I have listened to a song the other day about Jesus comming back and basically asking a humanity "where were they" when he was being crucified and no single person expressed any sympathy for him, thus implying that they are not true Christians.
The title of the song is "seventh cup" (or in English it would be "seventh bowl") and you can download it over here http://www.natel.ru/media/audio/spyaschie5_poor.mp3
While this song certaintly sounds depressing, it also lacks any kind of threat of hell fire, due to the following paragraph:
Quote:
I came back, and my heart no longer aches
And I can no longer warm you up through forgiveness
I heard enough of your stupid prayers
And I came not to kill you, but just to take a look at you ...
Of course, this phrase also says that he can "no longer warm us up through forgiveness", which makes it a very negative one. But still, isn't it nice to also not to have to be afraid of hell either.
Its basically a song of an empty feeling that we would have if God was to give up on us as opposed to punish us, which is very depressing but at the same time lacks fear of hell.
The other nice thing about it is that, despite the fact that it is a second comming (i.e. the title is "seventh bowl") Jesus doesn't accuse anyone of anything at all besides what happened in the first comming. SInce first comming is not nearly as scary as second comming is (I would much rather deal with pharesees than the antichrist) isn't it kind of nice that entire accopolypsis is replaced with agonizing over what happened during the first comming.
I also like the emphasize on how we are exactly the same as we used to be back in the first century, given in the following sentence
Quote:
As yesterday, 20 centuries ago
You were looking as I was dying on a cross
I recognized your faces and your eyes
And a rushed posture of money changer walking into a temple
Again, Jesus uses it to say that we haven't learn anything; but I feel relieved that we have not entered end time appostocy either. True, first century people were shallow, but they were 2 millenia away from antichrist, and if we are EXACTLY THE SAME as they were, thats pretty chilling.
Anyway, here is the song:
Quote:
Where were you, in 33-rd spring
When my father fed me with suffering.
You were standing on Calvary, as a leisurely crowd,
As the guards were arguing on how to share my clothes
Where were you, as stones were flying as hail
In the face, and the mind had remembered for ages
The notorious question of that sorrowful day
WHere were you when a man in my body
Was screaming "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani"
My dear God, why have you left me?
As yesterday, 20 centuries ago
You were looking as I was dying on a cross
I recognized your faces and your eyes
And a rushed posture of money changer walking into a temple
Where were you, when the road seemed infinite
And I borrowed my head very low
Barely moving my feet on the stones
Where were you when there was no God in me
But only pain -- "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani"
My dear God, why have you left me?
I came back, and my heart no longer aches
And I can no longer warm you up through forgiveness
I heard engouh of your stupid prayers
And I came not to kill you, but just to take a look at you ...
Where were you, when, in vain, I thirsted
For just one tear ... and no one droped one,
And hot wind was moving around the smiles on your faces ...
Where were you when I was asking for just once
To get love -- "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani"
My dear God, why have you left me?
23 Dec 2008, 12:47 am
