AThornquist
Puritan Board Doctor
For you to continue down the path of reading "not Christian enough" into my words, even after I have qualified that I cannot make personal evaluations, that is a shame.
Well considering I spoke of myself, am I not capable of examining myself? For you to say that you are "enough of a Christian" to know such and such while others examine themselves and conclude otherwise, are you not saying that we are not "enough of a Christian" to come to the same conclusions? That's what it naturally implies to me. And that is in truly seeking to be charitable.
"Beats and sounds" is not the issue. The issue is sensationalism and human dependancy upon favored sensationalisms.
If Christians DEPEND upon the sensationalism of musical "beats and sounds," and begin to DEFEND the sensationalism of musical "beats and sounds", then something is terribly wrong.
"Dependancy" apart from faith in Jesus Christ = Idolatry.
Multitudes are dependant upon music of all kinds, which means multitudes are practicing idolatry.
Their music means too much to them . . .
Should these idolatries be brought into the sanctified churches of God?
NO!
I was not speaking of individuals who are supposedly dependent on a music style but of the morality of the style itself. Should the idols of modern music be brought into the sanctified churches of God? Of course not. And neither should the idols of traditional music. There are idols on every side of this debate. The issue is that even well-intentioned people are attempting to unbiblically bind the conscience of brothers and sisters.