Comments on: Addendum to U2 Spiritually Significant Songs: The First Time http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2006/08/16/addendum-to-u2-spiritually-significant-songs-the-first-time/ My musings on Biblical Studies, Biblical Hebrew, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Popular Culture, Religion, Software, and pretty much anything else that interests me! Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:29:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Chip http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2006/08/16/addendum-to-u2-spiritually-significant-songs-the-first-time/comment-page-1/#comment-8773 Chip Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:53:43 +0000 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2006/08/16/addendum-to-u2-spiritually-significant-songs-the-first-time/#comment-8773 Actually, I’ve always seen it a different way: The speaker truly feels love only AFTER “throwing away the key.” For some people, it takes a prodigal experience to truly feel the love of God. You can’t know how much you’re loved until after you’ve been lifted up from the miry clay that you’ve gotten yourself into (to mix U2 song/biblical metaphors). Isn’t that the essence of what happened to the prodigal son?

Peace of Christ,
Chip

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