Getting rid of my secular music...

[KeilanS]

now now Keilan you just have a knack of getting people all worked up and as most of the things they are getting worked up about is all in their minds anyway you have to wonder what on earth they have lurking in their closets to make them take such an innoculous start and turn it into such a heated debate ( for want of a better word ) I do hope you enjoy whatever music you have chosen to keep

Many thanks Ladypeartree! I have nothing in my closet. Just shoes and a baseball bat!!!

Anyways, hopefully I don't cause more debates for awhile, I seem to do that a lot. Maybe if I put enough stupid humour into a topic, it will be undebateable.

[nebula]

Jesus caused controversy -

So you're in good company!

[tah]

now now Keilan you just have a knack of getting people all worked up and as most of the things they are getting worked up about is all in their minds anyway you have to wonder what on earth they have lurking in their closets to make them take such an innoculous start and turn it into such a heated debate ( for want of a better word ) I do hope you enjoy whatever music you have chosen to keep

Many thanks Ladypeartree! I have nothing in my closet. Just shoes and a baseball bat!!!

Anyways, hopefully I don't cause more debates for awhile, I seem to do that a lot. Maybe if I put enough stupid humour into a topic, it will be undebateable.

Right...Uhh Huh...sure....

[David H.]

Your final words FC are completely and totally UNscripturally based. You said, "stay free and think."

Let's parse that:

a) "stay[ing] free" is completely and totally UNscriptural

b) "think[ing]" is completely and totally UNscriptural.

Not just "a little bit unscriptural," but "competely and totally unscriptural."

And someone gives that a thumbs-up???

So, God would prefer us to be in bondage and stupid.

[Anne]

now now Keilan you just have a knack of getting people all worked up and as most of the things they are getting worked up about is all in their minds anyway you have to wonder what on earth they have lurking in their closets to make them take such an innoculous start and turn it into such a heated debate ( for want of a better word ) I do hope you enjoy whatever music you have chosen to keep

Many thanks Ladypeartree! I have nothing in my closet. Just shoes and a baseball bat!!!

Anyways, hopefully I don't cause more debates for awhile, I seem to do that a lot. Maybe if I put enough stupid humour into a topic, it will be undebateable.

Right...Uhh Huh...sure....

I give him a day

[tah]

That long...

[nebula]

Your final words FC are completely and totally UNscripturally based. You said, "stay free and think."

Let's parse that:

a) "stay[ing] free" is completely and totally UNscriptural

b) "think[ing]" is completely and totally UNscriptural.

Not just "a little bit unscriptural," but "competely and totally unscriptural."

And someone gives that a thumbs-up???

So, God would prefer us to be in bondage and stupid.

We are all in bondage - it is just a matter of to what.

20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. (Romans 6)

What is unScriptural about "stay free and think" is that it exalts "self" above God.

Compare "stay free and think" to these words:

1. As believers in the Lord Jesus Christ we have only one right: and that is to give up all rights to ourselves (2 Cor. 5:14-16; Romans 14:7-9).

2. We have the right to deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow Him (Mt. 16:24-26).

3. We have the right to esteem others more highly than ourselves; and love our neighbor as ourselves (Mt. 22:39;

Phil. 2:1-5).

4. We have the right to fulfill the law of Christ in bearing one another's burdens of sin (Gal. 6:1-3).

5. We have the right to be wronged and to maintain a faithful testimony (1 Cor. 6:1-8).

6. We have the right to live in unreciprocated self-sacrificial love (Eph. 5:1-2).

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15. We have the right to pursue holiness-not personal happiness (1 Peter 1:13-16).

16. We have the right not to be ashamed of the gospel (2 Tim. 1:6-18).

17. We have the right not to harbor revenge, anger, bitterness, clamoring, wrath, malice and slander (Ephesians 4:31).

18. We have the right not to quench or grieve the Holy Spirit. (Eph. 4:30; 1 Thess. 5:19).

19. We have the right to repent of and not cherish our sins (Psalm 66:18).

20. We have the right to guard the trust; and to contend for the once for all delivered to the saints faith (1 Timothy 6:20; Jude 1:3).

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29. We have the right to go into all the world and make disciples of all nations (Matt. 28:18-20).

30. We have the right to have no rights apart from Christ Himself; "for whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake shall find it" (Matt. 16:25: John 15:5).

Full list here

No, we shouldn't be stupid -

But why be polluted with the world and its ways which are bound to destruction and death?

[David H.]

No, we shouldn't be stupid -

But why be polluted with the world and its ways which are bound to destruction and death?

Ahh, but Ben said we should be stupid and bound.

Given that being free and thinking are both completely and totally UNscriptural, according to Ben.

Sad, sad, sad.

Edited August 11, 2006 by David Haggith

[Floatingaxe]

Who's sad now?

[peaches]

Just to clarify all this. I didn't start a bonfire on the middle of main street and chuckle gleefully as I watched my music melt.