“It just seems too good to be true” While engaging with the story of Jesus over coffee, 22-year old Italian student Giulia* is encountered by the truth of Jesus’s goodness beyond our comprehension. As a STEM major, she has found it difficult to connect science and religion and yet she “desires to believe in God”. Her fascination to be proven wrong has led her to talk to many of her peers about their beliefs and to come to church, read the Bible alongside other students, and talk through the big questions with one of our campus staff, Alyssa.
After much back and forth on science, faith, and the problem of good and evil, Alyssa steps in with a question, “If we are all just coincidental cell structures, products of a big bang with no intelligent design, why are we here? What’s our purpose?”
“There is no greater purpose. It was all just an accident. It’s just a meaningless coincidence. We live this life to the best because we can and then it’s over.”
Like many students on campus, she is desperately seeking for truth in a society that feels void of any sense of spiritual conclusion.
*Name changed for privacy purposes