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Or did God think it was a sexy idea to create humans?
I think we can be very sexy and intimate within a marriage and believe in God. Sex is the most precious activity we can do besides worship and we need to not cheapen it. It is so special that it can create new life and it is sad that TV and society makes it into something distorted and cheap.
I think the bible tells us how to make love.
It is used for teaching in marriage counseling and retreats. If we did it Gods way our marriages would all be great.
Song of Solomon is a very good book to read for men and women in marriage, and teaching how to delight with words and sensuality. An example is this verse below.
3 Your breasts are like two fawns,
like twin fawns of a gazelle.
7 Your stature is like that of the palm,
and your breasts like clusters of fruit.
8 I said, “I will climb the palm tree;
I will take hold of its fruit.”
May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine,
the fragrance of your breath like apples,
9 and your mouth like the best wine.
This young bride knows her worth. Her confidence is very beautiful. God says that a virtuous woman is worth more than rubies (A ruby is more expensive than a diamond about $100,000 at least) The bride is also the church in symbolism, We are Jesus bride.
"The Bride
4"Draw me after you and let us run together! The king has brought me into his chambers." "We will rejoice in you and be glad; We will extol your love more than wine. Rightly do they love you." 5"I am black but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, Like the tents of Kedar, Like the curtains of Solomon"
I dare say he must have, or he wouldn't have made sex the primary means of reproduction for plants, animals & humans. ;)
Well said C.
I know right?
And I mean no disrespect, but come on how sweet is that.
To be honest, if I had breasts like bunches of grapes, I'd go to a specialist to get biopsied for cancer.
And if I had breasts that looked like the fawns of a gazelle I'd never go naked in front of anyone, not even my husband. In fact, I'd so fear being seen that I wouldn't marry at all. I'd need a therapist and kind parents to help me adjust.
And if I was so tall that a man had to climb up a palm tree to get at my fruit....
unfathomable.
So he has to be talking about god and his creation, not about any woman or wife.
Perhaps you miss the analogies a little Hart.
But then again, It could be me seeing it all wrong.
I don't know much about this sort of thing.
I can understand that when the fawn sucks
the drink contains oxytocin which yields a potent euphoria.
Thus Soloman could have rephrased the same ideas to better allude to
making love to a real woman -
but the exact way he phrases it is so incongruous that to me it makes no sense
that he is addressing any kind of human woman.
In ancient Hebrew times, Yahweh had two forms.
One was binary, Jehovah plus his female bride and goddess, Shekhinah, who was worshipped all over Canaan mostly by women at small shrines.
The other was unitary, in which Yahweh is both male and female, but referred to as male due to the limitations of Aramaic grammar.
I think the whole of Solomon's songs are intended as mystical praise for God. In exactly the same erotically ecstatic way Hildegarde of Bingen makes poetic love to God - despite the fact that she was a nun and virgin.
"Loving tenderness abounds for all
from the darkest
to the most eminent one beyond the stars,
Exquisitely loving all
she bequeaths the kiss of peace
upon the ultimate King."
"O Ecclesia,
your eyes are like sapphire:
your ears the mount of Bethel,
your nose
like a mountain of myrrh and incense,
and your mouth is like the sound
of many waters."
