The Song of Songs or The Song Of Solomon is an Old Testament book written in the form of a lyric love song. It is believe this song speaks symbolically of the love of God for the nation of Israel and also as a healthy expression of romantic love between a man and a woman. The Song Of Songs or The Song Of Solomon is certainly one of the most unusual book in the Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible. The Song Of Songs implies it was the loveliest and best known of all the songs of Solomon. -1:1 -

Marriage refers to the union of a man and a woman as husband and wife, which becomes the foundation for a home and family. In other words, It is the physical and spiritual union of a man and a woman, in which God created. - Gen. 2:21-24 - The origin of marriage was instituted by God when He declared: 'It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helpmate.' - Gen. 2:18 -

So Yahweh God made the man fall into deep sleep. And while he slept, he took one of his ribs and enclosed it in flesh. Yahweh God built the rib he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man. The man exclaimed:
                                                           'This at last is bone from my bones,
                                                            and flesh from my flesh!
                                                            This is to be called woman,
                                                            for this was taken from man.'
This is why a man leaves his father and mother and joins himself to his wife, and they become one body. - Gen. 2:21-24 -

What the passages emphasizes was the truth that God's ideal is for the marriage to be permanent.

In the Old Testament, God's desire for His people was that they marry within the body of believers. Marriages between Israelites were directed by law, and all incestuous relationships were outlawed. -Lev. 18:6-8, 20:19-21 - The prohibition of adultery is written in the Ten Commandments. - Ex. 20:14; Deut. 5:16 -

Let them be for yourself alone,
not for strangers at the same time.
And may your fountain-head be blessed!

Find joy with the wife you married in your youth,
fair as a hind, graceful as a fawn,
Let hers be the company you keep,
hers the breasts that that ever fill you with delight,
hers the love that ever holds you captive.
Why be seduced, my son, by an alien woman,
and fondle the breast of a woman who is a stranger?

For the eyes of Yahweh observe a man's ways
and survey all his paths.
The wicked man is snared in his own misdeeds,
is caught in the meshes of his own sin,
For want of discipline, he dies,
and is lost through his own excessive folly. - Pro. 5:17-23 -

Anyone who commit adultery is sinning against God. Marriage, therefore, became the metaphor with which to explain the relationship between God and Israel. - Hosea 3 - The married couple (a man and a woman) was expected to build and develop a bond of mutual love and respect, which they, in turn would pass on to their children.

The New Testament does not contradict the doctrines and teachings about marriage in the Old Testament. Most marriage teaching in the New Testament comes from the Lord Jesus Christ and the apostle Paul's. Jesus' first miracle occurred in Cana in Galilee when He and His disciples were attending a wedding. Our Lord Jesus Christ gave His blessing and sanction to the institution of marriage. ( The Sacrament of Holy Matrimony ) On another occasion, when Jesus was asked about marriage and divorce, He quoted Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible, two passages from the book of Genesis.

Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female' and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one body or flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man separate.' Not only did God acknowledge the marriage; He also joined the couple/them. ( a man and a woman ) - Gen. 1:27, 2:24, 5:2; Matt. 19:4-6; Eph. 5:31 -

You know, surely, that your bodies are members making up the body of Christ; do you think I can take parts of Christ's body and join them to the body of a prostitute? Never! As you know, a man who goes with a prostitute is one body with her, since the two, as it is said, become one flesh. But anyone who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.

Keep away from fornication. All the other sins are committed outside the body; but to fornicate is to sin against your own body. Your body, you know, is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you since you received him from God. You are not your own property; you have been bought and paid for. That is why you should use your body for the glory of God. - 1 Cor. 6:15-20 -

Authentic love is much more than a surface relationship; it extends to the very core of one's being. Love like this cannot be bought and sold like some commodity on the open market.

In the Old Testament, The Song Of Songs or The Song Of Solomon is a brief book of only 8 chapters. The great message of The Song Of Songs is the beauty of love between a man and a woman as experienced in the relationship of marriage. In its beautiful......

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -