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    Why Are We Here?
    Why Are We Here?
    Why Are We Here?
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    Why Are We Here?

    By Edwin C Talbot

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    Throughout the ages mankind has sought the answers to why we are here and what is our purpose.

    We live in a violent destructive world that really does not care about the individual and when it is through with us and we die and it all seems to end.

    This book will hopefully, finally answer these questions for you and provide some hope and direction for your life
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris AU
    Release dateMay 8, 2013
    ISBN9781483637457
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      Why Are We Here? - Edwin C Talbot

      Copyright © 2013 by Edwin C Talbot.

      Library of Congress Control Number:   2013908187

      ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-4836-3744-0

                      Softcover        978-1-4836-3743-3

                      Ebook             978-1-4836-3745-7

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the Holy Bible, King James Version (Authorized Version). First published in 1611. Quoted from the KJV Classic Reference Bible, Copyright © 1983 by The HYPERLINK "http://www.zondervan.com/" Zondervan Corporation.

      Print information available on the last page.

      Rev. date: 02/17/2015

      Xlibris

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      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      1.   Transience Of The Universe

      2.   The Introduction Of Good And Evil

      3.   Biblical Account Of Man’s Rebellion Against God’s Laws

      4.   Satan’s Subjugation Of The World Population

      5.   Satan’s Plan To ‘Become Like The Most High’

      6.   Satan’s Enslavement Of The Population

      7.   Innocence Of Heaven

      8.   Creation Of The Physical Realm

      9.   Attributes Of Faith

      10.   Conclusion

      11.   God’s Wonderful Love Manifested Again

      INTRODUCTION

      For me to continue on my Christian journey, it became imperative that I understood why God created the universe and why He placed us here. He began to loom to me as some kind of ogre playing games with us. I needed to know the truth. In my walk with Him, I have found that He has never had a problem with any question I have had to ask. If I am not supposed to know the answer, He just does not answer, and I accept that; however, this has occurred in only very few cases.

      The journey we are about to take starts with the acceptance of a loving, omniscient and omnipotent God; the Bible is His message to us. You may not be of this persuasion. I still encourage you to read on, if not just for interest’s sake.

      The question of ‘why we are here and what we are here for’ is a question that has plagued mankind from creation.

      TRANSIENCE OF THE UNIVERSE

      When we consider the transient nature of the universe which includes the earth we are living on, the pointlessness of it all really strikes home and we sit with King Solomon in Ecclesiastes when he says ‘vanity of vanities, all is vanity’, meaning that it is all pointless, that everything around us is finite (has a beginning and an end). All levels of scientific, philosophical, and religious sectors agree that this universe has a finite beginning and will have a finite end, which also applies to each individual person—if we could find anyone who is 125 years old, it would be headline news. (The oldest known living individual at the time of writing is 115 years old). So there is no permanence in anything here on earth.

      Having established that the universe in

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