The Theology of Ecclesiastes
October 10, 2010 by Tom Brunson
While Proverbs focuses on the principles about how life should work, Ecclesiastes gives the observations of experience - how life really works. Solomon notes his concern at the end of chapter 1, "Because in much wisdom there is much grief, and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain." This is saying that when you have enough wisdom to observe and recognize the state of the world, you understand how distorted and wrong it is - and this brings grief and pain. You see that the world is broken, and there is nothing even Solomon could...
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