Seems like he's struggling to compromise ideas of God's perfect love and mercy and all the lack of it he sees in the world.
He's met with a choice, and he remains at the crossroads which, in Christianity, is not a safe place to stay where you can make up your mind later (especially taken with the (spiritual) battle imagery in the song, you are either on one side or the other).
He wants to know if God's promises are true and that even though he sees so much unjustified death, that God will work it out in the end.
Or you could see it from the standpoint is from someone like Adam who would have an idea of "what we once were" but yet before the redemption of mankind.
Seems like he's struggling to compromise ideas of God's perfect love and mercy and all the lack of it he sees in the world.
He's met with a choice, and he remains at the crossroads which, in Christianity, is not a safe place to stay where you can make up your mind later (especially taken with the (spiritual) battle imagery in the song, you are either on one side or the other).
He wants to know if God's promises are true and that even though he sees so much unjustified death, that God will work it out in the end.
Or you could see it from the standpoint is from someone like Adam who would have an idea of "what we once were" but yet before the redemption of mankind.