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Introduction: Two Strands of Existentialism
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Before discussing \u201cthe relationship between existentialism and the Bible,\u201d we must first clarify an often-overlooked fact: existentialism is not monolithic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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It has at least two strands\u2014theistic existentialism, represented by S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard, and atheistic existentialism, represented by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The former holds that anxiety and despair ultimately point toward a leap of faith in God; the latter holds that the universe is inherently meaningless, and humans must create value out of the void.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This distinction is crucial, because the relationship between the Bible and existentialism is not simple opposition, but rather strong resonance in diagnosis, and fundamental divergence in prescription.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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I. Confronting Absurdity and Emptiness: The Starting Point of Ecclesiastes<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Existentialism often begins with a sense of the world\u2019s \u201cabsurdity,\u201d which finds its most direct expression at the opening of Ecclesiastes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cVanity of vanities, all is vanity\u201d (Ecclesiastes 1:2). The Hebrew word \u05d4\u05b6\u05d1\u05b6\u05dc (hevel) originally means \u201cvapor\u201d or \u201cbreath\u201d\u2014this translation detail deserves closer attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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It does not fully equate to what \u201cnothingness\u201d implies in modern Chinese\u2014namely, \u201cworthless\u201d\u2014but rather emphasizes the quality of being fleeting, uncontrollable, and ungraspable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Preacher is not saying life has no value, but that life is like mist\u2014the harder you grasp it, the more it slips through your fingers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThere is nothing new under the sun\u201d (Ecclesiastes 1:9). History cycles endlessly without ultimate purpose, and this sense of repetition deepens the absurdity of existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This is nearly two sides of the same coin as Camus\u2019s Sisyphus: eternally pushing the boulder up the mountain, watching it roll down, and pushing it up again\u2014this meaningless repetitive toil is precisely what Ecclesiastes 2:22\u201323 describes: \u201cWhat has man of all his labor and of the striving of his heart\u2026 all his days are sorrows, and his work a vexation; yes, his heart takes no rest in the night.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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II. The Pursuit of Meaning and \u201cChasing After Wind\u201d
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Having recognized absurdity, humans instinctively seek meaning\u2014but Ecclesiastes points out that if this pursuit happens \u201cunder the sun\u201d (i.e., apart from God), everything is like \u201cchasing after wind\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cI have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.\u201d (Ecclesiastes 1:14)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThen I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought\u2026 and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit.\u201d (Ecclesiastes 2:11)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The image of \u201cchasing wind\u201d goes further than \u201cvanity\u201d\u2014it doesn\u2019t merely say things are fleeting, but that the pursuit itself is structurally doomed to fail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This is precisely Camus\u2019s definition of \u201cthe absurd\u201d: neither the world itself nor human longing is absurd in isolation, but rather the gap between the world\u2019s silence and humanity\u2019s yearning for meaning produces absurdity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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III. Anxiety and Choice: A Kierkegaardian Turning Point
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This is the core dividing line of the essay. Sartre held that the only way out in the face of anxiety is absolute freedom of self-creation\u2014\u201cexistence precedes essence,\u201d meaning humans have no predetermined purpose and can only shape themselves through repeated choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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But Kierkegaard, nearly a century before Sartre, proposed that anxiety (Angst) is precisely the signal that when facing infinite possibility, the soul realizes it must make a choice before God\u2014not something that can be dissolved by sheer willpower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Several scenes in the Bible fall precisely within this framework:
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The Urgency of Death: In Luke 12:16\u201320, the foolish rich man focuses only on accumulating wealth in this life, yet God says to him, \u201cFool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Death is not an abstract concept, but a reality that could arrive at any moment, forcing an immediate decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Direction of Choice: In John 15:16, Jesus says, \u201cYou did not choose me, but I chose you.\u201d This directly confronts Sartre\u2019s self-creation\u2014it is not \u201cyou create your own essence out of nothing,\u201d but \u201cyou respond to a Being who precedes you and actively calls you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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IV. A Clash of Views on Death: Being-Toward-Death and the Resurrection
