Against LSM's Allegorizing

[ZNPaaneah]

Originally Posted by Igzy

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?

Song of Songs 4:5 talks of the woman's breasts as two young roes, twins of a deer, feeding among the lilies. This picture is full of hope, lilies don't grow in a drought or a flood, deer don't have twins in a famine. How can anyone look at this picture and feel hopeless?