Victor Frankl spent three years in Nazi concentration camps between 1942 and 1945.
He witnessed and experienced immeasurable suffering. He writes about the importance of hope. He says that prisoners who gave up on life, those who lost hope for the future were the first to die.
They died less from lack of food or medicine but from lack of hope.
Hope ‘works’.
Yet if our universe is unguided and mindless and in the future the Earth will be consumed by the Sun - then there can be no ultimate hope for our planet. So if we live in a hopeless universe, why does hope ‘work’?
Well, perhaps this is because our universe is not mindless and unguided, and there is a living hope provided through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead?
