Once again evolutionary scientists are scratching their heads trying to find the reason behind one of our most common behaviours – kissing. We’ve been doing it for a very long time, and not just humans but animals as well including wolves, prairie dogs, polar bears and even albatrosses. To be fair the scientist’s definition of a kiss is the rather unromantic ‘non-aggressive, directed oral-oral contact with some movement of lips or mouthparts and no food transfer!’ The problem is that kissing serves no obvious survival or reproductive benefits. As usual science can help us understand when and how but not why.

For that answer we need to turn elsewhere and for Christians that elsewhere is the Bible that begins with the simple phrase ‘In the beginning God.’ God is love and creation was an act of divine love; and the centrepiece of God’s creation were men and women designed to reflect his love and live in divine intimacy. So, no surprise that the Bible begins and ends with a marriage and the book literally in the middle of the Bible is a romantic love poem which begins with these words, ‘Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth.’

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