What do you think it is a sin to listen rock music and why?
Music is apparently what Lucifer used to worship the Lord before his fall.
David played more or less what we would call a harp. The psalms are often
song like in their structure.
Campbellites (Church of Christ) refuse musical instruments in the worship of God and even had my mother in tears about going to hell for attending a church that played musical instruments in worship services.
There are without doubt songs of every variety that serve no spiritual purpose, do not praise God, and a number of them are directed at violence towards others (women in rap music to name one)... there are songs I used to love until I actually understood the lyrics to them.
Rock music in and of itself is not anymore satanic than every other form of music. In fact, I believe music that has false lyrics about God is even more evil than songs that outright oppose God. Deception is more evil than outright aggression. I'm thinking of a oneness cult in Austin Texas (which I used to attend for the worship service back in the 1990's until I discovered their false doctrine permeated the music) who had a hand in Revelation Song.
Is there false doctrine in this popular and many-covered song? Not that I'm aware of. But at least one of the artists is a oneness Pentecostal pastor.
Now I believe those who worship God biblically can praise him with this song. So don't get me wrong here. I play the song myself on my acoustic guitar and so/so voice.
However, there are somethings you can't Christianize... George Harrison's "Oh my lord..." clearly Hare Krishna was Harrison's lord.
Don't fear the reaper... highway to hell... etc. They are nixed from my playlists.
But we cannot escape the influences of this world (including the pagan names of the days of the week and months of the year)... the masonic symbolism in America's capital city and on the paper money...
We are to temper all things / season them with the salt and light of God and God's truth.
If rock music is a personal stumbling block then avoid it entirely (as with all other stumbling blocks).
There was a time when I nixed all rock music and listened only to Christian music. Most were blessed tunes I still enjoy. Many were just mainstream wannabes who settled for Christian music because it was the only genre they could break into. The quality of the music and lack of biblical soundness betrays this.
I love to listen to Apologetix (which parodies many Rock tunes with Christian lyrics). Enter Samson is my very favorite (which has a music quality much better than Metallica's Enter Sandman IMHO. And yes, I grew up when Rock was young (1960's and 70's).
There are probably as many country and western tunes I could cite as unbiblical and rock or jazz or blues or classical... so it's more or less a personal (is it for me or not?) thing. Lately I've gone from a revival of Elton John's Saturday Night's alright for fighting to the Stones Can't you hear me knocking?
But don't betray your own taboos on my account.
They aren't taboo to me.
Rock on.
Or don't.
