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Romantic Lovers: The Intimate Marriage
Marriage Counseling book
2 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1986
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June 29, 2022
I don’t know how to rate this book.
We got it from our church library and started reading it because it seemed to exegetically go through Song of Solomon. Song of Solomon has always been a confusing and mysterious book; the poetry is filled with historical and cultural nuances that simply go right over my head.
This book was well researched and did help unravel many poetic nuances I didn’t understand. It was an interesting read with enough stories/examples throughout to keep my attention quite easily.
However. While reading, I found out the author had an affair on his wife a few years after writing this book. He was asked to go to counselling/rehab kind of thing by his church (a mega church that he pastored), but he refused and went basically down the road to preach at a different church.
This put an extremely bitter taste in my mouth. I found it hard to trust anything I read when the words seemed to come from such hypocrisy. My husband encouraged me that even hypocritical and evil people can say true things at points … so I think there are true points in here, but it is hard to trust them.
I wondered did his wife not respond hastily enough to his sexual needs (as is promoted in the book) and that was why he committed adultery? I grew discouraged as the author repeatedly hammered that sex was only meant for marriage and that marriage was to be between one couple as was shown in the Bible. And I thought have you paid attention to the Old Testament? Most of the characters have multiple wives and/or concubines. The biggest offenders being Solomon himself.
The author of this book repeatedly talks about how much Solomon valued Abishag’s purity and moral character. And I thought what about you, Solomon? Was Abishag the first of your 600 or maybe the 20th?
It is difficult to understand Song of Solomon. It is hard to trust words of people who seem to have double standards. I am unsettled on how I feel about both this book and Song of Solomon.
We got it from our church library and started reading it because it seemed to exegetically go through Song of Solomon. Song of Solomon has always been a confusing and mysterious book; the poetry is filled with historical and cultural nuances that simply go right over my head.
This book was well researched and did help unravel many poetic nuances I didn’t understand. It was an interesting read with enough stories/examples throughout to keep my attention quite easily.
However. While reading, I found out the author had an affair on his wife a few years after writing this book. He was asked to go to counselling/rehab kind of thing by his church (a mega church that he pastored), but he refused and went basically down the road to preach at a different church.
This put an extremely bitter taste in my mouth. I found it hard to trust anything I read when the words seemed to come from such hypocrisy. My husband encouraged me that even hypocritical and evil people can say true things at points … so I think there are true points in here, but it is hard to trust them.
I wondered did his wife not respond hastily enough to his sexual needs (as is promoted in the book) and that was why he committed adultery? I grew discouraged as the author repeatedly hammered that sex was only meant for marriage and that marriage was to be between one couple as was shown in the Bible. And I thought have you paid attention to the Old Testament? Most of the characters have multiple wives and/or concubines. The biggest offenders being Solomon himself.
The author of this book repeatedly talks about how much Solomon valued Abishag’s purity and moral character. And I thought what about you, Solomon? Was Abishag the first of your 600 or maybe the 20th?
It is difficult to understand Song of Solomon. It is hard to trust words of people who seem to have double standards. I am unsettled on how I feel about both this book and Song of Solomon.
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March 8, 2021One of the most hypocritical works ever. Like reading story about baseball by someone who holds a bat upside down. 0 stars.
June 28, 2024
Love the book Adopted from Songs of Solomon teaches about the moral values of the family in a biblical way.
March 21, 2021
This wasn't an amazing read and I'm sure there are other just as good or better books on marriage. My husband would have rated it higher, because he liked how it interpreted the book song of songs.
*Edit* I further lowered my review when I read online the husband writer in this book had an affair on his wife, who Co-wrote this book. It makes me question if his advice about marriage truly is the ticket to avoiding affairs, like he says in on probably every chapter?
*Edit* I further lowered my review when I read online the husband writer in this book had an affair on his wife, who Co-wrote this book. It makes me question if his advice about marriage truly is the ticket to avoiding affairs, like he says in on probably every chapter?
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