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i realized that following the styles of today's contemporary music is bad.Its going to add to the miseries i have now.i still listen to them and use these songs for meditation and edification,but i try to follow the Holy Scriptural standards to be modest.Its a struggle because i realized things lately,but it would be easy as i stick on the practices told in the Holy Scripture..Life will be more Beautiful and Simple when we walk with God
He makes it Simple..
i would urge people to not follow the styles today's artists promote.Its clear,its the world.There are things we can easily remove and things that we cannot.If we don't remove the easy things,tomorrow its going to be one of the hard things to remove.
He makes it Simple..i would urge people to not follow the styles today's artists promote.Its clear,its the world.There are things we can easily remove and things that we cannot.If we don't remove the easy things,tomorrow its going to be one of the hard things to remove.
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i realized that following the styles of today's contemporary music is bad.Its going to add to the miseries i have now.i still listen to them and use these songs for meditation and edification,but i try to follow the Holy Scriptural standards to be modest.Its a struggle because i realized things lately,but it would be easy as i stick on the practices told in the Holy Scripture..Life will be more Beautiful and Simple when we walk with GodHe makes it Simple..
i would urge people to not follow the styles today's artists promote.Its clear,its the world.There are things we can easily remove and things that we cannot.If we don't remove the easy things,tomorrow its going to be one of the hard things to remove.
He makes it Simple..i would urge people to not follow the styles today's artists promote.Its clear,its the world.There are things we can easily remove and things that we cannot.If we don't remove the easy things,tomorrow its going to be one of the hard things to remove.
T
My apologies. I don't know of anyone who believed that any Christian music that wasn't the organ or whatever was evil and now believes otherwise. The people that promote such thinking are either trolls, incredibly legalistic, or people who have convictions from their past and project them onto others. There is nothing biblical to support their beliefs about this.
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When i was very young we would have old rock play on the radio, but a few years later my dad was watching a show on the evils of rock music, which changed his mind. And since i overheard it and was still young, i came to believe it too. In my early teens i got into 80s hair metal, secular, but always had that fear in the back of my mind that demons would come through the speakers, so i was limited in what i would listen to. But then i got saved, and not only did i stop believing such silliness, but i grew to love way more extreme styles of metal than just hair metal. I actually got More into metal after being saved.
People who say it is evil rarely apply their logic to the rest of their lives. They formulate a theory they only apply to things they don't like. But i find when you apply that way of thinking to other aspects of their life suddenly you're 'being ridiculous'. Its a pretty hypocritical way of thinking to believe any style of music is evil.
People who say it is evil rarely apply their logic to the rest of their lives. They formulate a theory they only apply to things they don't like. But i find when you apply that way of thinking to other aspects of their life suddenly you're 'being ridiculous'. Its a pretty hypocritical way of thinking to believe any style of music is evil.
It comes down to discernment. Just because they say they are Christian DOES NOT mean they are preaching the true gospel of Christ. Remember the Bible tells us that Satan can transform himself into an angel of light. It is a warning we need to take very seriously. Some groups that CCM promoted as being Christian NEVER claimed to be Christian in the first place IE evanescence was one that was promoted as being Christian,but they never were and they denied being in the first place.
I can see parts a bit then some because the Lord has placed a boundary for me,but it's for me NOT for someone else. I can not listen to country and bluegrass and that includes gospel. The style of country or bluegrass affects me badly,if I listen to too much I go through horrible depression. It does NOT mean someone else will be affected the same. It is the limit the Lord has placed on me,NOT someone else. It would be wrong for me to make it wrong for someone to listen to it when the Lord never said it was wrong for them to listen to it.
I can see parts a bit then some because the Lord has placed a boundary for me,but it's for me NOT for someone else. I can not listen to country and bluegrass and that includes gospel. The style of country or bluegrass affects me badly,if I listen to too much I go through horrible depression. It does NOT mean someone else will be affected the same. It is the limit the Lord has placed on me,NOT someone else. It would be wrong for me to make it wrong for someone to listen to it when the Lord never said it was wrong for them to listen to it.
II Corinthians 11:13-15-KJV
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
i've known people that thought there was no such thing as "Christian rock" or that "Christian rock" was all of very poor quality, or that unless it was pipe organs, harps and choirs, it couldn't be "worship music" -- but changed their minds after being exposed to examples of very skillfully played Christian rock, or worship music in an uncommon musical style. for the most part it was just ignorance about what actually exists, not headstrong judgementalism.
as for myself, i've never put that sort of limit on God in my own mind. even before i started listening to, and actively searching for Christian music especially in the most obscure genres, i never thought it was "of the devil" or even that it didn't exist, i just had no idea that it did, and had never given it thought.
that's not *quite* what the OP's asking, but i hope close. i haven't personally ever seen someone who adamantly condemned all rock/metal music as Satanic change their minds about it. what i've seen is that even when you give them wonderful examples that contradict their thinking, they are blinded in their minds and refuse to even give it thought. they will say even though a metal band is singing a Psalm of David, because it is an heavy metal style, it is of the Devil.
this post implies a good point; it is probably a waste of time to try to argue with such a person.
as for myself, i've never put that sort of limit on God in my own mind. even before i started listening to, and actively searching for Christian music especially in the most obscure genres, i never thought it was "of the devil" or even that it didn't exist, i just had no idea that it did, and had never given it thought.
that's not *quite* what the OP's asking, but i hope close. i haven't personally ever seen someone who adamantly condemned all rock/metal music as Satanic change their minds about it. what i've seen is that even when you give them wonderful examples that contradict their thinking, they are blinded in their minds and refuse to even give it thought. they will say even though a metal band is singing a Psalm of David, because it is an heavy metal style, it is of the Devil.
this post implies a good point; it is probably a waste of time to try to argue with such a person.
I used to think that Christian rock music was OK to listen to, but then I learned that just because it talks about the Lord it's Christian.
I haven't changed my mind on the matter, either. I doubt I ever will. The most rock-ish music I'll listen to is in Fireproof, and some of the songs are pushing it even.
I haven't changed my mind on the matter, either. I doubt I ever will. The most rock-ish music I'll listen to is in Fireproof, and some of the songs are pushing it even.