Personal Essay: Does God Give Meaning To Life

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God Gives Meaning To Life

When I hear the word “religion”, God comes to my mind very quick. Many people find religion very controversial sometimes because they don’t believe in God or don’t want to hear about him. For many people and philosophers God gives no meaning to life and for others God does give meaning. Personally God gives a lot of meaning to my life and helps me with my daily life. For some people God is very important and others know about God but have no interest whatsoever. God gives meaning to life in many ways and for those who do not believe in him there will be a point in their life where they will start to believe and have questions about God.
Leo Tolstoy was someone who did not believe in God, but there was a time in his
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God is happiness. Many people decide to find happiness in things that are not worth it. People strive for happiness in money, or drugs, sure they find happiness for a certain time but then it goes away. There is many rich people in this world and have it all but happiness, they are not satisfied with all they have and the reason is God. If God is not in the life of one’s life then the happiness they have is only for short period of time. But when you have God in your life everything is different, there are things that want to be accomplished and the person has a goal in mind which is to live life as if it was the last day, happy and with God in the heart. When God gives no meaning to someone’s life they live each day like it doesn’t matter with no goal in mind without really caring about what will happen in the future. In my personal view the difference between being secular and not being one is that when someone is secular the person accepts things from this world, for example bad habits, drugs, vandalism, hate, alcohol, and much more. This world does not offer anything good only God does. When the person decides not to be secular then all those horrible things are set apart and one makes wiser decisions and does not accept to do things that are bad for oneself or

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