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Originally Posted by Igzy
Why can't we be content with what the Bible actually says? Why do we feel the need to read things into it which may or may not be there?
Take the Song of Songs. People including Nee have allegorized the heck out of that. Either Nee or Lee even taught that the shulamite's breasts signified faith and love, and that our faith and love should be equally strong because a woman's breasts should be the same size. (No word on what happened to hope, but never mind.) I mean, whatever....
Why not just take Song of Songs at face value, that God treasures and validates romantic love? Does every word picture have to have a hidden meaning?
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Why do we have to have fiction writers, why can't all books be non fiction? Why do we need artists? Why not just take the Shaker's approach, everything is functional and anything more that that is sin, vanity, whatever? Poetry? Does anyone really need that? WL wrote songs and didn't need to use poetry, so why should anyone else? Of course I am being sarcastic, I think that God's ways are higher than ours.