I thought what I was was better than this

Music influences people. No one will argue that point. The thing I find funny is how people will say they are listening to some music just for the beat or the insane riff, but I know that it's impossible to only listen to a song without having the lyrics and the message ingrained in your mind.

To me, thats like telling me (especially if they call themselves a follower of Christ) that they only like the part of the Bible where Jesus came and died for me. Now, I'm not going to argue, that is a very good point, but when you call yourself a Christian or Christ Follower, you have to put the WHOLE Bible as your truth.

Okay, so here's a situation. I have pledged purity until I got married, but one day you come up to me while I'm listening to my music and I'm singing songs about raping people. Don't you think that's a little contradictory?

I think that music influences us more than we give it credit for, which is just what the world wants us to believe. When we believe what the world wants us to believe, we are of the world. We Who are Christians are NOT OF THIS WORLD! WE ARE OF CHRIST!

So what I want to say is, WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING BEING WITH THINGS OF THIS WORD? WE ARE CALLED TO THROW THOSE THINGS AWAY AND BE OF CHRIST FOR WHAT HE DID ON THE CROSS! Those of whom I am talking about, you know who you are. We cannot be Followers of Christ and of this world, it simply cannot be because the world loves sin and God cannot be around sin. Also, as Christ Followers, we have died to ourselves and it is not we who lives in us, but Christ who lives in us. We are to let Christ control our lives, I have seen what happens when I try to control my life, ad if it wasn't for God, I'd have been dead for well over a year and a half now.