Originally posted by 37818
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So I don't think we should, for example, read it as contradicting the statements in Genesis that Noah was righteous and blameless in his generation or that Lot was the one righteous man in a corrupt city. The old man in Ecclesiastes hadn't met Noah or Lot and measured their righteousness. So I think elevating the comments of the man in Ecclesiastes to the level of Universal Theological Truth is a misunderstanding of them.
That said, I don't necessarily have any problem with the idea that everyone in the world commits some sort of minor sin at some point in their lives simply by virtue of them being human and imperfect. My problem comes with people who try and claim that minor sins are equivalent to major sins, or that God requires 100% perfection and doesn't tolerate the least imperfection. I don't see such views as being what the biblical writers believed.
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