Atheist, agnostic, and seeking friends of mine -- thought for you -- is there someone that you would jump in front of a train to save, if you knew that it would cost you your life? I can think of several people in my life that I would do this for -- family members and also friends.
Willingness to sacrifice our lives for others points to the reality and the superiority of love in our universe. Self-sacrificial love is a problem for the notion that our own survival is the sole reason for our existence. Self-sacrificial love makes perfect sense in a universe that was created by a God that IS love.
Art always reflects the artist, so our universe makes sense when love is the ultimate purpose of life, as this is the reflection of a God of love. In a universe with love as the ultimate purpose, you will experience joy and peace when you're living in alignment with God's will to live a sacrificial life of love for others. In a universe with love as the ultimate purpose, you will experience loneliness, restlessness and an insatiable desire to consume when you're living a life selfishly seeking love for yourself.
Would you jump in front of a train to save someone? That's greater than living. That's God in you. That's love.
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