The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Christian Metalcore

<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]What I would like to see someday is a Christian punk band preaching the truth of the Reformed faith.</font><hr></blockquote><p>You obviously haven't a clue as to how absurd this idea is, do you? [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/drop.gif" alt="drop" title="drop[/img] Is is akin to wanting to see a group of practicing homosexuals open a coffee shop for males where they can hear the doctrines of grace preached. Or, to open a "Christian" bordello where the prostitutes hand out gospel tracts to their customers before they leave. You may rightly lament the proliferation and popularity of semi-Pelagianism and other aberrant theological views. But you have totally failed to discern the evil of this type of worldly and satanic "music". When the Spirit moved through the hearers of Ephesus, regenerating them and convicting them of their idolatrous sins, etc., the showed forth fruit of repentance by BURNING those things which were contrary to all righteousness and godliness. Today, people don't burn wicked and worldly things.... they "baptize" them and bring them along with them wherever they go, just like the little idols of the O.T..<blockquote>2 Corinthians 6:14-18 (KJV) "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."<br><br>Ephesians 4:17-24 (ASV) "This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart; who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But ye did not so learn Christ; if so be that ye heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus: that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit; and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth."<br><br>Ephesians 5:3-16 (ASV) "But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks. For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them; For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord; and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them; for the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of. But all things when they are reproved are made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light. Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee. Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise; redeeming the time, because the days are evil."<br><br>1 Peter 2:9-12 (ASV) "But ye are a elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for [God's] own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul; having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation."<br><br>1 John 2:15-17 (ASV) "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever."</blockquote>Cast off this hold that this "music" has on you and [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/flee.gif" alt="flee" title="flee[/img] from it as far as you can possibly get. Heavy Metal, Punk, Rap, etc., etc... is not of God and will not only destroy the credibility of your profession, but it will assuredly blind you to the truth of Christ; both in doctrine and life.<br><br>In His Grace,