Hebrew Bible and Christian Scriptures

Another great day that pasts through my head. I exist inside the world before me as I hold the Bible in front of my face. I remember spending so much time with this Book of Bible: Ecclesiastes. Many people call it the existentialist book of Scripture. I’ve had discussions of how some consider it post-modern literature crafted in a pre-scientific world. While I would argue for the post-modern ideas inside this literature, I understand the reservations some would have about making this declaration. I am not calling the author or authors of Ecclesiastes post-modern thinkers that were born thousands of years before their era. What I would like to say is that post-modernism is mind-set that had been rediscovered. Existentialism is under the same belt.

The narrator of the Book denounces the greatness of materialism. Nothing in this world matters, not even wisdom. There is no point to anything at all. We are insignificant. We may become rich, yet, what good will it do once we are six feet under? I may love in this life, marry and bear many children, but what will that do? I will die, so will my wife, as well as my children. The people of this world live for now, yet everyone that comes to open their eyes in the morning will close them in death. So what is there? There is God. There is the great Deity that began this cycle of life and death.

In this rather dismal book, I see the greatest hope of all. What is the point of life??? GOD!!! It is God that matters and anything I do should be for God and not myself or anyone else. It gives me such great encouragement. By no means am I perfect or by many standards even a good man. But as long as I am working for God and reaching out to God I am rich and wealthy where it matters. This is the relationship that many cannot see because they do not look into the text deep enough. The fact that God and dealings with the heavenly realm are the only things that matter makes the relationship between man and God incredibly important the MAIN point of Ecclesiastes.