Is it sinful to listen to hard rock and heavy metal?

[Daniels]

Your thoughts

 

[covenantwmn]

Mark 7:20-23

20He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.

21 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

22 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."

It's not for me, but I speak for myself. I enjoy some heavy metal and hard rock very much. If the Lord convicted me, of course I'd give it up, but music of all kinds is a blessing to my life.

 

[Kelly]

If I had a dime for each "is it wrong to..." thread! (Just kidding!)

I guess each person needs to take a look at the messages in the lyrics of the music they listen to (regardless of style). The arrangement and instruments of any form of music can't be sinful. It's all about lyrics.

Do the songs glorify sex, violence, greed, etc? Also, does any artist or band mean so much to you that you can't give them up if you feel God asked you to? (Look at the fans of Michael Jackson who refuse to believe he could possibly be a pedophile).

 

[ReformedChapin]

Substance is what matters, not genre

 

[Kitten87]

Substance is what matters, not genre

amen to that. its so tiring hearing "is rock music bad blah de blah"

just coz its heavy, loud and has screaming in it doesnt make it evil.

sorry im passionate about my music....

 

[christianmomof3]

For any worldly activity, the questions we must ask ourselves are "Can I do this and still pray and praise the Lord? Does this activity glorify the Lord? Would the Lord be happy to see me doing this or would He be dissappointed? How would I feel if I were doing this when the Lord returns?" If you can still pray while doing that, then pray and go on with it I suppose, but, if you cannot pray while doing it, you should stop.

 

[genestealerbroodlord]

The fact is i listen to heavy rock music and dont see it having a negative effect on my love for my Heavenly Father. I suppose it depends on the individual, when i listen to music i try to find God in the songs, as way of example: Meatloafs Bat out of hell album listen to "For crying out loud" and apart from a few words its like a prayer to God, The whos Tommy album has a song called "Im free" which when i listen to it, it sounds like Jesus is telling me to abandan my old ways and follow him, but as i said that could just be me. Im not saying heavy metal is good or bad but as long as i avoid songs that use bad words, glorify sex or belittle God I think im ok. I believe this is a case of self censorship really, if you think it will be bad for your spirit to listen to some songs just dont listen to them and listen to the ones that are just fun or uplifting, i usually skip past the bad ones.

 

[whateveristrue]

Well if you're listening to songs that glorify satan... then I don't think it's good. Other than that, a lot of the hard stuff really is good music. It may not be appropriate to play in church though.

I went to a Christian conference once where a Christian heavy metal band was invited to play. After their performance, the pastors got up on stage and addressed the crowd saying that this band was never to play there again... because they were thrashing around, screaming, and body surfing. The organizers of the conference felt that was not representative of God's spirit.

 

[EdmundBlackadderTheThird]

I wonder what they think of David dancing nekkid before the Lord? That David...what a weirdo!

 

[FarTraveler]

amen to that. its so tiring hearing "is rock music bad blah de blah"

just coz its heavy, loud and has screaming in it doesnt make it evil.

sorry im passionate about my music....

Kitten

They've been sayin that sense I was your age

and that was alonnnnnnng time ago

 

[bod44]

Well, here is something that I have alot of experience in. Before I got saved, I was in a heavy metal band. We were pretty poplular locally and it was alot of fun. After I got saved, I tried to play christian metal. It doesn't work. I'll tell you why I think its not good. What is the spirit of the music? If you go to a metal concert, or see people listening to metal in their car, what are they doing? What is the fruit of the music? "Rocking out"! Head banging, dancing crazily, etc. First of all I would say that metal was started as angry music and will always sound angry no matter what the lyrics, secondly, we are told in the bible to be sober and meek and I hardly think that metal fits in that category. The fruit of metal is craziness or anger. You can't hear the lyrics usually either. I had great lyrics in my songs, but the thundering guitars etc block everything out! Plus, who does it glorify? Everyone listens and says, man, that guitarist is great! or that singer is crazy etc! It doesn't glorify God. Metal cannot bring someone to a calm Godly peace that surpasseth all understanding. And it also is just like the world. 1 Thessalonians 5:22 says to avoid even the appearacne of evil! Metal appears evil like any other metal group. I can't tell if you're listening to Christian or non-Christian metal if you drive by me in your car with it blaring. So, I wouldn't necessarily go so far as to say its a sin, but its not a good idea. The object of the christian life is how far away from the world can we get, yet reach them with the light of a Godly life, not how close to the edge can we get! If I win a soul to christ, would they look at my life and say hmmm, it looks just like the life I had before, just worded a little differently? Be ye separate! In the world and not of them! We don't have to be like the world to win the world, in fact, a conservative Godly life, will convict more hearts than anything else.
Phi 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Mat 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 5:4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Mat 5:5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

 

[christandisrael]

Look in the Bible. Jesus never forbade any kind of music, however if it contains blasphemous lyrics, then shut it off!

