The Three Most Often Asked Questions - Are they Yours?
Various polls mention these questions up as those that people bring up most and would like an answer to: Why were you born and what is the purpose of life?, Is there a God? and What happens after death?
I'm sure that at some time you've wondered about these questions. Perhaps sometimes deeply, and wanting to find truthful answers. Maybe it was only in passing, avoiding and dismissing deeper inquiry. You may have gotten lost in the many conflicting answers to these questions that confront the human experience.
What are your thoughts? Are you satisfied with them?
The question about what happens after death troubled me when I was 14 years old. I went to the funerals of a number of people and was particularly disturbed about the death of a classmate who drowned. One minute he was, the next he was no more. Nothing will bring him back. At his funeral his parents were distraught. We all were. How could this be? Why did it happen? Why did it have to happen? Where was God in all this? Can this happen randomly to anyone? What should I be thinking?
I came across a booklet called Why Were You Born? that changed my vagueness about life and death to certainty. The booklet itself didn't do it; rather it pointed me to an authoritative source of knowledge that cemented in my mind who I am, who God is and what lies beyond this very obviously temporary life. Death is such a certainty. No faith is required to believe in death. But what it all means is another story.
What I was introduced to was the Bible. I found that it contains an amazing story about God and man starting in the first chapter of Genesis, where God says, "Let Us make man in Our image, according our likeness" (Genesis 1:26). That immediately sparked my interest, because it said man was to look like God. That question brought on others about the relationship between God and man.
Death and life are inextricably linked, and once you see what the relationship between God and man is and what God has in store for mankind, you will be astounded. I was. Not only were my questions about my existence satisfactorily explained, the Bible also answered questions about why the world is allowed to be what it is, with its tragedies and sorrow.
I will be writing to you more to you about this subject, but I ask you to please visit our website and see the first of our Why Were You Born? public appearance campaigns. The first was held last week in Cincinnati, and I invite you to see the presentation that is posted on our website at www.ucg.org/webcast-bible-study/christian-living/why-were-you-born/.
It will begin to take you on a path to understand what more and more people are coming to understand as the truth about who we are and what our purpose and our destiny is going to be.
I'd like to hear from you. If you're on Twitter, I'd like for you to tweet me at @VictorKubik. I also enjoy hearing from you by e-mail at victor_kubik@ucg.org.
