Hi Mat,

I really find benefit from books, tapes, sermons and etc. but one must
remember there is no replacement for God's Word, the Bible, and reading it
alone with the desire to find how it applies to us individually for our
lives. No preacher can do that for us.   You will find people saying NIV is
the best translation, others saying the NAS is the best, and of course
those that believe Jesus used King James Version  hahahahaha, so they swear
by it. Anyway I believe the differences between them are of no big
significance, the important thing is one is fed from the Bible and not
soley by substitution. Song of Solomon? A rarely studied book in
traditional church hahahaha. good book though.

Brad


At 10/29/2003 on Wednesday, you wrote:
>This is fasenating to me Paul and I appreciate your telling me all that.  I
>got what information I have about the song of solomon from tapes of a
>seminar these women who wrote the book Intimate issues have available.
>What they have done is to try and write a book for christian women about sex
>and they use info from the bible.  They tell clearly what is forbidden in
>scripture but they use references from the song of solomon concerning the
>shulamite and her husband to show that their is nothing wrong with a healthy
>sexual want for one's marage partner.
>I'll include my notes from these tapes below.  Since my notes were not
>intended for anyone else's eyes, I did not mind the spellings and believe it
>or not I do try to mind my spelling otherwise.  Although sometimes I fail
>drastically.
>Following are the notes from the Intimate issue's seminar tapes, a seminar
>given for women only I think.
>
>Ask yourself 3 questions about the act you wonder about,
>First
>Is it forbidden in scripture?
>second
>Is it benificial?
>third
>Does it involve anyone else?
>10 prohibitations found in scripture.
>1  fornication which is amoral sex.
>2  adultrey.  This doesn't just include physical acts but emotional acts in
>the mind and heart.
>3 Homosexuality
>4  Impurity The greek she points out for impurity involves losing one's
>verginity or to become impure through living a secular or pagan lifestyle.
>5  Orgeies
>6  Prostitution
>7  Lustful passions, sexual desire for one another in marage is ok but this
>refers to
>An unrestrained indescriminant sexual desire for man or woman other than
>one's marage partner.
>8  sodomy,  refers to man with man or man with animals.
>9  obsenity and corse jokes.
>10 insest