Thread: Purpose - An argument for belief in God

This argument is not mine; I'm an atheist. This argument comes from someone I know. I have some thoughts on it, but I honestly have trouble forming a solid argument against it. I've wanted for months to see how others would respond to it - atheist or theist.

This is not an argument for the existence of God, nor is it an argument that we should believe in God. It's only the first step in an argument for the latter.

Living ordinarily, nothing we do in life has any lasting effect. (EDIT: Meaning, under most atheists' assumptions, nothing has lasting effect. The arguer obviously believes that there is a lasting purpose that we can choose to work toward.) All human accomplishments will end with the death of humanity, eventually. Everything will turn out to be, in the end, pointless. So, given that there exists a possibility that there is some point to life, some goal to meet an end that will last forever, we should live our lives assuming that such a purpose exists.

(I may edit this later after I get the person who came up with this argument to review it and make sure I represented it correctly.)