Ecclesiastes is the Bible’s most surprising guest: a book that spends twelve chapters essentially shrugging and saying that everything is meaningless, that we’re all going to die, and that you might as well enjoy your dinner while you can. It’s bleak, it’s strangely comforting, and it does not sound like anything else in this collection. We covered all 12 chapters.
You’ll also see 2 episodes marked Dig Deeper below. The show’s format is an unstudied first read, reactions and all, so those episodes are where the hosts go back into a book or chapters they already covered to chase down their own questions and pick up what they missed the first time through. They’re not listener Q&A, just the hosts grading their own homework.
14 episodes (12 read-through + 2 Dig Deeper) • Chapters 1–12 (complete) • Recorded 2023
Every Episode, In Order
- Ecclesiastes Chapter 1
- Ecclesiastes Chapter 2
- Ecclesiastes Chapter 3
- Ecclesiastes Chapter 4
- Ecclesiastes Chapter 5
- [Dig Deeper] Ecclesiastes Chapters 1–5
- Ecclesiastes Chapter 6
- Ecclesiastes Chapter 7
- Ecclesiastes Chapter 8
- Ecclesiastes Chapter 9
- Ecclesiastes Chapter 10
- [Dig Deeper] Ecclesiastes Chapters 6–10
- Ecclesiastes Chapter 11
- Ecclesiastes Chapter 12
Contradictions We Found in Ecclesiastes
Here are some of the contradictions we dug into in Ecclesiastes (out of 20 we cataloged):
- Are the laws of the Old Testament still binding?
- Do the wicked live long?
- Does God destroy both the righteous and the wicked?
- Has there ever been a just person?
- Is death final?
- Is it ok to kill?
- Is money good or bad?
- Is wisdom a good thing?
- Should we follow our own hearts and eyes?
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