Lyrics to Shai Linne with “Spread His Fame.” from Grace EV Free on Vimeo.
Surprisingly I found this on Justin Talyor’s blog
Although…
isn’t so optimistic
Lyrics to Shai Linne with “Spread His Fame.” from Grace EV Free on Vimeo.
Surprisingly I found this on Justin Talyor’s blog
Although…
isn’t so optimistic
sounds like alot of what i’m hearing…people seem to not realise what they’re saying…God is all in all, Jesus died for all sins, reconciling all to Him, etc etc…
but then the standard traditional ECT doctrine kicks in and they have to include their “warning” of the eternal punishment to come.
shame, our warning should be that sin is destructive and hurtful NOW, and that we need to be delivered NOW…
If I were a betting man I would say calvinist…
Clearly not here.
He’s a calvinist I really struggle to understand this school of thought… God allows everyone to be bound in sin, saves those whom he pleasures in being arbitrarily partial to, and condemns everyone else simply because He didn’t meaningfully love them enough to save them. What is this I don’t even.
I couldn’t really get into this guy’s music myself, but I am really, really loving hip hop these days.
Being a recovering calvinist myself, I can sniff out the so called “elect” when I hear or read their words.
WAAB, i fully agree…it’s a repellant doctrine!
Michael Thompson, i like that…recovering Calvinist hehe
i only read the lyrics, definitely not a fan of hip hop myself though i can respect some aspects of it
of course as i’ve only accepted UR within the last year, if someone were to read some of my band’s lyrics that i wrote, you might assume i’m standard ECT…but was too late to change…
i avoided promising hell for people, but do have a rather gleeful reference to satan meeting that fate. interestingly i did wrestle with it for a time, thinking (rightly) that wishing hell on anyone (even satan) is not good.
however, given i don’t really believe in a literal devil, the song could be referring to the personification of our evil being burned forever.
i won’t post the lyrics yet as the album hasn’t been released yet…
but just to say sometimes you write lyrics from a given mindset…and that mindset may change. so maybe Shai Linne is en route still.
Odd how worship songs tend to take a Universalist tone even when their authors are not Universalist and do not intend for them to do so. Brian Doerksen, the guy that wrote “Come, Now is the Time to Worship” specifically denied that he was a Universalist, although his lyrics certainly make him sound like one:
One day, every tongue will confess You are God.
One day, every knee will bow.
Still, the greatest treasure remains for those
Who gladly choose You now.
The picture he intended to paint (as he clarified in an interview) was of all those that weren’t Christians being “forced” into worship (the rather grim image a lot of people have of the bowing and confessing of all creation in Philippians 2). But what came out, despite his intent, was a beautiful picture of all people united in worship of the Living God. I think it’s because in songwriting, people’s hearts often come out quite in spite of their doctrine. And in their hearts, where worship happens, most Christians (Universalist or not) understand that, as Bart Campolo puts it, “The only God worth believing in is a very, very good One.”
The following is a response to Shai Linne’s “Spread His Fame”, from an Arminian perspective. Written by a commenter called Murray on A World of Thoughts and was edited by William Birch for the EvangelicalArminians.org. It’s hilarious, creative and well, in my opinion, more accurate. Most universalists will probably find agreement here Enjoy!