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Life Beyond the Sun: An Introduction to Worldview & Philosophy through the Lens of Ecclesiastes is unavailable, but you can change that!

Solomon, in the book of Ecclesiastes, offers one of the most insightful earth-centered perspectives on the world and life in it. He examines succinctly the futility, the emptiness, and the hopelessness of life under the sun, life apart from God. At the same time, he suggests the wonder and value of even the simplest act when performed in the context of God’s glory. In Life Beyond the Sun, Dr....

identifies reality. Interestingly, he held that God was the perpetual perceiver, and thus all things are relative to the Absolute. Locke’s and Berkeley’s brands of empiricism, while not atheistic, still do not square with Solomon’s epistemology put forth in Proverbs 1:7 and 9:10 and which begins with God and builds a framework of knowledge from Him rather than arguing to Him. Recall David’s introduction to Psalm 14—“The fool has said in his heart, there is no God.” Beginning with the nonexistence
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