Posted on 07/28/2006 5:00:29 PM PDT by Maximus_Ridiculousness
I definitely think it would be fun to host a paranormal thread. I have some links on the subject and it could be both fun and educational.
should we turn over the thread BACK TO THE NON-PARANORMAL folk? (I think we have scared them all away!)
I think I am about ready to call it a night (party animal that I am)
"First of all, as Evangelical Christians, we'd like to say that the Church does a pretty bad job of dealing with the whole dating/marriage topic.......perhaps because of fear, perhaps because of misinformation. (Let me say that anyone who says the Song of Solomon is only in reference to Christ and the Church is sadly misinformed. It's practically a sex manual.......passionate, and very frank)."
Ah well, I suppose we can agree to disagree...
In a sense, you're right. It isn't simply about Christ and the Church. But the Song of Solomon isn't simply a sex manual by any means.
However, it does use erotic imagery to convey the point that God's love for His people is infinite and can never be broken. Further, it is not only an allegory for the love between Christ and the Church, but God and Israel--after all (and IIRC), it is part of the Hebrew Scripture. It can also be thought of as the idealization of the unbreakable and eternal bonds of marriage.
Many great theologians and thinkers have written commentaries on sexuality and the Song of Songs--including the early Church Fathers (e.g Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria), St. Augustine, the Venerable Bede, and Aquinas.
Pope John Paul II's work The Theology of the Body and Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical Deus Caritas Est provide an invaluable insight that really does help to explain the allegory of the Song of Songs.
After all, I'm a practicing Catholic...8^)
Well, I made some improvements to ours while Kate's away...
what's happening?
Just drinking soda and splitting my attention between FR and baseball(Angels/Red Sox on ESPN.)
whos winning?
Nothin much here--though I gotta ask ya what's yer take:
-What's your take on the El Caballo (Carlos Lee) trade to Texas?
-The Brewers added a fifth racing sausage to their lineup--the Chorizo (complete with brown sombrero)...
Enjoyed reading your interaction and look forward to your thread in autumn.
What improvements?
HOw goes it?
My D-backs won today.
Time to let the singles mix and mingle.
More like ??? I don't know.
I am not rebelling, but just not comfortable within the confines of a building this week.
Angels up 6-1 in the 4th.
Texas got the better of that trade for sure.
I think we can make it fun.. and of course I will cover the movie "segment"
night eleanor.. lots of stress here.. so tired.. sweet dreams (as you are 5 hours LATER)
resting from eight hours of work. My feet are killin me...
At least they're doing better than the Brew Crew. Melvin said he'd look at trading Lee if the team went down the toilet...
Well, we took a hugh nose dive, and Lee's off to Texas.
I don't think I'm a practing Catholic right now either, and haven't been for awhile, but there are reasons for that.
Apparently 12.75 million a year wasn't enough...
Nothing's ever enough, it seems.
OTOH, I've been slipping...
Haven't been to Church in a couple weeks--but then again I have to work, and no evening masses around...
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