Posted on 09/27/2012 10:39:31 AM PDT by donna
Have you seen this unfortunate ad?
Does the University of Phoenix believe that "Amazing Grace" is a black woman?
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
T'was Grace that taught my heart to fear.
And Grace, my fears relieved.
How precious did that Grace appear
The hour I first believed.
lmao
I don’t see how you came away with that interpretation.
“Amazing Grace” was penned by the captain of a slave ship, who repented of his career after he found Christ.
Well, Billy Graham said:
“God’s grace, quite simply, is God’s mercy and goodness toward us. Some have called it “God’s unmerited or undeserved favor”—and that is what it is: God’s mercy and goodness to us, even though we don’t deserve it.”
I don’t think that the University of Phoenix people understand the meaning.
I don’t see how you came away with that interpretation.
Man, the comments under that vid by people who got degrees from there are brutal! The first guy says something about going there...the second comment is from the poster(university) and then it`s just ... well, read `em...I don`t think the poster says anything else...LOL
There's a jazz singer named Grace Black who amazes her fans.
The song is about God's grace ~ not someone's race.
The tune is remarkably similar to a Christian Church call to come forward and become a Christian ~ and the tune there is from yet another source, and at least four different tunes have been used over the years.
Christianity teaches that all have sinned and all in need of God’s mercy, and in this sense no different from the worst sinner, not even a man who engaged in the business of kidnap slavery.
For anyone who's interested...See post #35
The tune commonly associated with the hymn “Amazing Grace”, and most Negro spirituals can be picked out, in its basic form, with just the black keys on a piano.
Seems to me you could just as easily have asked, "Does the University of Phoenix believe that "Amazing Grace" is a twenty-something white guy with a messenger bag?" Or, "Does the University of Phoenix believe that "Amazing Grace" is a crowd of mostly white people walking in the street?"
Perhaps, rather than being fixated on race, it might be better to rejoice that this amazing song, which is familiar to millions of people of all ethnic groups, is being played on TV every time that ad runs.
You have to try way too hard to come up with a problematic interpretation of that ad.
I think “Amazing Grace” is when a candidate gets hired in spite of having a University of Phoenix degree. :)
You think the University of Phoenix knows that the song is about God’s amazing grace?
In the ad, the voice-over ends a sentence with a PREPOSITION!
“show the world what they are capable OF”
LOL.
It is a lovely rendition of one of my favorite hymns, though! :-)
I can't speak to the issue of whether an educational corporation is familiar with God's grace. But I can say that I know plenty of individuals who have gone to school there, and taught there, who absolutely know the song is about God's amazing grace.
It’s a beautiful ad. The light and the camera angles - everything is good.
I just think they used a special Christian song for commercial purposes.
That’s what made me wonder if they even understood that Grace was not a person.
“show the world what they are capable OF”
How would you have re-worked it?
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