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Most of it is more spiritual than 99% of today's so called Christian music which is marketed and distributed by secular companies. Check out Valentina Lisista on YouTube.
Your take on Classical
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Classical, in its purest form is a thing of beauty, much like a beautiful painting or fantastic sunset. I believe it is a distant reflection of God’s beauty, order, and design. All people are naturally drawn to things like beautiful sunsets because they reflect that beauty and design. Nobody has to tell us that such things are beautiful.
Classical music is adiaphora*, particularly so if it does not include lyrics or words (though it often is even when it does, have a libretto, that is).
We still need to be aware of/be sensitive to how our freedom affects others, particularly those who are new/immature believers, and the unsaved .. e.g. 1 Corinthians 8 (esp., v8-9). So, if we know that someone is bothered by the title of the wordless 5th Movement of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, "Dream of a Witches' Sabbath", for instance, then we should wait to exercise the freedom that we have in Christ to listen to it for the sake of our weaker brother/sister.
God bless you!!
~Deuteronomy
*(I believe that "adiaphora" was first used as a theological term by the Lutheran Reformers. In Lutheran thought, adiaphora are defined as practices of the church that are neither commanded nor forbidden in Scripture (perhaps the Lutherans had "beer" in mind
). In contemporary terms, adiaphora are those things not clearly addressed by Scripture that Christians may freely practice or believe (or not) with a clear conscience before God. ~Excerpted, in part, from Grenz, S., Guretzki, D., & Nordling, C. F. (1999). Pocket dictionary of theological terms (p. 7). InterVarsity Press.)
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We still need to be aware of/be sensitive to how our freedom affects others, particularly those who are new/immature believers, and the unsaved .. e.g. 1 Corinthians 8 (esp., v8-9). So, if we know that someone is bothered by the title of the wordless 5th Movement of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, "Dream of a Witches' Sabbath", for instance, then we should wait to exercise the freedom that we have in Christ to listen to it for the sake of our weaker brother/sister.
God bless you!!
~Deuteronomy
*(I believe that "adiaphora" was first used as a theological term by the Lutheran Reformers. In Lutheran thought, adiaphora are defined as practices of the church that are neither commanded nor forbidden in Scripture (perhaps the Lutherans had "beer" in mind
). In contemporary terms, adiaphora are those things not clearly addressed by Scripture that Christians may freely practice or believe (or not) with a clear conscience before God. ~Excerpted, in part, from Grenz, S., Guretzki, D., & Nordling, C. F. (1999). Pocket dictionary of theological terms (p. 7). InterVarsity Press.).
Very well-said, couldn't agree more. Classical music is a thing of beauty; they don't do it like that anymore.
by course, we all possess free choice but whoever only listens to Christian music, my goodness, you are missing out on life. it's almost ridiculous to do that. classical music is tops. so much to say about it. those melodies are priceless, beautiful, placid eternal compositions. just listen to :by the beautiful blue danube", "symphony #5" & "flight of the bumblebee"! sitting quietly gazing at nature listening to classical tunes is spiritually refreshing!
This is probably true for some people. Some are allergic to certain styles of music, so if they restrict themselves to Christian music in only the style they enjoy, they can have a very limited music collection.
Me, I have only Christian music, but I have everything from rap and heavy metal to southern gospel and banjo bluegrass. I have way too much music, and a lot of music yet to discover, and I will always have a lot of music yet to discover.
So yeah, no, I'm not too good to listen to secular music. I just don't have time for it.