The One Love
Thoughts from Solomon
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Introduction
This book is written for young people. It has repeatedly been stated that we are losing two-thirds of our young people from the Southern Baptist Convention. Southern Baptist only makes up 5.6% of the population of the
The age of accountability is not noted specifically in the Scriptures. The Jewish literature suggests one becomes accountable at the time of puberty. Others usually consider the age of 12 or 13 as the age of accountability. All the world becomes guilty before God, (Romans 3:19) and all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23)
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, "I find no pleasure in them". (Ecclesiastes 12:1 NIV) (This verse has several translations, but the best seems to be from Matthew Henry’s Commentary since 1706, p. 1054.) Henry states, “A call to young people to think of God, and mind their duty to Him, when they are young. You that are young flatter yourselves with exceptions of great things from it, but believe those that have tried it; it yields no satisfaction to a soul…the antidote against the particular disease of youth, the love of mirth, which childhood and youth are subject to, is to prevent and accept the cure by remembering the Creator.”
From God’s Word and throughout the Scriptures our youth are no different from anyone else. If an 18 year old is Biblically Illiterate he is in trouble of having a good life. If a 100 year old is Biblically Illiterate he is in real trouble because few people accept Christ as their Savior after the age of 70.
This book will hopefully encourage a few of our youth to develop an academically acceptable plan to learn the Scriptures. This most likely will happen only if one takes Bible as an elective in college. This requires repeated reading, discussion, and study under the supervision of a competent and academically qualified professor.
Most people my age do not like the change of the name Sunday School to Life Groups, but it is at least honest because calling the Sunday School a school has been deceptive for fifty years that I know of. We have young people from birth to high school graduation who are Biblically Illiterate and are released into the world where we lose two thirds of them. Now what is this two thirds? Since the total number of Southern Baptists is 5.6% of the
The purpose of this book is to educate or at least to make available to young people when contemplating marriage or those who are already married how to have a successful and long marriage and life.
When one takes the test for Instrument Flight Certification they can bring any notes or references with them to the exam. It is impossible to know all the information, but it is also important to have references for any questions one might have.
In my first book, Biblical Baptist, I defined 13 things that I believe one would have to know something about to consider himself to have a “Broad Mentality.” This included some knowledge of:
1 The Bible
2 The Trinity (God, The Father, God, The Son. God, The Holy Spirit)
3 Man
4 Salvation of Man From Death
5 The Church
6 The Lord’s Day (Sunday)
7 God’s Kingdom
8 The Last Things (End of the World)
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About the Book
The One Love refers to a husband and wife who have become one and their One love which is to the other. This book is based on the thoughts from Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived. He had 700 wives and 12,000 horses, but he had only one love. An alternate interpretation of the Biblical book, Song of Solomon, (a story of sexual love) suggests that Solomon's experience answers the question, “Is it better to have loved and lost or better to have never loved at all? Solomon had wondered away from God. He was led by his wives to worship pagan gods. When he lost his only true love, the impact caused him to return to the only true God in his old age.
This book is a reference book for all young people who are contemplating marriage or are already married.
It lists the 13 subjects that are necessary to have a “Broad Mentality” in life. It lists the 11 factors for a “Broad Mentality” needed for a successful marriage. It asks 25 questions to be reviewed before marriage that lead to thoughts for a life-long or permanent marriage.
It is very practical in producing a technique that guarantees communication for young married people. It lists many “Code Names for Love”, with instructions as to how young couples can develop their own. It clearly reveals that sex outside of marriage is a sin. It takes one on a tour through the Bible showing that homosexuality is a sin and one who is persistent in that sin (as with many other sins) will not be in the
The course involves a study of Five Chapters concerning True Love.
An Addendum, (with 86 questions) that outlines the course discuses: Falling in Love, (25 Questions before Marriage), Marriage, and Staying Married.
About the Author
Rear Admiral (Doctor) Joseph H. Miller has been a Baptist deacon for fifty-six years and a teacher or director in Sunday School for thirty years and retired after three simultaneous careers: Neurosurgeon for thirty -nine years on the academic faculty of the University of Tennessee School of Medicine,
Since retirement he is on the Voluntary Faculty of the Department of Neurosurgery University of South Florida Medical School in
He has been on the boards of
He is retired in
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