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Originally Posted by Ohio
I'm sure any further speculation along these lines will just get me into "trouble."  |
Let me bail you out then by saying that it is not wrong to see God in the Song of Songs, because God created sex and said it was "good." And God is expressed in his creation. So love and sex express God. So the Song of Songs can be a spiritual book. This is much like seeing God in a sunset or mountain range. In one sense it's just nature, on the other hand it expresses God.
But I doubt very much that Solomon intended his poem to be interpreted as an allegory of God and his people. It may have been in the back of his mind, but I'm pretty sure he was writing mostly about his human feelings. But just as creation expresses God, a poem about something he created shows him forth as well. All good things glorify God, because he's the source of all good.