Answers – To Difficult Questions (Ecclesiastes)

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Ecclesiastes 1:1—If this book is inspired, why isn’t it quoted in the NT?

Ecclesiastes 1:2—How can this book be part of the Scriptures since it contains such skepticism?

Ecclesiastes 1:4 – Does the earth abide forever or not?

Ecclesiastes 1:9–10—Isn’t it false to claim there is nothing new under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 1:18—Is wisdom the source of happiness, or the means of sorrow?

Ecclesiastes 2:2—Is laughter good or bad?

Ecclesiastes 2:24—Is Solomon commending hedonism here?

Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 – Is eating and drinking the meaning of life?

Ecclesiastes 3:18-22 – Are humans worthless animals?

Ecclesiastes 3:19—Is man’s fate the same as that of animals?

Ecclesiastes 3:20—If all return to dust, how can there be a resurrection?

Ecclesiastes 3:20–21—If there is life after death, why does Solomon declare that man has no advantage over the beasts?

Ecclesiastes 6:8 – Is wisdom worthless?

Ecclesiastes 7:16—How is it possible to be too righteous?

Ecclesiastes 7:16 – Is it possible to be “excessively righteous”?

Ecclesiastes 8:12—Are the lives of the wicked prolonged or shortened?

Ecclesiastes 9:5—Do the dead remember anything?

Ecclesiastes 9:5 – Are the dead conscious or unconscious?

Ecclesiastes 11:9—Should a young man follow his own way or God’s way?

Ecclesiastes 11:9 – Should we follow our own way, or God’s way?

Ecclesiastes 12:7 – Does this verse prove that we pre-existed in heaven?