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So why would you a Christian consider the counsel of the wicked (non Christian)? Do you have a need to explain God Who isn't logical to the understanding of mankind.I never really gave it much thought. It just sounded angry, heavy, and great in terms of musicianship.
Just reanalyzing the perspective in the song lyrics, there's some very deep philosophical points in it that I think Christians need to be aware of that expand far beyond the black metal sub-genre of music. The band is more sophisticated than 80's death and thrash metal, which used satanism mostly for shock value. I think they actually took the teleological themes in the music very seriously.
Christianity is a religion of love and life, where some people see life as a curse and death, destruction, and emptiness, as the ultimate reality, the final conclusion of entropy. This not only applies to Luciferians, but atheists, nihilists, pagans, and even Buddhists
Christianity is the idea that a living, intelligent God has a hand in creation. The more logical view for me would be that entropy is the ultimate reality, just looking at things rationally and strictly through the left brain. Intuitively, I think there is an over-arching presence of love. I just need to find a way of proving this latter view to myself with more certainty. A nihilst will say that I just believe in a God of love, because its a comforting, quaint notion. They might be right, but I want more proof to myself that wouldn't question me so much. The Bible says that if you seek ye shall find. I just don't believe that murdering a child is ultimately as valid of an act as feeding a child. Intuitively I know murdering a child is wrong, but following strict logic would lead someone to believe otherwise. They just say I have chemicals in my head that makes me act more moral than a sociopath who doesn't have those same chemicals. I want to know that my God of love is an absolute for certain though, that it isn't just subject to moral relativism.
If moral relativism is the valid position, then death and destruction is the moral absolute. I refuse to believe this though. I've encountered synchronicity that I believe originates from an omni-present being of love. Some would deride it as coincidence though, and they might be right.
I don't even know if a lot of people are Christian for the same reasons I am either. Its not that I'm just following this because I was told from a young age to do it or for social reasons as an atheist would accuse me of. There's a real core, fundamental aspect of human morality and ultimate justice that I'm trying to come to terms with.
You may think its trivial or stupid, but its really something that's crucial to the state of my soul and faith.
Dissection - Starless Aeon
"The seventh aeon will soon pass as it has been foretold
The false empires will crumble and all illusions shall be destroyed
The enslavers tremble with fear, soon our stars align
The forbidden gates begin to open by the power of our forceful sign
Daath - wisdom of the abyss is the key to the broken star
Eleven angles pathways of chaos will bring forth our most wrathful god
Qliphothic forces from beyond will usurp the tree of cosmic lies
The sleeping dragon awakens smelling the elixir of our sacrifice
Dies Irae Dies Illa Solvet Cosmos In Favilla
Vocamus Te Aeshma-Diva
Dies Irae Dies Illa Solvet Cosmos In Favilla
Vocamus Te Aeshma-Diva
This is the winter of the last aeon, the hungry end is coming soon
Harbinger of the day of wrath will eclipse the sun and rape the moon
Unfold the starless aeon, the hungry end is coming soon
Harbinger of the day of wrath will eclipse the sun and rape the moon
The snake will completely devour itself putting an end to the cycle of time
Acausal flames will burn all to ashes erasing all signs of the demiurge crime
Our dark gods of chaos will return, this time to rule forever supreme
The dragon mother will then resurrect and end this cosmic dream
Dies Irae Dies Illa Solvet Cosmos In Favilla
Vocamus Te Aeshma-Diva
Dies Irae Dies Illa Solvet Cosmos In Favilla
Vocamus Te Aeshma-Diva"
It sounds like mumbo jumbo, but their argument is that death is the anti-theis of life and the ultimate reality that will win over life. This is essentially a view that atheists, pagans, Satanists, and nihilists all hold in common and what sets Christianity apart from them.
33O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! Rom 11
Faith is belief and not understanding. Faith is required and understanding isn't for salvation.
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I am also unashamedly a Brit and yes our habit of throwing ideas back can seem odd to those not used to it. Just put it down to a bad alumini habit I picked up in the debating halls of the Russel Group and never quite got out of. Forums do not allow for the same free flow of conversation as face to face does and certainly more than 90% of the way humans communicate with each other is not possible in this format.
