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roymckenzie
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Very interesting, but how do you expect to get good music. It is very expensive to make a quality product whether it is music, software or a widget. I am not a big fan of music but if I have to listen to it I prefer to hear the message of the Lord and hear it done well.My argument is that Christian related music should NOT be copyrighted and should just automatically enter into the public domain. Any secular band that wants to sell their music for profit and greed can go ahead because what they promote is just as bad, which is drug use, sex, calling women ‘hoes’, promoting them to dress like sluts, and in some case even promoting killing people.
How is it against the laws of god and the church to share the word of god in all its forms freely with one another? Don’t you think that’s how Christ would want it? Christian artists have a higher responsibility when it comes to distributing their music, if they are truly Christian I don’t think they should be in it for profit at all.
Rich Men & Money:
Matthew 6:24, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon (riches).”
John 2: 16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise.
Proverbs 3:13-14, “Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.”
Proverbs 15:6, “In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.”
Proverbs 15:16, “Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.”
Proverbs 15:27, “He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.”
Ecclesiastes 7:12, “For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.”
Isaiah 55:1-2, “Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.”
Isaiah 56:11, “Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.”
1 Timothy 6:5-7,9-10, “Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
I would recommend putting the quotes in context; even Jesus had Peter pay his temple tax. (Mind you it would be really cool if we could go down to the water and drop a hook in catch a fish and it have money in it.) Somewhere in the sacred scriptures it says something about a man being worth his wages.
In the early church when a bible might be worth 10 years wages to the average man the church chained these bibles down. The bibles were chained not to keep them from the average man but just the opposite, they were chained down to prevent people from stealing them so they would be there for everyone to read. I would think that if Gods word were free for the stealing, the word of God would now only be in the hands of the thieves and no longer available for us all.
