What if god was joan osborne lyrics

So this song at the same time challenges Christians. It criticises the pomposity of the Christian hierarchy saints prophets etc. But at the same time it asks you to feel sympathy for him. Sympathy is a form of love. To a Christian having sympathy for God has to precede having sympathy for a human you cannot love man or yourself without first loving god. But the song seems to put it the other way round.

You are asked to think of god as a man not man as a reflection of god. I love this. And the last lines about no-one calling him on the phone except the pope are both poignant and witty. It pokes fun at the same time as inviting sympathy.

I would add a little bit to your conclusion. I agree that this song is challenging the listener to think how they would treat god if he was just like another guy and they met him on the bus.

But it could also be challenging us to query the existence of god himself. Is 'god' actually immanent in humanity? What if god is nothing more than looking with compassion on another human being? You may well know the saying 'God is love' I have often seen this incorrectly construed as 'Deus est Amor. For me both the soaring music and the tone and sense of the words give rise to feelings of sympathy hope and faith in humanity. Because I too am an atheist I find that very uplifting. I also really like that it presents Christians with the conundrum of deciding whether they feel sympathy for the guy because he is human or because he is divine.

I can say both. They can't. AlanMcG on November 30, General Comment Each person imagines God in a different way. And I know a lot of people think, "If God is so great, how did he let all these wars happen, etc We we're the ones who made the wars, and the inventions, and the hatred, and the love. This is our own outcome. And if God didn't stop the wars Their could have been much more worse outcomes!

We are the ones that have to fix these problems because we created it! If God came to our rescue everytime something bad happened God is making us stronger Thats just my conclusion.

We all have our perspectives about this topic, and this song was Joane Osborne's. Plus, listing to this song always makes me wonder all the questions she asks Plus, I'm just a 12 year old kid who to some people dosin't have an opinion at all.

If you're like that But this is my feeling towred this topic. BrokenPiano on August 21, Link. I pray that you will grow old still having that perspective of God. Not to be a jerk or anything, but how can God exist when there are so many bad things in the world?

How can God even be real when he allows people to use him as an execuse to control the masses? In my opinion, religion is a way to control the people, to escape the bad things around you instead of fighting them and pray to something that perhaps doesnt event exist to help them or at least give them a second chance.

Kungkisstank on October 18, BrokenPiano You posted this 11 years ago. I hope that as a 23 year old, you have maintained and expanded on your views! I was shocked to read your age. JoeCollins on December 16, General Comment Somehow, I have trouble seeing this song as simple "yaaay everyone be Christian! It's a condemnation of Christians who say the words but don't actually believe. The ones who forget all about the whole "love your neighbour as yourself" parts of Christianity as they rush to point out how SAVED they are and how they've got a reserved ticket to heaven and you sinners are all going to burn, and we'll stnad up there in heaven and laugh at your misery 'cause that's what good Christians do, and that's what they would do to God if he was just a slob like one of us.

Axiomatic Axiomatic on January 14, Link. No Replies Log in to reply. Axiomatic Axiomatic. The Missions workbook we used on our team spoke of how difficult it is to enter another culture, and really identify as one of the people. Our group of Americans, worked alongside Haitians rebuilding from the devastation of the earthquake during the day, but we went to a safe location at night, with a cot to sleep on.

We had people make us food that wouldn't get us sick. We didn't have to go down to the well to pump our bathwater. The facility was guarded while we slept.

We had very gracious hosts. But the people we went to help might always be at a distance from us, because we really didn't live in their worlds. We didn't sleep in a tent made of construction tarps, cooking whatever food we might have on smoky charcoal fires. We didn't speak Creole.

How would they understand that God's love moved us to reach out to them. We hadn't become one of them, even though we are all in the human family. God did become one of us Philippians He left it all behind to become one of us. Not just being God, He was born of the line of an earthly king, but even that he left behind that too, born as a common man; "a slob like us.

He got hungry, and felt heat exhaustion. I'll Be Around 8. Why Can't We Live Together 9. The Weight How Sweet It Is What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted Brokedown Palace Till I Get It Right Who Divided Posion Apples Hallelujah Dead Roses When The Blue Hour Comes Spooky Christmas In New Orleans Shake That Devil What You Are Holy Waters Just a slob like one of us Just a stranger on the bus Trying to make his way home Like a holly Rolling Stone Back up to Heaven all alone Just trying to make his way home Nobody callin' on the phone 'cept for the Pope maybe in Rome.

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