Where Have All The Men Gone? - Page 18

Encryptus · #**171** 12-06-2007, 02:28 PM

Dan's question

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Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea

So let's say someone sets some verses in the Song of Solomon to music ... almost verbatim ... this too would be an abomination?

RR's post

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Originally Posted by revrandy

What motive would someone have to do that?

Are they going to talk about breasts, legs and thighs???

Dan, Do you pray the Song of Soloman(sic)???

Does anybody open the Word of God and pray the Song of Soloman(sic)??

YOUR direct response to his post

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Originally Posted by Coonskinner

Only at a fried chicken dinner.

My post answering RR's question

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Originally Posted by Encryptus

Song of Solomon aka Song of Songs

Rabbi Akiva a famous martyr and one of the most esteemed of all rabbis stated “If the other books of the Bible are holy, the Song of Songs is holy of holies”

He when on to teach it is a magnificent metaphor for the relationship between God and His people. The strongest of all emotions is love, which is why it must find expression both in the sacred as well as the profane.

God revealed His Word to His people He is the groom, and we are the bride. The sensual parts of the book pose no problems because sex is not something to be dismissed or denigrated. Sex is beautiful, and anything created by God, cannot be dirty in and of itself.

Therefore the Song of Solomon speaks of breasts and scarlet lips, of comely mouths and of a loved one’s neck.

The Song of Solomon is not only part of the Bible but is read by religious Jews every Friday night as they prepare themselves for the spiritual ecstasy of the Sabbath.

Memory of conversation better?

Coonskinner · #**172** 12-06-2007, 02:38 PM

How did that denigrate the Song of Songs?

The fried chicken comment was obviously humorous, and was in no way disrespectful to the Scripture.

Nice try Bub, but no soap.

BoredOutOfMyMind · #**173** 12-06-2007, 02:43 PM

My thoughts on the direction this thread went last night-

Nahum · #**174** 12-06-2007, 03:03 PM

What was so bad about this thread?

I thought it was actually quite interesting and relevant.

SDG · #**175** 12-06-2007, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

What was so bad about this thread?

I thought it was actually quite interesting and relevant.

I couldn't agree more.

Encryptus · #**176** 12-06-2007, 04:11 PM

Gonna have to agree with BOOM

If DA and PP are in agreement then there must have been something wrong with the thread! (TIC)

Praxeas · #**177** 12-06-2007, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by bishoph

I saw this on another forum and asked/received the author (Pastor Steve Buxton of Hilltop Tabernacle Chula Vista, CA) for permission to post it here.

I guess the war was a pretty good excuse to place women in the work force. But glacing backward it seems to me that we not only took women out of the home but ultimately we lost the men in the process. The children of the WWII generation produced an attitude that explored the difference of the sexes while losing the respect of them. The children of the "make love not war generation" as they have moved into power, have done their best to absolutely destroy any deliniation of the sexes. With that has come this nuetered philosophy of Political Correctness of speech.

The reason for my post is that it seems to me that with the departure of real "Maleness" in our society it has become a seedbed for this PC mentality. It bothers me that men ( and I have seen it on this forum ) have to apologize and try to defend themselves if they speak in a way that some would consider not PC. Were the O.T. Prophets P.C.? Were the Disciples? Was Christ? I think not. Trumpets can be loud, disrupting even alarming but they do give a certain sound. Is not the admonition of Isaiah 58:1 to "lift up thy voice like a trumpet..." I am in the Church today because Men of God, Real Men of God, lifted their voices plainly....and I heard them and understood them..and am thankful for them today. Lift up your voice like a trumpet!!

Sounds like an excuse for someone to be crude, rude and otherwise offensive without resorting to tact and wisdom.

BTW women always worked. The difference is now our economy does not support one man working only 8 hours a day and bringing home enough to support families. Not all women are/were married back then either and had a man to support them. Used to be people had family businesses they ran or they hand land to live off of. But that is far from real anymore.

The big corps make having small businesses very hard. The central market square economies where everyone met and sold their wares or bartered is none existent in most of the US.

Women can be women and still work outside the homes...what really suffers is the children. That is the sad part. If she can work from home in her own business or telecommute, that is great.

However a lot of what this sounds like to me are men that are insecure about their manhood.

rgcraig · #**178** 12-06-2007, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Praxeas

Sounds like an excuse for someone to be crude, rude and otherwise offensive without resorting to tact and wisdom.

BTW women always worked. The difference is now our economy does not support one man working only 8 hours a day and bringing home enough to support families. Not all women are/were married back then either and had a man to support them. Used to be people had family businesses they ran or they hand land to live off of. But that is far from real anymore.

The big corps make having small businesses very hard. The central market square economies where everyone met and sold their wares or bartered is none existent in most of the US.

Women can be women and still work outside the homes...what really suffers is the children. That is the sad part. If she can work from home in her own business or telecommute, that is great.

However a lot of what this sounds like to me are men that are insecure about their manhood.

I've had that thought too.

Just because you are a man doesn't mean you have to be rough and tough and rude and crude.

As for marriages, I like what Ferd said in the other thread - - if a man loves his wife and she honors her husband (which is Biblical), then there's no need for any jockeying for power.

Praxeas · #**179** 12-06-2007, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by rgcraig

I've had that thought too.

Just because you are a man doesn't mean you have to be rough and tough and rude and crude.

As for marriages, I like what Ferd said in the other thread - - if a man loves his wife and she honors her husband (which is Biblical), then there's no need for any jockeying for power.

Read what I said in the other thread (about how does a man assert his authority) and tell me what you think

embonpoint · #**180** 12-06-2007, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by rgcraig

I've had that thought too.

Just because you are a man doesn't mean you have to be rough and tough and rude and crude.

As for marriages, I like what Ferd said in the other thread - - if a man loves his wife and she honors her husband (which is Biblical), then there's no need for any jockeying for power.

You really should correct this typo!?

And I am not laughing!

No really I'm not