I love this because Schlitt's like "I know Greg's gone, but we're still Petra, and we're still gonna ROCK IT". I don't know why so many Petra fans are down on John - he's a great vocalist, just not the same style as Greg.
Wat? The proof is the Bible. The Bible is the Truth. There's much evidence that makes the Bible real. How can u not believe?! Jesus proclaimed things would happen before it did happen. Everything Is Real. I hope you find it in your heart to have faith and believe in the One True God.
@thephenomkid24 There is also the testimony of us,His people,and the Spirit of God that dwells inside! There is an element of faith to our belief,and without it,nobody can please God!
I won't believe this message, because they can't offer proof to show that their God exists. You can't just say have faith, having faith could apply to any religion.
I don't care about what many people believe, I care about the truth and I won't believe in something without a good reason.
@mailbox827 Yes stone age, your religion is just like every other religion, What makes you think your religion is right and everyone elses wrong? There is a tonne of evidence supporting an old world which contradicts your bible. DNA confirms evolution, you're a moron if you think otherwise. You are so brainwashed and you don't even realise it.
Religion stops people from thinking for themselves.
@neomysterio The clue's in the song, actually. Jesus is (still) giving hope and helping people through bereavement, rejection, loneliness, guilt and many other batterings they've had from life. I evidently can't meet your criteria for proving the existence of God but neither can you meet my criteria for proving the non-existence of God. I choose to hope.
@neomysterio I never said you weren't allowed to believe in dragons and unicorns. In fact you could start your own religion around them if you want. When you find out how hard it is to fake it, you'll realise that Christians aren't faking it .... :D
@neomysterio It may be easy to fake it where you live pal but there are still plenty of places where people are suffering persecution up to and including martyrdom even today. I happened to know one of the Malatya martyrs myself and I can tell you he could have had a peaceful life if he had just admitted that his Christian faith was faked. Or what about Liu Zhenying, torured at the hands of atheists in China? As for all this stuff about Mithras etc, how do you know that wasn't made up later :D
@neomysterio Jesus rose from the dead. Did Buddha or Mohammad or any other religious leader ever rise from the dead? I don't know about you, but in the 25 years of my being born-again, I've never ever read of a faith based religion claiming that its founder rose from the dead. From Abraham to Joseph Smith to Rev Moon, none of them have ever made a claim of resurrection. In my way of thinking, there is something to that.
@neomysterio Nice try, but Attis, Mithra, Horus, Osiris, Dionysus and Krishna were all mythological figures, not living breathing human beings as Jesus was.
So, as I stated earlier, I've never ever read of a faith based religion claiming that its founder rose from the dead.
Anyone who knows me, knows I don't believe just anything that people/my pastor tell me. Although my pastor is a very wise man who has some of his own videos here on Youtube, I still needed more than his words to believe
@neomysterio LOL!! He's not mythological at all. Even His most ardent detractors don't deny His existence, what they(those who have studied His life) deny, is His resurrection. No my lost friend, He was an actual living/breathing human being, unlike the mythological examples you listed. He lived/walked/talked/loved/died and then rose again on the 3rd day. Those whom He encountered who understood who He was, had their lives radically altered by the experience of having met Him, as have I.
@neomysterio Some of the examples you just listed, are not only similarities to Jesus and Mithra, but they are also references to OT prophesies that were fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ.
If anyone has borrowed or copied from anyone, the pagan mythological religions have borrowed from the OT as the OT prophesies have been around much longer than the pagan mythological religions.
@Whitese7en You are obviously delusional and bias. Having a closed mind and just telling yourself your religion is true and making up excuses for everything will just keep you brainwashed. You seriously think a magical being sits on a cloud casting miracles? Basic science contradicts your book of holes. Will you stone your daughter to death if she isn't a virgin on her wedding day like your holy book says? You do believe anything your preacher tells you, you shouldn't lie because that is a sin.
@neomysterio That's all you have to say to the fact that I just blew your argument to smithereens? Yes, I trust my pastor now, because I'm grounded in truth whereas before I wasn't. Everything my pastor says, is scriptural truth, so yes, I believe him but not because of what he says but because of where he gets his information from.
