We are all searching for significance. We want to believe that our life matters. We want to feel like we are special. We want to know that our life has made a difference in this world. That’s why people seek to do extraordinary things. It’s why people seek fame. What we need to recognize is that we are already significant. We are made in the image of God. Our significance is rooted in God. We will never truly feel significant until we are in a close relationship with God.
December 31, 2024
The search for significance
Posted by Jason Dulle under Anthropology, Philosophy, Social, Theology[3] Comments
Thinking to Believe 
January 19, 2025 at 1:40 am
So true! If we get all of our worth by Christ’s sacrifice for us on the cross (where our worth is displayed), we don’t need to look elsewhere. It comes down to faith and trust in Jesus.
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April 13, 2025 at 7:27 am
But WHAT worth do you get by Christ’s sacrifice? How does it make you more significant? How does it make your life matter any more than if he and God don’t exist? It seems to me that the moment you give your self worth to someone else, you’ve given up. Living under the shadow of some immense, malevolent power, your life loses any significance and meaning. You become just a mindless subject, a plaything in some celestial game with no hope of freedom. That sounds like the end of happiness to me.
I would say that taking full responsibility for your life, your significance, your meaning and your purpose is the only way to be a complete, real person, and that’s the only way to find true happiness.
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April 14, 2025 at 12:23 pm
It’s a question of real vs. imagined worth, significance, and meaning. On atheism, you have no objective value or worth. You are a cosmic accident. There is no objective, ultimate significance to anything you do. There is no real purpose or meaning of life. You can come up with your own purpose, but it’s just imagined. You can view your life as meaningful, but you are just deceiving yourself into believing something that is not objectively true.
On Christianity, our lives have real worth and significance because we are made in God’s image. He is intrinsically valuable, and thus we are intrinsically valuable. He created the universe and us for a purpose, and thus life has real purpose and meaning.
Your comments may make sense if we were talking about an evil God, but they make no sense if we’re talking about an intrinsically good being like the God of Christianity. He’s not a celestial dictator.
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