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Ecclesiastes E2: The "Teacher" vs. Jesus

Bible Project podcast — https://bibleproject.com/podcasts/wisdom-series-part-2/

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God & Work

What this book knows

Ecclesiastes' Teacher uses mortality and cosmic futility as the very lever that frees humans to receive ordinary life as gift.

Sex: Absent
Work: Present
Learning: Present
Religion: Primary

mortalityfaith-and-doubtwork-as-meaning

mortality

As you read Ecclesiastes, you're letting the teacher dismantle your perspective about reality. And it isn't pleasant.
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Even if you figured out how to live billions of years, the sun is still going to die. The universe moves at such a pace it will just fall apart.
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Recognizing I'm frail and mortal, I find a good meal and a drink and some satisfaction in this work that has no eternal significance, as far as I can see.
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faith-and-doubt

For the teacher, acknowledging our frailty and mortality, our lack of control, is the silver bullet for coming to enjoy life.
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The wisdom of this book is to adjust my expectations to life under the sun so I can enjoy it — there's still goodness worth enjoying despite no guarantee it will work out.
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work-as-meaning

There'll be a guy who works his whole career really hard and enjoys it in old age. But you can never guarantee it. God has ways that don't fit the Proverbs equation.
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