Bob Marley (2)

VirginiaHuguenot · #1 (**permalink**) 06-07-2008, 05:39 PM

As a follow-up to this thread, here is One Love:

YouTube - bob marley - one love

VirginiaHuguenot · #2 (**permalink**) 06-07-2008, 05:40 PM

Redemption Song:

YouTube - Bob Marley - Redemption Song

VirginiaHuguenot · #3 (**permalink**) 06-07-2008, 05:47 PM

Three Little Birds:

YouTube - Bob Marley - Three Little Birds

JDWiseman · #4 (**permalink**) 06-07-2008, 06:13 PM

I feel uncomfortable nowadays when I listen to Bob Marley, for obvious reasons. It just makes me uncomfortable to hear him sing about "Jah" because I know that he's using that name in a way foreign to Christianity. That, and the diatribe in "Get Up, Stand Up" always floats in my mind.

With that caveat, I don't know of any music in the world that can more easily place me in a relaxed, joyful, pleasant mood. My favorite "love song", arguably, is "Is This Love?". Also, "Stir It Up", "One Love", "Three Little Birds", etc, are all wonderful songs.

VirginiaHuguenot · #5 (**permalink**) 06-07-2008, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by JDWiseman

I feel uncomfortable nowadays when I listen to Bob Marley, for obvious reasons. It just makes me uncomfortable to hear him sing about "Jah" because I know that he's using that name in a way foreign to Christianity. That, and the diatribe in "Get Up, Stand Up" always floats in my mind.

With that caveat, I don't know of any music in the world that can more easily place me in a relaxed, joyful, pleasant mood. My favorite "love song", arguably, is "Is This Love?". Also, "Stir It Up", "One Love", "Three Little Birds", etc, are all wonderful songs.

I know what you mean, Joshua. I can't help but pick up on his religion and its influence on his music. I think he fits right in with Abraham Kuyper's statement: "Calvinism, on the contrary, has taught us that all liberal arts are gifts which God imparts promiscuously to believers and to unbelievers, yea, that, as history shows, these gifts have flourished even in a larger measure outside the holy circle."

I lived in Jamaica as a boy and I remember vividly travelling through Trenchtown, a brutal neighborhood of Kingston of which Marley speaks in "No Woman, No Cry." His music resonates with me on a human level, as much as I reject the humanistic, Rastafarian themes. No Woman, No Cry and Stir It Up are among the most soulful songs I know.

VirginiaHuguenot · #6 (**permalink**) 06-07-2008, 06:27 PM

Stir It Up:

YouTube - stir it up bob marley legend

JDWiseman · #7 (**permalink**) 06-07-2008, 07:11 PM

Andrew,

I agree. To be clear to all, I wasn't censoring the music of Bob Marley or saying that Christians shouldn't listen to it as a matter or rule. I've just realized that I have a harder time enjoying it as opposed to a couple of years ago. If he left "Jah" out of his songs altogether I wouldn't even notice the problem. But yes, unfortunately, most of the bands that I enjoy in life, from the Grateful Dead to Amorphis, are tainted by sin, and somewhere or another have lyrics that utterly insult their Maker.

It used to bother me until I really grasped the point of Genesis 4 and 1 Corinthians 1. I think that unbelievers often excel in the arts and sciences, at least as compared with believers.

In my own life, as I've "fasted" or "given up" Burzum, Amorphis, etc., I've often made a very loose application of one of the promises of Christ, namely, that if one leaves something in this world, he will be more than compensated in the next. I can't wait to hear some of the music made in the regenerated and restored Earth.

But I still enjoy my Pearl Jam, some Jerry Garcia, and other things.

Take care brother!

P.S. I didn't know that you lived in Jamaica. Do tell.

VirginiaHuguenot · #8 (**permalink**) 06-07-2008, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by JDWiseman

Andrew,

I agree. To be clear to all, I wasn't censoring the music of Bob Marley or saying that Christians shouldn't listen to it as a matter or rule. I've just realized that I have a harder time enjoying it as opposed to a couple of years ago. If he left "Jah" out of his songs altogether I wouldn't even notice the problem. But yes, unfortunately, most of the bands that I enjoy in life, from the Grateful Dead to Amorphis, are tainted by sin, and somewhere or another have lyrics that utterly insult their Maker.

It used to bother me until I really grasped the point of Genesis 4 and 1 Corinthians 1. I think that unbelievers often excel in the arts and sciences, at least as compared with believers.

In my own life, as I've "fasted" or "given up" Burzum, Amorphis, etc., I've often made a very loose application of one of the promises of Christ, namely, that if one leaves something in this world, he will be more than compensated in the next. I can't wait to hear some of the music made in the regenerated and restored Earth.

But I still enjoy my Pearl Jam, some Jerry Garcia, and other things.

I do know what you mean, brother. Nothing surpasses the beauty of God's psalms on earth and I can't wait to sing his praises in heaven.

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Take care brother!

P.S. I didn't know that you lived in Jamaica. Do tell.

I lived in the Caribbean for several years as a child because my father is an anthropologist who specialized in the study of Caribbean culture. Among the islands we lived on was Jamaica, where I spent one summer in two locales, Kingston and Port Antonio. I wrote story about being marooned on a desert island near Port Royal, which is close to Kingston here. In Port Antonio, we were blessed to know the owners of Red Stripe beer and so we housesat for them for about a month. The place had a butler, maid and a swimming pool carved out rock and sat on a mountain overlooking the sea just above Frenchman's Cove. It was just a summer, but it's one of those things you never forget.

VirginiaHuguenot · #9 (**permalink**) 06-09-2008, 01:51 PM

BTW, I know that Jah is used by Rastafarians. But the name is also used in the KJV and Scottish Metrical Psalter in Psalm 68.4.

VirginiaHuguenot · #10 (**permalink**) 07-26-2008, 11:50 AM

Waiting in Vain:

YouTube - Bob Marley - Waiting in Vain

ThomasH. · #11 (**permalink**) 07-26-2008, 01:31 PM

Indeed, Jah, is simply the term most Jamaicans use instead of saying GOD. There is plenty of great christian reggae artist out there that use the term. As long as Rastafari isn't said after it we're in the clear. check out...GospelReggae dot COM Sanctified Reggae Store - Christian Reggae there are a lot of good Christian reggae artist here.