Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, said that his driving philosophy is to understand the meaning of life: “I try to understand more about the nature of the universe. So my driving philosophy is to understand the meaning of life, or really, what questions to ask.”

Musk discussed the presidential election, vaccines, disaster relief efforts, crime and religion in an interview with Tucker Carlson, published October 7.

When asked if there is a God, Musk said he believed “there must be some creator or creative force or something that caused our existence to come into being. What is the nature of that creator? That, I think, is unknown. I don’t know of a definitive answer to that.”

In an April 2022 ted interview, Musk said his “motivating philosophy” in life “is to understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe.” He said he would like “to understand why we’re here.”

Musk’s desire to understand the reason for our existence in part motivates his investment in the space industry. His company, SpaceX, has achieved many world firsts. So far, SpaceX’s achievements include the first vertical take-off and vertical landing for an orbital rocket, the first private company to successfully launch a space rocket into orbit, the first private company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station, and the first private company to send astronauts into orbit and to the International Space Station.

Musk has a real desire to discover the mysteries of the universe, particularly “why we’re here.”

“I think the ‘why’ of things is very important,” Musk said.

The question “Why mankind?” is one of the most important questions that needs to be answered. But Musk won’t find the answers on Mars.

Late educator Herbert W. Armstrong asked the following questions on the front cover of his final and most important book, Mystery of the Ages: “Did you ever ask yourself: ‘Who am I? What am I? Why am I?’ You are a mystery. The world about you is a mystery. Now, you can understand!” Where can we find the answers to these important questions?

The answers are in the all-time bestselling book: the Holy Bible.

But people don’t understand the Bible. Why? Mr. Armstrong explained:

I found the Bible to be a coded book, with answers to the paramount mysteries confronting all humanity. …

Instead of putting the various pieces of the jigsaw puzzle properly and sensibly together, it has become the practice and custom to read an already believed false teaching into each particular scripture, taken out of context. In other words to interpret the Scriptures to say what they have already been taught and come to believe. The Bible needs no interpretation because it interprets itself.

As Mr. Armstrong further explained, the Bible was “not intended to be understood until our day in this latter half of the 20th century.” He then compared the Bible to “a jigsaw puzzle—thousands of pieces that need putting together—and the pieces will fit together in only one way. Then the picture becomes crystal clear to the one willing to believe what God our Creator says.”

Mr. Armstrong explained that to be able to clearly understand the Bible, we must compare what is in Mystery of the Ages with what the Bible says. “This present book merely puts the many pieces of the great puzzle together so they can be clearly understood. As you read and reread this book, compare constantly with your own Bible.”

Mr. Armstrong wrote about the soon-coming time when life’s mysteries will no longer be a mystery (Isaiah 11:9; Habakkuk 2:14). “But now God’s time has come!” he wrote. “He now sends a voice to cry out with amplified world-covering power to reveal the way out of this senseless madness, into the world of peace and righteousness that soon shall grip the Earth!”

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