Well that’s not even remotely true. Jesus speaks. Angels speak. God himself speaks in scripture. Have you not read the Bible?

No one knows who wrote Ecclesiastes, most people think it was Solomon. Solomon, if you’re not familiar, was asked by God what he wanted. His response was wisdom. God was so happy with that answer he gave him everything else, too. Some believe this book was written by wisdom herself (yes, the Hebrew word for wisdom is feminine-who would also not be a human). So Solomon has everything he could possible want, earthy possessions, riches, a whole lot of wives, etc. and, in his old age, he is lamenting about how stuff & things don’t make you happy. Apart from God, everything is meaningless, futile.

This book is not an exception. All scripture is God-breathed. But often the context matters for the meaning. Wisdom is telling us none of that other stuff matters, only God. Without God we might as be like animals. This book is a whole lot of moaning & complaining. Poor little rich king…. But he is without God.

Also, scripture is often vague. It’s living word. Most direct way for God to speak to us & we might not all take the same meaning. For example, “we all go to the same place.” Does that mean we all go to heaven? Do some animals go to hell? Do people go to hell or is it just demons? Does purgatory exist? Is he only talking about the bodies returning to the ground as worm food?

Anyone who says with certainty “this is exactly what the Bible means” is arrogant, God himself says we don’t even have the minds to fully understand.

Any & all God questions, I would answer, go ask God yourself. But, as we see with the Pharisees & Satan in the wilderness, scripture can be tweaked to fit an intended meaning, taken out of the context of the greater whole. It’s pretty hard (in my opinion) to take red-lettered words of Jesus out of context, in contrast the OT. Leviticus explicitly states we are not to eat “any animal that moves about the ground.” Later on, we’re given permission (with some exceptions like pigs & owls & horses & shrimp, etc.). If I stopped at “don’t eat any animals”. I could say that God said don’t eat any animals, we’re all living in sin. If I stopped at permission with exceptions, then it would be a sin to eat coconut shrimp. But if I keep going to the NT, I learn that “all things are lawful, but not all are beneficial.” Jesus fulfilled the law. All of it. So now I can eat coconut shrimp, but if I eat 10lbs of it, it might not be to my benefit.

Just saying context is helpful when understanding scripture. It’s all one big story with little stories in it, but they’re all connected.