Ecclesiasties
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Ecclesiasties: Overview
Ecclesiasties: Overview
What is your understanding of how Ecclesiastes helps us understand more fully the whole story of the Bible?
What is your understanding of how Ecclesiastes helps us understand more fully the whole story of the Bible?
Without God our life is “Vanity!” Since everything “under the sun,” that is, in creation is fallen and broken we will never find everlasting fulfillment and satisfaction not only in this life but also after death. The only means by which man can find everlasting life, joy and hope is found in God (Christ alone). Furthermore, it points to the reality that all of creation is in desperate need of redemption.
Therefore, it cannot bring
Charles Bridges: To “drink and thirst again” is the disappointment of the world. To “drink and never thirst” is the portion of the Gospel. ()
We live in a fallen and broken creation that is not only in need of redemption but also will never full-fill us.
To “drink and thirst again” is the disappointment of the world. To “drink and never thirst” is the portion of the Gospel.
Bridges, C. (1860). An Exposition of the Book of Ecclesiastes (p. vii). New York: Robert Carter & Brothers.
Human Life: Our life on Earth is not full of
God:
Culture:
The book is monergistic (God-centered) as opposed to synergystic (man-centered). It elevates God and humbles man. Sandy and Giese state, “The Book of Ecclesiastes is one of the most important possessions of the Christian church, since it compels us to continually evaluate and correct our understanding of God and our teaching about God in the light of the whole of biblical revelation.… The reflections of the sage in Ecclesiastes unmask the myth of human autonomy and self-sufficiency and drive us in all our frailty and inability to find meaning in a crooked world in the Creator-creature relationship—the ultimate polarity.”
Sandy and Giese state, “The Book of Ecclesiastes is one of the most important possessions of the Christian church, since it compels us to continually evaluate and correct our understanding of God and our teaching about God in the light of the whole of biblical revelation.… The reflections of the sage in Ecclesiastes unmask the myth of human autonomy and self-sufficiency and drive us in all our frailty and inability to find meaning in a crooked world in the Creator-creature relationship—the ultimate polarity.”
Do you have any idea of how aspects of the book’s message are found elsewhere in the Old Testament and fulfilled in the New Testament?
Do you have any idea of how aspects of the book’s message are found elsewhere in the Old Testament and fulfilled in the New Testament?
God’s Sovereignty: Just as proclaims God as the sovereign creator so also does Ecclesiastes proclaim this truth (; )
Seasons (Ecclesiastes 8:22)
Charles Bridges: To “drink and thirst again” is the disappointment of the world. To “drink and never thirst” is the portion of the Gospel. ()