, or some other religion who believes in God, so I hope you won't be offended by my inability to find God in my perceptions of the world.
When you ask questions like this, you have to decide on definitions of every word you use. What kind of God are you talking about?
I'll presume that we're talking about an all powerful, all loving, all knowing God.
There are a lot of problems when you go in to this definition, but I'll leave them asside.
Why do you suppose God would have given humanity purpose or meaning?
Everything in this is a question in its-self. To ask what gives God meaning, you have to ask how God exists... If God cannot be a person (Which Jesus was) because it would mean they were less perfect than a true "God" should be, then how can you ever know God exists?
If God did exist, and we don't question that, then perhaps God's only purpose would be to exist. God's meaning and purpose was to exist, and create, and love. Personally I think that is a little hollow.
Faith is a wonderful thing. It can give people the strength to do extra-ordinary things. To believe in something is important, because it gives you purpose, and when that purpose is for good, then perhaps God is nothing but the good in everyone.
If you take away God, then a purpose is actually clearer in my mind. To live well. God should not have to be around to tell you what is wrong or right. A kind, loving God wouldn't need Christians to apollogise for sinning every day, and feel bad about themselves. I could probably go on forever about it, but I don't know if any of this really relates to the way you asked the question anyway.
The best place I can reccomend is http://plato.stanford.edu/
If you're interested, go there and look up God, and Meaning or Purpose.
-K
(Rating: 5) The main purpose of my question centers around the idea of many religious people think that God is somehow essential for life to have meaning or purpose. Without some higher power, in other words, they think life cannot have any objective purpose or meaning. But that always makes me wonder what God's objective purpose or meaning could be? God is not subject to a higher power! And unless you define God as "meaning" or "purpose", then I really don't see how an appeal to such a being or thing can resolve the issue of objective purpose!
I agree with many of your sentiments, but I think what you're getting at (I could be misreading you) is that purpose and meaning is relative and never objective. If so, I agree with you, and that's why I find the concept of God hard to accept in appeals to objective purpose.