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Have Christians Solved the Meaning of Life?
There is a holiness without which we will not see the Lord. Hebrews 12:14
Do these things and you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Galatians 5:21
One of the first questions that dawned on me as I abandoned my faith in early adulthood, was that I was now “free.”
Along with this feeling, I remember that this “freedom” had an unnatural sting to it.
For some reason, I could not find it fulfilling. Looking back I now realize that it wasn’t simply that abandoning my ideology led to my unfulfillment but rather, it was that I did not have a community that I belonged to. Earlier in life, my faith granted me a community.
That is why whenever I tell young Christians if they want to see whether their “faith” is real, I urge them to abandon their Christian communities; They will quickly realize how much of their faith depends on those closest to them.
Similarly, I readily admit that if I ever lose my closest friends that are nonbelievers and join Christian communities, it may become the case that I return to my previous faith.
The seeming meaninglessness of life is not off-limits by Christian theology. Indeed, some may argue…
