![]() In the context of growing despair, the Christian is tempted either to escape inward, emphasizing personal piety, or to escape outward, emphasizing Christ's return.Outside the covenant of God there is no solution to the problem of injustice.In our time many humanists believe democracy will bring a just social order, but it is just the tyranny of the majority.Man's dreams and plans are basically no better than that of the beasts, because both will die.Solomon observes that God allows injustice in the world so that He can make His justice visible.The dream to create order without the living God leads to injustice and oppression (cf.Man vainly seeks to connect earth to heaven, but only the Bible makes sense of history, the human condition, and the present social order.Solomon now considers the ideal social order and man's failure to achieve order, justice and peace.We need Christ to give life to our mortal bodies. Yet we must do battle against our old nature and the humanistic thinking which wants to rule in our lives (cf.The believer lives in a broken world but he has been given a new heart, and God’s life is at work in him.Ecclesiastes declares that man's wisdom is powerless to straighten out that which is crooked in a fallen world under the curse. ![]() Solomon contrasts covenant wisdom with the wisdom (folly) of man, outlining two completely different visions of the world and two opposing programs for civilization.Solomon speaks to us as a covenant-keeping man, keen to keep the word of God he is also a person who is acquainted with the wisdom of the nations.It is the word of God and it comes to us through the greatest king of Israel. Ecclesiastes is not a random collection of thoughts by a philosopher.
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