Though Jesus repeatedly urged people to listen, hear, understand, and believe, pictures and sculptures proliferated in astounding abundance, as if none of the artists had much faith. Botticelli is an exception. After hearing Savonarola preach, he threw paintings into the bonfire of the vanities. In movies certain relations between men and women, based on exquisite sentiments, have gone out of style. It's sad to think that sentiments go out of style.
Nothing is unchanging, irreplaceable, real.
Theoretical physicists say in the beginning there was nothing. It exploded, the universe emerged and evolved, and went rushing away from the original nothing. Shakespeare, as always, hit the nail on the head. Madame Bovary never dies. She has a soul, and it doesn't make the least difference what she looks like.