You are calling that which isn't life: life. Jesus is life. Jesus is the meaning of life, because he is life. Everything else is vanity. Christ is everything. The flesh can't accept this.
Everything Is Meaningless 1The words of the Teacher, a son of David, king in Jerusalem: 2“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” 3What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? Improved quality of life and increased life expectancy who needs that ? Why would i want to enjoy 21st century dental care ? Why would i want to have tasty food from around the globe instead of just wheat & rice ? Who needs potato french fries with tomato sauce ? Will musical instruments in 3000 years time really be able to produce any more amazing tunes than a three stringed lute ? Will it really make my life more interesting to see all the things round this planet rather than just the few miles i can walk to ? Who cares if we understand how the wind flows so well that we can predict its speed and direction several days in advance ? Will there really be any meaningful improvement in science and technology ? What does it matter if we knew that it is the Earth which is rotating causing apparent sunrise and set rather than the sun moving ? So what if infant mortality can be greatly reduced just be improved sanitation, discovering how to make clean water. Why would i want to ride a fast racer bike along a smooth tar road or go kite surfing in amazing waves ? What could be better than watching the goats grazing the bushes and listening to the cricket chirp ? Would i even gain anything if i had binoculars to see the birds more closely or a magnifying glass to see the insects in more detail. Would there be any use in a microscope to see things too small to see with the unaided eye ? Am I missing anything here, do we know all there is to know about the world about us.
Thats not the point. He worries about his work after death, how will he know whoever comes after him will continue his work or destroy it? There is no way for him to see, he would already be dead. Everything everyone does in life, you do it for those who come after you, none of it is for you because you take nothing with you when you die.
Ecclesiastes 1:9King James Version (KJV) 9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is (NO NEW THING under the sun). ◄ 2 Corinthians 5:17 ► Parallel Verses King James Version Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: (OLD THINGS are passed away); behold, (ALL THINGS ARE BECOME NEW). Those in christ have had all things become new, but those who claim they are being renewed on this earth are deceived. As Ecclesiastes 1:9 says, there are zero new things under the sun, but they call those things new and of God.
You are calling that which isn't life: life. Jesus is life. Jesus is the meaning of life, because he is life. Everything else is vanity. Christ is everything. The flesh can't accept this.
What does vanity mean
Everything Is Meaningless
1The words of the Teacher, a son of David, king in Jerusalem:
2“Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”
3What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under the sun?
Improved quality of life and increased life expectancy who needs that ? Why would i want to enjoy 21st century dental care ? Why would i want to have tasty food from around the globe instead of just wheat & rice ? Who needs potato french fries with tomato sauce ? Will musical instruments in 3000 years time really be able to produce any more amazing tunes than a three stringed lute ? Will it really make my life more interesting to see all the things round this planet rather than just the few miles i can walk to ? Who cares if we understand how the wind flows so well that we can predict its speed and direction several days in advance ? Will there really be any meaningful improvement in science and technology ? What does it matter if we knew that it is the Earth which is rotating causing apparent sunrise and set rather than the sun moving ? So what if infant mortality can be greatly reduced just be improved sanitation, discovering how to make clean water. Why would i want to ride a fast racer bike along a smooth tar road or go kite surfing in amazing waves ? What could be better than watching the goats grazing the bushes and listening to the cricket chirp ? Would i even gain anything if i had binoculars to see the birds more closely or a magnifying glass to see the insects in more detail. Would there be any use in a microscope to see things too small to see with the unaided eye ? Am I missing anything here, do we know all there is to know about the world about us.
Thats not the point. He worries about his work after death, how will he know whoever comes after him will continue his work or destroy it? There is no way for him to see, he would already be dead. Everything everyone does in life, you do it for those who come after you, none of it is for you because you take nothing with you when you die.
Ecclesiastes 1:9King James Version (KJV)
9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is (NO NEW THING under the sun).
◄ 2 Corinthians 5:17 ►
Parallel Verses
King James Version
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: (OLD THINGS are passed away); behold, (ALL THINGS ARE BECOME NEW).
Those in christ have had all things become new, but those who claim they are being renewed on this earth are deceived.
As Ecclesiastes 1:9 says, there are zero new things under the sun, but they call those things new and of God.
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