Analysis Of Scriptures: What Can We Gain From Song Of Solomon

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There is one book in scripture that is almost completely ignored. However, all scripture is useful for learning (2 Tim 3:16–17). So what can we gain from Song of Solomon?

Often most Christians are deter from even reading the book based on seeing the dangers of sexual desires. However, that can and has been taken to the extreme. The ultra-conservative, Puritan view on sexual relationships was that sex even inside the marriage relationship was sinful unless it fulfilled the command to multiply in Gen 1:28. However, this is not the biblical perspective (1 Cor 7:5; Heb 13:4; 1 Tim 4:3). Scriptures consider it holy within marriage.

However, the culture around us has embracing the opposite a vile and flippant view of sex. Thusly it promotes every

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