Life.

CHAPTER 1. MEANING AND CONCEPT OF LIFE

Throughout modern history, one of the questions that humans have asked the most is “What is the meaning of life?”

We are all hungry for meaning, for purpose, for the feeling that our life is worth more than the sum of its parts.

Luckily, humans are resourceful – we have infinite ways of finding meaning, and infinite potential sources of meaning. We can find meaning in every scenario, every event, every occurrence, every context. We can find meaning in the sublime, in the absurd, in the dull and dreary, and in the perfectly wretched in life.

We intuitively know that we want meaning in our lives, and that meaning helps us thrive, but we rarely stop to ask:

“Why do we need meaning? How does meaning affect us? What even IS meaning?”

It is important to acquire goodness in order to understand the meaning and purpose of life.

Distressed and hopeless people do not consider or think about the meaning of life. For them, the meaning of life becomes inappropriate when their existence is at stake and when their life is a mixture of worries and perplexities. On the other hand, people who are not desperate mull over the meaning of life. It becomes a problem for such people to reflect on the meaning of life who count on endurance, relief, safety measures, and pleasure. For desperate people, life is to be lived one moment at a time. However, those who consider the meaning of life as important consider it every day and very well know that they should step back from the moment to see and observe life in a long-range context

Life is a phenomenon that describes it self to the each person depending on the subject lives his or her own life. The challenges of human existence is a long run issue which some times has no cure. One of the greatest believe in life is that one must have an experience to share both positive and Vice versa but what matters most is how influence by your experience.

Another deep mystery of life that attributes to its meaning is that life have

been seen as an all in all in the sense that it has no duplicate. You only live once to share your experience. Little wonder there is an epistomological believe that attributes life and earth as a market and when one is done trading he or she goes out of existance.

PHILOSOHICAL MEANING  AND CONCEPT OF LIFE.

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.” – Joseph Campbell

The meaning of life, or the answer to the question: "What is the meaning of life?", pertains to the significance of living or existence in general. Many other related questions include: "Why are we here?", "What is life all about?", or "What is the purpose of existence?" There have been many proposed answers to these questions from many different cultural and ideological backgrounds. The search for life's meaning has produced much philosophical, scientific, theological, and metaphysical speculation throughout history. Different people and cultures believe different things for the answer to this question.

Philosophers are not only based in the meaning of life but they went far to exact some certain questions like where do we come from, what are we, and where are we going after our existance. some of the ancient Greek philosophers have long looked for the primary source of the universe and out of what? Was man made. Some of these question have been given philosopher, subjective, scientific, cultural and epistomological answers which is not generally accepted because of our different worldviews.

The meaning of life as we perceive, is derived from philosophical and religious contemplation of, and scientific inquiries about existence, social ties, consciousness, and happiness. Many other issues are also involved, such as symbolic meaning, ontology, value, purpose, ethics, good and evil, free will, the existence of one or multiple gods, conceptions of God, the soul, and the afterlife. Scientific contributions focus primarily on describing related empirical facts about the universe, exploring the context and parameters concerning the "how" of life. Science also studies and can provide recommendations for the pursuit of well-being and a related conception of morality. An alternative, humanistic approach poses the question, "What is the meaning of my life?"

PSYCHOLOGICAL MEANING AND CONCERT OF LIFE.

Viktor Frankl a positive psychologiest once said “Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”

RELIGIOUS MEANING AND CONCEPT OF LIFE.

Religion is one of the major resources used to generate meaning in life. An individual's religion involves not only a set of beliefs, but also an involvement in a community of like-minded others. ... These differences influenced the sufficiency of a belief system to construct life meaning.Religion can provide a sense of increased purpose in life for people who are socially disconnected. New research suggests that having a firmly held religious belief can provide a sense of increased purpose in life among those who are socially disconnected.

Biblically, God reveals through the author of Genesis that He created some things with nephesh. This is the Hebrew word usually translated living being in Genesis but also as life, soul or with breath. ... Life is also described as being “in the blood” or the “flesh”, or having “breath”.

