age 15 — “the main point of life is to have the best existence possible”

[Multicolored Lemur]

I came up with this when I was coming down from being an evangelical Christian. And I was rather proud of this!

Notice that this is true even if Christianity were true.

And also notice that this is selfish. But with a “helicopter mother,” yeah, it’s what I needed at the time.

 

[Scooter]

The main point of my life is to glorify God and point others to Christ. Since He died for me, the least I can do is live for Him.

 

[Multicolored Lemur]

I was focusing on rich life experiences, maybe by myself, maybe with friends. Preferably with friends.

I wasn’t interested in superficial “popularity.” Nor in acquiring a bunch of material possessions which weren’t going to mean anything.

* a meaningful job might be a different matter

And this might be a good time in which to remind people that I’m most probably “spectrum” or “aspie,” which means Autism-Aspergers Spectrum.

And at age 61, no, I’m not diagnosed by a professional. Few people my age will be!

 

[Multicolored Lemur]

The main point of my life is to glorify God and point others to Christ. Since He died for me, the least I can do is live for Him

Alright, my Grandfather worked as a fire fighter in a large city in the Eastern U.S. during World War II. I don’t think he would have been allowed to join either the Army or Navy because he had an essential civilian job.

But let’s say he dies in a fire.

Or, let’s say he does manage to join up and is killed during the War.

I think he’d want us to live for ourselves, and not for him. Although he’d want to be remembered, as I’m sure he would be.

 

[AgnosticBoy]

Taken from the thread title:

age 15 — “the main point of life is to have the best existence possible”​

A response from a Christian member:

The main point of my life is to glorify God and point others to Christ. Since He died for me, the least I can do is live for Him.

The first point is a good one if it includes the welfare of others as opposed to being self-centered. The second response sounds boring if that is the only goal of life. It's would be like living a religious ascetic life, like a monk. I think that having some fun and non-religious interests should also be one of our goals for life, even for Christians.

 

[Scooter]

If you’ve never experienced the salvation of Christ, you cannot understand the desire to share Him with others. I know what He’s done for me and I want to glorify Him and tell others about Him. That’s the main point for my life.

 

[AgnosticBoy]

If you’ve never experienced the salvation of Christ, you cannot understand the desire to share Him with others. I know what He’s done for me and I want to glorify Him and tell others about Him. That’s the main point for my life.

I'm a former Christian. I was one from childhood until I was 22 years-old. I sincerely believed in Christianity, and I even went further by trying to defend Christian beliefs against the objections of atheists. Maybe in the most technical sense that might not count as a Christian (if once saved always saved is true), but I was deeply involved in Christianity. That part wasn't boring to me.

I suppose that as long as it's not wrong to have some non-religious interests (as in not always trying to bring someone to Christ), then Christianity would not be boring, imo.

 

[Scooter]

I can’t speak about your experiences, but I do know what the Bible teaches. When a person is saved, they are born again. When a person is born again they are kept by the power of God. I would love to hear about your Christian experience.

 

[Scooter]

I suppose that as long as it's not wrong to have some non-religious interests (as in not always trying to bring someone to Christ), then Christianity would not be boring, imo.

I see absolutely nothing wrong with having non-religious interests. I love to compete in live action pistol matches. I shoot almost every weekend. Last week I bought a kayak and took it out fishing last night. But these hobbies are not my main focus in life. If my pastime activities ever interfere with my ministry, they're outta here.

 

[Multicolored Lemur]

I'm a former Christian. I was one from childhood until I was 22 years-old. I sincerely believed in Christianity, and I even went further by trying to defend Christian beliefs against the objections of atheists.

This very much seems like you were a sincere, committed Christian.

As I was.

At the beginning of 9th grade when I was 14, I put a sticker on my locker which said “Jesus gives new Life” with purple grades.

I was over my head when all 25 students in my 3rd history seemed to go out to the lockers after class and before lunch. Some mean kid said something about his locker being close to the “Jesus freak.” it bothered me more that I was stymied and didn’t know what to say.

The social embarrassment was a big thing nagging at me.

I decided to take off the sticker , which felt like the right decision.

I tried to take it off cleanly the next morning. It tore, and left a white half sticker in about 1/3 of the territory where it had been.

The same mean kid later said something about someone taking off my sticker. Again, I didn’t know what to say. I should have matter-of-factly said, I’m going to get a bigger one. Even if I wasn’t serious.