Real easy. If they are dressing like the rock bands that don’t claim to be christian, or are coming right out and saying they are anti-christian, then that’s a problem. If their behavior mimics these bands on stage or in their videos, that’s a problem. If they are playing the same kind of music the secular bands are playing, that’s a problem.
If you can’t tell them apart from the world, you need to determine if they really are.
It’s not my standards, this isn’t my personal test. It’s from Scripture. Test everything to see if its from God or not. If it walks like a duck, beats a drum like a duck, hammers out hard rock chords like a duck, screeches and screams into a microphone in front of screaming fans like a duck, it’s a duck.
I’m not saying there isn’t a place for rock music, whatever genre it is shooting for. Just don’t try to pass off anything rock as ‘christian’. It just isn’t.
You have no idea how hard I'm laughing.
You can't conceive that the music is only background for the message in the lyrics. It's really very funny.
And you STILL did not listen to The Road To Zion or the Coloring Song. Or Hollow Eyes. How can you discuss something that you have NO knowledge of?
You did not answer my very direct questions. Just in case you overlooked them or have difficulty comprehending, let me repeat those questions.
Question 1: What chord progressions are secular and which ones are Holy?
Question 2: which metronome settings are secular, and which are Holy (in other words, what beat is sacred/ what is not)
Question 3: which instruments are blessed and which are evil (what about that saxophone?)
Question 4: By the way, Martin Luther's "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" is to the tune of an olde German bar song... does that make it EVIL?
Note that I did not reduce the font size on question 4 this time so you should have no difficulty seeing it.
You are making a point about what is and what is not Christian. You are specifically discussing music. These DIRECT questions pertain to what makes music (well, except for Question 4 which calls for your opinion, of which you seem to have many.) You are maintaining that it is not the lyric content but the beat, the instruments, and the other peripherals that determine what is and what is not sacred. Music is a series of chord progressions with a certain rhythm (without those basics, it wouldn't be music..). Based on your criteria and thus disregarding the lyric content, please now directly answer these simple questions dealing with what makes music music. I and I'm sure other musicians that are reading this thread would like to know so that we do not fall into the sin of secularism.