Ecclesiastes
(The Bible)
Ecclesiastes is one of the many books in the collection of books known as the Bible. Ecclesiastes was written by Solomon, the king of Israel most well known for his amazing wisdom. At the time of the writing of this book, however, Solomon was nearing the end of his life. This book seems to be full of mostly doom and gloom type writing, and constant reminders that the world is a horrible place to live. There are several different theories as to why this book was written this way. One theory is that Solomon had wasted away his life on pleasure, and was writing this looking back, saying that he had done nothing of value with his life. Solomon, aside from being one of the wisest men that ever lived, was extremely wealthy, and had quite a few wives and even more concubines. You would think that Solomon would have been an extremely satisfied man, based on his mental acuteness and physical wealth and prosperity. It would seem, however, from this book, that this was not at all the case. Many would say that the reason that Solomon was not happy, even with all these great things, was that Solomon wasted away his life on all these things, and did not focus his life on God, thus making his life feel useless by the end. These people would argue that Solomon had realized that he had done no real good with his life, only dwelling on earthly things, and he had become depressed almost because he realized that earthly things were not worth dwelling on. Proponents of this view would argue that Solomon did not really put his trust in God fully. There are also people who would say that this book comes out of Solomon's realization that God was the only good out there, and that earthly things were just of lasting value. These people would say that Solomon did trust God, and was glad and looking forward to heavenly things, things of lasting value in his mind, rather than deteriorating things. Either view agrees that Solomon saw no value in the things he had spent his life on, the main difference is whether or not you believe that Solomon trusted God in the end or not.
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