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Date: | Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:44:07 -0700 |
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> Matt,
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> The old time Bible preachers all spiritualized the Song of Solomon because
> it was easier than trying to explain the super intimate descriptions. I
> believe I emailed you once a chapter out of a book I wrote called The Bed
> Undefiled. Maybe I emailed the whole ebook; I can't remember. At any
rate,
> I am sure, for some people, there are some aspects of the Song that Bible
> teachers find impossible to teach from. The chapter in my book I wrote on
> it, however, was one I went out of my way to try and prove what one part
was
> literally discussing to prove a point about intimacy. Regardless, that
> little book sure makes a lot of people nervous and you won't hear a whole
> lot of sermons from it. I figure I have heard over 30,000 sermons and
Bible
> lessons taught in my life time and I can only think of one or two times I
> heard sermons preached from the Song of Solomon and those were both
> spiritualized sermons. In short, the book had nothing to do with sex or
> love or intimacy. At least according to those couple of sermons I heard.
> But I'm getting too old for that sort of thing anyhow so maybe some old
> timers are right and we should just get our interpretive scissors out and
> clip that little book out of the Bible. Yeah, right.
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> Phil.
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