Regardless of your opinion of religion in general, and Christianity in particular, one ignores the wisdom of the bible at one’s peril. The peril not being some fictitious lake of fire, but simply missing out on something to make you think.
I offer the following quotes from Ecclesiastes.
Ecclesiastes 7:5 It is better to heed a wise man's rebuke than to listen to the song of fools.
This sort of makes Paul’s advice to ignore the wisdom of the world suspect doesn’t it? Then again, I find ALL of Paul’s advice suspect. It was being introduced to the writings of Paul that convinced me Christianity was false.
Ecclesiastes 7:20 There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins.
This is a recognition that we’re all human and that we will all screw up from time to time. If this was coming direct from God, this would have been a good place to advertise the eventual arrival of salvation through grace wouldn’t it?
Ecclesiastes 7:28 I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all.
Sort of a standard male lament, you think God doesn’t believe there are any upright women?
Ecclesiastes 8:7 Since no man knows the future, who can tell him what is to come?
Oh well, so much for the occasional prophet and the occasional prophecy not to mention any and all psychics.
Ecclesiastes 8:15 So I commend the enjoyment of life, because nothing is better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad.
Get it? Enjoy life as much as you can while you can because tomorrow…
Ecclesiastes 9:4 Anyone who is among the living has hope —even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!
A classic quote from someone who supposedly knows.
Ecclesiastes 9:5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten.
So where’s the promise of heaven? You figure God only decided to establish the place so his son would have somewhere to hang out with his friends?
Ecclesiastes 10:19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.
In 1 Timothy 6:10 we’re told that “the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil,” but in Ecclesiastes "money is the answer for everything” so a love of money would be understandable.
The funny thing is, they’re both right (and no I'm not contradicting myself since most scholars doubt that the pastorals were actually written by Paul).
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