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    Ecclesiastes

    I have read this book several times and I STILL don't get it after all these years. This book seems to speak in direct defiance of some other principles put forth throughout the Bible. Why was it allowed into the cannon and does anyone know of a good study on the book that might shed some light on things?
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    Funny...

    Originally posted by Semi-tortured View Post
    I have read this book several times and I STILL don't get it after all these years. This book seems to speak in direct defiance of some other principles put forth throughout the Bible. Why was it allowed into the cannon and does anyone know of a good study on the book that might shed some light on things?
    ...I think it is a fine summary of God's Will, at least chapter three. What bothers you about it?
    JER 14:13 Then said I: 'Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them: Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.'
    JER 14:14 Then the LORD said unto me: 'The prophets prophesy lies in My name; I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I unto them; they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their own heart.

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    • #3
      Chapter 12 is a wonderful prophecy for the last days church.
      I am a Christian man in the Devil's land, spreading the gospel man to man.
      Have you laid your burdens down?

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      • #4
        Second time I've posted this today...

        “There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ" - B. Pascal(1623-1662

        Ecclesiastes, IMO, is 12 chapters addrssing this fact.

        Things under the sun = any created thing
        As thy days, so shall thy strength be - Deuteronomy 33:25

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Semi-tortured View Post
          I have read this book several times and I STILL don't get it after all these years. This book seems to speak in direct defiance of some other principles put forth throughout the Bible. Why was it allowed into the cannon and does anyone know of a good study on the book that might shed some light on things?
          I've always thought it did a great job of showing how pointless and vain life is outside of God. Which parts do you think defy other things in the bible? I think I remember thinking that same thing the few times I've read it.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by TransformedSon View Post
            Which parts do you think defy other things in the bible?
            Ecclesiastes 11:10 - For childhood and youth are vanity

            Well, that's fine with me, but then I read this...

            Matthew 18:3 - Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven

            So childhood is vanity, but we must think as children in order to enter the kingdom?

            Discuss
            -Slade-

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