Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: iba@ics.uci.edu (Wayne Iba) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Some thoughts on "Christian Music" (was Re: Petra Praise) Message-ID: Date: 16 Jan 90 00:53:35 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS Lines: 35 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu (Nick Rothwell) writes: > >Would somebody care to define "Christian Music" for me...? Perhaps I >missed some of this discussion. I could suggest that any Christian has >a view of the world and its affairs, and a view of human feelings and >emotions, which isn't shared by non-Christians, and so any music made >by a Christian is Christian music, regardless of form, style or >lyrics. .... This is what I was intending to argue against. Does a christian programmer writing a program produce a "christian program"? How 'bout a chritian carpenter building a chair -- a christian chair? I believe you intended to avoid any qualitative judgement with respect to "christian music" being better (or worse) than "secular music" but I do not believe it makes sense to even create such labels. A christian is someone (a human) who Loves Jesus AND Obeys His Commands. Therefore, I submit there is no such thing (or shouldn't be) as "christian music", christian furniture, christian computers, christian tires, .... A christian is a noun, and should not be used as an adjective (unless perhaps with "church", as in christian church but even here using "the church of Christ" might be better(?)). I sense there is something important here that points to a weakness in christianity today, but I can't tell what it is. I think it may have to do with "having a form of Godliness" (2tim.3.5) but am fuzzy on this. (by "christianity today" i mean, of course, the body of Christ at large made up of human beings). --wayne "it could have been me, put the thorns in Your crown; rooted as i am, in a violent ground; how many times, have i turned Your promise down? still You pour out Your love, You pour out Your love..." Bruce Cockburn