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Does anyone really find themselves relating to this book? I am very analytical and find myself saying exactly...right...etc when reading.
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Ecclesiastes
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It's always been one of my favorite books. Even before I became a Christian, I could clearly see the wisdom in it. It's interesting too that "Vanity" can be translated as "Striving after the Wind", "Futile", "Pointless" or "Meaningless". In a way those translations make the point clearer.
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In my arguing with those who love to try to discredit the Bible by showing supposed contradictions, they love Ecclesiastes, which seems (to them) to deny any consciousness or existence after death, and to show the hopelessness of either living right or wrong.
They love to pick here and there, but it is a whole book, announcing at the beginning the "parenthesis" so to speak, within which the teacher teaches and the experimenter experiments, and providing a conclusion to the whole matter at the end. This is not a hopeless book. It is a book demonstrating the hopelessness of life apart from God.
They love to pick here and there, but it is a whole book, announcing at the beginning the "parenthesis" so to speak, within which the teacher teaches and the experimenter experiments, and providing a conclusion to the whole matter at the end. This is not a hopeless book. It is a book demonstrating the hopelessness of life apart from God.
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Ecclesiastes 1:9-11 NLT
[9] History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new. [10] Sometimes people say, "Here is something new!" But actually it is old; nothing is ever truly new. [11] We don't remember what happened in the past, and in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now.
[9] History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new. [10] Sometimes people say, "Here is something new!" But actually it is old; nothing is ever truly new. [11] We don't remember what happened in the past, and in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now.
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