People who are hostile or antagonistic to the title of this thead were not invited to this discussion. I'm looking for like-minded Bible believing Christians, I'm not looking for people to argue with. I've heard all the objections to the title and OP of this thread a million times, I could write them all before the antagonizers wrote them here. It's old broken record stuff, old fashioned compromising with the world in order to feel more comfortable in fear of being disliked for taking a stand for holiness.
Or perhaps your theology is off. Especially since the overwhelming majority of evangelical Christianity disagrees with you.
He promised that the world would hate you the same as they hated Him. Friendship with the world is enmity with God. If the world is embracing you as a "good person" when you are compromising to promote their entertainments which are idols, then something is wrong and you need to repent and take up your cross, deny yourself, and follow Jesus. There won't be any music in heaven from people or angels that is idly passing time. Everything He made and everything we do is supposed to be for His own pleasure, His own glory, His own honor, and He deserves it because He gives us life and everything good.
Where you are overreaching here is that you cannot make a sweeping generalization of all of the music you mentioned and say that these things are true of all of it. That's a misuse of Scripture.
If you call yourself a Christian, are you reading your Bible every day? Once through completely each year is not hard. Do you love your comforts and pleasures more than your Saviour?
These are good questions for a Christian to ask himself/herself, however a "no" answer does not make them not a Christian.
Some of you I know will remain closed minded and only a glance at your icon pic is enough for me to skip right on over your posts as I look for Christians to talk to like myself who despise unholiness in entertainments, and just because the music is beautiful does not make it holy even if it has no lyrics. Holy is for Jesus. Unholy is not for Jesus. It's not that hard to figure out.
The only one here who refuses to engage in discussion is you. The only close minded person here is you.
And when a person accepts Christ, they are viewed as positionally holy before God because their sin has been paid for (1 Cor. 6:11; Heb. 10:10). They are, however, also continually being sanctified as God works in their heart to make him/her more like Christ (Heb. 10:14). Sanctification is positionally instantaneous and conditionally progressive. This means there is going to be sin in every believer's life until the day they meet God in heaven.
Quit acting like you have some type of righteous authority to tell your brothers and sisters in Christ that they are not believers. Any righteousness you have comes from Christ, not from you. It is
not your place to condemn others. And as long as you maintain focus on surface-level issues instead of truly getting to a heart level, you are nothing but a modern-day Pharisee. There are true believers who make country music and glorify God through it; there are people who are not believers who write and play church music. The difference is not the music, but their heart.
Music does not have to contain Christian terminology to be glorifying to God. There are a lot of ways that music can be glorifying to God that have nothing to do with lyrical content.
Jesus did not come to make bad people good, but to make dead people alive. Your theology, especially as it pertains to music, does not reflect that, and I would encourage you to re-examine it.