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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (79570)	5/22/2000 2:30:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I expected Del to get lawyerly about it, which is why I included a direct quotation. (The first was Paul, incidentally). Anyway, all he said was that it was not in the Bible, which is presumed to have been written by other hands than God, so that is a red- herring. Second, yes it was about conditional love, but it met the criterion put forth, regardless. There is much more along similar lines. For example, David is known as God's Beloved; God says of Christ, "This is my Beloved, in whom I am well pleased"; Israel is referred to by Jeremiah as God's beloved, who is behaving wantonly; the beginning of John's Gospel, which you were thinking of, says "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son"; and so forth. Also, the relationship between God and Israel, and later God and the Church, is likened to that of man and wife, and the Song of Solomon, which is highly erotic, is conventionally interpreted as representing God's mystical relationship with his people. There is no way of getting around it: Del was flat wrong. No shame in that, if it hadn't been for the arrogance with which he asserted himself.........