sex & candy

RAYA ~ love (hebrew) ~ 'friend, or companion - somebody you hang out with.' (rob bell)

'kulakh yafa RAYAti umum ein bakh.' (transliterated hebrew)

'you're beautiful from head to toe, my dear LOVE, beautiful beyond compare, absolutely flawless.' (song of songs 4:7, msg)

AHAVA ~ love (hebrew) ~ 'making a decision to join your life to the life of another... an emotion that leads to a commitment.' (rob bell)

'mayim rabim lo yukhlu lekhabot ethaAHAVA uneharot lo yishtefuha im yiten ish etkol hon beito baAHAVA boz yavuzu lo.' (transliterated hebrew)

'many waters cannot quench LOVE, rivers cannot wash it away. if one were to give all the wealth of his house for LOVE, it would be utterly scorned.' (song of songs 8:7, niv)

DOD ~love (hebrew) ~ 'to carouse, to rock... the physical, sexual element to a relationship.' (rob bell)

'yishakeni minshikot pihu kitovim DODeikha miyayin.' (transliterated hebrew)

'may he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your LOVE is better than wine.' (song of songs 1:2, nasb)

(from flame, rob bell)

'all you need is love' (the beatles)

'what sits at the center of (biblical) sexual ethics is not a negative view of sex; the vision of marriage is not, at its most concise, merely "no sex before marriage." rather, the heart of the story about sex is a vigorously positive statement: sex was created for marriage. without a robust account of the vision of sex within marriage, the insistence that unmarried folks refrain from sex just doesn't make any sense.' (from lauren winner)