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Post by Jeff on Dec 13, 2005 3:36:22 GMT -5
Adam Hull 93 12-16-2004 06:01 PM ET (US) Sorry for being so quite, but I'm studing for my Electrical licence and the 17 Dec at noon is my exam date. Wish me luck.
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Post by Jeff on Dec 13, 2005 3:36:40 GMT -5
Jeffrey McBride 94 02-01-2005 06:23 PM ET (US) Edited by author 02-01-2005 07:09 PM Must we make some sense of God’s character? If we are to worship God, then shouldn’t God’s most important features be understandable to us? Isn’t it impossible to love, honor, and devote ourselves fully to something we do not know? If your answer to these questions is “no,” then I invite you to consider the following songs by Randy Newman. These are from his 1972 album Sail Away, which is probably his best work. (If you answer “yes,” then I think that literalism is in trouble…)
He Gives Us All His Love
He gives us all his love He gives us all his love He's smiling down on us From up above And he's giving us all his love
He knows how hard we're trying He hears the babies crying He sees the old folks dying And he gives us all his love
Now if you need someone to talk to You can always talk to him And if you need someone to lean on You can lean on him
He gives us all his love He gives us all his love He's smiling down on us From up above And he's giving us all his love He's smiling down on us From up above He gives us all his love
God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)
Cain slew Abel, Seth knew not why For if the children of Israel were to multiply Why must any of the children die? So he asked the Lord And the Lord said:
Man means nothing, he means less to me Than the lowliest cactus flower Or the humblest Yucca tree He chases round this desert 'Cause he thinks that's where I'll be That's why I love mankind
I recoil in horror from the foulness of thee From the squalor and the filth and the misery How we laugh up here in heaven at the prayers you offer me That's why I love mankind
The Christians and the Jews were having a jamboree The Buddhists and the Hindus joined on satellite TV They picked their four greatest priests And they began to speak They said, "Lord, a plague is on the world Lord, no man is free The temples that we built to you Have tumbled into the sea Lord, if you won't take care of us Won't you please, please let us be?" And the Lord said And the Lord said
I burn down your cities-how blind you must be I take from you your children and you say how blessed are we You all must be crazy to put your faith in me That's why I love mankind You really need me That's why I love mankind
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