What Is The Meaning of Life? Part One – Identity

Perhaps the oldest and most significant question we can ask ourselves is this: “What is the meaning of life?” One reason it is a difficult question is because it really can only be answered by first considering four related questions concerning our identity, value, purpose and agency.

In the first of a four-part Short Answers series, Andy Bannister considers the question of identity: “Who am I?” If your answer is “a chance collection of atoms”, then you’ll not get far with value, purpose or meaning. Of course, the Christian view provides a radically different basis for human identity and our place in the universe.

Part Two: Value – Part Three: Purpose – Part Four: Agency