honestly... what's the point?

I've been thinking, and yeah it's been hurting. What I've been thinking about has been a direct stem from the blog I posted about a week ago which was talking about why I do what I do. What it got me thinking about is the stuff that we do as humans. Not so much the day to day things like eating or sleeping but the significant things in our lives like getting married and having families. The other part of this is that a friend of mine is getting married in October.

He's not a christian bloke and has been with his, now, fiance for quite some time. Actually it's been ever since I met him so well over two years now. Thing is he's been with her for two years living in a de-facto relationship. I don't mean to knock him for making the decision, in fact totally the opposite! I think it's a fantastic thing that they've made the decision to commit to each other publicly.

So the question that's got me thinking is what's the point? If you've been taking advantage of the things that are traditionally reserved for the union of marriage prior to it why bother getting married? If it's purely a human thing, then really why bother going through spending all the money on a ceremony? What appears to be a quaint tradition in this day and age with the steady erosion of values and morals, you've got to ask yourself what the point is when it's socially acceptable to go for it at the drop of a hat.

When God is taken out of the picture a whole lot of significant things become meaningless. The eternity factor makes a whole lot of things what they are. Marriage I guess is the example that has been at the forefront of my mind. It's not a human concept and I think we've proven it with the state of things at present. Problem with that is we tend to screw ourselves up when we do it our way. If we do things God's way then it all works out.

Not strange really, because after all he designed us, and gave us the instruction manual in the form of the bible. It's interesting to read proverbs and most people would think if you stuck some of them on a poster that they were just really good ideas and almost common sense. They just work! Not really suprising when you thing that the one who put them on paper is the one who designed us!