Don't you think that an anti-sex position is a rather silly position for your sect to take when the biblical book "Song of Solomon" is a piece of erotic poetry? (For instance, in Song of Solomon 8:2, the bridegroom proposes to "drink of spiced wine of the juice of the pomegranate." The pomegranate was a symbol of the female genitalia, and the "spiced wine" represented menstrual blood).
2006-09-27 06:29:55 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, and Ezekiel is most erotic also.
The Bible Ezekiel 23:19-21
Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.
Mommy, what is an emission.
2006-09-27 08:48:23 · answer #1 · answered by zurioluchi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Song of Solomon
Author: various, but attributed to Solomon
Dating: completed by 400 BCE
The Song of Solomon has also been called the Song of Songs and the Canticle, constituting one of the more popular books of the Bible because of the worldly and sometimes sexual nature of some passages. The author is unknown, but it was probably finished being written sometime around 400 BCE. Despite its popularity, there was a great deal of debate about whether or not to include it in the canon. Like Esther, it simply never mentions God and doesn't deal at all with matters like religion or law.
2006-09-27 16:15:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know exactly what you are talking about.
But I think you are miscontrueing the information. Song of Solomon is also talking about marriage. I don't recall exactly, but either he creates the song (poetry) for the marraige, or when he is engaged to be married. He is rejoicing.
To undestand this, you need to read it in its entirety - not excerpt as you have above. It's quite long and is like a story about this woman he wants/loves/celebrates and wants to marry.
So, it actually goes along with the idea of no sex before marriage.
See this fabulous link to learn the whole story:
http://www.pbc.org/library/files/html/0222.html
2006-09-27 06:35:04 · answer #3 · answered by nuovoterra 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What sect are you referring to?
Most Christians believe that Song of Solomon is for the marriage bed.
I would agree with most of your question, but I don't think the wine is menstrual blood.
2006-09-27 06:31:34 · answer #4 · answered by Juliart 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why on earth would anyone think that Christians are anti-sex? God invented it, He sanctions it between 1 married man and 1 married woman. Sex is for tenderness and closeness between this man and this woman who are married. Sex is for the reproduction of children for this couple to love and teach about God and His Son Jesus.
Please understand that all Christian, married couples are supposed to have sexual intercourse. It is not lucid or dirty. God invented it!!!!.
2006-09-27 06:39:22 · answer #5 · answered by 4HIM- Christians love 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