At VBS (vacation bible school) there was a song that promised that we would "learn to seek Your face, and the knowledge of your grace...", which I heard as "learn to sink Your face", whatever that meant. I ultimately decided that it meant washing Jesus' face (almost as good as washing someone's feet).
My next best involved a series of songs that refered to Jesus as "the rock". (Lord you are my Rock, On Christ the solid rock I stand, etc) Well, I was appalled! If I were the ruler of the universe, I would want to be compared to something fierce, like a lion, or a tiger; comparing Jesus to something as inanimate as a rock seemed to border on an insult. It took me a while to come to terms with this one.
A childhood belief about hymns
others believed things like this
- My friends and I used to believe that if you planted a rock, it would grow a rock tree. Anon
- I used to believe the the Elton John song, "Crocodile Rock" was about a Crocodile, named Rock.Anon
- In a religious song, instead of “Jesus Christ” I heard “Cheese is Prize”— EJ
- in sting's / the police's song ''roxanne''. I thaught that it was ''rock sand''— wacko zacho
- I thought that the song "Built this City" by starship went as follows. "Milk and Cereal, Rock and Roll"Anon
- I believed that Jesus Christ was the son of the Christ family, i.e., Mary and Joseph Christ.— David Araújo