A friend of mine spent a summer in Thailand, studying & working against human trafficking. Prayer breaks through the distortions of this world the show threatens to show her as an object, if you don't pay much attention, but much of the show displays her as someone who truly cares about others! Look for God everywhere He is all good, He is the creator of all things, and He is everywhere-find Him!ĭepending on where you go in life, this will be a crucial skill to learn. But by watching it prayerfully, calling to God whenever she comes on screen, I've become much more adapt at seeing the dignity in every person (which is the heart of Catholic social teaching!). It's controversial to say this on a Christian forum, because one of the main characters is a prostitute. This is how I get through things that would lead people of weak faith farther from God pray. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." God is stronger! Prayer will win every spiritual battle, because it allies you with the victor!įrom James 4: "So submit yourselves to God. I've come to see it as an opportunity for prayer you hear something not Godly, pray for those who said it & those who listen to it. I'm so used to listening to "impure" music that it doesn't do anything to me. If you truly think cutting out this music will lead you closer to God, do it, but I don't think it's a sin issue unless you let it become one. I don't know much about Avenged Sevenfold in particular, but censoring your music can be a slippery slope. Something just clicks with this album, and various emotions seep throughout most songs, whether it is anger and angst (God Hates Us), melancholy (Victim and Tonight the World Dies), or reflection (So Far Away). I don't think we should judge whether music is holy based on genre there's a lot of solidly Christian lyrics from metal bands, even unexpected ones (Black Sabbath's Lord of this World & After Forever are great examples!). This is something Avenged Sevenfold has nearly always failed at, with one exception (I Won’t See You Tonight, Part 1). Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person but the things that come out from within are what defile.” They are friends with satanists, one the lead guitarists has 6661 on his guitar, they love lots of fire in their shows and they do not believe in God.Įven if some of their lyrics are SEEMINGLY harmless, I should not listen, isn't it?įrom Mark 7: "He summoned the crowd again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand. A few of their songs do not have harmful lyrics BUT "you shall know them by their fruit" I listened to Afterlife and So far away (ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS ABOUT THEIR CHILDHOOD FRIEND THAT DIED) and was reminded how much I love a LOT of their songs.
Today I got the random craving to listen to them again. "Dragged you down below, down to the devil's show" And Shepherd of fire is about Satan, "God hates us" I stopped listening to them because some of their lyrics are obviously not of God like the lyrics from nightmare to name a few. I haven't listened to them in a long while. They got their name from the bible presumably "If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold" Can we or can we not listen to them? They are Metal band.
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