@neomysterio If anyone's mind is closed my lost friend, it's yours because you can not open it up to the possibility that there is something bigger than yourself in this world. Your mind is closed and your eyes have been blinded to the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I believe without seeing, whereas you don't, now, based on that, whose is mind is really closed?
@Whitese7en That is called blind faith and would be no different than just accepting another religion to be the truth.There isn't a shred of evidence supporting you religion.
You think I should ignore all evidence showing that we live in an old world which is much older than a few thousand years and believe your religion just because you say it;s true. Why would a god so great want humans to worship him? talk about petty. LOL
I have no reason to believe in your god, I know he does not exist.
@Whitese7en Faith is the evidence of things unseen? LOL
Faith is just believing because you hope it's true and don't want to think.
He needs us to submit to him just to have a relationship with us? That's too funny LOL
Your pastor tells you the earth is still in question, go look at some real scientific sources.Many different fields of science show that the world is very very very old.
Do don't even have a basic scientific understanding. Evolution is as much a fact as gravity.
@neomysterio Yes, it is. Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
No, He doesn't "NEED" anything from us, nor did I ever say He did. He DESIRES a relationship with us. Worship is a by-product of the relationship He desires with us. However, because He is holy and righteous and we are not, we can not have a relationship with him until we become holy and righteous like He is. This state of righteousness, can only be achieved through Christ.
@neomysterio No, I wasn't going on what my pastor says or doesn't say in regard to the age of the planet, I was going on general knowledge. The truth of the matter, is that the age of the earth is in ? and always will be in ?.
Yes, microevolution is a fact, I've never disputed that fact. However, that is still not an explanation for the origins of life. Macroevolution on the other hand, is still nothing more than an unproven theory ergo it has no basis in fact.
@neomysterio and most everything in "science" is called a THEORY I will tell ya what, until you can explain what scientist are telling you then you are no better then then the blind following a book Christians. you both follow the same type of masters just believe in different books of THEORY let the truth be known that ANU is God and Enlil (with permission from God/ANU) created man in the Annunakies own image. AMEN
oh yeah I was 18 when this came out it rocked and really was instrumental in firing us up.You had to be there back in those days with my pioneer stereo and my 6inch speakers screamin in my car lol no subs :) like these days ha
Petra rocks for every age and generation we all can relate back to something in our lives
Great album! I remember hearing this song for the first time and being blown away by the musical shift from their previous Album Beat the System and the vocal sound of John Schlitt vs. Grex X Voltz!
This makes us, christians, look like we're really are: they who can bring the true revolution to this world!! so we Gotta Go! Through th highways... we gotta fill in the streets with the message from the Cross!! So go men! Go back to the streets!!
I remember this as a kid and freakin loved it! Laugh at the fact that it's Christian rock and I'm not even Christian, lol. It was just funky cool music that put a smile on my face.
Jesus Said GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MixedFuion 2 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Petra
John Schlitt is an Awesome singer
MixedFuion 2 months ago
How cool would it be if UnknownPetraFan was Bob Hartman?
whomyguy1 5 months ago
One heche of a way to start the day. Thank You! The silent witness emerges. This Means WAR.
Bella44753 1 year ago
I love this because Schlitt's like "I know Greg's gone, but we're still Petra, and we're still gonna ROCK IT". I don't know why so many Petra fans are down on John - he's a great vocalist, just not the same style as Greg.
mailbox827 1 year ago
Wat? The proof is the Bible. The Bible is the Truth. There's much evidence that makes the Bible real. How can u not believe?! Jesus proclaimed things would happen before it did happen. Everything Is Real. I hope you find it in your heart to have faith and believe in the One True God.
thephenomkid24 1 year ago
@thephenomkid24 There is also the testimony of us,His people,and the Spirit of God that dwells inside! There is an element of faith to our belief,and without it,nobody can please God!
steelersteve36 1 year ago
@steelersteve36 amen brother!!!!
