WHY ARE WE HERE?
Many people have argued that we are created for a purpose. Created because it is believed and backed by Holy Books that a Supreme Being created human beings in His own image. By image, we (philosophers) believe they mean human image because no man is a woman and no woman is a man and this Supreme Being cannot be both male and female.
If you ask an average believer of God out there his/her purpose in life, you will simply get a straight answer which is: to worship/serve God. They believe and as backed by the Holy Books that a Supreme Being created man (human beings) to serve Him. So human creation is simply for the purpose of serving the power that brought him into existence.
If this is the belief of the believers, what happens to the non believers? Is it the case that the non believers are wrong to deny they have such purpose to simply live a life of serving a Being for 70-100 years?
Can it be argued that we were not created by any Being but we just get lucky? Like Jean Paul Sartre argued that man just find himself existing and only afterward he created his purpose. For J.P Satre, man's purpose is his own creation. There is no force or power luring him from behind on how to behave or what to do. Man is simply a free being.
If we agree with the believers that we have such purpose, then we can ask them how best to worship or serve the Supreme Being. Do not forget that different religions have different ways of worshipping the Supreme Being. Is it the case that He can be worshipped or served in any manner? If yes, then why the question of true religion or fake religion? Why do some believers belief their religions would be accepted instead?
If we remove the idea of God from the claim of the believers that we are created for a purpose, then the idea becomes folly. Imagine the idea of God is removed from the creation story, then we have no purpose at all.
Can it be argued that we are here to create our own purpose, work toward it and try to achieve it. This is because if the believers idea is to be taken seriously, then it follows also that we are already predetermined or programmed in such a way that we will always work towards serving the Supreme Being.
Can't we have a purpose that is not 'God serving driven'? Can't we have a purpose that is driven by and towards the good of humanity, to better the lives of fellow human beings?
Why do you thing we are in this world? Do you think it is to serve a Supreme Being only and all flesh matters are distractions?
Thanks for your time.
Also can we morph the meaning of purpose to not necessarily mean an end "goal", rather a process of change and learning perhaps. I think that the idea of "meaning" and "purpose" comes strapped with so much baggage and projection that it rarely becomes helpful.
Yes it is possible but i am afraid it means end goal and reason we were created in the first place.
Worshipping God for that long is a process, something you do often but it has an end or direction it's working towards which is either hell or heaven.
In the context in which i used the word 'believer', it would be hard to deny that it means an end goal.