He said to them, “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading:
‘Sir, open the door for us.’
But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’
Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’
But he will reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!'
Originally posted by Bloodraven:Ok, a bit of lyric interpretation.
I'm assuming that when he "sees the lights of home" he's talking about that light you're supposed to see when you're dying.
Well, since the first time I listened to it, I thought the line "do you know my name?..." was very powerful, and I just assumed that he was saying it to Jesus, with "where I'm going?" meaning if he's going to the Good Place or the Bad Place.
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But although that was in the back of my head, I wanted to find the right bible quote in which I was basing that assumption, so here's what I think was making me think that:
[..]
Maybe not big deal, but to me that makes the line very powerful, in a song that he's facing death and a sort of crisis of faith.
Originally posted by Bloodraven:Ok, a bit of lyric interpretation.
I'm assuming that when he "sees the lights of home" he's talking about that light you're supposed to see when you're dying.
Well, since the first time I listened to it, I thought the line "do you know my name?..." was very powerful, and I just assumed that he was saying it to Jesus, with "where I'm going?" meaning if he's going to the Good Place or the Bad Place.
[image]
But although that was in the back of my head, I wanted to find the right bible quote in which I was basing that assumption, so here's what I think was making me think that:
[..]
Maybe not big deal, but to me that makes the line very powerful, in a song that he's facing death and a sort of crisis of faith.
Originally posted by cesar_garza01:[..]
Do you know the passage in the Bible where you took that from?
Originally posted by kris_smith87:I'm getting a bit of a rocked out Johnny Cash vibe here...in the verses at least.
Originally posted by Bloodraven:[..]
Luke 13, 22-35
Originally posted by Bloodraven:Ok, a bit of lyric interpretation.
I'm assuming that when he "sees the lights of home" he's talking about that light you're supposed to see when you're dying.
Well, since the first time I listened to it, I thought the line "do you know my name?..." was very powerful, and I just assumed that he was saying it to Jesus, with "where I'm going?" meaning if he's going to the Good Place or the Bad Place.
[image]
But although that was in the back of my head, I wanted to find the right bible quote in which I was basing that assumption, so here's what I think was making me think that:
[..]
Maybe not big deal, but to me that makes the line very powerful, in a song that he's facing death and a sort of crisis of faith.