With everything we've already labeled as "amazing," do we really need to describe anything else with this word?
The Amazing Spider Man!
My boyfriend is amazing!
Who made this amazing cheesecake?
You should see him play air guitar - amazing!
When everything is amazing, nothing is amazing. Both Aerosmith and Kanye West have songs titled "Amazing." Magicians use the word as part of their act: The Amazing Kreskin, The Amazing Johnathan. TV shows are amazing: The Amazing Race, The Amazing World of Gumball.
Is “amazing” just a word we use when we really like
something?.
That bean-dip was…amazing!
When I had the hiccups and you jumped out and scared me, that was, like, amazing.
When I had the hiccups and you jumped out and scared me, that was, like, amazing.
The Bible is very sparing about calling anything amazing. The
more common word is a verb: amazed. The Greek words that are
translated “amazed” mean to marvel, to be overwhelmed, astounded, or
astonished. And in the Scriptures, what brings this kind of amazement is the
teaching and power of Jesus. (See, for example, Matthew 7:28; Mark 6:6; 10:24;
Luke 8:56).
Now there’s a worthy use of the term amazing: our wonderful
Christ. Amazing grace, how sweet the
sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found, was
blind, but now I see.
And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of
God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and amazing are your deeds,
O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the
nations!" (Rev
15:3)