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If we want to truly understand where existentialism and the Bible diverge on \u201cultimate concern,\u201d views on death offer the sharpest point of entry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Heidegger\u2019s \u201cBeing-Toward-Death\u201d: Martin Heidegger argued that the key to living \u201cauthentically\u201d lies in confronting death directly\u2014not treating it as a distant, avoidable external event, but recognizing \u201cI could cease to exist at any moment,\u201d and carrying this awareness into every present choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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He called this awakening \u201cBeing-toward-death\u201d: only by acknowledging one\u2019s own mortality can a person awaken from everyday drift (what he called \u201cfalling\u201d) and truly own their life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This overlaps strikingly with Ecclesiastes\u2019 insight: \u201cI have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity\u201d\u2014precisely because death will erase every trace of achievement (Ecclesiastes 9:5: \u201cThe living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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But Heidegger stops here: Being-toward-death can only urge a person to live more sincerely and urgently, but cannot answer whether there is anything beyond death. It is a kind of \u201cheroic despair\u201d\u2014staring into the abyss without a bridge across it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Paul\u2019s Doctrine of Resurrection: 1 Corinthians 15 offers a radically different path. Paul does not deny the reality and severity of death\u2014he calls it \u201cthe last enemy\u201d (15:26), and even admits, \u201cIf in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied\u201d (15:19).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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But he immediately declares, \u201cChrist has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep\u201d (15:20). Resurrection is not an escape from death, but a passing through and conquering of death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Paul even taunts death: \u201cO death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?\u201d (15:55)\u2014this tone contrasts sharply with Heidegger\u2019s solemn \u201cbeing-toward-death\u201d: one heroically bears death\u2019s weight, the other declares that death\u2019s weight has already been lifted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Two Postures Toward Death: Heidegger teaches how to live authentically under death\u2019s shadow; Paul declares that death\u2019s shadow itself has been broken, so one can live in the light of resurrection hope, rather than merely under the shadow of being-toward-death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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V. Questioning Meaning Amid Suffering: The Book of Job<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Book of Job is a classic text exploring innocent suffering, and its very structure is a kind of existentialist trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Concretization of Absurdity: Job, though entirely upright, suddenly suffers the loss of family and affliction with disease\u2014his suffering is real and objective, directly shattering the naive logic of \u201cgood rewarded, evil punished.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This echoes precisely Camus\u2019s sense of absurdity\u2014\u201cthe world\u2019s indifference to human cries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Questioning Rather Than Escaping: Job does not numb himself with clich\u00e9s, nor does he explain his suffering with the rigid theological formulas of his three friends, but instead continually argues, questions, and even accuses God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This posture of \u201chonestly remaining within the question\u201d is itself existentialist\u2014a refusal of false comfort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Key Turning Point: Notably, God\u2019s response in chapters 38\u201341 does not directly answer \u201cwhy me\u201d, but instead poses a series of questions about the order of creation\u2014\u201cWhere were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?\u201d \u201cCan you bind the chains of the Pleiades?\u201d\u2014abruptly lifting Job\u2019s perspective from \u201cmy situation\u201d to \u201cmy place within the entire created order.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This is not a rational answer, but an encounter\u2014Job\u2019s framework for the question is redefined, and he says, \u201cI had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you\u201d (42:5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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V.1 Two Endings to Absurdity: Job\u2019s Prostration and Sisyphus\u2019s Smile<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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At the end of The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus writes one of the most famous declarations in existentialist literature: \u201cOne must imagine Sisyphus happy\u201d (French: Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The logic here is: since the gods punish Sisyphus by having him eternally push a boulder up a mountain only to watch it roll down again, the very absurdity of this punishment becomes Sisyphus\u2019s freedom\u2014by lucidly accepting meaninglessness, he reclaims sovereignty over his own fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Camus calls him the \u201cabsurd hero\u201d: one who \u201cscorns the gods, hates death, and is passionate about life,\u201d yet refuses suicide\u2014whether physical suicide or philosophical suicide (i.e., converting to some transcendent faith).