| As Cities Burn – Clouds Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song contrary to what many people are saying is I think about faulty conceptions of God that we make because it fits our agenda or who we are. Many people make god into what they want him to be rather than focus on who he really is in reality. We see that the preface of this song has people speaking of very different views (and in my opinion as a Christian, faulty views) about God. There is a pantheist (perhaps even two), an agnostic, and maybe a Christian who seems to be misguided. God can't just fit to just what we like. That's what I think this song is getting at. We have to get to the reality that is outside just our agenda and our heads. Reality doesn't care who believes it, it still remains true. I would also like to say to people who consider God to be incomprehensible, that God is in fact conversely, comprehensible, definitely not in an exhaustive sense! But nevertheless we can know things about God. This is very important as a Christian. To think that it's too lofty and that we can't know attributes of God would be foolish. Things without attributes aren't even things at all, that essentially describes non-existence. Emphasizing god's otherness seems to imply that we can't know anything true about god, so how could you speak truly about him? This negates the Christian view of God's self revelation. So again we may not be able to grasp god exhaustively but we we can grasp adequately something about God. |
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| mewithoutYou – Timothy Hay Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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What's also important to emphasize is that God doesn't have a physical appearance (excluding Jesus). So it wouldn't be right to describe God as he physically is, because he just isn't physical, he's incorporeal. The bible makes it clear that he is spirit, and that only Jesus is the image of the invisible God. What's also interesting is that God warns us to not make images or conjure up images of Him because that would just depreciate God and represent what He isn't. (John 4:24, Exodus 20:4, 1 Timothy 1:17) So rather I think Aaron would be speaking of God as beautiful in the sense that He is excellent, wonderful, fantastic, very pleasing and so forth. |
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