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Struggles by Non-Christians
I am starting to hate free will
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<blockquote data-quote="Kermos" data-source="post: 77064006" data-attributes="member: 417147"><p>I'd like to share with you something that King Solomon, the king whom God gave great wisdom (1 Kings 3:1-15), wrote:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Then I became great and increased more than all who preceded me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also stood by me. All that my eyes desired I did not refuse them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, for my heart was pleased because of all my labor and this was my reward for all my labor. Thus I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had exerted, and behold all was vanity and striving after wind and there was no profit under the sun.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">(Ecclesiastes 2:9-11)</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p></p><p>Does that sound familiar? Here's more that King Solomon wrote that your writing reflects:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">So I turned to consider wisdom, madness and folly; for what will the man do who will come after the king except what has already been done? And I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness. The wise man’s eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I know that one fate befalls them both. Then I said to myself, “As is the fate of the fool, it will also befall me. Why then have I been extremely wise?” So I said to myself, “This too is vanity.” For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise man as with the fool, inasmuch as in the coming days all will be forgotten. And how the wise man and the fool alike die! So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">(Ecclesiastes 2:12-17)</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p></p><p>And to the second sentence of your second post quoted above, see King Solomon's writing:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Then I looked again at all the acts of oppression which were being done under the sun. And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them. So I congratulated the dead who are already dead more than the living who are still living. But better off than both of them is the one who has never existed, who has never seen the evil activity that is done under the sun.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">(Ecclesiastes 4:1-3)</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p></p><p>I strongly encourage you to read the book of Ecclesiastes because there is oh so much more than what I've quoted here. It's even available online at this link:</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://biblehub.com/nasb/ecclesiastes/1.htm[/URL]</p><p></p><p>But, afterward, please return to the Book of Matthew as I referred you prior, even the very start, and read through to Mark and into Luke then complete John.</p><p></p><p>King Solomon concluded Ecclesiastes with:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person. For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">(Ecclesiastes 12:13-14)</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kermos, post: 77064006, member: 417147"] I'd like to share with you something that King Solomon, the king whom God gave great wisdom (1 Kings 3:1-15), wrote: [INDENT] Then I became great and increased more than all who preceded me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also stood by me. All that my eyes desired I did not refuse them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, for my heart was pleased because of all my labor and this was my reward for all my labor. Thus I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had exerted, and behold all was vanity and striving after wind and there was no profit under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 2:9-11) [/INDENT] Does that sound familiar? Here's more that King Solomon wrote that your writing reflects: [INDENT] So I turned to consider wisdom, madness and folly; for what will the man do who will come after the king except what has already been done? And I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness. The wise man’s eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I know that one fate befalls them both. Then I said to myself, “As is the fate of the fool, it will also befall me. Why then have I been extremely wise?” So I said to myself, “This too is vanity.” For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise man as with the fool, inasmuch as in the coming days all will be forgotten. And how the wise man and the fool alike die! So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind. (Ecclesiastes 2:12-17) [/INDENT] And to the second sentence of your second post quoted above, see King Solomon's writing: [INDENT] Then I looked again at all the acts of oppression which were being done under the sun. And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them. So I congratulated the dead who are already dead more than the living who are still living. But better off than both of them is the one who has never existed, who has never seen the evil activity that is done under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 4:1-3) [/INDENT] I strongly encourage you to read the book of Ecclesiastes because there is oh so much more than what I've quoted here. It's even available online at this link: [URL unfurl="true"]https://biblehub.com/nasb/ecclesiastes/1.htm[/URL] But, afterward, please return to the Book of Matthew as I referred you prior, even the very start, and read through to Mark and into Luke then complete John. King Solomon concluded Ecclesiastes with: [INDENT] The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person. For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil. (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14) [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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