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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? (link)
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Well, the premise, "Something has to have been created to have meaning" doesn't really have a warrant. You can't necessarily prove this premise, it's sort of an assumption we've come to believe. I would argue that this is due to the inundation in the Christian dogma that your life can't have meaning without God. Thus, we've come to believe that something must have been created to have any meaning. Again, this claim isn't necessarily true.
As someone else said before him on this topic, God can find meaning in its own existence just as humans do for themselves. Consider the possibility that there is no God (a possibility, that, as an atheist, I accept). From this point, it is still possible for humans to find meaning in their life - I find meaning in mine everyday. If anything, life has more meaning because life becomes more precious. There's not a fairy-tale afterlife when all this is over, so it makes one cherish the time they have in this life.
Additionally, from a purely logical standpoint - God is supposed to be all-powerful. So, logically, God could simply will meaning for his existence into existence, if that makes sense.
I'm sure there are a number of other arguments on the subject, but the point is - God doesn't necessarily have no meaning just because it was created. In answer to your second question: from this argument, we can also conclude that humans are not just meaningless and purposeless, even if God doesn't have meaning, for the same reason. Humans don't need God to have meaning.
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Well, I am referring to a specific type of meaning, namely an "objective" purpose that simply cannot be changed and which isn't relative at all. I have a view similar to yours about meaning, but I would never say there is one over-arching meaning that is applicable to everything. So, in short, if meaning is relative, we don't need God to have a meaning for our lives. And if meaning is objective and supplied to us by a higher power, as many theists believe, then God is obviously meaningless.
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