What If God Were One Of Us?

What If God Was One of Us?

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And would you call it to his face if you were faced with Him in all His glory? What would you ask if you had just one question? And yeah, yeah, God is great. Yeah, yeah, God is good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What if god was one of us, just a slob like one of us, just a stranger on the bus trying to make his way home?

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If God had a face, what would it look like? And would you want to see if seeing meant that you would have to believe in things like heaven and in Jesus and the saints and all the prophets? Just trying to make his way home, back up to heaven all alone. Nobody calling on the phone, 'cept for the Pope maybe in Rome. Yeah, yeah, God is great.

What if god was one of us, just a slob like one of us, just a stranger on the bus trying to make his way home, just trying to make his way home, just like a holy rolling stone? Back up to heaven all alone, just trying to make his way home.

Add your thoughts 70 Comments. General Comment this song is awesome.

He might be the homeless guy you look at with contempt or the quiet girl in your glass who you pick on, because you want to fit in. This song reminds me how cruel life can be and how lonesome we can get, no matter how wealthy or powerful we are, in the end of the day, when you are all alone in your fancy apartment and have no one to call to and have no friends who would invite you out.

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Looking at the homeless with contempt? Chamiga most normal people don't do this. Flag RayDArcy on May 19, Song Meaning I believe that this song has nothing at all to do with god, instead it has everything to do with people - Christians in particular! It's "Just trying to make his way home, back up to heaven all alone. How do people see god, who is he, what is he?

That is the question. During the times of the plague columns of people would walk through the streets whipping themselves, trying to atone for the sins of the masses with their own pain, as if that would give god some sick satisfaction and make him lift the curse. But what would god really have thought of this public spectacle?

During the inquisition people were tortured and burned for not believing.

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Would god have enjoyed this? We humans are very good at justifying just about anything to ourselves. I can have that piece of cake if I go for a walk. I can lie on my tax return because the government isn't using the money properly anyway. I can kill these people because GOD told me to. But what would he really think? What if the guy on the bus was god? How would you treat him? Would you set up a fancy formal function with priests and choirs - removing yourself and hiding away because he is the BIG GUY?

How about just talking to him? Ultimately I think the point of the song is if god was just a guy on the bus, would you get to know him? Or just stick with what the church whichever denomination you identify with tells you? Maybe god is alone, nobody calling on the phone, because nobody can be bothered getting to know him anymore. I like your thoughts: This is the best interpretation of the song that I found. Even though this seems like a Christian song, it is equally applicable to other religions if we replace the references to Jesus and Pope with similar instances from other religions.

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The central message of the song is: What would you do if God was standing right next to you "a slob like one of us? Just a stranger on the bus Would you just ignore him and go about your everyday life, as many of us would? The greatest saints in every religion, like Mother Teresa, are those who found God in "one of us" and devoted their life to serving this "God" rather than the God in the churches, temples, etc. According to the Christian faith, Jesus became "one of us" to serve us.

Can we do the same for "one of us"? Flag trainwreck on May 07, I love this song. Mainly because of the uplifting lead guitar line but the words are good too. And I like your thoughts. Like you I am an atheist mainly because of the great historic evils like the inquisition which you allude to. But I don't think all Christians are bound to be bad just because they believe. There are some good ones. The crux of this song is the same as the Jesus myth: An impossibility because man is flawed and god is perfect. This is a really clever ethical paradox and probably the crux of my own belief.

I like the idea. Being good or trying to be for me grows out of really perceiving that we are all just human beings: In the song this is the way god is portrayed just a sad lonely guy going home on a bus. Jesus was that guy.

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Even Christians have to accept that. 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. 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. Flag 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! And I think it was better that he asked it that way rather than 'Do you want to sing it? But she definitely said she could sing it, and we did a little live demo of a guitar and her singing it.

And when I got into my car and popped the cassette in, I started practicing the Grammy speech that I should've gotten to give. The song deals with various aspects of belief in God by asking questions inviting the listener to consider how they might relate to God, such as "Would you call [God's name] to his face?

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Directed by Mark Seliger and Fred Woodward , the video was mainly shot on Coney Island , with various attractions like rollercoasters , ferris wheels and the New York Aquarium shown, interchanged with the vintage-looking shots in sepia and Joan singing in front of the camera. Roch Parisien called the song "a simple, direct statement of faith, honest and unadorned, one framed in a near-perfect chorus and delectable Neil Young -ish guitar riff. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Blue Gorilla Records Mercury. Eric Bazilian of the Hooters".

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