Bono: In Conversation With Michka Assayas

The excerpt from the book, “Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas,” really hit a note within myself. The piece of the conversation used between Bono and Assayas was the idea of stepping out the kingdom of karma into one of grace. Karma and grace were related back to Jesus dying on the cross for our sins. The fact that karma is so ubiquitous today makes it hard to consider the extensive dynamic of grace versus predestination. This conversation took a deeper look into the reason why grace triumphs the notion of karma. Bono first starts out with his belief that God is love despite what the Old Testament may represent Him as. He mentions that the Old Testament was more about the reverence and admiration. It was presented in a darker light. The New Testament allows us to have a more one on one relationship with God. It grants us to test, discover and be acquainted with God. The Old Testament was describes as straight up, whereas The New Testament was parallel. The two coincide with each other symbolling the cross. This remarkable belief led to Bono’s next topic of distinction between karma and grace. A prominent way Bono understands his faith is by associating and assessing it with other religions. Bono expresses,

Bono explained it as, “The point of the death of Christ is that Christ took on the sins of the world, so that what we put out did not come back to us, and that our sinful nature does not reap the obvious death.” Assayas responds, “Son of God? Isn’t that farfetched.” To the Jews, Christ was just a great, fascinating prophet. However, Christ didn’t stand for that assumption; He was the Messiah. The Jews weren’t going to stand for that entitlement either. The Jews thought the Messiah was going to rescue them from the Romans. In Romans 9 and 10, most Jews are refusing the gospel. Not only, did the Jews refuse it, but so did many