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is Secular Music the devil's pulpit?

Halbhh

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When it's a mere human love interest, then the song says even after finding that...
"I still haven't found what I'm looking for"
see.

The song isn't a substitute for the Gospel. Not even a bit.

It's only a song about how all of our striving/arriving, even deep experiences of the world, are not what we are ultimately looking for.

Only the Gospel alone is the saving message.
 
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When a person does find God, does find Christ, then they know, for sure, that they really have found what they are looking for, once they truly believe fully and are reborn.

Then they say "I've finally found what I've been looking for."
 
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Condemning an entire dimension of music because some parts are offensive is absurd. It makes for very poor witness. It confirms the notion that Christians are insufferably authoritarian, legalistic, and self-righteous.
why do you that?
 
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It all depends on how much you let music influence you. I remember being one of those kids who "got rid of all his secular music" after going to an Acquire the Fire conference in 2001 and wishing that I hadn't in retrospect. Although I like a decent amount of Christian music like the benjamin gate, Earthsuit, OC Supertones, Insyderz, etc I always felt that a lot of Christian music was just trying to copy secular artists that were better at whatever genre they were going for than the Christian bands.

Don't get me wrong though, there were some great Christian albums in the late 90s and early 00s, but that was before Christian music became mostly screamo & bands still had to try their best to be original in a genre, which many sadly did not.
 
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is Secular Music the devil's pulpit?

Can be.

Eg if it's some neo-Nazi punk rock where the singer is inciting violence towards and hating on ethnic or religious groups or so on. That would seem devilish.

But then again, if it's Kool & The Gang singing about how we should celebrate and have a good time, I don't really see anything evil about that.
 
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