ThePrayerwarrior777 1 year ago
I won't believe this message, because they can't offer proof to show that their God exists. You can't just say have faith, having faith could apply to any religion.
I don't care about what many people believe, I care about the truth and I won't believe in something without a good reason.
neomysterio 1 year ago
@neomysterio
So, If you doubt God's existence, and his divine influence, why bother posting in a thread primarily suited to those who do beleive in God?
gunnerk19 1 year ago
@gunnerk19 To show you people how stupid you belief is. Religion hold s the world back in a stone age way of thinking.
neomysterio 1 year ago
@neomysterio Stone Age lol. Atheism was the great failed experiment of the 20th Century. Go read some Solzhenitsyn to find out more.
mailbox827 1 year ago
@mailbox827 Yes stone age, your religion is just like every other religion, What makes you think your religion is right and everyone elses wrong? There is a tonne of evidence supporting an old world which contradicts your bible. DNA confirms evolution, you're a moron if you think otherwise. You are so brainwashed and you don't even realise it.
Religion stops people from thinking for themselves.
neomysterio 1 year ago
@neomysterio The clue's in the song, actually. Jesus is (still) giving hope and helping people through bereavement, rejection, loneliness, guilt and many other batterings they've had from life. I evidently can't meet your criteria for proving the existence of God but neither can you meet my criteria for proving the non-existence of God. I choose to hope.
mailbox827 1 year ago
@mailbox827 I also can't disprove unicorns and dragons.
neomysterio 1 year ago
@neomysterio I never said you weren't allowed to believe in dragons and unicorns. In fact you could start your own religion around them if you want. When you find out how hard it is to fake it, you'll realise that Christians aren't faking it .... :D
mailbox827 1 year ago 5
@mailbox827 it's easy to fake, there are so many religions and cults where people have beliefs just as strong as yours.
neomysterio 1 year ago
@neomysterio It may be easy to fake it where you live pal but there are still plenty of places where people are suffering persecution up to and including martyrdom even today. I happened to know one of the Malatya martyrs myself and I can tell you he could have had a peaceful life if he had just admitted that his Christian faith was faked. Or what about Liu Zhenying, torured at the hands of atheists in China? As for all this stuff about Mithras etc, how do you know that wasn't made up later :D
mailbox827 1 year ago
@neomysterio Jesus rose from the dead. Did Buddha or Mohammad or any other religious leader ever rise from the dead? I don't know about you, but in the 25 years of my being born-again, I've never ever read of a faith based religion claiming that its founder rose from the dead. From Abraham to Joseph Smith to Rev Moon, none of them have ever made a claim of resurrection. In my way of thinking, there is something to that.
Whitese7en 1 year ago
@Whitese7en You're a brainwashed moron if you think he really rose from the dead.
Poeple like you who believe without questioning really hold the human race back.
Here is a list of other gods who rose from the dead.
Horus c. 3000 BCE
Osiris c. 3000 BCE
Attis of Phrygia c.1400 BCE
Krishna c. 1400 BCE (possibly as early as 5771 BCE)
Mithra of Persia c. 600 BCE
Dionysus c. 186 BCE
Your way of thinking? You don't think, you just believe what your preacher tells you.
neomysterio 1 year ago
@neomysterio Nice try, but Attis, Mithra, Horus, Osiris, Dionysus and Krishna were all mythological figures, not living breathing human beings as Jesus was.
So, as I stated earlier, I've never ever read of a faith based religion claiming that its founder rose from the dead.
Anyone who knows me, knows I don't believe just anything that people/my pastor tell me. Although my pastor is a very wise man who has some of his own videos here on Youtube, I still needed more than his words to believe
Whitese7en 1 year ago
@Whitese7en All gods are mythological. Your Jesus was recycled from Mithra.
