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fundamental questions, Gospel, Lifes questions, What happens when I die?, What is my purpose?, Where do I come from?, Who am I?
Did you know that what you believe about Life’s 4 Fundamental Questions can have an enormous impact on your worldview, way of life and the decisions that you make?
What are Life’s 4 Fundamental Questions?
- Who am I?
- Where do I come from?
- What is my purpose?
- What happens when I die?
Every people, tongue and tribe across the globe, and down through the ages, have struggled to discover meaning and purpose in their lives through an apprehension and understanding of the answers to the four questions above. In fact, every social and religious system in the world, attempts to answer these questions in a meaningful and inspirational way.
How would you answer these questions?
1. Who am I?
Would you define yourself by your sex?, race?, nationality?, political persuasion?, tax bracket? If so, how would each of those areas ultimately define who you really are?
2. Where do I come from?
How would you decide when in time to attribute your origin? Is the answer to where you come from, based on place of birth, place of youth, school, work or from where you were moments ago? Ultimately, we need to have come from “somewhere”, but where?
3. What is my purpose?
If asked, how would you answer what your purpose in this life is? Do you derive your answer from your goals and aspirations?, from your responsibilities?, from whim? Do we define our own purpose in this life or is there a greater purpose for our lives? How can a finite being be or determine the purpose of his own life?
4. What happens when I die?
Have you given any thought to your eternal destiny? When we breathe our last, is that it? Does our cosmic and kinetic energy simply cease to be along with our corporeal shell? We are going to be dead a lot longer than we will have been alive, so this is a critical one to ponder.
How would these questions be answered were someone a secular humanist or believer in the theory of evolution?
1. Who am I? — A random, cosmic accident; No one special.
2. Where do I come from? — The rocks beneath the pre-biotic soup after millions of years of rain.
3. What is my purpose? — None. I’ve come from nowhere and am heading nowhere.
4. What happens when I die? — Nothing. You just die and return to the earth.
Is this assessment correct? Are we really just cosmic accidents, emerged from rock, descended from animals and without a purpose or eternal home?
These same four questions have profoundly different answers if you seek truth where it can be found; in the Bible.
1. Who am I? — An intended creation, lovingly, fearfully and wonderfully made. (Psalm 139)
2. Where do I come from? — Created by God from the dust of the ground (Genesis 1)
3. What is my purpose? — To glorify God and enjoy Him forever! (1 Corinthians 10:31 / Roman 11:36)
4. What happens when I die? — Heaven–if I accept Christ as Savior. Hell–if I reject Christ as Savior. (Romans 10:9)
What do the ways you answer Life’s 4 Fundamental Questions say about you?
Across the Fruited Plain 
Excellent introduction. I am looking forward to more posts.
What’s with all that gosh darn Spanish speaking stuff at the top of your page? What are you some high minded illegal alien supporter? I have had enough with yer types running your mouths like you know what you’re say’n. What did you do, look up yer spanish on google translator? Try stringing two spanish words together on your own without lookn it up on your iphone. I bet you can’t do it..I can do it..”nacho bell grande” see! Easy enough.
Well I appreciate your website but I don’t know how much I will be stoppn over. I have made it a policy to not to visit any websites that force dual languages down my throat. Yall remind me of those phone numbers that make you choose 1 for english or 2 for spanish. I won’t push any of them. I just sit there waiting for someone to pick up. Sometimes I sit there on hold for hours listening to this dull steady beeping noise, you think they could at least play music. Sometimes this foul mouth woman comes on the phone and tells me to hang-up and try to make a call again. Boy do I give her a piece of my my mind, but she keeps repeating herself. Typical woman……I tell her “No Woman, I have been on hold for two hours and I am not going to put up with your barking orders at me”. Then she hangs up. You see I win battles, don’t mess with me boy.
Now my suggestion is to remove all yer spanish off the page. It’s confusing. Someone may log-on to your site and think they have arrived at some website selling mexican produce. Next thing you know you are going to have a bazillion Hispanics hanging out on your website like a Home Depot parking lot. Why home depot you ask? I don’t know either. Every tool in there is made in China and breaks upon second use.
Second thing I would do is to get a link to a google translator so if you to get any of those spanish types they can have a link to translate your page to spanish. However, I think you should rig the settings so when they click on the link, a pop up screen will say “Welcome to America Now Learn English”. Hahahahaha.
I realize maybe your trying to debunk evolution among the hispanic population, I give you props for that. But I think you stand to alienate most of your potential audience. I mean you may want to focus your outreach to Park Rangers and Zookeepers. Every time I take the kids to a natural resource like a national cave they tell me that it is millions of years old. Every time I go to the monkey exhibit, the zookeeper tells me to wave at my distant cousin swinging in the trees. I don’t know whether to be insulted or to invite the monkey over for a family reunion. Personally I think the zookeeper wants me to invite the monkey for a family reunion so she can score a free meal. Either way I am not persuaded.
I guess ‘J. David’ had allot to say and really had nothing to add with substance. Lets not confuse Spanish with Latin. Mr. R. Sepetjian this was a good read.
Thank you Mr. Balderas! and welcome to across the fruited plain! =)
I do so agree with you. I have just been discussing with a friend on some of these questions. It seems to me that the perspective so differentiates the responses to the questions. And the Bible is TRUTH?
Hi Adoma!
Thank you. And yes, indeed, the Bible is God’s revelation to mankind and is in fact divinely inspired truth.