pupose of life-why are we here and where are we going?

sooner or later,almost everybody wonders what the purpose og life is.Why are here? is it to work hard to improve our living conditions,to provide for our families,to die after perhaps 60 or 70 years,and then to be non-existent forever?

A young man who felt this once said that there is no other purpose of life than"to live,to have children,to be happy qnd then die." But is that true? And those death really end it all?

confuciab scholar Tu Wei-Ming said:"the ultimate meaning of life is found in our ordinary,human  existence." According to this view,humans would continue to be born,struggle for existence,and die. There is little hope in such an outlook.and is it even true?

Elie Wiesel,a survivor of the Nazi death camps in World War II,observed that:"why are we here? is the most important question a human being has to face.....I believe that life has meaning in spite of the meaningless death I have seen." But he could not say what the meaning of life was.

Editor Vermont Royster stated"In the contemplation of man himself,...of his place in this universe,we are little further along than when time began. we are little further along than when time began. we are still left with questions of who we are and why we are and where we are going."

Former U.S president Jimmy Carter stated:"we have discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning....piling up materials goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose." and another political leader said:"I have for several years now been engaged in an intensive search for truths about myself and my life;many other people I know are doing the same.more people than ever before are asking,'WHO ARE WE' What is our purpose

Many religious leaders say that the purpose of life is to lead a good existence so that at death a person's soul can go to heaven and spend eternity.The ultimate offered for bad people is eternal torment in hellfire...

Even clergymen have difficulty with such views. DR. W. R. Inge, a former dean of st. paul's cathedral in london, once said:"All my life I have struggled to find out the purpose of living.I have tried to answer three problens which always seemed to me to be fundamental: the problem of eternity; the problem of human personality;the problem of evil.I have failed.u have solved none of them."

So who on earth can give a clear explanation of the purpose of life