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Butterball
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I agree with that completely. Still ... what is the meaning of life? Why are we here? Are we just evolved beings?
That is a good question. Mainly it is to be with God in heaven. Because we have this goal and animals don't, we are higher then them.
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You may also argue that the goal that seperates us from the animals is our capacity and eagerness to learn, the crux of our civilization and a quality that allowed our expansion.
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What is the meaning of life? We are here because God wants us to be here. He wants to have a relationship of love with us, and us with Him.
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Is this what you believe or is this what you were taught?
Well, I believe it.
How do you know what God wants? That seems to be a pretty specific set of "wants" that you're aware of!
How do we know God "wants" a relationship of love with us?
How do we know God "wants" a relationship of love with us?
You must seek meaning in life yourself, it is fulfillment
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Do we have a "new age" catholic?
He tells us in the bible.
Absolutely yes and guardian angels are non-corporeal
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Unless you mean heretics... no.
I can only find commandments to love God, which is obviously non-intuitive to me. I might be not noticing the entire vibe of the reason why we think that God 'wants' us to love Him.
We are actually commanded to love everyone
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Those commandments to love God are interesting. Is God so into Himself/Herself that He/She requires us to love Him/Her with commands? Can't we just acknowledge his existence without "love?"
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Not taught. It took a lot of soul searching to figure it out. It's like parents who want to have a baby, they want that child, they want that family, they want that relationship with that new person they created.
You have to do a lot of soul searching and prayer to understand it, or else you wind up asking dumb questions like "how can you profess to know what God wants?"
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HE, not HE/SHE.
He disrespective of whatever your view on the nature of God (most likely heterodox in the eyes of the Church) is the commonly accepted neuter in English describing things with no gender.
As to Catholic teaching on the matter, God naturally is not biologically a male. But in the interelationship within the Holy trinity and in the character of God's relationship with creation he is described as male. (Im not an expert on this area, go ask an apologist at catholic answers or some reputable site, or look up the Catechism of the Catholic Church if you want to know the Churches teaching in a better informed manner)
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