Life Is Meaningless Without God

LIFE IS MEANINGLESS
WITHOUT GOD

LIFE IS MEANINGLESS WITHOUT GOD
Carl Segan has said,
that one cannot be an
intelligent person in the 20th
century and still believe that
God exists.

It took him 9 years to conquer
the world – it took him only 8
years to kill himself.

SOLOMON’S VIEW OF LIFE
WITHOUT GOD.
James 1:5
If any of you lacks wisdom, you should
ask God, who gives generously to all
without finding fault, and it will be
given to you.

1 Kings 4:29-34
‘God gave Solomon wisdom and very
great insight, and a breadth of
understanding as measureless as the
sand on the seashore. 30
Solomon’s
wisdom was greater than the wisdom
of all the people of the East, and
greater than all the wisdom of Egypt…

1 Kings 4:29-34
‘t… 31
He was wiser than anyone else…And
his fame spread to all the surrounding
nations. 32
He spoke three thousand
proverbs…From all nations people
came to listen to Solomon’s wisdom,
sent by all the kings of the world, who
had heard of his wisdom.’

In Ecclesiastes Solomon
repeats the words!
“vanity… under the sun.”

WITHOUT GOD.
Vanity = vapor, breath, a breath of air.

“Everything is futile,
a waste of time,
worthless
without a word from God.”

WITHOUT GOD.
Ecclesiastes 1:1-2
The words of the Teacher, son of David,
king in Jerusalem: 2
“Meaningless!
Meaningless!” says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless! Everything is
meaningless.”

WITHOUT GOD.
Ecclesiastes 1:16-18
16
I said to myself, “Look, I have increased
in wisdom more than anyone who has
ruled over Jerusalem before me; I have
experienced much of wisdom and
knowledge.”...

WITHOUT GOD.
...17
Then I applied myself to the
understanding of wisdom, and also of
madness and folly, but I learned that
this, too, is a chasing after the wind…

WITHOUT GOD.
… 18
For with much wisdom comes much
sorrow; the more knowledge, the more
grief.

WITHOUT GOD.
“… but I have learned this too is chasing
after the wind. For with much wisdom
comes sorrow; the more knowledge,
the more grief.”

WITHOUT GOD.
Ecclesiastes 2:1-2
I said to myself, “Come now, I will test
you with pleasure to find out what is
good.” But that also proved to be
meaningless. 2
“Laughter,” I said, “is
madness. And what does pleasure
accomplish?”

WITHOUT GOD.
Ecclesiastes 2:3
3
I tried cheering myself with wine, and
embracing folly—my mind still guiding
me with wisdom. I wanted to see what
was good for people to do under the
heavens during the few days of their
lives.

WITHOUT GOD.
Ecclesiastes 2:4
4
I undertook great projects: I built houses
for myself and planted vineyards.

WITHOUT GOD.
Ecclesiastes 2:8
8
I amassed silver and gold for myself,
and the treasure of kings and
provinces. I acquired male and female
singers, and a harem as well—the
delights of a man’s heart.

WITHOUT GOD.
Ecclesiastes 2:9
9
I became greater by far than anyone in
Jerusalem before me. In all this my
wisdom stayed with me.

WITHOUT GOD.
“Yet when I surveyed all that my hands
had done and what I had toiled to
achieve, everything was meaningless, a
chasing after the wind – nothing was
gained under the son.”

WITHOUT GOD.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
17
So I hated life, because the work that is
done under the sun was grievous to
me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing
after the wind.

Therefore Solomon’s conclusion
is that everything under the
sun is futility.

WITHOUT GOD.
Ecclesiastes 3:11
11
He has made everything beautiful in its
time. He has also set eternity in the
human heart; yet no one can fathom
what God has done from beginning to
end.

God is:
- Omniscient
- Omnipotent
- Omnipresent

“God has created us as eternal
beings we will never
experience true joy with
temporary pleasures.”

WITHOUT GOD.
13
Now all has been heard; here is the
conclusion of the matter: Fear God and
keep his commandments, for this is the
duty of all mankind. 14
For God will bring
every deed into judgment, including
every hidden thing, whether it is good or

WITHOUT GOD.
Proverbs 1:7
7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of
knowledge, but fools despise wisdom
and instruction.

WITHOUT GOD.
2 Timothy 3:1-9
But mark this: There will be terrible
times in the last days. 2
People will be
lovers of themselves, lovers of money,
boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient
to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,...

WITHOUT GOD.
2 Timothy 3:1-9
... without love, unforgiving, slanderous,
without self-control, brutal, not lovers of
the good, 4
treacherous, rash, conceited,
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God
— 5
having a form of godliness but denying
its power. Have nothing to do with such
people...

WITHOUT GOD.
2 Timothy 3:1-9
... 6
They are the kind who worm their way
into homes and gain control over
gullible women, who are loaded down
with sins and are swayed by all kinds of
evil desires, 7
always learning but never
able to come to a knowledge of the

WITHOUT GOD.
2 Timothy 3:1-9
... 8
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed
Moses, so also these teachers oppose the
truth. They are men of depraved minds,
who, as far as the faith is concerned, are
rejected. 9
But they will not get very far
because, as in the case of those men, their
folly will be clear to everyone.

So Solomon says ‘fear God’ in
other words recognize that
there is a God who sits
enthroned and turn to Him.

Those who fear God will
eventually come into a
personal relationship with the
Lord Jesus Christ.

“Thou hast made us for thyself
and our hearts are restless
until they rest in Thee.”

Matthew 11:28-29
“Come to me, all you who are weary and
burdened, and I will give you rest. Take
my yoke upon you and learn from me,
for I am gentle and humble in heart,
and you will find rest for your souls. For
my yoke is easy and my burden is
light.”

Pascal who lived
1623-1662 AD

“There is a God shaped vacuum
in the heart of all men that
only God can fill.”
(Pascal)

a) Death
b) Despair
c) Diversion
d) Deliverance

“Being unable to cure death
wretchedness and ignorance then
have decided in order to be happy not
to think about such things.” (Pascal)

“Men have a secret instinct driving them
to seek external diversions and
occupation. It makes a man happy to
be diverted from contemplating its
private miseries by making him care
about nothing else, but dancing well.”
(Pascal)

“In this life there is not time and solid
satisfaction, all our pleasures are mere
vanity.” (Pascal)

Francis Schaeffer lived
1912-1984

What do non Christian thinkers
have to say about life and
eternity?

Jean Paul Sartre lived
1905-1980

Burt Russell lived
1872-1980

“God does not exists and we
have to pay all the
consequences of this.”
(Jean Sartre)

“If God does not exist we find no values
or commands to turn to which
legitimizes our conduct.”

Ecclesiastes 1:14
14
I have seen all the things that are done
under the sun; all of them are
meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

Mark 8:36
36
What good is it for someone to gain the
whole world, yet forfeit their soul?

Matthew 4:4
4
Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man
shall not live on bread alone, but on
every word that comes from the mouth
of God.’”

Life starts when we begin a
relationship with Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 2:12
12
remember that at that time you were
separate from Christ, excluded from
citizenship in Israel and foreigners to
the covenants of the promise, without
hope and without God in the world.

Jeremiah 2:13
13
“My people have committed two sins:
They have forsaken me, the spring of
living water, and have dug their own
cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot
hold water.

Jeremiah 29:13
13
You will seek me and find me when you
seek me with all your heart.

Psalm 37:4
4
Take delight in the LORD, and he will
give you the desires of your heart.

1 John 2:23
23
No one who denies the Son has the
Father; whoever acknowledges the Son
has the Father also.

John 6:35
35
Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of
life. Whoever comes to me will never
go hungry, and whoever believes in me
will never be thirsty.

John 14:6
6
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the
truth and the life. No one comes to the
Father except through me.

Life Is Meaningless Without God

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