چکیده:
According to Craig, if there is no God and immortality then the universe, mankind and each individual person are without ultimate meaning, value and purpose and, in consequence, they would be absurd. Since it is impossible to live happily in an absurd world, an atheist has no other choice than to bring meaning, value and purpose into his life in one way or another. But he is not entitled to do so, because meaningful, valuable and purposeful life depend on belief in God and immortality. An atheist should, therefore, live either unhappily but consistently with his atheistic position or happily but not consistently with his position. Craig concludes that Christianity provides the two conditions necessary for a meaningful, valuable, and purposeful life, namely God and immortality, and because of this, a Christian can live consistently and happily. Finally, he presents methods for defending the Christian position on the meaning of life.
خلاصه ماشینی:
But he cannot live happily in such an absurd world; therefore, he constantly makes leaps of faith toward the upper story to affirm meaning, value, and purpose, even though he has no right to do so because he does not believe in God. When the modern man makes this leap, he is completely inconsistent, because these values cannot exist without God, and the man in the lower story does not have God. Therefore, we look again at each of the three realms in which we saw that life without God is absurd, to show how man cannot live in a consistent and happy manner with his atheism.
The only way for most humans who deny purpose in life to live happily is either to fabricate a purpose which, as we saw in the case of Sartre, means self-deception, or not to follow their view to its logical conclusions.
According to Ernst Bloch (32), the only way for the new human to live in the face of death is to unconsciously borrow the belief in immortality that his ancestors believed in, even though he himself has no basis for this belief because he does not believe in God. Bloch says that this belief that life ends in nothingness is, in his words, not "enough for a person to hold his head high and act as if no end exists.
From the perspective of the Christian worldview, God exists and human life does not end with death.
(
, 
, 
)
