From: bdonison@bigbird.UVic.CA (Only AMIGA!)
Subject: Re: *Burning*Albums* (Anti-Secularism)
Keywords: LONG
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 20:45:21 GMT

In article <1992Jul25.171948.16305@techbook.com> kim@techbook.com (Kim Larsen) writes:
>In article <1992Jul25.152837.18326@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> noel@crs.cl.msu.edu.UUCP (Noel Estabrook) writes:
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>I don't believe this has very much to do with what I was saying.  Satan was
>twisting God's words to his own ends.  We were discussing original artistic
>work, I believe.
>
>>We are not blank slates who are put here to
>>soak in whatever is put before us.  Scripture tells me that if someone
>>puts out a video that practially shows two women having intercourse, has
>>simulated intercourse with men on stage, and publicly denounces Christianity,
>>then I have every right to tell the person who says that kind of thing is
>>ok that he is wrong.
>
>SCRIPTURE says this?
Have you never seen mention of immorality or fornication in the Bible???

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>>>Could any of us really pass a test like that?  God uses some very
>>>imperfect vessels to impart truths to the rest of us.  I'm not talking
>>>about Madonna, Phil Collins, or anyone else specifically--and this
>>>discussion doesn't have to be limited to pop music.  Why "listen to
>>>music...as a springboard to evangelize"?  Can't one simply listen
>>>to music?  Must one go digging into the lives of every artist to see
>>>if she or he is living just the way we think she or he ought to live?
>>
>>Is this even the point?  I think that the lives of those who we let
>>influence us DOES matter.
>
>Well, I am not sure they do.  I repeat my point that the song is not
>the singer and deserves to be met on its own terms.

How about this: 2 Corinthians: Chapter 6

6:13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,)
be ye also enlarged.

6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what
fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion
hath light with darkness?  6:15 And what concord hath Christ with
Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?  6:16 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.

6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the
Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.

6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and
daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.


>  --Kim
>-- 
>kim@techbook.COM    Not affiliated with TECHbooks
>----------------------------------------------------------

Brad

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