Means to Believe Lyrics

Lyric discussion by augustburnsred222 

Cover art for Means to Believe lyrics by Oh, Sleeper

what strikes me is the "will the dead embrace you if you never gave them the means to believe?"

what i hard question for a christian to answer.. why would god put anyone on this earth, give them their brains, put them in their situation, knowing that they would not choose to follow him. it seems that everyone is only just doing what they think is right, or trying to survive, if that doesn't include jesus, then they're damned to hell for eternity? seems like harsh judgement for not taking the word of a book that has been tampered with, and was written by man thousands of years ago.

the point is god gives you the freedom to choose to believe or not its your choice. yes he knows your life from begining to end but not eavryone is gonna believe in god or there"d be no hell, august burns red rocks btw im takin my girl to there concert on the 28th.

You made a great point, thebrokenpentagram. God does give us the choice to choose whether to believe Him or not. God knows our life from beginning to end because since He created Time, He exists out of it, and He is omniscient (all-knowing). Right and wrong are absolute truths that are spelled out in the Bible which was inspired by God (1Timothy 3:16). Most people do know what is right and what is wrong, though. And like I said, God inspired the Bible. He literally told these men what to write down, that's why we call...