The idea is that the singer or the writer is putting forth the idea that they lived life according to their own terms. That is not only an impossibility, but is patently evil.
We have parents, we have neighbors, we have role models, we have the people who provided the food we ate, etc. We live under laws that keep us from doing all the things we actually want to do and would do if there was no controlling authority in our hearts or on our bodies.
Sinatra truly did some evil stuff and paraded his vice as virtue, singing that song and making it his own in every way possible.
Nobody lives their life on their own terms, but Satan tempts us into believing we can.
The idea is that the singer or the writer is putting forth the idea that they lived life according to their own terms. That is not only an impossibility, but is patently evil.
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Nonsense! Who are you to say how someone intends too live their life or has lived their life is wrong? Yours is an opinion only and nothing definitive about someone’s life can be determined until AFTER that life ends and all considerations are given.
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“We live under laws that keep us from doing all the things we actually want to do and would do if there was no controlling authority in our hearts or on our bodies.”
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Just because a person wants to live his life exactly as he wants does not mean “His Way” is wrong. If the Holy Father adopted this song would you criticize him?
No one is perfect. As the phrase goes, “let he who is without sin cast the first stone”
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We have parents, we have neighbors, we have role models, we have the people who provided the food we ate, etc. We live under laws that keep us from doing all the things we actually want to do and would do if there was no controlling authority in our hearts or on our bodies.
Sinatra truly did some evil stuff and paraded his vice as virtue, singing that song and making it his own in every way possible.
Nobody lives their life on their own terms, but Satan tempts us into believing we can.