God (Yahweh) as the Source and Sustainer of Life. According to Genesis 2:7, "the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being." This "breath of life" does not distinguish human beings from other animals, nor perhaps even plant life, as can be seen in Genesis 1:29-30. When God declared his judgment against Noah's generation, all creation in which there was the "breath of life" would suffer the destruction of the flood ( Gen 6:17 ; Genesis 7:15 Genesis 7:21-23 ). The breath of life distinguishes the living from the dead, not human beings from animals ( Eccl 3:18-19 ). Consistently throughout Scripture God is portrayed as the giver of life, which distinguishes living organisms from inanimate things ( Rom 4:17 ).

Life is contingent upon the continuing, sustaining "breath" of God. When God ceases to breathe, life is no more, "How many are your works, O Lord! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures When you take away their breath, they die and return to the dust" ( Psalms 104:24 Psalms 104:29 ). Death is frequently described as the cessation of this divine activity ( Gen 25:8 ; Mark 15:37 ). It is for this reason that the psalmist concludes, "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord" ( Psalm 150:6 ; cf. Rom 1:20-21 ).

The Quality and Duration of Life. Between birth and death, creation and cessation of life, the living experience varying qualities of life and length of days. On the one hand, the Creator is the sovereign Lord of the days of one's life. He sends poverty and wealth, humility, and exaltation, makes paupers to be princes and princes to be paupers ( 1 Sam 2:6-9 ). For this reason, those who live by faith are not to worry, for they rest in the assurance that God cares about their life ( Matt 6:25-34 ; Luke 12:22-31 ). One cannot add a single hour to the span of life by worrying ( Matt 6:27 ). "The length of our days is seventy years — or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away" ( Psalm 90:10 ). Long life is viewed as the evidence of divine favor ( Exod 20:12 ; Deut 5:16 ; Psalm 21:4 ; 91:16 ; Prov 10:27 ; Isa 65:20 ), so to die in the midst of one's years was a calamity ( Isa 38:10-14 ; Jer 11:22 ; Lam 2:21 ). On the other hand, the situation and quality of life may be diminished and even destroyed by chance, circumstances, and the conduct of unrighteous or negligent persons. In such circumstances, the lowly pray for divine mercy and help. Worries, riches, and pleasures ( Mark 4:19 ; Luke 12:15 ), as well as hunger, sickness, sorrow, and sin can choke and even destroy life.

SCIENTIFIC MEANING AND CONCERT OF LIFE.

Since there is no unequivocal definition of life, most current definitions in biology are descriptive, Many scientist have described life as a characteristic that distinguishes

physical entities that have biological processes , such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased (they have died), or because they never had such functions and are classified as inanimate. Various forms of life exist, such as plants , animals, fungi , protists ,

archaea , and bacteria . According to the scientist the science concerned with the study of life is biology.

From the physics perspective, living beings are

thermodynamic systems with an organized molecular structure that can reproduce itself and evolve as survival dictates. Thermodynamically, life has been described as an open system which makes use of gradients in its surroundings to create imperfect copies of itself. Another way of putting this is to define life as "a self-sustained chemical system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution ", a definition adopted by a NASA committee attempting to define life for the purposes of exobiology, based on a suggestion by Carl Sagan . A major strength of this definition is that it distinguishes life by the evolutionary process rather than its chemical composition.

CHAPTER 2

ORIGIN OF LIFE

In evolutionary biology, abiogenesis, or informally the origin of life (OoL) is the natural process by which life has arisen from non-living matter, such as simple organic compounds. While the details of this process are still unknown, the prevailing scientific hypothesis is that the transition from non-living to living entities was not a single event, but an evolutionary process of increasing complexity that involved molecular self-replication, self-assembly, autocatalysis, and the emergence of cell membranes. Although the occurrence of abiogenesis is uncontroversial among scientists, its possible mechanisms are poorly understood. There are several principles and hypotheses for how abiogenesis could have occurred.