I hope your life and ministry bring fulfillment to people and to yourself.

All the best,

MG

http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H3618&t=ESV

Having the love of a father or uncle is not incestous, you eisegeted that passage with our understanding of love for a father. Love of a father is meaning love, unconditional love.

You also forgot that Solomon was in fact human. He’s sinful, and he fell multiple times. However, that doesn’t contradict that this passage is probably between one male and one female.

That was not the arugment she was making.

All logical fallacies aside.

I would absolutely call that jerk out for mistreating his wife, that is ridiculous. He took that scripture out of context.

So, it sounds like you have a certain conceptual framework within which you interpret the Song of Solomon. Namely, you have concluded that “courtship” implies that you can feel for the one you are courting love that is like that of a father or an uncle. Sounds a little weird and incestuous to me, but hey, different strokes for different folks.

Also, I’m not really convinced that the language used [i.e. "bride"] is a perfect translation of what was intended as originally written, especially considering that Solomon [yeah, supposedly the wisest man who ever lived, right?] had how many hundreds of wives and how many concubines? It’s like trying to believe an account of Imelda Marcos falling in love with a pair of shoes at the exclusion of all other pairs, if you know what I mean – kind of ludicrous.

If Solomon’s account of seducing yet another wife or concubine is being held up as the holy grail of “one man, one woman” then I guess I have much to learn about what Christianity supposedly teaches about the sanctity of monogamous unions.

But would you do “the same” to a husband who expects that his wife will give it up even when she’s not up for it because of his interpretation of the so-called “doctrine of submission?

I understand falling in to that sin. I have definitely failed in that area and so have many of my other brothers and sisters. Sex is a beautiful, awesome thing that because sin has entered the world from the beginning has turned in to this crazy pursuit of pleasure over the pleasures that are at God’s right hand (ps 16.11) Sex outside of a marriage is sin and if our brothers and sisters in christ are falling into that sin we should call them out. Its not being judgemental, it is not saying “you disgusting creature, Go to hell” its saying “Hey, that is not glorifying God, you should stop because I love you.” we would do the same to a porn addict, theif, liar, anyone.

“Bottom line is, when you pick and choose pet issues at the expense of considering new ones, your credibility suffers and your witness is impaired.”

But this was the one issue in her post that I truly disagreed with, it wasn’t at the expense of anything. I didn’t automatically stop listening to what she had to say. The supporting arguments of your recent comment weren’t adressed because they really had nothing to do with the problem I had with the post.