Plan of Life

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The paper discusses how in Peter Kreeft's book "Three Philosophies of Life", Kreeft contemplates that there are really only three philosophies of life and each one is portrayed by three books in the Bible, "Ecclesiastes", "Job" and "Song of Songs." It examines how the book of "Ecclesiastes" conveys the idea that life is vanity, the book of "Job" conveys that life is suffering, and the book "Song of Songs" conveys the theme that life is love. It endeavors to relate what is conveyed in the book of "Ecclesiastes" in terms of the trajectory or plan of life and its importance.

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"The book of Ecclesiastes is the only book in the Bible that operates under a cloud of pessimism, largely due to the fact that it posits a world without the finger of God intervening for humankind. Actually, the concept of a God, distant and indifferent to the plight of Man conflicts greatly with the concept of God which exists in the other books of the Old Testament. The book of Ecclesiastes reads more like philosophical ruminations as opposed to testimonies of faith. According to Ecclesiastes, "God is the inscrutable originator of the world who determines the face of humankind. Just as the natural world is in constant movement minus the presence of real change, so the human expenditure of energy comes to nought; despite the fact that reason leaves us baffled, the author affirms that life is worth living with all its limitations." "

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