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Old 08-13-2014, 05:41 AM
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Gamby, what about "this day you shall be with me in paradise?" Jesus
"I am persuaded that neither life nor death nor principalities nor powers etc. can separate us from the love of Christ?" Paul
"I will never leave you nor forsake you" jesus.

Ecclesiastes is about questionings of what life means and considerations and meditations about the meaning of life.
Framing one's beliefs by pointing to one verse ignores that the book is chock-full of the author discovering the errors of his thinking and the author tracks the progression of his beliefs from the beginning to the end of Ecclesiastes.

For example, contrast the verse you quoted with Ecclesiastes 12:7
"Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto to God who gave it"
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