ecclesiastes

  1. danbuter

    The Book of Ecclesiastes

    A great overview of the book of Eccliastes, and what it means. I recommend taking 7 minutes and watching it.
  2. danbuter

    Ecclesiastes = How could the NIV and CSB screw this up so badly?

    Ecclesiastes is one of my favorite books of the Old Testament. It's all about vanity and how trying to live without God will cause you to be miserable. I have several Bible translations, and almost every single one translates to the word vanity (ESV, RSV, and NRSV for sure). However, for...
  3. God Of Purpose

    God Of Purpose

    Ecclesiastes God of Purpose 7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God. —Ecclesiastes 5:7 (KJV)
  4. erealmz

    God Gave Me 99 Lives

    I'll never forget the day a strange new device came into my life. I had just woke up and heard my cousins laughing and chatting about something. "Jump" one of them said, "kill that guy. Don't fall in the pit". I could only wonder what they were talking about in the next room as I quickly got up...
  5. Greg Merrill

    Ecclesiastes 3:11

    For the longest time I have had trouble understanding the phrase in Ecclesiastes 3:11 "the world in their heart", or as other versions put it "eternity in their heart." As I thought about it last night this came to me: "the world (universe) is seemingly endless, and eternity has no end...
  6. Quid est Veritas?

    Ecclesiastes - All is Vanity

    All is vanity. Or the more direct translation - everything is chasing wind. You will one day die and everything you did will be quickly forgotten. The greatest men become mere ciphers and then nothing. All your dreams and ambitions and achievements are in the end a futile endeavour. The...