I agree with everything on the board, but I had a sort of 'revelation' about that the last line of the song.
"The son of the widow you raised from the dead - where did his soul go when he died again?"
Pre-Christ (according to Christian theology) souls went to a place called Sheol, where they waited until Christ came for them. Then, when He died, He went to Sheol and those that believed in Him went to Heaven while those that didn't went to Hell-just like we as living people do. Therefore, the soul of the boy that Jesus Christ ressurected came back from Sheol when he was ressurected. By asking where the boy's soul went when he died again, what's really being asked is if (after having an experience like that) if the kid followed Christ.
I don't know if that was really obvious and everyone knew it, but it's not on this board so I thought I'd say it anyway.
I agree with everything on the board, but I had a sort of 'revelation' about that the last line of the song.
"The son of the widow you raised from the dead - where did his soul go when he died again?"
Pre-Christ (according to Christian theology) souls went to a place called Sheol, where they waited until Christ came for them. Then, when He died, He went to Sheol and those that believed in Him went to Heaven while those that didn't went to Hell-just like we as living people do. Therefore, the soul of the boy that Jesus Christ ressurected came back from Sheol when he was ressurected. By asking where the boy's soul went when he died again, what's really being asked is if (after having an experience like that) if the kid followed Christ.
I don't know if that was really obvious and everyone knew it, but it's not on this board so I thought I'd say it anyway.
I appreciate you posting that. I think you are right on that interpretation and did a great job in explaining it :)
I appreciate you posting that. I think you are right on that interpretation and did a great job in explaining it :)