Gilbert House Fellowship #132: Ecclesiastes

ecclesiastes12ANOTHER BOOK of wisdom attributed to Solomon is our Old Testament study this week. The collected sayings of “the Preacher” (or “the Collector”), widely believed to be Solomon, are generally gloomy, but only in that they remind us of the folly of pursuing material things apart from God.

The book concludes with a summary of Solomon’s long pursuit of wisdom — a three sentence summary of the meaning of life:

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 (ESV)



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2 Responses to Gilbert House Fellowship #132: Ecclesiastes

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  2. Craig Rutherford

    Dear Mr. Gilbert, this is not related to the house church study but is in response to something you said in your latest Youtube video. You made a comment about the issue of spiritual and moral responsibility regarding the idea of parallel universes.

    There is a situation that does not involve multiple universes but has the same moral/spiritual implications. That is the situation of identical twins. Traditional orthodox Christian theology holds that a human becomes a human with a soul at conception. Identical twins result from the division of the zygote AFTER conception. This leads to the most logical conclusion that the twins somehow share a soul (whatever that may mean). Modern studies involving identical twins seems to corroborate that idea, such as studies involving twins separated at birth who come back together as adults and find that they have the same tastes and likes and dislikes and even marry women with the same names, etc.

    If it is true that twins share the same soul, then that leads to the same moral/spiritual question of spiritual and moral responsibility, i.e., if one twin comes to faith in Christ and the other does not, what then? I was wondering if you have ever considered this interesting puzzle from a Christian perspective?

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