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1. • • “Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.” –Pastor Rick Warren, in The Purpose Driven Life
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     Purpose, Meaning, and Morality Without God - Psychology Today

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   Does life have meaning if God exists?

   • It does not seem implausible that some people, e.g., John Wayne Gacy, have lived lives that lack such an “appropriate” meaning. Furthermore, some claim that our lives could have meaning only if God exists. Indeed, sometimes theists make this claim, and then argue that since life has meaning, God exists.

   God, the meaning of life, and a new argument for atheism

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   What if God does not exist?

   • But if God does not exist, then all we are left with is despair. …if God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is meaningless… If God does not exist, then life is futile. If the God of the Bible does exist, then life is meaningful.

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   Can life have meaning if there is no God?

   • That is, given the current state of knowledge, we might, for all we know, exist in G, or we might, for all we know, exist in NG. 9 Furthermore, assume that God is somehow the source of the meaning of life; God is necessary for life to have meaning; but then if there is no God, life cannot have meaning.

   God, the meaning of life, and a new argument for atheism

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   Is life meaningless if God exists?

   • But it seems that if we are in a universe created by God, then if God uses a life to bring about a greater good, that life is not meaningless; the person in question, e.g., serves an important purpose, and so their life has meaning after all. But if (1) and (2) are true, then, If God exists, then no lives are meaningless.

   God, the meaning of life, and a new argument for atheism

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   Does God really exist?

   • So, if God does indeed exist and created or actualized the actual world, then the fact that God chose to actualize a world that contains us suggests that our lives have meaning, even if we do not or even cannot know what it is. That is, if God exists, then our lives have meaning. We briefly address some possible objections.

   God, the meaning of life, and a new argument for atheism

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   Does life have meaning?

   • So, the meaning of life will not depend upon any of our beliefs, actions, and so on. And again, this is implausible, which suggests that the meaning of life is not dependent upon God. So, given that life has meaning, either this meaning is intrinsic to us or not; but either option suggests that God is not necessary for life to have meaning.

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3. philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com › 2015 › 08Is God the source of meaning in life? Four Critical Arguments

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   To anyone who claims that God’s existence is necessary for meaning, we can pose the following question: do our lives have meaning simply because God decrees that they do, or does God choose his decrees based on some independent standard of meaningfulness?

   • Author: John Danaher

4. plato.stanford.edu › sum2020 › entriesThe Meaning of Life - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   May 15, 2007 · If God or a soul does not exist, or if they exist but one fails to have the right relationship with them, then supernaturalism—or the Western version of it (on which I focus)—entails that one's life is meaningless.

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6. link.springer.com › article › 10God, the meaning of life, and a new argument for atheism

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   Posit two possible worlds: G and NG. Both worlds—G and NG—are perfect duplicates of each other, but with one exception: God exists in G but God doesn’t exist in NG. Moreover, both worlds—apart from the existence or non-existence of God—are perfect duplicates of the actual world. To rephrase this: we either exist in G or NG. If God exists, then we e...

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   Suppose that human life has meaning. If so, there are two possibilities. First, human lives have intrinsic meaning. That is, a human life is meaningful in and of itself. A life’s meaning is not dependent upon anything external to itself. So, e.g., if there was a possible world that contained nothing aside from a single human being, the human life w...

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   We now offer a third argument for doubting that God is a necessary condition for meaningful human life. Suppose that God is necessary for our lives to have meaning. But then, the meaning of life must arise through some sort of relation, whatever it might be, that we stand in with respect to God; for if no such relation between us and God is needed ...

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   Consider Divine Command Theory (DCT): moral facts are (somehow) reducible to God’s commands. And consider a problem with DCT, the Euthyphro Dilemma: is x moral because God commands x or does God command x because it is moral? If the former, then the fact that x is moral is arbitrary; had there been any further facts that explained God’s command to ...

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   • Author: Jason L. Megill, Daniel Linford

   • Publish Year: 2016

7. plato.stanford.edu › entries › life-meaningThe Meaning of Life - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   May 15, 2007 · In contrast, by the latter, having a soul and putting it into a certain state is what makes life meaningful, even if God does not exist. Many supernaturalists of course believe that God and a soul are jointly necessary for a (greatly) meaningful existence.

8. www.tandfonline.com › doi › pdfTheism and the Meaning of Life - Taylor & Francis Online

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   Theists are inclined to assert that human life would be meaningless if there was no personal immortality and God did not exist. The present paper aims to evaluate the truth of this claim. The author first explores the conception of meaning that is at the roots of the theistic position.

   • Author: Gianluca Di Muzio

   • Publish Year: 2006

9. www.cambridge.org › core › elementsGod, Soul and the Meaning of Life

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   There have been four broad views: God or a soul is necessary for meaning in our lives; neither is necessary for it; one or both would greatly enhance the meaning in our lives; one or both would substantially detract from it.

10. plato.stanford.edu › entries › pragmatic-belief-godPragmatic Arguments and Belief in God (Stanford Encyclopedia ...

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    Aug 16, 2004 · If God does not exist, then life is futile. If the God of the Bible does exist, then life is meaningful. Only the second of these two alternatives enables us to live happily and consistently.