WHY ON EARTH AM I
HERE? by Alan Mansager
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ou will do well if you can find one in 10,000 who knows the fundamental biblical teaching on the afterlife, and even fewer who conform to its requisites. In sampling common beliefs, I selected a few responses to an online blog asking the question of why humans exist. • “Ah, yes, the most mysterious
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question that everyone ponders. When this happens in your life, then you begin your journey to know your truth. Everything in your life is placed there to awaken you to your truth and nobody else’s. The truth reveals itself through many and not just one. It’s a puzzle just like we are many but from the one. All I can give you is to stay grounded in love and gratitude.”
• “Isn’t it to be remembered long after you are gone? There had been billions and billions of lives that have been completed before us but almost all of them are forgotten except a few whose names we still remember…That’s the worst fear I have...the fear that the world will forget that I even existed.” • “I feel life is a test and we don’t know anything because that’s part of the test.”
