amazing grace?

Question

what is this song all about. ive read the lyrics, but not being the sharpest knife in the drawer im still not sure what its trying to say

Can somebody tell me what its about (in a nutshell)

Answer 1

Excellent question. Blindness and seeing is about the Light Of God.

People sing it, and many pretend to know what it means, but very few people know how to kindle that inner light... so you came up with a super question.

This resource will explain the phenomenon of increasing the light in order "to see."

Answer 2

You've already received some good answers. I will add that John Newton, who wrote the song, was a "slaver" who used his ship to go to Africa and buy slaves. In those slave ships, you would have people packed in like sardines and, if say 3,000 were in these squalid conditions, perhaps only about 1,000 (if that) would survive the trip to the Caribbean Islands where they were used to work sugar plantations. The conditions were terrible and the treatment worse.

John Newton was aboard one of these ships one night when a terrible storm arose and the ship was in danger of sinking. He cried out to God and asked Him to save them, and the ship was saved. After that Newton was born again (though I'm leaving out a big chunk...you'd have to read his autobiography to get more information or a biography).

After he became a Christian, he realized the horror of what he had done as a slaver and completely abandoned that way of life. The song was written, because he believed himself to be the very worst of sinners and yet - AMAZINGLY - God still saved and forgave him. The song begins by talking about the wondrous Grace of God that could save a wretch like he and the succeeding verses move into the future when we will all be in Heaven with Jesus.

You may be interested in the movie that was just released on DVD last week by the same title - Amazing Grace with Ioan Gruffudd (Fantastic Four) as William Wilberforce (a real man who was the member of Parliament who fought for years to end the slave trade in Britain and finally succeeded). In the movie, Albert Finney plays John Newton, who was known to Wilberforce and even taught him. The movie gives you a far clearer insight into exactly what that song really means. It's an excellent biopic.

Answer 3

John Newton wrote this hymn some time after converting to Christianity in the village of Kineton, in Warwickshire, England. The lyrics are based on his reflections on an Old Testament text he was preparing to preach on, adding his perspective about his own conversion while on his slave ship, the Greyhound, in 1748.

The melody most often used for this hymn was not original (nor was Newton a composer). As with other hymns of this period, the words were sung to a number of tunes before and after they first became linked to the now familiar variant of the tune "New Britain" in William Walker's shape-note tunebook Southern Harmony, 1835. [1]

There are several tunes to which these words have been sung. "New Britain" first appears in a shape note hymnal from 1829 called Columbian Harmony.

Answer 4

Amazing Grace is a song that described how John Newton could not believed that GOD would actually save someone as wretched as him and now that he is saved is was free from all of sins. The song in the last verse also described how he think it will be in heaven after the Rapture, when all of GOD's children, the saved, are called up to heaven, takes place and I and all of GOD's children will rejoice. I can't wait!

Answer 5

The Amazing grace of God. It's about your life being clearer once you find God.

It's a Negro Spiritual originally sung a capella by slaves as they toiled in the fields. It reminds one that if you have nothing materially, not even hope, then you still have a friend in God. Also, that if you have sinned, then you can find solace in God. "was blind, but now can see"

Answer 6

Amazing grace is about a man that was "blind" by not seeing the grace of God and then when he finally understood the love and grace of God his eyes were "opened" to Hope, to the Biblical "fear" (NOT the same as being frightened of) and to worshiping a loving Lord.

Answer 7

I thought it was the captain of one of the slave ships who felt so guilty about what he did. He became a preacher and was so sorry for the suffering and inhumane treatment - He wrote the hymn some time after.

Answer 8

Its about how awsome God is and how even the most wretched of people can be saved by Him.

Answer 9

its basically about problems of america getting better by the day

Answer 10

Boy you are dumb!!!