tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461698464806055180.post1476705313224458407..comments2021-06-03T13:58:52.783-07:00Comments on Fine Tuning: Lamb Of God (Twila Paris)Phillip Magnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17841725361772353858noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461698464806055180.post-34111254779844247752011-06-02T15:24:47.433-07:002011-06-02T15:24:47.433-07:00I think the tune of Lamb of God is kind of catchy,...I think the tune of <i>Lamb of God</i> is kind of catchy, but I think the text of this stanza is problematic:<br /><br /><i>Your only Son, no sin to hide,<br />But You have sent Him from Your side<br />To walk upon this guilty sod,<br />And to become the Lamb of God.</i><br /><br />Since Jesus always was the Lamb of God, why does it say "<b>become</b> the Lamb of God?"<br /><br />It's not horrible otherwise, but I don't think it should have been included in the LSB. It made Pr. Stuckwisch's list of hymns that should have been left out in order leave room for better stuff. It was one of those that was stuck into the LSB at the last minute without time for the entire LCMS to comment on it.<br /><br />It's also not as bad as <i>Lift Every Voice and Sing</i>, which mentions a god (the god of American civil religion, apparently), but was written by an atheist! See http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/10/09/interview-with-mike-estes .<br /><br />See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGWsqR6UbGk to see Jesse Jackson introducing it as <i>The Black National Anthem</i>. I've got no problem with it being used as that, but I do not think it belongs in a Lutheran hymnal.<br /><br />--<br /><br />The tune <i>Austrian Hymn</i> by Franz Josef Haydn was used for the German national anthem, <i>Deutschland, Deutschland über alles</i>, which was written to promote the unity of the various German states. Unification took place in 1871.<br /><br />That tune is still used today for the German national anthem, although only the third stanza, <i>Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit</i> (<i>Unity and Right and Freedom</i>), is used. Maybe the situation is different in the Midwest, but I don't know of anybody in California who has a problem with the German national anthem (or even thinks about it much) or with the tune, though I suppose you can always find people everywhere who make it a practice of finding something to be offended about.<br /><br />The real Nazi anthem was the <i>Horst Wessel Lied</i>. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnGAgS8GzYg .Stan Slonkoskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13453758065449182939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461698464806055180.post-27329818700901063622011-03-30T13:59:10.680-07:002011-03-30T13:59:10.680-07:00I'll look forward to hearing it this summer.I'll look forward to hearing it this summer.Pastor Johann Caauwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08340732643102946472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461698464806055180.post-25853419074654049892011-03-30T10:54:39.741-07:002011-03-30T10:54:39.741-07:00I can understand why some Confessional Lutherans m...I can understand why some Confessional Lutherans might be concerned with using a song by Paris. But, there are times when a CCM composer/singer gets it right.LambertsOnlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17731421792571406434noreply@blogger.com