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A Mirror and Inversion in the Ending of Job: Job 42 likewise ends with an act of \u201cacceptance,\u201d but the content and direction of this acceptance are entirely opposite to Sisyphus\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Job does not say, \u201cI accept this meaningless absurdity and find freedom in defiance,\u201d but rather, \u201cI had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes\u201d (42:5\u20136).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This \u201cprostration\u201d (in dust and ashes) appears, on the surface, to be the exact opposite of Sisyphus\u2019s \u201cdefiance\u201d\u2014one is submission, the other rebellion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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But on closer examination, both share the same underlying structure: both are postures of choosing to keep living and bear the weight of existence, after staring directly into absurdity (or divine mystery), without escape and without suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The difference lies here: Sisyphus\u2019s freedom comes from confirming that \u201cno one is listening,\u201d so he himself must become the source of meaning; Job\u2019s peace comes from confirming that \u201cSomeone is present, far beyond his comprehension,\u201d so he no longer needs to be the source of meaning\u2014only to respond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Tension Between Hope and Rebellion: Camus\u2019s \u201chappiness\u201d is a tragic, self-bestowed happiness\u2014it rests on the premise that \u201cthere is no way out,\u201d so Sisyphus\u2019s smile carries the weight of solitude, a person telling himself, in an unresponsive universe, \u201cthis is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Job\u2019s peace, by contrast, is a peace that is given\u2014not a psychological defense mechanism Job manufactures for himself, but the result of a genuine encounter with God: \u201cThe Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning\u201d (42:12).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Notably, this \u201cblessing\u201d is not a logical resolution of suffering (God never explains \u201cwhy Job\u201d), but rather the restoration of relationship itself becomes the answer\u2014this stands in the sharpest contrast to Sisyphus, who \u201cnever receives an answer and can only assign meaning to himself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A Divergence in Two Kinds of \u201cLucidity\u201d: Camus emphasizes \u201clucidity\u201d as the core virtue of the absurd hero\u2014lucidly seeing that there is no meaning, yet still choosing to live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Job\u2019s \u201clucidity\u201d takes a different form: throughout the dialogue, he consistently refuses cheap answers\u2014neither his friends\u2019 causal logic (\u201cyou must have done something wrong\u201d) nor his own accusation that \u201cGod is unjust\u201d\u2014insisting on remaining within the tension of the question, until his final lucidity is not \u201cseeing meaninglessness,\u201d but \u201cseeing a God who is far beyond his understanding, yet still faithful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Summarizing the comparison: if Sisyphus\u2019s smile represents \u201csolitary rebellion within absurdity,\u201d Job\u2019s prostration represents \u201cfaithful surrender within absurdity\u201d\u2014both reject cheap answers and self-deception, both choose to keep living amid suffering, but one turns inward, becoming the last line of defense for meaning himself, while the other turns outward, finding rest before One far greater than himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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VI. The Path of Transcendence: From \u201cUnder the Sun\u201d to \u201cAbove the Sun\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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What makes the Bible unique is that it does not stop at diagnosing the predicament, but points to a path of transcendence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The conclusion of Ecclesiastes: \u201cThe end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man\u201d (12:13)\u2014the sense of absurdity is not overcome by denial nor by sheer willpower, but is resettled within relationship with God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The echo of seeking: Acts 17:26\u201327 states that God made every nation \u201cthat they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Humanity\u2019s yearning for meaning is not a futile evolutionary residue, but precisely corresponds to a God who actively waits to be found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Conclusion: Same Diagnosis, Different Prescription<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Where existentialist philosophy and the Bible meet is precisely in their strikingly consistent diagnosis of the human condition: absurdity, anxiety, the pressure of death, and the weight of free choice\u2014both treat these with equal seriousness, without cheap optimism papering over them. But in prescription, the two paths diverge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Sartrean atheistic existentialism leaves humanity in the void, commanding, \u201cYou must be free, therefore you must create meaning\u201d\u2014this itself amounts to a new kind of despair, since self-created meaning ultimately cannot escape the cycle and decay of \u201cunder the sun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Bible, however\u2014especially through its echo of Kierkegaard\u2019s leap of faith, Paul\u2019s resurrection hope that passes through death rather than merely confronting it, and the peace given to Job in his encounter\u2014points out: the true way out is not inward self-creation, but an outward, upward response: a response to a God who is \u201cabove the sun,\u201d who has already sought you, and who is not far from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"