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Originally Posted by Amanah
What do you all think about Song of Songs? Doesn't it use romantic language to express the love of God and his church?
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It's a love song, attributed to Solomon, regarding one of his wives. It has been understood by the Jews as a metaphor for God's love for Israel, and by Christians in the same way as a metaphor for God's love for the church.
Asa Mahan (successor to Charles Finney at Oberlin), however, had a different take, namely that it was a love poem written by Solomon for one of his many foreign wives and was divinely preserved in order to be a lasting testimony to Solomon's backsliding into sensuality and idolatry.
In either event, it certainly does not mean that Christian men should become effeminised as seems to be the goal with much of today's contemporary worship music (which is primarily marketed to women, anyway, as the main consumer group).
I did not watch the video in the opening post, and made no comments about it, by the way.