Whilst I was camping, I slept, played, and ate. But before you think my time wasted or at the least somewhat twiddled away, let me assure you, I was studying. My topic of study was one most interesting and, I daresay, worthy of my time and effort. The text of my study, you ask?
God on Sex: The Creator's Ideas About Love, Intimacy, and Marriage by Danny Akin
What did you say? Did you say, "Shame on you"? Well, if you did, then shame on YOU, for where else would you suggest I learn the truth on this quite relevant and most potent of subjects, if not here?
The book is basically a verse by verse commentary on something you all hopefully have in your library, the Song of Solomon. Ever been told the Song was only about Christ and the church to the exclusion of anything else? Rubbish. While the book is no doubt useful in some allegorical sense, it was plainly written about the love and passion literally oozing between man and wife.
Marriage is in itself an allegory, I believe, but it seems to me that very few of the sermons that I've heard have ever used this book in a practical sense, which I would dare to believe was the very mode in which it was intended. What a shame it is that the church has almost convinced most people that this is the only purpose that it has, that is, it exists only to show some mystical and, I daresay, erotic love that Christ holds for His church. Broken bones and bilgewater, I say! What a waste of that which God has given us to combat the chief cult which confronts us today; The cult of the sex-worshippers, whose priests and priestesses fill our nation's entertainment.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: "You can't combat ol' Something with ol' Nothing." Yea, thou faithful daughter of Zion; Fill our ears with the errors of the world's pretensions, but do take care to tell us the truth, lest we fall for the lack of it. Thou canst not combat error without truth, for if there be not truth, there be not error, which can only be the failing to achieve this truth. There is a void left that must needs be filled, so fill it well, oh learned and well instructed daughter!
I mean, it's not like God has been silent about this, right? Why should we be? Something I have never heard preached is 1 Corinthians 7:3-5.
Today, it is a common practice for a woman, Christian or no, to control men, be he her husband or no, by withholding or giving the, shall we say, comforts of the marriage bed. Before I say any more, let me warn you that I feel strongly about this. Anyway, I have heard that there was once an old shrew who craftily insinuated to her young friend that she "could make (her husband) come over to her side sooner or later". I will say the old witch meant no direct harm to the woman's marriage, but the method she subscribed was absolutely contrary to God and His goodness and, I would conjecture, was concocted in the pits of hell by an old and cunning demon who did wish harm upon young Debbi Perl's marriage! If I were to preach this from the pulpit, I would probably shout these words without care to who heard them; God clearly state His intention and, dear sibling, if we want to live right, we cannot ignore what He has said.
1 Corinthians 7:3-5( Analytical-Literal Translation of the New Testament )
1Co 7:3 Let the husband be rendering the affection being owed to the wife, and likewise also the wife to the husband.
1Co 7:4 The wife does not have control [or, authority] over her own body, _but_ the husband; and, likewise also the husband does not have control over his own body, _but_ the wife.
1Co 7:5 Stop depriving one another, except by mutual consent for a time, so that you* shall be devoting yourselves to [or, having free time for] fasting and prayer, and again to the same be coming together, lest Satan be tempting you* because of your* lack of self-control.
Do I need to explain the doctrines of hell and the doctrines of God or can you tell? Have you been taught? I hope you have or that you someday will and God save you if you don't. This is my pressing concern of the moment and I hope that the woman I shall love will hear this taught from the Word somewhere, some happy day, and live like it in our marriage or I fear there shall be trouble, deep trouble and God help us if we should ever have that to live through. :-
Ya get me? :-)
About Me
- polemic turtle
- turtle believes his Bible, loves His God, and is being divinely conformed unto the image of God's Son, though if one were to think in terms of Romans 9, turtle would confess that he is a very stubborn and brittle piece of clay. thankfully, the Potter works omnipotently for turtle's good and shows him mercy and grace every day.
3 comments:
I'm pretty well convinced I've not been given the gift of celibacy and I think that may be a gift more rare in these post-Christian days. :-\
By the way, the book was more of a "how-to" book on marriage than sex itself. The main thing the book impressed on me was for me to not "awaken love til it please". Why anyone would want to start that fire at any point before marriage is beyond me...
God Himself said it was not good for man to be alone, while He Himself walked and talked in perfect communion with Adam! I would say that if there wasn't a need, God wouldn't have filled it. To wit, if Eve hadn't been created, he might still be living in the garden in perfection..
Ah, well, not to sound selfish or whatnot, but I'm pretty satisfied with how things have gone. You know, the whole self-existance thing.. ;-) It's so fun to be, you know. :-D
Oh, and I believe that the Song Song Solomon was probably written without the author intending any allegory. God can certainly use that, but I think it, in the word of John Gill, stupid that the church dares not to use this book beyond the mode which is most doubtful. As you might know, a lot of modern scholars, if not all of them, believe the KJV translators translated a word or two incorrectly for fear of the true meaning. Thy navel, my foot! ;-) Look it up, if you like, I'm not going to tell you. :-P
*whistles* Those are, as Southerners say, some maghty powfull wuhds. I've never thought of the Song of Solomon besides it being an analogy of Jesus and the church.
Jesse L. (bookworm from TROG)
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