But I would also have to say that this is inherent in this music itself. Just look at some of the quotes from even the earliest rock stars who made rock and roll a genre... The Synopiated beat that is also inherent in the system drives lustifulness and spurns the mind into wrong thoughts...
Just feel how the music drives you.. Does your heart race, does your foot tap or your hands shake... Do you almost go trance... Does your body want to move. Do you want to shake your hips like presley. Do you just want to dance when you hear the music. If any or just one of these are true then be warned..... Be honest.... I tell you when I use to listen to Michael W. Smith in the car I would be driving pretty fast and pushing my foot harder on the gas... It drove me... I could easily be going 20 or 30 mph beyond the speed limit... I would almost trance out with it...... It is inherent....
How about praise and worship? Well, look at those who sing those songs in church up at the stage... What are they doing... Body motions that seem to me to mimmick erotic movement.. What about their hands and mouths... They seem to almost be having sex with the microphone.. Hands gripped tightly around the microphone and they almost are eating the microphone with their lips. Like they are giving it a passioniate kiss.... To a song with Christian lyrics...
How about the congregation, what are they doing... I went to my cousin's church once with praise and worship and the row in front of me and my wife was bouncing there rumps in sync doing the wave uncousciously to the beat of the music...
It can not be denied.... The sound is pornography in and of itself..... and spurs the passions.... Plus the link to voodoo makes it even more satanic...
I have seen RPW churches go down fast and hard and even one generation when the congragation is allowed in the name of Christian liberty to listen to any genre of music outside of the church. When it is not even taught in the pulpit.. It is gut wrenching.. One church we were in was strong in the RPW but allowed the youth to listen to Christian rock and such outside the church. We thought to ourselves, well it is a great church and this will affect them maybe in 2 or 3 generations and so we stayed... HOW WRONG we were... It was less then 1 generation.. How shocked we were.. It affect the pulpit and the pastors.. They started to even teach the reverse. That church is no longer RPW, and is becoming close Emgerent Post modern and many problems in many areas.
But peace with you brother
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Michael
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Originally Posted by BobVigneault  I agree Michael that rock and rap artists have breathed new life into the p*rn industry. It breaks my heart and angers me to no end. But this has happened because deviants and perverts have used the medium to propagate their lusts and try to validate their abhorrent behavior. It's sick, it's dangerous. There is an ocean of filth within the rock and rap industry.
I do not see where the music itself is inherently wrong. Let's keep looking for some freebie sources for brother Mark. Michael I appreciate your passion and diligence in clearly sharing your convictions on this issue. |