What if this life is really vanity?

What if this life, all of our work and our homework and our loves and our friendships

and our activities and everything that we spend so much time consumed with?

What if it's all really pointless in the end?

It's a question that comes to us from a listener named Blake.

Hello Pastor John, I was wondering if it's possible to be saved and also to be a nihilist.

There is a big part of me that just feels like nothing in life really matters.

Everything is just temporary anyways, the end result for everyone that's death.

But at the same time, I don't feel like Christ would want me to feel that way.

I do though, and I'm not sure what to think about it.

Thank you for your help.

That word comes from the Latin nihil that means nothing.

So the idea is that everything amounts to nothing.

Wikipedia and I check two or three dictionaries and encyclopedias of philosophy, and this

is the simplest, says, most commonly nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism,

which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose or intrinsic value.

Moral nihilists assert that morality does not inherently exist and that any established

moral values are abstractly contrived end of quote.

Now given both those definitions, it is obvious that they are contrary to what the Bible

teaches and what Christianity has meant for 2000 years.

God does give meaning and purpose and value to human existence.

He himself is the ultimate value, and his purpose gives meaning to life.

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