Is there a real meaning and purpose to life?

This has to be about the most important question that anyone can ask. Ever.

The answers you get may vary. Some may even suggest that you should not ask the question. Richard Dawkins, Oxford biologist, says that science can only answer "how" rather than "why" – and that we should not even ask the "why" question anyway.

But without a real reason for living, why bother? Yet we sense that there are universal ideals in the world which seem to reflect something bigger than we are – love and justice for example.

Different faith systems attempt to make sense of it all. Many (New Age, Hinduism, Buddhism etc) do not suggest that there is any creator god outside the physical universe. Such spiritual forces as exist are seen as a part of the physical world, rather than outside it. Others faith communities focus on to a creator god, yet distant and unknowable.

Christianity has a quite revolutionary take on all this. It paints a unique picture, whereby a powerful creator God, who could put together a universe arguably 10 billion light-years across, chose to condense himself down to a size and scope that people could understand, by being born as a baby into an occupied Middle Eastern country.

Jesus has to be the pivotal character in human history. Whatever you think of him, his impact has been total. And as C. S. Lewis observed, Jesus was either who he claimed to be, sick in the head, or a fraudster. There are no other alternatives.

When you look at Jesus, uncouple if you will, the defective behaviour of many of those who claim to follow him. If Jesus' analysis of human nature is correct – that it is deeply, totally flawed – then we would expect this to happen.

Is it intellectually credible?

There is remarkable convergence between science and the Bible: many eminent scientists are Christians. Archeological discoveries have frequently shown previously untestable statements in the Bible to be true. 

Does it work?

Things may look good in the shop. But will they work when we take them home? And continue to work, reliably? That's the test.

Millions of people are claiming that Jesus does make a difference to their lives. They say that they have found him to be a friend – a real personal presence who gives them new inner resources to cope with the problems and difficulties of modern life.

Perhaps you owe it to yourself to find out more?

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