Christian Music Lyric
Re: Any Recent Bad Theology?
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 02:44:43 +0000 (UTC)Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
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In article <email-address-deleted>, JohnFrog <email-address-deleted> wrote: >>>Here is my own example. Take the song "Each Other" by Skillet from >>>their "Invincible" CD. It has the lyric "It's ok to fall down". I >>>interpret "fall down" to be sin. So it's ok to sin? >> I've never heard the song, but that certainly wouldn't be my first >> interpretation of the lyric you quoted. >What would be? Probably that it's normal and inevitable that we make mistakes, that we have to accept that we're not perfect and keep pressing on. But it's hard to say given 5 words of a lyric. I just usually find that a lot of folks seem to take the worst possible interpretation of a lyric rather than a neutral or positive interpretation, whereas I tend to give the benefit of the doubt. JRjr -- %%%%% Jerry B. Ray, Jr. %%%%%%%% www.prism.gatech.edu/~jr70 %%%%%%%%%%%%%% "Some will shake off the sloth of faithlessness While others simply languish in their sleep Me, I just fight to stay awake..." -- VOL, "Black Cloud O'er Me"
