Saturday, September 13, 2008

Day 6- What is Love? Baby Don't Hurt Me

I've been reading my Bible a lot lately, and I've read a lot of interesting things, since I haven't gotten out of the Pentatuech (sp?) yet.

I just realized that within the context of the Mosaic Covenant, all it took was sex to be joined to someone in marriage. No ceremony, no blessing, no consent, no love (within today's context) as far as I can tell. God gave instructions as to who could be joined to whom in marriage and occasionally what needs to be done as far as marrying outside the faith I'm still in it, so this may be clarified at a later date. I just thought it was interesting.

What does love even mean? We throw it around so much and apply it to so many different situations, never pausing to think about what we're even saying. As a result the meaning has become so convoluted that we don't know what love even LOOKS like. Sex for the sake of sex is by no means love, nor are casual comments amongst friends divided by grudges and secrecy. Can you not like someone and love them simultaneously?

This may have to happen later. And in fact it will.

1 comment:

Simon said...

Dude. I'm excited to read that future post you speak of.