The Beatles and Styx were occult based? What makes you say so?
Man's heart is already continuiously set on evil. It is God who shines His light into the world to dispell the darkness. When He ceases to shine His light, He gives us up for the lusts of our hearts.
What you are really seeing is our loving God giving us up for the desires of our hearts.
Rom 1:20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Rom 1:21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Rom 1:22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
Rom 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Rom 1:24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
Rom 1:25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
Rom 1:26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;
Rom 1:27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Rom 1:28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
Rom 1:29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
Rom 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
Rom 1:31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
Rom 1:32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
but wasn’t it God that put Lucifer in the mix. Bad decision man is not responsible for....
“”Have you seen what is popular on I Tunes? All of the soul-destroying trash from the sixties and seventies is now regarded as quant, and mainstream music. The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Styx, indeed ll of the drug promoting, occult based “rock and Roll” that churches once warned about and exposed is now as popular as ever thanks to the new technology.”
I’m sorry you don’t like good rock and roll music, pastor bill. But hey no one is perfect as we are all sinful people. In our church our pastor and all of us that lead worship love the kind of music you revile. Our church is a combination of a conservative gospel driven message with contemporary praise music. We are a Presbyterian PCA church and our message is as conservative as it gets. We are growing like crazy - about 20% per year - but do not compromise on the gospel message. But we do like contemporary music. When I read your “statement of faith” at your church’s web site it appears to mirror what we believe. However when it comes to music I vehemently reject your statement above. :-)