MMF - Rock Music Not Conducive to Good Health

Anyone that puts their faith and trust in the shed blood of Jesus Christ is a Christian. There are many Christians that are not Baptists, and many Baptists that are not Christians. What I was trying to define to you is the body of doctrine that a Baptist (esp. an IFB) believes is more like a Biblical Christian than other denominations.
But you equated "other Christian groups" with the cults that I had mentioned. How can you be a Christian and believe in such heresies that these cults do, some of them even denying the deity of Christ?
DHK

 

I never said i believed that those cults were correct but it doesnt mean that members of the catholic church wont get into heaven.

 

It was Jesus that said you cannot serve two masters. If one fully understands the teaching of the Catholic Church, and is truly saved, he will leave the Catholic Church. He cannot be Catholic and Christian at the same time. You cannot serve two masters.
DHK

 

just to clear this up real quick, I'm positive that SorryDude was referring to other biblical christian denominations, such as pentacostal.

 

DHK:

The purpose of psalms, hymns and spiritual songs (i.e. Christian music) is for teaching and admonishing, or instruction.

U2 is not "Christian music" in the sense of being music by or for Christians for the purpose of evangelize, worship, or encouraging upright living, providing an alternative to ungodly music, and so forth.

It is popular music, that happens to be written in part by professing Christians, which draws on Christian doctrine, tradition, and imagery. Its primary purpose is entertainment. A U2 song is not a hymn or a psalm, any more than "Paradise Lost" is a fifth Gospel.

The problem is not with U2. The problem is that you have confused the categories and expect a song from one genre to live up to your expectations for another genre.

[ June 17, 2002, 10:57 AM: Message edited by: Ransom ]

 

Having admitted as much, then why do so many professing Christians call it Christian music, and classify along with CCM?
DHK

 

DHK said:

Having admitted as much, then why do so many professing Christians call it Christian music, and classify along with CCM?

Because they, too, confuse their categories.

[ June 17, 2002, 05:44 PM: Message edited by: Ransom ]

 

Why is this going to be closed? I think it should die out on its own not be closed.

I would never ever consider U2 to be a Christian group but then again i would not consider them to be an evil group. I have much respect for them and what they do but i have even more respect for bands that come out clean and tell everyone that they are Christians and put their faith clearly into their music.