Ecclesiastes: Living Life Backwards - Under The Sun [Ryan Ashley]

Ecclesiastes 1:1-11

“Ecclesiastes is a kind of back door that allows followers of Jesus to have the sad and skeptical thoughts that they would never allow to enter the front door of their faith.”

Norbert Lohfink

“The author wrote the book to suggest with such fullness as he judged adequate, the emptiness of this life, with the ultimate objective, to be sure, of making us yearn for another kind of life which is no unsubstantial shadow under the sun but a substantial reality under the sun’s Creator.”

Augustine

“The book of Ecclesiastes is one of the most important possessions of the 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 Teacher addresses people whose life is bounded by the horizons of this world; he meets them on their own ground, and proceeds to convict them of its inherent vanity.”

G.S. Hendry