 

[bod44]

Look in the Bible. Jesus never forbade any kind of music, however if it contains blasphemous lyrics, then shut it off!

Jesus didn't have to say don't listen to worldly music because it should be obvious! Besides, ever hear of metal in Jesus' day? Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore is a friend of the world is the enemy of God. james 4:4 Lets not be like the world brothers and sisters, lets be sober minded and separate from the world. You can't save someone out of the world, if the live they are watching you live is just like them. God is a God of peace, not confusion, loudness, and wildness. Metal is not peace. Read all through the Bible, Old Testament and New, and you will see all through it that we are not to be like those around us, living soberly in this present dark age. Somethings aren't exactly literally written in the Bible because they didn't exist in that day, but the principles of the Bible are timeless and apply to any age.

 

[christandisrael]

Jesus didn't have to say don't listen to worldly music because it should be obvious! Besides, ever hear of metal in Jesus' day? Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore is a friend of the world is the enemy of God. james 4:4 Lets not be like the world brothers and sisters, lets be sober minded and separate from the world. You can't save someone out of the world, if the live they are watching you live is just like them. God is a God of peace, not confusion, loudness, and wildness. Metal is not peace. Read all through the Bible, Old Testament and New, and you will see all through it that we are not to be like those around us, living soberly in this present dark age. Somethings aren't exactly literally written in the Bible because they didn't exist in that day, but the principles of the Bible are timeless and apply to any age.

Well, to tell the truth, if that is true, then every music that I know except classical have their relationship issues and they picture the wrong things about love. We must be able to discern what music we should listen to. There is Christian metal. Be careful!

 

[TamaraLynne]

You could cut out all the words from music and I would sift through it just because of sound...........music is a mood setter. If it makes me feel scared or uneasy or rebellious or sexual..............I don't really want to listen to it. But I pretty much avoid secular music now just because I can't really focus on the words anymore......so I just play it safe and play pretty much Christian music now...............but I'm even picky with Christian music if it sounds rebellious (My family though loves secular music .... ..... ....I do the best I can )

Even when we watch T.V. ........the background music........it's a mood setter.(example)





Love
Tam

 

[bod44]

Well, to tell the truth, if that is true, then every music that I know except classical have their relationship issues and they picture the wrong things about love. We must be able to discern what music we should listen to. There is Christian metal. Be careful!

well, partially I agree, yes, except classical, or some acapella, everything is quite dangerous, and we must discern. But, somethings are better left for God to discern because we often in our own minds don't look with an unbiased searching for what God has to say, we often just look for ways to justify things. you know what I mean right? I'm not accusing anyone, but I don't find that style of music as having any semblence of a worshipful spirit. Remember, I tried alot of popular and not so common 'christian metal' groups.

 

[christandisrael]

well, partially I agree, yes, except classical, or some acapella, everything is quite dangerous, and we must discern. But, somethings are better left for God to discern because we often in our own minds don't look with an unbiased searching for what God has to say, we often just look for ways to justify things. you know what I mean right? I'm not accusing anyone, but I don't find that style of music as having any semblence of a worshipful spirit. Remember, I tried alot of popular and not so common 'christian metal' groups.

We need to hold all of the music to the light of the Lord.

 

[whateveristrue]

Sure heavy metal may be questionable; but classical is not the only music that is okay; there is a lot of good positive rock music out there!

 

[flitznarb]

Hi I'm new here so I hope I don't ruffle any feathers. I think that as long as the music isn't advocating anything bad, it's fine. Problem is many times the lyrics do advocate bad stuff.

But IMHO there's nothing wrong with a good rock song!

 

[ReformedChapin]

I really want someone to pull a verse that states any type of tradition (because that what really music is) that teachers God's principles in different ways is wrong. Fitting music into God's kingdom just makes it easier for people to make the transition to the gospel and it doesn't affect it's integrety at all.