standingfirminChrist said:
if you read the Word of God you should see that satan knows scripture. He used God's Word in the garden, he even tried to use it against Jesus in the temptation. We also know that satan is not some evil looking character that many draw on a piece of paper, or paint on a wall. The Word of God tells us he appears as an angel of light.
Satan can give one lyrics just as well as the Lord can. Satan also knows music, as he was created as a chief musician. I do not believe God would give someone godly lyrics to have them disguise them behind that same style of music that can be found in the bars and dance halls throughout the country.
Let me give another illustration. I used a candy bar in a sardine can the other day. Let's do this again. A hotdog wrapped in dried mud. Now, even though that hotdog is still a hotdog, it is not the same hotdog, for it is tainted with dirt, with bacteria found in that dirt.
Now, why would God give godly lyrics to be wrapped in the same music that the world plays in the bars and dance halls? Think about it. The music has tainted the message.
You're defining the music by the bars, yet the traditional styles you use in Church were once used in bars as well. A few of the same tunes, as well! Yes, even the straight-laced, every-piano-chord-matches-every-word (the 'melody'- orientation that is supposed to define good music). Only it was centuries ago. (Of vourse, even though bars were still looked down on as sinful back then, at least society was more outwardly 'Christian' as th argument goes).
So Satan can deceive people with nice, non-rhythmic 'traditional' music as well.
And it was the bar and dance hall atmosphere that taints the music, not the music that taints everything it touches, even when
removed from that setting. All hot dogs do not become bad because that one was polluted, ans your view would suggest.
Linda64 said:
Bro Tony--
Next time you want to call someone a Pharisee--make sure you know what a Pharisee is--It is a deceptive slander to label a Christ-loving, Bible-honoring, Gospel-preaching Christian a Pharisee. You would certainly get offended if you went to our church, Bro Tony--you would probably call us all Pharisees too!! Our pastor calls CCM and rock music what it is---worldly and ungodly music.
That is such a double standard that you take such offense to what someone calls a 'Bible-honoring Gospel preaching Christian'
When you both call the music trash and have insinuted that its producers and listeners are beliving in a gospel that does not save just because of the style of music! In effect, denying others are 'Bible honoring, Gospel preaching Christians just because of a beat, basically. Just as they said, you are making yourselves THE priest, instead of A priest, like they are. You can lash out at them, but HOW DARE they criticize you back. That's how all anti-CCM'ers think. (Just look at leaders such as Godwin and Watkins, and how they scream on one hand, yet then compalin of 'vicious slander') from CCM fans, who are hardly even responding!) Then, they liken CCM to the Israelites and the golden calf; so again, it's like you all are Moses up on the mount receiving the Law from God. Yet you have shown nothing from God's word proving which music is good or bad; it all boils down to what you see people in the world foing with it. But once again, yours was once misused as well.
All of this is putting the cart before the horse. You say their gospel is false, but your doctrine is false, and you can't even back it up, except to project "feeding the flesh" at people.
