{"id":4166,"date":"2013-07-05T00:05:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T07:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2013-07-05T00:05:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T07:05:44","slug":"song-of-songs-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2013\/07\/05\/song-of-songs-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of Songs Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to St. Augustine and then the later Puritans and many modern incarnations of the same attitude, many Christians get the impression that there is something inherently wrong with sex.  Sermons are preached that \u201cit\u2019s not the pear in the tree that was the problem, but the pair under it.\u201d  Though a nice play on words, if you happen to approve of bad puns, it is abominable theology.  In Genesis, God\u2019s first command to Adam and Eve were to reproduce: that is, to go have sex.  It should come as no surprise then, given how much we enjoy God\u2019s first commandment, that there should be a part of the Bible devoted to the subject (it should also serve as a reminder that the laws of God are not there to keep you from having fun; quite the opposite).<\/p>\n<p>Although some theologians, especially in the Middle Ages, attempted to explain that the Song of Songs was an allegory about Christ\u2019s love for his church, anyone who reads the poem would find that hard to believe.  It is, quite simply, an erotic love poem that celebrates the joys of physical intimacy.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to St. Augustine and then the later Puritans and many modern incarnations of the same attitude, many Christians get the impression that there is something inherently wrong with sex. Sermons are preached that \u201cit\u2019s not the pear in the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2013\/07\/05\/song-of-songs-note\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[18,17,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4167,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions\/4167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}