yes i agree this is the best stone roses song definately.
i think mattp is very right along with zidanetribal, but one thing i dont understand is why call it 'love spreads' if its about pondering the traditional idea of jesus being a man.
'love spreads her arms, waits there for the nails' ? why is love spreading the arms of the messiah? i thought it was one of the executioner men that put the nails in jesus, hardly someone who is likely to be spreading love. any ideas anyone?
I'm pretty sure he's using the idea that the Messiah (god) simply IS Love incarnate. He wasn't particularly trying to make a controversial point of Jesus being a black woman ("I don't see it as controversial"), that was simply how he saw it. He's saying that God was/is Love.
So he's not saying she is having her arms spread by love- unless he's saying that her love for humanity was spreading her arms- he's saying she IS love.
I'm pretty sure he's using the idea that the Messiah (god) simply IS Love incarnate. He wasn't particularly trying to make a controversial point of Jesus being a black woman ("I don't see it as controversial"), that was simply how he saw it. He's saying that God was/is Love.
So he's not saying she is having her arms spread by love- unless he's saying that her love for humanity was spreading her arms- he's saying she IS love.
yes i agree this is the best stone roses song definately. i think mattp is very right along with zidanetribal, but one thing i dont understand is why call it 'love spreads' if its about pondering the traditional idea of jesus being a man. 'love spreads her arms, waits there for the nails' ? why is love spreading the arms of the messiah? i thought it was one of the executioner men that put the nails in jesus, hardly someone who is likely to be spreading love. any ideas anyone?
I'm pretty sure he's using the idea that the Messiah (god) simply IS Love incarnate. He wasn't particularly trying to make a controversial point of Jesus being a black woman ("I don't see it as controversial"), that was simply how he saw it. He's saying that God was/is Love. So he's not saying she is having her arms spread by love- unless he's saying that her love for humanity was spreading her arms- he's saying she IS love.
I'm pretty sure he's using the idea that the Messiah (god) simply IS Love incarnate. He wasn't particularly trying to make a controversial point of Jesus being a black woman ("I don't see it as controversial"), that was simply how he saw it. He's saying that God was/is Love. So he's not saying she is having her arms spread by love- unless he's saying that her love for humanity was spreading her arms- he's saying she IS love.