What are some significant life
events?
- Birth
- Development into adulthood
- Marriage
- Death
What questions do these events
prompt people to ask about the
meaning and purpose of life?
Birth:
- Am I able to have this new life?
- What is the purpose of life?
Development into adulthood:
- Am I fully prepared for adulthood?
- How would adulthood change me as a person
Marriage:
- What is love?
- Is marriage necessary?
Death:
- Have I done enough?
- What happens next?
What answers do people find to
their questions?
- Finding answer’s through signs from God.
- People can find questions from their experiences with the people around them.
How do people find these answers?
By seeking God and asking him the ultimate meaning of life.
How do religions see and respond
to this process?
When religious people seek, search and think about the meaning of life and the reality of God, they;re being religious. And how they respond to this search/finding support/answers may lead them to follow a particular religion.
What role do religions play in this
process? (events, questions,
searching, finding meaning)
Important universal events triggers a person to start questioning, whether it be about birth, development, marriage or death, this in the end leads people to God and thus begin a religious journey to find purpose and meaning and this can be found through creation, others and personal mystery (mystery of who they are as human beings)
