Are there good and evil forms of music?

Just because a particular style of music can be considered conducive to something doesn't make it inherently evil.I certainly don't feel the impulse to violence that ruffians do when listening to hard rock.Do you?

What has that got to do with anything?

[ July 22, 2002, 10:51 PM: Message edited by: Odemus ]

 

But what I associate with "pride" (and other unseen sins) you are associating with "self control". Is pride better than "riotous behavior" that we can reject a style because it has been used in one, but accept a style that has been associated with the other? This is precisely the problem in this teaching. We think only one type of behavior is sinful, and everything else is overlooked. That's why the past of "traditional American (or Western) "Christian" culture is so overly romanticized and everything judged according to it. "For He who said, 'Do not commit adultery,' also said, 'Do not murder.' But if you do not commit adultery, yet if you murder, you have become a transgressor of the law." (James 2:11). We have been just like those Israelites James was talking to in thinking adultery is worse than every other sin.

 

Any music can be conducive to anything.You are demonstrably wrong.

 

In some middle eastern countries a woman exposing her face is considered seductive, further proof that lust like all sin, is born in the heart.

 

Aaron, It is not entirely the woman's fault. A simple khaki shorts and a baggy shirt may be all it takes to be "seductive", but is it the woman's fault? No, it is society's fault that women are no longer viewed as precious jewels in this society, and it is society's fault that men have no problem balming the women for THEIR actions!

In Chirst's gracious love,
Teresa

 

its men and womens hearts and attitudes about sin....lust....immodesty in dress....pride....etc.... blame our own hearts for our casual attitudes towards things that offend God and other believers.....thats not a product of society....we are responsible ourselves to keep our hearts right before God...that includes not doing things that cause other believers to stumble... sorry i know this got further off the original topic...was commenting on most recent posts here....

 

All I have to do is walk down any street around here.
But what does this have to do with what I said about the different kinds of sin and music associated with them?

 

You need to perform a little more research. All women are required to cover from head to toe, not just married ones.This is nothing less than all out misogyny.My wife has an unmarried Saudi Arabian friend who went to visit her homeland and although she was covered head to toe her face was still exposed.In these countries it is considered that a woman who has any part of her body exposed is asking for groping.Guess what? She spent an entire day fighting off men who felt they had a right to grab her.

Lust, like all sin is born in the heart, nowhere else.

[ July 24, 2002, 10:46 PM: Message edited by: Odemus ]

 

You mean nothing.

 

Beside there not being any Scriptural basis for asserting that music in and of itself can be inherently sinful or elicit a sinful reaction in someone there is another pragmatic approach against this silly argument.It's called experience.I assert that I have never once in my entire life been enticed to sin by listening to music of any kind (without words of course).

This argument is not only flawed, but it is demonstrably wrong on every level.

[ July 24, 2002, 10:57 PM: Message edited by: Odemus ]