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Spirituality: A Search for the Answers to Life's QuestionsAs people, we seek answers to questions that science cannot answer. We desire that there be some meaning to life, that we're not simply a collection of cells that randomly enters the world
and will someday wither and die without purpose. There must be reason for our birth and life in this world.
As you might imagine, then, the belief that we're simply bodies without spirits or
souls causes unfathomable anxiety and stress, particularly when the reality of death comes into the picture. At the end of his life, Bertrand Russell, one of the 20th century's most famous atheists, said he had nothing to hold onto at but 'grim, unyielding despair.' Does that sound appealing to you? If you hold to the idea that God does not exist or that we're simply a bunch of cells that will one day return to the dust from which we were made, that is exactly what's in store for you.
Fortunately, the atheists are wrong. Most of the human race has believed that life has meaning; indeed, many 'answers' have been found answers to life's questions throughout history. But what are the right answers? Does it truly help to believe something if there's no basis in fact for the belief? If you're dying of cancer and someone holds out hope for a cure, you might be hopeful for a time. If the cure doesn't pan out, though, what good did it do for you to believe that it would work? Not much. So, if we seek to determine some meaning, purpose, and destiny for our lives, we must find the correct purpose, meaning and destiny. The rest is just false hope and pipedreams.
We at Crossroad Health and Fitness know the answers, or at least know
where the answers can be found. In particular, the answers cannot be found in a specific place, necessarily, but in a person, Jesus Christ. In his birth, life, death, resurrection, and the story that necessitated his existence we can find the meaning and purpose of our lives. In this section, we shall introduce you to this person, Jesus Christ, and to the Christian faith. We earnestly pray that you all come to believe that He truly is THE answer, for complete health cannot be found without the spiritual nourishment that comes from faith in Him.