1. Mithra was born of a virgin on December 25th in a cave, and his birth was attended by shepherds.
2. He was considered a great traveling teacher and master.
3. He had 12 companions or disciples.
4. Mithra's followers were promised immortality.
5. He was buried in a tomb and after three days rose again.
6. As the "great bull of the Sun," Mithra sacrificed himself for world peace.
There are many more similarities..
neomysterio 1 year ago
@neomysterio LOL!! He's not mythological at all. Even His most ardent detractors don't deny His existence, what they(those who have studied His life) deny, is His resurrection. No my lost friend, He was an actual living/breathing human being, unlike the mythological examples you listed. He lived/walked/talked/loved/died and then rose again on the 3rd day. Those whom He encountered who understood who He was, had their lives radically altered by the experience of having met Him, as have I.
Whitese7en 1 year ago
@neomysterio Some of the examples you just listed, are not only similarities to Jesus and Mithra, but they are also references to OT prophesies that were fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ.
Virgin birth - Isaiah 7:14
Resurrection - Psalm 16:9-10; 49:15, Isaiah. 26:19
Sin offering Isaiah. 53:6-12
If anyone has borrowed or copied from anyone, the pagan mythological religions have borrowed from the OT as the OT prophesies have been around much longer than the pagan mythological religions.
Whitese7en 1 year ago
@Whitese7en You are obviously delusional and bias. Having a closed mind and just telling yourself your religion is true and making up excuses for everything will just keep you brainwashed. You seriously think a magical being sits on a cloud casting miracles? Basic science contradicts your book of holes. Will you stone your daughter to death if she isn't a virgin on her wedding day like your holy book says? You do believe anything your preacher tells you, you shouldn't lie because that is a sin.
neomysterio 1 year ago
@neomysterio That's all you have to say to the fact that I just blew your argument to smithereens? Yes, I trust my pastor now, because I'm grounded in truth whereas before I wasn't. Everything my pastor says, is scriptural truth, so yes, I believe him but not because of what he says but because of where he gets his information from.
Whitese7en 1 year ago
@neomysterio If anyone's mind is closed my lost friend, it's yours because you can not open it up to the possibility that there is something bigger than yourself in this world. Your mind is closed and your eyes have been blinded to the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I believe without seeing, whereas you don't, now, based on that, whose is mind is really closed?
Whitese7en 1 year ago
@Whitese7en That is called blind faith and would be no different than just accepting another religion to be the truth.There isn't a shred of evidence supporting you religion.
You think I should ignore all evidence showing that we live in an old world which is much older than a few thousand years and believe your religion just because you say it;s true. Why would a god so great want humans to worship him? talk about petty. LOL
I have no reason to believe in your god, I know he does not exist.
neomysterio 1 year ago
@neomysterio No, that's called faith. The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
No, there isn't a shred of evidence as far as you're concerned. As far as I'm concerned however, there are a whole lot of shreds of evidence.
It's not so much that He wants us to worship Him, it's that He wants a relationship with us. The worship is merely a by-product of the relationship.
The last time I checked, the age of the earth was still in question, ergo nothing's been proven.
Whitese7en 1 year ago
@Whitese7en Faith is the evidence of things unseen? LOL
Faith is just believing because you hope it's true and don't want to think.
He needs us to submit to him just to have a relationship with us? That's too funny LOL
Your pastor tells you the earth is still in question, go look at some real scientific sources.Many different fields of science show that the world is very very very old.
Do don't even have a basic scientific understanding. Evolution is as much a fact as gravity.
neomysterio 1 year ago
@neomysterio Yes, it is. Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
No, He doesn't "NEED" anything from us, nor did I ever say He did. He DESIRES a relationship with us. Worship is a by-product of the relationship He desires with us. However, because He is holy and righteous and we are not, we can not have a relationship with him until we become holy and righteous like He is. This state of righteousness, can only be achieved through Christ.
Whitese7en 1 year ago
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@Whitese7en I can not convince a fool who does not want to learn the truth.
neomysterio 1 year ago
@neomysterio No, I wasn't going on what my pastor says or doesn't say in regard to the age of the planet, I was going on general knowledge. The truth of the matter, is that the age of the earth is in ? and always will be in ?.
