"Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is transient. All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth."
"For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten."
Are these from the bible, or another religious text? Opinions.
2006-12-31 01:37:29 · 14 answers · asked by Om 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Where I got them from is not important, I want to know your opinion.
2006-12-31 01:40:57 · update #1
OK game over. I was impressed by some of the answers. Those of you who claimed this is unbiblical etc etc should read Ecclesiastes (3:19-21 and 9:5). In my opinion, this is by far the best book in the bible, and the only one worth reading.
2006-12-31 01:56:55 · update #2
Ecclesiastes 3:18-21
Ecclesiastes 9:5
There you go... I like the answers that say they sound Wiccan.
Haha... quoting Ecclesiastes is always a good way to confuse part-time Christians.
2006-12-31 01:53:50 · answer #1 · answered by xxandra 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.
"So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God's hands, but no man knows whether love or hate awaits him. All share a common destiny--the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As it is with the good man, so with the sinner; as it is with those who take oaths, so with those who are afraid to take them. This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all.
"For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten. .. (Ecclesiastes 9:1-11New International Version)
The Bible
but in the King James it is written
Ecc 3:19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all [is] vanity.
Ecc 3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Ecc 3:21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
A book of the Bible, the name of which is a latinized derivation of the Hebrew Qohelet [the Preacher]. Although traditionally ascribed to Solomon (who is identified as the author in the text), it was clearly written much later (c.300 B.C.).
2006-12-31 01:51:48 · answer #2 · answered by DAVID C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes that is in the Bible. I think from the same book that says:
Better is the end of a matter, than the beginning -- Better it is, to go to the house of death, than the house of birth.
2006-12-31 01:49:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
This may be a trick question...
Take for instance the reference: All have the same breath; man has no advantage over the animal.
The Bible says in Psalms 8:4-9 says:
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. 6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: 7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; 8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. 9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
One of my most favorite chapters in the Bible.
2006-12-31 01:53:53 · answer #4 · answered by adiahudo 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't know, but it sounds like Ecclesiastes.
Isn't it great that the Bible contains such a mixture of stuff? Existential despair, erotic love poetry, apocalyptic...
2006-12-31 01:39:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they are from the bible, and if you are unfamiliar with the rest of the bible you will have no context in which to try and understand this.
2006-12-31 01:39:15 · answer #6 · answered by furiousstyles22003 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ecclesiastes; my favorite book
2006-12-31 01:40:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes they are in the Bible, but do not know which translation you are using. Try the KJV
2006-12-31 01:44:22 · answer #8 · answered by Ex Head 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Passage from the bible: Moses tied his ahse to a tree and walked 4 miles to town. Does this make Moses' ahse the most elastic substance on earth?
2006-12-31 01:40:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
the first part I dont believe is. The one about the living know that they will die sounds like something out of the New Testement.
2006-12-31 01:41:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