The Best Christian Music Has No Words!
@mythociate (21435)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
February 20, 2017 2:09pm CST
I don't HATE 'Christian Music with Words,' but too-too often the words get The Gospel wrong!
See, the words usually communicate something like 'Jesus (whom we call Lord Christ) died so that we don't have to.' Which is wrong; we are all going to die, same as we were destined from before 33 AD.
Jesus's death-&-resurrection-&-ascension is a great-great-great way to teach us The True Gospel, and is definitely good to sing about. But the event has no actual effect on us today! surely not more than the service given by our respective military-men, who actually do 'die so that we don't have to!'
... but I'm not talking about them (although Spotify web-radio ought to have a ton more music in praise of them than in praise of 'Jesus')---I'm talking about https://play.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/0koYU8F8TUvbblUYZZrSKu Why instrumental music is better. Basically, it's because the instrumental music allows you to attach 'whatever meaning The Spirit calls forth' to the sweet sounds.
And because our words are filth compared to the glory of God.
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@Ani_Elle (30)
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22 Feb 17
Not all christian music with words is bad/giving a wrong interpretation of the gospel. Look at some more popular artist like Casting Crowns there's a song I love by them "Does anybody hear her." About a girl who is looking for salvation but is judged by christians and non christians alike. She finds salvation through the lord but through herself and that's when others start to see her for who she is.
I think the alternative christian rock style does a better job of allowing the listeners to attach their own meaning without twisting the bible's words. Although from a historical perspective mankind has already done that so much to the point that what we read in the bible isn't how it was intended to be and thus why there are several versions and committees as well that convene in order to determine what needs to be changed, kept, and tossed from the current publications of the bible.
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@mythociate (21435)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
27 Feb 17
That's because the Bible is the first 'twisting of God's word' (other than our own misinterpretation of God's Word ... his Word is something-like "Be!" and 'even saying that' is a ... oh, what's the word for "putting it off until later"? ... if you're doing anything but 'being!' ... Maybe that's a 'loophole' I found, since I'm "being" a writer 
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Maybe that's 'the gift of God'---not something we read about in the Bible, but rather the ability to interpret God's Word (and The Bible 
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Maybe that's 'the gift of God'---not something we read about in the Bible, but rather the ability to interpret God's Word (and The Bible )@Ani_Elle (30)
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27 Feb 17
@mythociate on the part of it being a gift to be able to interpret God's Word (a synonym for the bible) is correct. God gifted his creation with free will that includes the choice to interpret how we see fit.
For example there is a part in the bible that says to condemn witchcraft in older versions of the bible they used the words sorcery and warlocks both of these words relate to witchcraft but are specifically about the evils of it and not all witchcraft is evil. Science was once considered witchery and evil but it has been beneficial in healing and can work hand in hand with religion. Ancient civilizations had medicine healers and according the the more modern terms the bible uses these healers would be condemned as witches today too although they hadn't harmed anyone one but rather improved their lives and not through the means of working with an evil entity.
As a historian I firmly believe that there was in one point one religion however it is because of our freedoms as humans that each sought to interpret in their own way, a way that they can emotionally and spiritually connect with. It is my belief that all paths hold a truth and that is why there are similarities and commonalities between monotheistic and polytheistic paths. Every religion and culture has a story of a great flood that has caused a civilization to be wiped out leaving a handful of survivors to repopulate. In Christian terms we know this to be the story of Noah's Ark, but even Native Americans had similar stories before the missionaries arrived to convert them.
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@mythociate (21435)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
27 Feb 17
@Ani_Elle It's important (at least for me, to write this here just because I'm ... I dunno, weird or not or something else 
) that yes, the bible is God's Word; but God's Word is e-ve-ry-thing---the bible is a small, sparkley grain-of-sand on the world's beaches that are God's Word.
The synonym is okay tho ... kind of like it's an "insult" to use the same words for God as we use for random mortal men (he, him, his), but we'll often 'use those words' just the same---and no one is "offended" in the least 
) that yes, the bible is God's Word; but God's Word is e-ve-ry-thing---the bible is a small, sparkley grain-of-sand on the world's beaches that are God's Word.
The synonym is okay tho ... kind of like it's an "insult" to use the same words for God as we use for random mortal men (he, him, his), but we'll often 'use those words' just the same---and no one is "offended" in the least 