Yes, microevolution is a fact, I've never disputed that fact. However, that is still not an explanation for the origins of life. Macroevolution on the other hand, is still nothing more than an unproven theory ergo it has no basis in fact.
Whitese7en 1 year ago
@neomysterio and most everything in "science" is called a THEORY I will tell ya what, until you can explain what scientist are telling you then you are no better then then the blind following a book Christians. you both follow the same type of masters just believe in different books of THEORY let the truth be known that ANU is God and Enlil (with permission from God/ANU) created man in the Annunakies own image. AMEN
Kenebneb1 9 months ago
@Kenebneb1 WTF?
corr1chevy 8 months ago
@neomysterio Really that list doesn't have all that many similarities.
1. Jesus was born of a virgin in a stable-we don't know when, Dec. 25 is just the day we celebrate it.
2. He was a great teacher.
3.He had 12 friends.
4. We aren't really promised immortality, just a place to go when we die. We don't become gods or anything.
5.He was buried and rose again three days later.
6. Jesus didn't die for world peace, he died so that we could live forever in Heaven with him.
What did you prove?
PetraRocks97 3 months ago
i've looked all over the internet to find out some info on the vocalists in this song. can somebody shed some light?
whatchamacallitful 1 year ago
@whatchamacallitful
The lead singer who sang this was John Schlitt
Espeelover 1 year ago
@Espeelover i knew the who the lead was, thats on wikipedia. i was curious who the backup singers were
whatchamacallitful 1 year ago
@whatchamacallitful Sorry about that. I believe they would be John Lawry and Bob Hartman.
Espeelover 1 year ago
@Espeelover No problem at all.....Thank You. much appreciated. Kind of a strange thing to want to know but i was curious.
whatchamacallitful 1 year ago
oh yeah I was 18 when this came out it rocked and really was instrumental in firing us up.You had to be there back in those days with my pioneer stereo and my 6inch speakers screamin in my car lol no subs :) like these days ha
Petra rocks for every age and generation we all can relate back to something in our lives
loyalaussie 2 years ago
I'm thinking back to when I first heard this. 23 years ago yipes!!
TimfromMKE 2 years ago 7
Man, this takes me waaay back. I was 18-20 years old when this came out. Great memories.
Lifeisgood217 2 years ago 2
Great album! I remember hearing this song for the first time and being blown away by the musical shift from their previous Album Beat the System and the vocal sound of John Schlitt vs. Grex X Voltz!
1normy 3 years ago 2
This makes us, christians, look like we're really are: they who can bring the true revolution to this world!! so we Gotta Go! Through th highways... we gotta fill in the streets with the message from the Cross!! So go men! Go back to the streets!!
atiradormendonca 3 years ago 2
@atiradormendonca i like this the message does need out to people
MrRoute7 2 years ago
Oops, I'm on my sis's account. lol
michellerukny 3 years ago
I remember this as a kid and freakin loved it! Laugh at the fact that it's Christian rock and I'm not even Christian, lol. It was just funky cool music that put a smile on my face.
michellerukny 3 years ago
Cool Beans! I used to have it on cassette a long time ago. Wish I could find it on CD.
wijaku 3 years ago
@wijaku any christian bookstore would order it for you unless it is out of print. i have it on cd
MrRoute7 2 years ago
Gosh, I used to have these albums as a kid. Wish I could find em on vinyl again.
SRTY31 3 years ago 2
Thanks for posting - saw them thoroughout the 80's!
HighwaySong06 3 years ago
Your welcome!
UnknownPetraFan 3 years ago
Wow!! Great song!! I don't have this album so Thank you for posting!!!
underoathkid95 3 years ago
This was my first Petra song I ever heard and loved it.I was 17 an Jeff gray liked it too. Right Jeff!!!!!!!!!
fatcatl 3 years ago
yep yep, preach it - and reach 'em!
inbetweentics 3 years ago
thanks a lot unknownPetraFan
Happydey 3 years ago
Your welcome! UPF
UnknownPetraFan 3 years ago
I got to have this song.
handleydan 4 years ago