Joan Osborne – Think Bensonium https://bensonium.com Sight through thought Sun, 04 Jul 2021 20:35:46 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://bensonium.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/NewEYEIcon-100x100.png Joan Osborne – Think Bensonium https://bensonium.com 32 32 Day 307: One of us, Joan Osborne https://bensonium.com/song/one-of-us-joan-osborne/ https://bensonium.com/song/one-of-us-joan-osborne/#respond Thu, 21 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://bensonium.com/?p=2579 This song came out in 1995 and is rather ironic because if you’re a Christian, you believe that God really did become one of us in the incarnation of Jesus of Nazareth born circa 4 BC in Bethlehem. Joan Osborne imagines that if God was one of us, we would have to believe but, in reality, we know what happened to the historical Jesus so her surmise is off the mark somewhat if indeed Jesus was the incarnation of the creator of our universe.

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