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Recent content by tryintogrow

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    Reconnecting with old friend... but he is a ''homosexual Christian''

    I've seen all I need to see about CF tonight. It's a shame that Christians can't find one decent website holding the line against liberalism. The infiltration of the church is pretty much complete.
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    How to tell my mom in a nice way ...that i need to save?(financial issues)

    If you wait until you have a lot of savings, it will never happen. Even if your mother stops taking from you, life will intervene. It's just how life is. I say this as someone who was once in your situation. If you wait for a better time, the better time will never come. Find a friend who needs...
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    ~ Son wants to join a death metal band ~

    If we are all so afraid of this boy rebelling and running away, let's not pretend the parents will have much latitude to demand overseeing rehearsals.
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    Reconnecting with old friend... but he is a ''homosexual Christian''

    Do you believe the homosexual lifestyle (active, unrepentant) is a dangerous sin?
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    Give "Bad" Advice (3)

    Pour water in the bottles and see if you can make firewater. Should I sue my doctor for malpractice?
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    Reconnecting with old friend... but he is a ''homosexual Christian''

    The issue is whether people believe that homosexuality really is bad. Many modern Christians have begun to put it in the same category as politics. They think it's distasteful but not a sin. If you see homosexuality as serious, soul-destroying lifestyle, the warnings in Scripture sound perfectly...
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    ~ Son wants to join a death metal band ~

    I don't think anyone is here to say your son can't be led to God through this. Anything is possible. We are just concerned that he will encounter trials along the way and you will have to be sober about those trials.
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    ~ Son wants to join a death metal band ~

    I can sit back and be happy for you that such music does not bother you. I won't talk you out of it nor condemn you for enjoying it. In the area of music, you have more liberty than some. That's a good thing. If someone else is more sensitive to music, that doesn't mean they are better than you...
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    ~ Son wants to join a death metal band ~

    That was the link you used to smack Ken Rank back on page 3. Paul handled this issue in 1 Corinthians 8 when he spoke about meat sacrificed to idols. You very much appreciated me bringing it up at the start because you thought it benefitted you. Some believers could eat idol meat because they...
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    ~ Son wants to join a death metal band ~

    So you don't believe them. You believe they are exaggerating about their preference for a style. Let's go back to Paul in 1 Corinthians. Did he say those sensitive people were simply responding to taste in meat?
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    ~ Son wants to join a death metal band ~

    This is the third time I'm telling you that no one disagrees with you about secular music overall. This has nothing to do with taste and preference. If a fellow Christian tells you that they can feel spiritual forces at work in instrumental music, do you believe them or not? Not their tastes...
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    ~ Son wants to join a death metal band ~

    As long as you keep calling them tastes and preferences, you still have no idea what I'm talking about, and it's clear that you think I'm just full of hot air.
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    ~ Son wants to join a death metal band ~

    Let me say for the second time that no one -- exactly no one -- has ever disagreed with you about secular music in general. This has nothing to do -- nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing -- with secular music as a whole. Please stop bringing up that straw man. Imagine a scenario with me. Say...
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    ~ Son wants to join a death metal band ~

    No, lyrics are not the whole point of Christian testimony. If you happen to believe, as some on this thread have asserted, that the music itself is every bit as influential, then you cannot slap Christian lyrics on wicked music. It doesn't make an ounce of difference how Biblical the lyrics are...
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    ~ Son wants to join a death metal band ~

    Again, you keep calling them subjective because you cannot imagine what other people are feeling from the music. I would encourage you to spend some time studying instrumental music. Not just vague examples of someone humming a melody. I mean deep, complex music that conveys emotion with no...