1/5 Rolling Stone Magazine just released its new list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and Seventh-day Adventist theology, in a roundabout way, occupies the number 1 slot. Marvin Gaye’s, "What’s Going On," has been named by Rolling Stone the greatest album of all time.
2/5 According to encyclopedia.com, “Gaye was the second of four children of Alberta and Marvin Gay, Sr., who were devout Seventh-day Adventists.” Gaye's father became a House of God minister, a spin off of the Adventist church, while retaining key Adventists beliefs.
3/5 Gaye's album is a theological opus that proclaims “God is love” as its thesis, insisting that this is the only truth by which “We can rock the world's foundation.” Gaye sings, “true love can conquer hate every time; give out some love and you'll find peace sublime.”
4/5 Proclaiming the essence of gospel, Gaye sings, “God is my friend; Jesus is my friend; He loves us whether or not we know it; and He'll forgive all our sins; and all He asks of us, oh yeah, is we give each other love.”
5/5 Then the album proclaims the second coming of Jesus and points to the Bible as the written revelation that Christ has given to the world: "Jesus left a long time ago, said he would return; believe it; He left us a book to believe in; in it we've got a lot to learn.”
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