From the Editors October 27, 2014 Issue

Having faith in Life

David C. Kennedy

This editorial is an amplified version of an article published in the August 20, 2014, edition of The Christian Science Monitor.

The fact that too many people are losing hope in what they feel life has to offer, and are choosing to take their own life or to help it end medically, shows a fundamental, often tragic mistake in humanity’s sense of what life is.

If life truly began with a big bang, then life—no matter how complex its development since then—is essentially an accident with little or no purpose. So how could it be the source of true happiness or health? Or if life, however one believes it started, is dependent on matter and subject to the tyranny of disease, sorrow, and deprivation, that too calls into question what life has to offer and the meaning of living.

But the question is, Do we have life because of an accident of evolution, or do we have life because of our eternal relation to God?

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