“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.
Well.. it doesn’t rhyme in English.
That makes it questionable.
It is a prophesy of the (coming) Christian Church, revealed in the OT times.
It belongs...
It’s in the Bible because once you learn the Bible Codes that is where all the stock prices are.
Because the proper and wonderful expression of sexual love was part of the plan from the beginning. In the garden, before Adam sinned, the first command that God gave Adam and Eve as a couple was “be fruitful and multiply.”
It is a silly misconception, both within and outside of the Church, that sex is in someway offensive or less than tasteful in the eyes of God.
Does Song of Songs have a spiritual application? Absolutely! The passion and zeal that the young lovers have for each other in the poem is the same passion and zeal that God has for us. We should long and yearn to be pleasing to him, to be ready for our time with him, and to be ever on alert for his voice or his touch.
But it is a celebration of sexual love. A pure sexual love. It gives instruction on why waiting, why longing, and why choosing love is best for us.
How did Song of Solomon make the cut, yet The Book of Enoch did not?
Song of Songs has a cameo in this movie.
EGR plays a refined gentleman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOQeqcPocsQ
Terms like “Rose of Sharon” are found in SOS and allude to Christ’s relationship with the church.
St John of the Cross used it as the basis for his brilliant “Dark Night of the Soul”.
I have trouble with this implication, although I'll admit the writing is ambiguous and does not directly state that polygamy was an offense against God. As the son not of David's first seven wives Michal, Ahinoam, Abigail, Maachah, Haggith, Abital, or Eglah, but of his eighth wife, Bathsheba, I have trouble seeing Solomon's multiple wives alone as defiance of God. Certainly his openness to other religious observances on his land was an offense against God, but polygamy alone was not at that time a clear offense.
It is in the Bible because it symbolizes the love of Christ for His Bride, the Church.
It is there so we can have whine, women, and song
Next to Revelation, the Song of Solomon is a confusing book for me. There are indeed spiritual lessons in it:
but that doesn't make it less confusing.