Posted on 08/02/2013 12:40:13 PM PDT by Kartographer
You obviously do not understand what the Book of Ecclesiastes is about and what was in Solomon’s mind as he wrote it. Otherwise you would not think you had a good point. As for the your father, he was just as Biblically illiterate as you.
Animals have no souls, what Solomon wrote was what men believed not God. Ecclesiastes is wisdom from man’s perspective while the book of Proverbs is wisdom from God’s perspective.
That is why Solomon wrote, the way he did in the book of Ecclesiastes. Solomon’s many wives turned his heart away from God and instead he began following false god’s. It was in Solomon’s old age that he wrote Ecclesiastes, and he wrote it while looking at wisdom from a man’s point of view.
In his younger days when he still followed God, he wrote the book of Proverbs, and thus the contrast of opinion between Proverbs and Ecclesiastes.
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