Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!princeton!njin!paul.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: gt1104c@prism.gatech.edu (SILVERT,STANLEY DAVID JR) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: "Christian" Rock Message-ID: Date: 11 May 91 03:35:49 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 73 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu On the off chance that the author is not joking, I would like to resspond. In article ASC105@psuvm.psu.edu writes: > > One way that Satan can decieve people is through pleasing the flesh with >"Christian" Rock. Is Christian Rock really Christian? Or is it a COUNTERFEIT >from Satan? Satan was created as a musical being (and still works through >music apparently): > EZEKIEL 28:13-- (* omitted for brevity *) > So I guess this means that ALL music is from Satan -- better quit playing Mozart in church! > First of all, Christian rock uses the same styles and hard rocky drum >beats as its secular counterpart. If I had not known English and I listened Yes, and so does the gospel music heard in black churches all accross the American South. This music has been around for at least 125 years. >recognized it ordinary rock music because that's just what it is. The Bible >tells us not to be like the world (1John 2:15-16, James 4:4), but "Christian" >rock copies secular styles. Rock music style is based on pride and rebellion >against godly authority. It is equivalent to witchcraft (1Samuel 15:23). >There is no such thing as a "good" rebellion. Christian rock rebels against >God by being so much like the world in its style. Remember that it was not First of all, why are you deciding what it means to be like the world? If I use toothpaste am I like the world? Is there toothpaste in heaven? :-) Second, if all rebellion is bad then I guess the American Revolution was bad, the Exodous was bad, and Jesus himself was bad. (JC is my favorite rebel!) > The purpose of music is to please and glorify God (Col. 3:16, Eph. 5:19-20). I thought you said music came from Satan? >your spirit wear off. Get down on your knees and REPENT! God will be pleased. You KNOW what pleases God? Can I have your autograph? >Don't sell your tapes and CD's that contain this junk (causing others to >stumble). Destroy the devil's plan in its tracks... step on them and destroy >those tapes and render them unusable for anyone else. Brief pause for laughter. :-) :-) :-) > I've only touched the tip of the iceberg on how bad "Christian" Rock is. I don't like Christian Rock either, but your arguments are so pitiful. I'm sorry for railing you like this, but I really think that you need to realize that as you label things as "of the Devil" just because you don't like them you show your ignorance and give Christians a bad name in the process. Please try to understand that people are different and come to know God in different ways. > I do not condemn you people, as I battle against my own sin also. I know You could have fooled me! > >True love from >Allen S. Cheung >(Jesus is Lord!) Well, at least you got that one right. -- Stan Silvert Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!prism!gt1104c ARPA: gt1104c@prism.gatech.edu