Why ‘Why We Are Here?’ Is Important Posted in: Belief and Truth, What are we doing here?

No disrespect intended, but I am not a fan of comebacks like ‘Don’t worry about why you are here … just worry about how you are going to get out’ or ‘You don’t need to know why you are here, you should simply focus on how you are going to get out’.

The main problem with these types of non-answers, these deflections, is the presumption that we are not here for good reason(s). Inferred is there is a fundamental problem of our own causing to be solved. There is no scope for exploration of the possibility that there is something positive, something beautiful and glorious, something worthy of everything God is held to be, going on here.

Why is that a problem for me? Simply put, we end up putting all of our energy into solving a problem that might not actually exist. The experience of birth, death, decease and suffering having been misdiagnosed as symptoms of wrong-doing in relationship to God . The ‘redemption’ remedy prescribed on the back of that misdiagnosis.

What if everything is going on perfectly … precisely as God intends? After all, if one believes that God is perfect, is not reasonable to expect that everything that comes from God is also perfect? Us and this world included? Simply we do not presently understand that divine purpose and have jumped to wrong conclusions based on our very limited points of view … for example our identification with body, and/or belief that this life is all in all.

Or perhaps misdiagnosis and contextual-consequent subjective remedy is all part of the perfect plan anyway?