Posted on 08/19/2014 2:05:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“I don’t always talk to birds and bees and publish racy tomes about the birds and bees, but when I do, I publish in the Bible.”
-Solly
Perhaps because God, through his writers and prophets, saw today’s sexual depravity and wanted to depicted exactly WHAT romantic love entails, and what it DOESN’T.
Why is the Song of Solomon in the Bible?
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JMO, but I think its because God thinks sex is good stuff.
The Song celebrates marital monogamy and exclusivity, whereas King Solomon defied God and took 700 wives and 300 concubines.
I have no idea why so many Biblical scholars claim that SOS celebrates monogamy. SOS 6:8 says “Sixty queens there may be, and eighty concubines, and virgins beyond number; but my dove, my perfect one, is unique”
60 queens? Sounds like he’s already working hard on hitting the 700 wives mark.
And 80 concubines? Do scholars really think Solomon let them sit around perpetual virgins? Yes, he had a favored woman, but it’s almost absurd to think he didn’t get busy with the other women around the palace.
And intimacy within the couple as nature's G-d intended. Many married couples would do well to revisit the deep meaning and importance this book holds for their passage through this life.
RE: “The Song celebrates marital monogamy and exclusivity”
I find it ironic that a polygamist wrote the book...
Dude: The passage is discounting the value of queens and concubines in favor of The One True Love.
Didn’t know G-d had plumbing.
Well.. it doesn’t rhyme in English.
That makes it questionable.
But he was already married to the Pharaoh’s daughter when he was about 12 years old. Unless if he was writing this song to her, then these writings are not about a monogamous relationship...just a new flame in his life.
Writings often bear the names of people who didnt write them. It was a way of conferring authority to the work by attributing it to someone of importance.
It is a prophesy of the (coming) Christian Church, revealed in the OT times.
It belongs...
The Douay-Rheims Bible calls this book “The Canticle of Canticles”, a title which IMO was designed to ward off all but the most determined readers of Scripture.
I didn’t read it until high school & it seemed then like something out of the Rubaiyat or the Thousand & One Nights.
It’s undeniable that God created sex. Sex is like everything else. It’s good or bad depending on how it’s used.
It’s undeniable that God created sex. Sex is like everything else. It’s good or bad depending on how it’s used.
It’s in the Bible because once you learn the Bible Codes that is where all the stock prices are.
Perhaps the Song of Solomon could be a Solomon-era work, like a Ming Dynasty vase or an Edwardian Settee.
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