aah! this is really CREEPY!

[foo-oswald]

If u ever felt what it is like to be really close to God i don't think you'd ask such questions.. =/

Ah, yet another ambigously panaceaic (sic) remark designed to display your perceived intimate proximity to God as opposed to everyone else's distance, which is, of course, caused by the "unacceptable" music we all listen to...

Anyone who is firmly grounded in his/her relationship with Christ must be skeptical when an adolescent such as yourself pulls out the "I'm right and you're wrong because God personally told me I'm right" trump-card. What would you say if I were to tell you that God told me something completely in conflict with what He told you?

 

[philN]

Trust me I've had to live with visions and prophicies as long as I can remember along with other sopirital gifts

Clearly spelling is not one of them

But I think you hit the nail on the head.

Anyone who is firmly grounded in his/her relationship with Christ must be skeptical when an adolescent such as yourself pulls out the "I'm right and you're wrong because God personally told me I'm right" trump-card. What would you say if I were to tell you that God told me something completely in conflict with what He told you?

Exactly.

I have a hard time believing that an unchanging God came to someone and told them something that is contrary to the words that He revealed in the biblical canon. God has shown me that it is exactly the opposite of what you say, not just because I was on some spiritual high and just assumed that the thoughts I had were God's will, but because that is what he has revealed through his word and through tradition to be true.

Did God tell you not to listen to secular music (or christian music)? It's possible. But that is a personal conviction, not a universal moral standard. You don't hear me telling you that you are wrong because you don't agree with me. I would like the same respect that I have given to be returned.

 

[just_dance]

Clearly spelling is not one of them

But I think you hit the nail on the head.

Exactly.

Yes spelling isn't one of my strong suites

 

[Infernal Freak]

If u ever felt what it is like to be really close to God i don't think you'd ask such questions.. =/

I'm confused....why wouldn't you ask those questions? If you're actually biblically intellegent you would know that [and I've heard this years and years from attending church...I still attend, but I am no longer a believer] according to the Holy Bible Satan is a deciever. That's a rather known statement and I can give you a scripture right now:

Revelation 12:9

9The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

 

[The Theory]

I don't take back any of my words. God spoke to me and i listened. That's what i chose.

This is an interesting statement on several levels. I do not doubt that God spoke to you. The keyword here, though, is YOU. He spoke to you and convicted you and that's great. However, personal convictions often don't apply to the masses.

The other thing I'd like to say is that the Bible is The Ultimate Christian book. It is our barometer for what is ok and not ok. It is a constant standard. It is always a bit dangerous to start listening to the whispers in the ear and taking them more seriously than what the text of the Bible says.

If you go into a Christian bookstore there are millions of authors who have written books proclaiming that God spoke to them-- yet what they said was contrary to what the Bible says.

I don't mean to just dismiss what God said to you-- but always line it up with the text, just to make sure you're descerning the right thing. There is a reason pastors have whole networks in place of decernment when they feel they hear something from God. It's really easy to mix things up.

So, in conclution, I do hope you don't feel like I'm shouting down at you or trying to make you shut up. That's not my intention. Just use wisdom and match things up with the Bible.

 

[MoreInSorrow]

This thread made my day. Wow.

Great, great post on page 2, foo. That was so well articulated, I think you hit the nail on the head. As did the others of you (Phil, Theory) who have chimed in with equally good posts.

 

[Z500]

i guess that means metal bands don't sell their souls to the devil

which means, of course, rock was the devil's music all along and not metal \m/

 

[MoreInSorrow]

i guess that means metal bands don't sell their souls to the devil

which means, of course, rock was the devil's music all along and not metal \m/

That explains Creed. Devil's music indeed.

 

[blackwasp]

I posted today about whether rock stars sell their soul to the devil or not. Last time i said that i wasn't sure,but it's more of a yes,but now i'm here to say what i wanted to! It's TRUE! They do sell their souls because it's impossible for any human to reach such popularity.

What is the soul? How does one go about selling it?

 

[zaire]

I know there is no "sweet satan" lyric in "stariway to heaven" - it's there if u play it backwards.

But no one listens to music backwards!

.

 

[Z500]

if you listen to KISS backwards they say "i want to sex your monkey"

 

[Sign Of The Fish Burger]

And this is why modern Christianity's obsession with spiritual warfare is disturbing to me.

Oh man, and here I thought I was the only one who felt that way!!!

 

[foo-oswald]

if you listen to KISS backwards they say "i want to sex your monkey"

Sounds like a Spinal Tap love song, doesn't it? Now, there was a band who didn't need backward masking!

 

[Rosa Mystica]

I've just listened to Britney Spears' "Hit me baby one more time" and it actually DOES say "Sleep with me i'm not too young"!!!!

She never sings this lyric. Unless you were listening to the song backwards and heard this or something. But it was a misheard lyric nonetheless.

Her other stuff, on the other hand, is more than enough to make up for the lack of any sexual lyrics in the song you just cited.

 

[feline]

We have a war with the devil we have to fight RIGHT NOW!

Things that are of the devil:

rock music
unicorns
tampons (Satans' little cotton fingers)
pancakes
moving picture shows
the internet
Bob Saget

FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT NOW!!!!!

 

[MoreInSorrow]

Things that are of the devil:

rock music
unicorns
tampons (Satans' little cotton fingers)
pancakes
moving picture shows
the internet
Bob Saget

FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT NOW!!!!!

rep points sent.

 

[just_dance]

Things that are of the devil:

rock music
unicorns
tampons (Satans' little cotton fingers)
pancakes
moving picture shows
the internet
Bob Saget

FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT NOW!!!!!

That is good

 

[TerabyTe]

Why do crowds literally go crazy and start terrible fights at rock concerts??

Because it's entertaining. Have you ever been in a mosh pit? It's a whole lot of fun.

 

[Qyöt27]

And this is why modern Christianity's obsession with spiritual warfare is disturbing to me.

Too true, too true. Emotionalism, mob belief, legalism, seperatism, and the Armageddon rally imagery are all cysts that need to be excised from the Church lest she succumb to human corruption entirely.

I don't take back any of my words. God spoke to me and i listened. That's what i chose.

But I thought it was all about what God chooses.


If you knew even the slightest portion of human psychology you would clearly see how much rubbish backmasking is. There is no truth behind backmasking. People can't sell their souls to the devil like in some Faustian fairy tale. Mephistopheles isn't going to come down promising fame and all other earthly desires if you sign your name in blood on his goatskin's scroll. Can they get involved in the occult? Sure, and that may influence what they sing or write music about, but chords, lyrics, notes, and all the other elements thrown together to make music cannot harbor demons, especially Christian music of any form. Why? Because music is not some metaphysical box that you can store things in. Otherwise anyone listening to organ music would instantly be consumed by evil spirits because the organ was the 'devil's instrument', at least until the Reformation (or whenever it was), as would the saxophone, and the electric guitar, and don't forget even the human voice, since how many people have cursed God with their lips?

It amazes me that people that seem to have the most vocal faith in God also have the strongest, most irrational fear of Satan that I've ever encountered, scared to peer around the corner for chance of being swallowed up into this terrible place your pastor calls 'the world', but is nothing more than Patty's Bakery down the street, selling hot pies that the Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Presbyterians, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Wiccans, Zoroastrians, Agnostics, and Atheists all enjoy eating too.

 

[blackwasp]

^Amazing post, I'd rep you if I could.