Our culture is owned by the act of acquiring of secular things and status. But in the race for the realization of these temporary things, people forget to follow the spiritual richness. If we spend the happiest day of our lives in the quest for glory or wealth, we bemitleidet, and finally nothing no value to us. “Stupid! Stupid! Everything is unnecessary.” (Ecclesiastes 1:2)
Unlike most popular writers of the “lost generation” of the years 1920, reflects a world free of God, Solomon is not written as stoischen or nihilist. It is simple to describe as a truth lost in our time: the world is nothing but a desert without God. “All things are tiring, more than one can say. The eye has never tired of seeing always fill his ear listening. What is new, what has been done, yet, there is nothing new under the sun. ” (Ecclesiastes 1:9)
If the meaning of life is reduced to satisfy the appetite of the body, we discover that, finally, the appetite is insatiable, and, like a fire out of control, they never have enough. Solomon explains how it is useless to seek after the things of this world: “I refuse nothing to my eyes, you wish, I refused my heart no joy. My heart is proud of all my work, and it was to wage all my work. But if I have all the respondents, that my hand had done and what I geschuftet to achieve, everything was unnecessary, a hunting into the wind, nothing has been acquired under the sun. “(Ecclesiastes 2:10-11)
Looking back over his long life, Solomon realizes that he has lost his way when he addressed the pursuit of pleasure as the main purpose of life. No matter how much he has accumulated wealth, no matter how he constructed many buildings or property he owned, thirst never deleted or appetite increasingly satisfied.
What is man without God? The long, sorry history of mankind hiking in the desert of atheism is perfectly summed up in the first chapter of the letter of Paul to the Romans. It is a brutal image, but we deny the truth about him in our own peril: “… because it did not consider it useful to the knowledge of God, there was a spirit about them corrupt to do so, what should not be done. They are filled with all sorts of evil, evil, greed and corruption. They are full of jealousy, murder, litigation, fraud and malice. They are gossips, critics of God-Haters, insolent, arrogant and prahlerisch they invent opportunities evil, they obey their parents, they are useless, incredulous, without heart, bluntly. Even if they just know God’s decree that those who do such things deserve death, not only will continue to do these things, but also cheap, practice them. “(Romans 1:28-32)
It is outside God is a creature lost is deeply irritating answers TS Eliot’s “The Hollow Men”. If Christianity by Christ to describe the life and raw existence, as indeed, life is much more difficult than the service rented a hand, it describes as Job (Job 7:1 — 5).
In a world where Jesus never existed, it would be forced adopting a strategy based on hedonism or against his party, stocism. Living in such a world would be bad, brutal and short.