Craig Tucker
Ecclesiastes is a book with a strategy – and that’s probably its most unique and interesting aspect. The writer clearly thinks that to know God and serve him is the point of life. However, he writes from “concealed assumptions”. To demonstrate the veracity of this assertion he looks at the alternatives. He looks at life without God in the picture (life “under the sun”) to see if you can make sense of life. He examines “enjoying yourself” as the end of life, “accumulating wisdom”, etc. In each case his conclusions are fairly bleak. This “experiment” makes for a head to head clash between worldly ways of viewing life and God’s perspective. Only at the end of the book, when he has pursued the alternatives and found them wanting, does he present his own conclusion.
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