Commentary on Selected Verses in Ecclesiastes

                                Ecclesiastes 7:29 (KJB)

The first part of this verse agrees precisely with the fact that God creates humans in His image. Genesis 1:27 (KJB). God creates humans to be good and to be upright. Can any righteous human ever become totally evil? That is not possible because God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB). Evil humans can practice evil, but that little light of righteousness that God puts into them can never be put out by the darkness of evil. In the end of the world, God must recover and recreate every righteous human He has ever created, even the dim righteousness that still resides within evil humans. Revelation 21:5 (KJB).

In God's final judgment, He casts only dead and evil humans into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). These dead and evil humans can only be totally evil because God could never cast His righteous and living humans into an eternal lake of fire. God could never utterly destroy His own creations. God's Love is Almighty and can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). God precisely informs that all of His living humans whose names are written in the Book of Life will not be cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15 (KJB). All of God's living and righteous humans are forever alive to Him. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38 (KJB).

All of this means that God must possess a way to separate His righteous and living humans from their dead and evil natures so that He can save and preserve their righteous and living natures, and He can cast their totally evil natures into an eternal lake of fire. All living humans can only live by faith that God can and will save them from eternal death. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). That faith happens to be a part of the righteousness that God puts into every human that He creates. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:27 (KJB). For these reasons, Christ will appear to all of His living humans confined to the regions of death in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can save the former forever, and He can cast the latter into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Matthew 13:36-43; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3 (KJB). But some humans will be able to return to faith in Christ while still alive in the flesh, and God will save them by His grace. John 5:24; John 3:1-8 (KJB).

The second part of this verse refers to the fact that the evil natures of humans can cause them to be able to invent their own evil and sinful systems. Most humans are intelligent, and they can misuse their intelligence to invent evil and sinful systems that they can practice. But like the Devil, humans can never create anything. Humans can only misuse the good ideas that God gives them to invent false systems of sin and evil. For example, every lie that every human has ever invented has consisted of a false combination of good and useful ideas.

Humans fell into sin because of a weakness in the free will that God gave them. Genesis 2:16-17 (KJB). Adam and Eve could have eaten of the Tree of Life first and spared the human race from a history of sin and evil. They fell into sin solely because they were seduced by a lie from the Devil. The lie of the Devil and the deliberate sin of Adam made them solely responsible for the sin and evil that entered into the history of the human race. I Timothy 2:13-14 (KJB). God can in no way be responsible for sin and evil because God gave Adam and Eve free will to be used only in a good way which was to eat of the Tree of Life first. Guns are neither good nor evil. Guns can be used in good ways or in evil ways. If a person uses a gun to murder someone, then the evil nature of that person becomes solely responsible for that evil act, not the gun itself.

But the advantage that God has over the Devil rests in the fact that God has all the Power He needs, and He was perfectly willing and able to make the sacrifice necessary to save His entire set of living and righteous humans from the utter destruction that the Devil planned for them. Genesis 3:15 (KJB). God planned to save His entire creation whether Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of life first or the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil first. Revelation 21:5; Colossians 1:15-23; Romans 8:18-23; Matthew 13:36-43; II Peter 3:9-13; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB).