Purpose?

The other day, James was flipping through the channels, yes, he is a channel flipper, and we ended up watching part of "Everybody Loves Raymond" (except maybe me). The situation was this, Raymond wanted to prove he could be mature. They were under the impression that their daughter wanted to talk about intimate relations between men and women, so, Raymond studied up, got some books, then went up to talk to her. It turns out, she wasn't interested in that, she wanted to know why we are here, why did Heavenly Father place us on the earth. Raymond panicked, said something about Heaven being crowded and we are placed here to relieve heavenly congestions. I guess Heaven has a cold.

Anyway, he went downstairs and he and his wife were trying to decide what to tell the daughter, when his family came barging in. The following conversation was a bit sad. The father sat there and made rude and snide comments to all family members, the brother was thinking too hard in the abstract, and the mother tried to find the answer in the bible. In the end, they still weren't sure what to tell the daughter.

How hard is it to say that we are here to learn, to grow, to prove ourselves worthy to go back to live with Heavenly Father. How pointless and hopeless it would seem to live without this knowledge. For people who really don't know what to say to those questions, there is an answer.

I then remembered a professor at Southern Utah University. He talked once about using the proper tools for a job. If you are studying chemistry, you don't use physics tools, if you are studying physics, you don't use electrician's tools. When you are working on something, you use the tools that will give you the best results. When studying things of a spiritual nature, you should use the right tools, spiritual tools, not scientific tools.