Common Sense: Life Without Hope is Meaningless and Fearful
"Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom." (Ecclesiastes 9:10) King Solomon, the most likely writer of Ecclesiastes, was the master of common sense. He set his mind and spent his life seeking common sense answers to all of life's experiences and every nation came to listen to his wisdom. "He composed some 3,000 proverbs and wrote 1,005 songs. He could speak with authority...And kings from every nation sent their ambassadors to listen to the wisdom of Solomon." (1 Kings 4:32-34) With all that wisdom, He had no knowledge that there was anything for mankind after death. So, common sense told him "everything is meaningless" . "I observed everything going on under the sun, and really, it is all meaningless--like chasing the wind...There is nothing ahead but death anyway. There is hope only for the living...t he dead know nothing... Everything is meaningless, says the teacher...