New PDF release: Sex in the Bible: A New Consideration

By J. Harold Ellens

ISBN-10: 0275987671

ISBN-13: 9780275987671

Intercourse within the Bible: a brand new attention КНИГИ ; ГУМАНИТАРНЫЕ НАУКИ Автор: J. Harold EllensНазвание: intercourse within the Bible: a brand new ConsiderationИздательство: Praeger PublishersГод: 2006Формат: pdfРазмер: 2,5 mb what's the Bible's stance on such arguable matters as homosexuality and polygamy? What does it need to say approximately sexual behaviors that a few could deem perverted or legal? Is intercourse constantly mistaken whether it is now not used to create life?http://.com/files/7a32ykhrk eighty five

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Admire it from afar or near, but do not try to examine it too closely, lest you invade its beauty and break its petal, marring its magnificence. For God’s sake, do not take the gorgeous rose into the laboratory and start to examine it scientifically. What good can possible come of that? So you dissect it, you dye its parts, you cook its inner filaments, and chemically analyze it. Then what do you have. All the beauty is gone. There is no rose left. You simply have nothing left in your hand. You know everything about nothing and who really cares, now that all the beauty is gone.

So here we are making the course-setting claim that spirituality is what we call the experience of our inner hunger for transcendent union with ultimate being, which we call God, and our reach for things godly. Sexuality is the name we accord that vital force or energy when it reaches out for union with “the other” on the horizontal level of humanness. The implication of this is plain. The Bible is a collection of writings about the human quest for meaning, particularly transcendent and eternal meaning; and about the meaning of the transcendent and eternal reality.

Do not ask too many questions. Stand back and let it be. Admire it from afar or near, but do not try to examine it too closely, lest you invade its beauty and break its petal, marring its magnificence. For God’s sake, do not take the gorgeous rose into the laboratory and start to examine it scientifically. What good can possible come of that? So you dissect it, you dye its parts, you cook its inner filaments, and chemically analyze it. Then what do you have. All the beauty is gone. There is no rose left.

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