Foundations of a Worldview

“And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart…You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.” Deuteronomy 6.6, 8

Foundations of a Worldview

“Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who iswithin your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the LORDyour God and carefully observe all the words of this law…” Deuteronomy 31.12

Ecclesiastes 9.13-18

¹³This wisdom I have also seen under the sun, and it seemed great to me: ¹⁴There was a little city with few men in it; and a great king came against, besieged it, and built great snares around it. ¹⁵Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that same poor man.
¹⁶Then I said:
“Wisdom is better than strength.
Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised,
And his words are not heard.
¹⁷Words of the wise, spoken quietly, should be heard
Rather than the shout of a ruler of fools.
¹⁸Wisdom is better than weapons of war;
But one sinner destroys much good.

Ecclesiastes 9,12

¹²For man also does not know his time:
Like fish taken in a cruel net,
Like birds caught in a snare,
So the children of man aresnared at an evil time,
When it falls suddenly upon them.

Ecclesiastes 9.11

¹¹I returned and saw under the sun that
The race isnot to the swift,
Nor the battle to the strong,
Nor bread to the wise,
Nor riches to men of understanding,
Nor favor to those men of skill;
But time and chance happen to them all.

Ecclesiastes 9.7-10

⁷Go, eat your bread with joy,
And drink your wine with a merry heart;
For God has already accepted your works.
⁸Let your garments always be white.
And let your head lack no oil.
⁹Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity; for that isyour portion in life, and in the labor which you perform under the sun. ¹⁰Whatever your hand finds to do, do itwith your might; for there isno work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.

Ecclesiastes 9.4-6

⁴But for him who is joined to all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
⁵For the living know that they will die;
But the dead know nothing,
And they have no more reward,
For the memory of them is forgotten.
⁶Also their love, their hatred, and their envy have now perished;
Nevermore will they have a share
In anything done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9.3

³This isan evil in all that is done under the sun: that one thing happensto all. Truly the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; madness isin their hearts while they live, and after that they goto the dead.

Ecclesiastes 9.1, 2

¹For I have considered all this in my heart, so that I could declare it all: that the righteous and the wise and their works arein the hand of God. People know neither love nor hatred byanything they see before them. ²All things come alike to all:
One event happensto the righteous and the wicked;
To the good, the clean, and the unclean:

To him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice.
As is the good, so is the sinner.
He who takes an oath as he who fears an oath.

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