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Who am I? Why am I alive? What is life all about? What happens after death? This book points the way towards Christian answers to our deepest questions.

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Publié par	Lion Hudson
Date de parution	08 octobre 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780745957500
Langue	English

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Text copyright © 1986 Norman Warren This edition copyright © 1999 Lion Hudson
The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
Published by Lion an imprint of Lion Hudson plc Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, England www.lionhudson.com
ISBN: 978-0-7459-4133-2 e-ISBN: 978-0-7459-5750-0
First edition 1986 First electronic edition 2012
All rights reserved
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Cover image: Getty
Table of Content
Cover Title Page Copyright What’s the point? Who am I? What is the purpose of life? How do we know there is a God? Who made God? What is God like? How did it all begin? What has gone wrong? Why do we do wrong? Why is the world in such a mess? What has God done about it? But did Jesus really exist? What was Jesus like? What did Jesus teach? Why did Jesus die? Did Jesus really rise from the dead? What is a Christian? How can I become a Christian? Can I be sure that God has accepted me? How can I know I am forgiven? What does it mean to follow Jesus? Why read the bible? How can I overcome wrong? What about church? What is prayer? What about other religions? Why is there so much suffering? Is there life after death? How will it all end?
What’s the point?
‘Jim worked hard all his life. He’d just retired and we were looking forward to enjoying ourselves – now he’s dead. What’s the point of it all?’
‘We brought this child into the world. He goes his own way – never says thank you – now he’s in trouble with the police. What’s the point of it all?’
‘I’ve been married two years. We were saving up to get our own place. I thought everything was fine – now my wife has cleared off with another bloke. What’s the point of it all?’
‘I’ve worked hard at school, got my qualifications and can’t find a job. What’s the point of it all?’
‘It took us eight years before we could have a child and now our little girl has got cancer. What’s the point of it all?’
‘The way things are going we are destroying our world. What’s the point of it all?’
‘I go to work, come home, eat, sleep, go back to work. Life is one dreary bore. What’s the point of it all?’

What is the purpose of life – why am I here?
Is there a God and does he care?
Who am I?
There is so much about life that is unreal and dreamlike. Moments come when we find ourselves asking the questions:
Who am I?
What is life all about?
Why am I here?
I feel so small and insignificant, and wonder deep down if I matter. In the eyes of the state I am just a number, one among many millions. How can I be of any importance?
I look in the mirror and am sometimes startled by the stranger who seems to be staring back at me.
I am alive – I must be – I go to work, I talk to people, I eat. I go to bed and sleep, and then wake up the next day. It all suddenly seems so pointless and empty. Time rushes by. Birthdays come and go and I wonder where the years have gone.
Where do I fit in all this? I seem to be going nowhere fast.
The universe is so vast. The endlessness of space is so frightening. Even our Earth looks a mere speck as we hear of stars and galaxies millions of light years away. Yet here on Earth for the first time in human history we have the ability to blow it and everything in it to pieces. The whole thing seems like a sick and senseless joke.
We go to the funeral of someone we know, killed on the road. We hear of a friend struck down with cancer in the prime of life and we think, ‘That could be me.’ We wonder if there is anything after death – or is that the end of me?
Most of the time we try to sweep all these thoughts away as we slip back on to the merry-go-round of life with all its passing atractions.
But the fears and aches and uncertainties will not go away. All the time they are still lurking just below the surface.
What is the purpose of life?
‘All I want is to be happy. As long as I have a home, a family and friends, and enough money to do what I like when I like, life is good. I’m fine.’

But deep down we know these things do not satisfy. We try to shut from our minds everything unpleasant. We don’t want to look too closely at ourselves for fear of what we might find. And so the days and weeks and years of our life drift by with ever increasing speed.
Then some tragedy strikes. You lose your job. A close relationship goes wrong. Someone you love dies and your world comes crashing down.
‘Oh God!’ we cry out, but we are not sure if there is a God who hears or cares, and we feel lonely and empty.
The happiness we long for vanishes like the morning mist.
This book has been written so that you can know that there is a God and that he does care for you and has a purpose for the whole of life that is slowly and surely being worked out.
How do we know there is a God?
Some people say, ‘There isn’t a God because I can’t see him.’ There are many things in everyday life we cannot see, yet we know they are there.
We cannot see the wind. We know it is there because we can see it blowing the washing on the line and the leaves in the trees.
We cannot see electricity. We know it is there when we switch on the light.
We cannot see air. We know it is there because we couldn’t live for a minute without it.
We cannot see love. We know it is there in those who care for us.
We cannot see God. We know he is there because of the wonderful world all around us. It is full of beauty and colour and amazing designs, from the tiniest insect to the vast, unending universe.
Things do not happen by chance. With a book, the words do not fly through the air and happen to land in the right order. Someone has to put it all together to make sense. So a book must have an author: someone to write it. A painting must have an artist: someone to paint it. A building must have an architect: someone to plan it.
So too with our world. It did not happen all by chance.
Someone planned it, put it together. This great Designer, Architect, Creator, we call God.
Who made God?
God is the name we give to the great and wonderful Creator: the one who made the whole universe, the one who alone gives life.
We live in time, so we have a beginning and an end, our birth and our death. Because we are like this we think that God must be like this, too.
But he is different. The Bible tells us God has no beginning and no end. He is not limited by time – hours, days, weeks, months and years – as we are.
If someone had made God, then that someone would have to be greater than God. But God is all-powerful, almighty. Who made God? Answer: no one.
Think of space. It has no beginning and no end. God is eternal: he has no beginning and no end. He is far greater than our little minds can ever take in.
We live in a world of change. Fashions changes, politicians rise and fall, heroes of sport and the music world are at the top one year and forgotten the next.
We change too: our friendships, our habits, our bodies.
God never changes. His love and care never change. He doesn’t love us one day and ignore us the next.

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