While "Bring them to life" is definitely the turning point in the song, I believe that the key point is actually "Without torture over belief".
My interpretation is that the song is about a person that suffers persecution for being a Christian. The arguments used in it are the exact arguments that a atheist or anti-christian person uses to criticize our faith in Jesus, our Saviour. With that said, I believe the person quotes those who make him/her suffer while speaking to Christ, and enraged, asks for vengeance to Him, by leaving them behin, leaving them to die. And by asking it, he/she realizes how wrong he/she is and remembers when Christ said to love his/her neighbour as him/herself, and asks to God to bring them to life.
He then, remembers the Promise that one day, we will be with Him. And where we'll be, there won't be hate, pain, suffering, insanity, death, fire (of hell), lies that feed the liar (the Antichrist), war, games, fear, fame, power, drugs, violence, rape, sickness, plagues, judgement, crimes, hope (we will be with God, there's nothing else to hope), time (for eternity will be ours. Amen!), two or three (for we will be one with Christ. Amen!), and finally, torture over belief, the reason of his/her suffering.
Then, he/she asks to Jesus to bring us love, not only for the ones that persecute him/her, but also for him/herself, as he/she realizes that he/she also needs it. He/she also asks for all of us to see (the light? the way? God himself?) and to set us free (from this world).
That's my interpretation, and I'm sorry if I couldn't make myself clear, English is not my native tongue.
@IntoTheNarrowGate
I like your interpretation better than the others here and i know you wrote 6+ years ago but just listening to this song for the first time I have to add a comment because the song is so troubling on its surface.
@IntoTheNarrowGate
I like your interpretation better than the others here and i know you wrote 6+ years ago but just listening to this song for the first time I have to add a comment because the song is so troubling on its surface.
I believe the point he was trying to convey is that much evil has been done in the name of Jesus Christ over the centuries. Not that the true Jesus Christ is the reason for the wars but the symbol is. Steve Camp wrote a song about babies playing marbles with diamonds and don't Christians do this often...
I believe the point he was trying to convey is that much evil has been done in the name of Jesus Christ over the centuries. Not that the true Jesus Christ is the reason for the wars but the symbol is. Steve Camp wrote a song about babies playing marbles with diamonds and don't Christians do this often with the name of Jesus? There is no escaping that wars have been fought in His name, saints were burned at the stake. The KKK claims His name. So I see the song as a cry out against the misuse of the nature of our Lord.
But I do think mixed in there is some frustration with unanswerable questions of why He allows and seemingly watches as evil goes on. In our minds we cannot fully understand and comprehend these things. But our reaction to seeing these things is to bury our heads in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist, reject and judge God as injust, or trust Him knowing that our minds are limited and the He has provided a way of salvation. This life goes by in the blink of an eye but believing our souls live on for eternity, of what value is our perspective? Do we really have all we need to pass judgement. He is the potter, we are the clay. That said, I believe God honors our cries out to Him as this song does. He doesn't condemn us for asking these questions. It seems it would be far more egregious to Him that we dismiss and forget Him, getting carried away by the cares of our days. That we replace deep thought about His nature with canned, thoughtless replies and worrying more about what is acceptable to say or not say which leads to dishonesty. Come before the Lord broken, humble and honest and He will lift you up.
While "Bring them to life" is definitely the turning point in the song, I believe that the key point is actually "Without torture over belief".
My interpretation is that the song is about a person that suffers persecution for being a Christian. The arguments used in it are the exact arguments that a atheist or anti-christian person uses to criticize our faith in Jesus, our Saviour. With that said, I believe the person quotes those who make him/her suffer while speaking to Christ, and enraged, asks for vengeance to Him, by leaving them behin, leaving them to die. And by asking it, he/she realizes how wrong he/she is and remembers when Christ said to love his/her neighbour as him/herself, and asks to God to bring them to life.
He then, remembers the Promise that one day, we will be with Him. And where we'll be, there won't be hate, pain, suffering, insanity, death, fire (of hell), lies that feed the liar (the Antichrist), war, games, fear, fame, power, drugs, violence, rape, sickness, plagues, judgement, crimes, hope (we will be with God, there's nothing else to hope), time (for eternity will be ours. Amen!), two or three (for we will be one with Christ. Amen!), and finally, torture over belief, the reason of his/her suffering.
Then, he/she asks to Jesus to bring us love, not only for the ones that persecute him/her, but also for him/herself, as he/she realizes that he/she also needs it. He/she also asks for all of us to see (the light? the way? God himself?) and to set us free (from this world).
That's my interpretation, and I'm sorry if I couldn't make myself clear, English is not my native tongue.
Peace.
Well said, friend. That interpretation lines up perfectly.
Well said, friend. That interpretation lines up perfectly.
@IntoTheNarrowGate I like your interpretation better than the others here and i know you wrote 6+ years ago but just listening to this song for the first time I have to add a comment because the song is so troubling on its surface.
@IntoTheNarrowGate I like your interpretation better than the others here and i know you wrote 6+ years ago but just listening to this song for the first time I have to add a comment because the song is so troubling on its surface.
I believe the point he was trying to convey is that much evil has been done in the name of Jesus Christ over the centuries. Not that the true Jesus Christ is the reason for the wars but the symbol is. Steve Camp wrote a song about babies playing marbles with diamonds and don't Christians do this often...
I believe the point he was trying to convey is that much evil has been done in the name of Jesus Christ over the centuries. Not that the true Jesus Christ is the reason for the wars but the symbol is. Steve Camp wrote a song about babies playing marbles with diamonds and don't Christians do this often with the name of Jesus? There is no escaping that wars have been fought in His name, saints were burned at the stake. The KKK claims His name. So I see the song as a cry out against the misuse of the nature of our Lord.
But I do think mixed in there is some frustration with unanswerable questions of why He allows and seemingly watches as evil goes on. In our minds we cannot fully understand and comprehend these things. But our reaction to seeing these things is to bury our heads in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist, reject and judge God as injust, or trust Him knowing that our minds are limited and the He has provided a way of salvation. This life goes by in the blink of an eye but believing our souls live on for eternity, of what value is our perspective? Do we really have all we need to pass judgement. He is the potter, we are the clay. That said, I believe God honors our cries out to Him as this song does. He doesn't condemn us for asking these questions. It seems it would be far more egregious to Him that we dismiss and forget Him, getting carried away by the cares of our days. That we replace deep thought about His nature with canned, thoughtless replies and worrying more about what is acceptable to say or not say which leads to dishonesty. Come before the Lord broken, humble and honest and He will lift you up.