Five Historical Misconceptions

Bob Dylan claims to have turned down multiple opportunities to meet Elvis. He didn't want to see the washed-up '60s version of his "powerful, mystical" hero.

Dylan was quite surprised when the Beatles told him they had never tried marijuana before. He told John "But you sing 'It's such a feeling that my love I get high' in your song I Want To Hold Your Hand.".

John laughed and told him "The line is 'I can't hide'."

Surely Dylan Thomas was Welsh not Irish....!

This article has numerous errors. Number 6 being the most egregious. I don’t think I need to go over the mountain of evidence that Dylan plainly confessed to being a Christian in 1979 and that he continues to follow this road today, albeit a little less overtly. As Dylan sings “for all those who have eyes, and all those who ears, It is only Him that can reduce me to tears.” The Apostle Paul, himself a converted Jew, explains what it is like when you are given the eyes to see and the ears to hear the gospel, He says:

"But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed."

And almost as if designed to blow up the thesis, of Seth’s Rogovoy’s book, "Bob Dylan Prophet, Mystic, Poet," where he tries to show Dylan has returned to Judaism after a brief "Christian Period." This book came out in the fall of 2009, Dylan releases a Christmas album! That really had to hurt. And then when several reviewers of the Christmas album notice that Dylan is singing the Christian Hymns in complete seriousness like “O Little Town of Bethlehem” they are prompted to ask Dylan if he is signing these Hymns as a true believer in the Christian gospel (the Christian gospel is the good news described in the hymn as “the hopes and fears of all the years”). To which Dylan replies in a promotional piece for public consumption, “I am a true believer.” Then add to this that Dylan is at this same time beginning to open his fall tours with the song "Change my way of Thinkin’" where he is proclaiming in very clear, and not to be misunderstood language: “Jesus is Coming, Coming back to gather his Jewels.” This is certainly not anything your typical Jewish believer would ever be willing to confess. To proclaim this message one has to have gone over… to have done the unspeakable…..to have become…and he remains a Christian.