Posted on 08/19/2014 2:05:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
"The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable." :o(
Why cant it just be God showing us how to write sexy love letters to our sweethearts?Why cant God just be playing cupid?
OK! That works! Thank you so much!
Because if I told my wife her nose was like the Washington Monument overlooking the White House, she'd slug me. :O)
You are correct. It was his turning to other gods that did him in.
Our invitation to be part of Gods act of creation. The early church was Greek in its early philosophy. To the ancient Greek understanding culmination of the sexual act resulted in the temporary annihilation of reason, and anything that destroyed reason was bad.
I think that the Jewish understanding takes a more mystical view that it is not destruction of the intellect that happens, but that the shared creative act of a Husband and wife allows you, for a moment, to participate in or experience the joy God feels at the goodness of his creation. (Happy to hear the comments of any Rabbi on this point!)
Because the Puritans liked it better than Bel and the Dragon. :)
Not a rabbi but I could play one on TV...
Mystically, in the works of Kabbalah and Chassidut, pro-creation is being a partner with G-d. To take part in this act, akin to creating ‘something from nothing,’ touches the essence of pleasure, so it flows from there that it [is pleasurable, etc....]
Biggirl, from one of your posts (ie, JC and the Church....) you might say, ahem, G-d and the Jewish people.
Re: Go forth.... a little joke: Why is the first commandment given from G-d to man “go forth and multiply?” Because when man saw how fun the first commandment is, he’d want to keep ALL of the commandments! (rim shot, please)
“Applause and laughter!”
Thank you and most excellent!
My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her.
Other versions come right out and say "she is the favorite of her mother."
Someone was very observant about the attractiveness of the favorite, something that has nothing to do with physical appearance.
Also I think there is a clue that bodies were dissected after death, but I'm not going to go into that one.
At the end of Job, God gives Job all new children, which prompted the thought "All new children! What could God have been thinking!" And it's true that it makes us think: I prefer my own children, with all their problems. Who wants all new ones? A little message hidden among the greater one.
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