Teleology

The Divine Purpose to Your Life

We live in an age where status (fame), wealth, and power are thought to be the high-watermark of what a meaningful life looks like. However, this view on life is categorically wrong. There is no substance to any of these objectives for the very fact they can all be gone in an instant. They add nothing to what it means to be human, and more importantly they provide little direction on how you should live your life (if anything, the exact opposite). In and of themselves there is nothing wrong with status or wealth or power, however the moment we centre our life around these things we have moved away from our true human nature, instead they should be merely by-products of a life lived to its fullest human existence. In other words, you were born for a purpose, and if you have a purpose you have a goal, or an end-point, in which you hope to achieve it. This ancient philosophical idea is called Teleology, and for a long time in our human history it provided the basic understanding of why we are here and what we are aiming for. In our materialistic age, where our spiritual natures are being crushed, not to mention the artificial age we have arrived at, it is now time that Teleology becomes front and centre again in our minds, embraced, and educated.

“So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is…