These bands don’t make Christianity better, they make rock music worse.
Be honest about it with yourself. Almost all rock music is sexual in nature. Makes people want to dance, and dancing leading to, gee, what do you think.... Other secular music is made to get people angry and lead to violence. Some music forms lead to both.
Just don’t kid yourself. I am a Chirstian. I listen to a few very select bands. It is worldly music. I would not play it in church, that is not where it belongs. A “christian band” that has a secular riffs but thinks it’s okay because they changed the words is kidding itself.
It’s like someone trying to say they’ve developed a God-approved “christian porn” because the explicit sex scenes only take place with people who are married to each other and the scenes are much more artful and tasteful than secular porn movies.
Especially the bands that take secular rock songs and just change the lyrics.
There was one clip I saw of a ‘christian rocker’ over in Russia in the early 1990s shortly after the iron curtain fell, and was singing some christian words to Elvis’ Blue Suede shoes with the same kinds of movements used (save for the pelvic thrusts). The kids had no idea what the hell he was saying, they were just dancing to the music.
That’s why just changing the words but keeping the dance beat and heavy drum doesn’t work. It’s still secular music that appeals to the natural in a person, not the spiritual.
I hope you have a lovely day.
They said the same thing to Luther when they stopped chanting.
I’ve heard your argument my entire life. It is wrong logically, but more importantly wrong Biblically. Now if you do not want to go there I do not blame you.
To read sexualization into everything tells more about you than the object you are attacking. Listen to Third Day, if you are drifting to sexual thoughts there is something seriously wrong with you. Even that said, I can support my stance on Love songs that have no “Christian” theme. It is amazing how God used marriage to illustrate his love for us. Have you read the Song of Solomon? I suggest you don’t if you are sensitive.
In the heat of early morning on a hill
They call The Skull
The roaring of the angry mob
Had settled to a lull
All eyes were cast upon the man
Whose hands and feet were bound
They saw Him cry in anguish
When they heard the hammer pound
They saw the bloody woven thorns with
Which His head was crowned
They watched the bloody cross of wood
Be dropped into the ground
The soldiers gambled for His clothes
They watched them win and lose
They saw the sign above His head
That said "King of the Jews
It is finished
And the sky grew black as the night
It is finished
And the people scattered in fright
The work had been done
Redemption had been won
The war was over without a fight
It is finished
They searched His face for anger
For vengeance in his stare
Instead of eyes that burned with hate
A look of love was there
He prayed for their forgiveness
And bowed His battered head
And no one knew the meaning
Of the final words He said
It is finished
And the sky grew black as the night
It is finished
And the people scattered in fright
The work had been done
Redemption had been won
The war was over without a fight
It is finished
The provision has been made
The foundation has been laid
He paid the ransom due
And tore the temple veil in two
And opened up the way
For me and you
It is finished
It is finished
And the sky grew black as the night
It is finished
And the people scattered in fright
The work had been done
Redemption had been won
The war was over without a fight
It is finished