by nicolaou 42 Replies latest jw friends
Dont want you to feel you are the voice of authority ( cant spell it)
But I am the voice of authority Mouthy.....I am!!!!!
I'll bet you listen to "Tom Jones sings the Gospel" ....doncha?
Ok mouthy....if I were a solid believer, I would say god COULD use music to move/inspire someone....it just doesn't seem like the avenue god would use on a non-believer to get their attention. You didn't see the Apostle Paul fallin on the ground and goin blind from listening to music did ya?
Gumby
Nothing to apologise for. You have your own paradigm, and that's ok.
That kind of singing is simply divine!
That kind of singing is simply divine!
Of course your talking about Tom Jones eh LT?
But I am the voice of authority Mouthy.....I am!!!!!
Well now how silly i was I though God was the great" I am" & all the time it is you ....So sorry sweetie...
Superstring theory says that everything is ultimately vibration. In other words music is what you are fundamentally made of.
"My Sweet Lord" - one of my all time favorites. When it first came out I was really moved; at the time I had no knowledge of what the Hindu references were, I just knew that it moved me. It continues to move me in ways that no other music has.
"lf there is someone God owes everything to, it's Bach. Without Bach, God would be a character of third-rate importance."
"If only God had made our world as perfect as Bach made his divine."
E. M. Cioran
I think people tend to put more emotion into religious music so can be very alluring . To bad the WTBTS doesn't come up some decent passionate songs with melody and harmony . Even some christmas songs have that but I can't stand the lyrics mostly .
My Sweet Lord is one of my favorites. I'm embarassed to say, but I like that old one The Spirit in the Sky as well.
I grew up Catholic and there was one song Be Not Afraid that we sang in church a lot, it was very beautiful and uplifting. I remember that one song more clearly than anything else related to my church upbringing, well, except the time I was an alter boy and screwed up everything really bad and the congregation was laughing at me but that's a story for a different day.
When I exited the dubs I attended an Evangelical Lutheran church for a while and wouldn't you know it, they sing that song too, and I didn't even try to sing it cuz I knew I'd get all choked up if I did.
Let It Rain by Eric Clapton has a really spiritual vibe to it, it's one of my favorite rock tunes.
