Just as in the secular world there are various subcultures, there is evolving today in the religious society a new subculture, the aberrant Christian Music Culture. It has evolved from mimicking the satanic pattern of the secular entertainment industry it emulates. The secular music and entertainment industry also has sub-cultures that does play by the rest of society's rules, and it appears a large portion of the CCM culture has developed the same mindset. This is unprecedented in modern times since music was always seen as an arm of the Church, under its authority and direction. Today it has developed into an autonomous culture of people who defiantly resist any attempts by the Church leadership to scrutinize its lifestyle or monitor it's methods and styles.  Although  the five fold leadership offices are still under the auspices of Church regulation and approval, the aberrant Christian Music Culture is run by secular people, operated in a loose, liberal, format where sin is tolerated and error is accepted as long as the tag "Christian" is loosely tacked onto it.

The Church is suppose to be a vital organism without division as the scriptures clearly depict.

or-gan-ism (org niz|m) n. 1 any individual animal or plant having diverse organs and parts that function together as a whole to maintain life and its activities 2 anything resembling a living thing in its complexity of structure or functions.

We can see the portrait of the Church as an organism in these scriptures:

(1 Cor 12:12 NKJV) "For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ."

(Eph 4:15-16 NKJV) "but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head; Christ; {16} from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love."

Although there are many divisions today because of religious organizations and petty doctrines, the foundational things all Christians agree on make us uniquely Christian. We are not ecumenical, the Body of Christ, but we unite in the fundamentals of the Lordship of Christ, righteousness in Christian lifestyle, and other vital doctrines and decrees of the bible.

(1 Cor 1:10 NKJV) "Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment."

(Rom 16:17-18 NKJV) "Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them. {18} For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple."

(Jude 1:17-19 NKJV) "But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: {18} how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. {19} These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit."

There is a maverick spirit in Christianity that leads to people going against the orthodox beliefs of the Church and establishing their own autonomous organizations where they answer to no one. This has seeped over into the CCM culture. As a result of their exclusive nature they can't claim a constant thread back to early Christianity. In fact, there is not one modern "Christian" musician that is noted for his or her spirituality. Some CCM proponents have tried to correct this by insidiously combining their thoughts into the great Oswald Chambers classic, "My Utmost for His Highest."  The cheapened and diluted result was then sold in religious bookstores as something worthwhile.  D.C. Talk has apparently tried to identify themselves with Christian martyrs in a book about so-called Jesus freaks, an act I find despicable, and in my opinion, totally void of integrity.   I believe the term "Jesus Freaks" to be a demeaning term and exactly what Satan would label a true Christian with.  No one in the kingdom of God is a freak; the circus sideshow is out in the world system.  Also found in the CCM culture is an attempt to cover their tracks with scripture verses and taking stands on issues popular with the Christian community. Others hold Bible studies and post the spiritual books they allegedly read as a badge of their spirituality. Then they trek off to a concert where they parrot the symbolism, mannerism and spirit of the satanic secular music culture while charging almost $100.00 for a family of four to attend and be "ministered" to.

The effect this is going to have on the next generation of Christian youth is going to be catastrophic. Young people who venture into CCM music today can bring their Bibles with them and are unwittingly taught how to clear their consciences and defend their indulgence in Satanism with scriptures taken out of context just like the big guys do on television. Although there are no scriptures that can be properly used to defend CCM's adoption of the demonic, it gives an appearance of a defense and that's all some need to accept it.

Of the forms of bad "Christian" music, "Christian" Death Metal is the vilest. Even the proponents of this aberrant music pretend to serve God and worship Christ. Listening to them explain why they believe "Christian" Death Metal music is of God is akin to watching a bum sitting in the gutter smiling as he says, "Who me filthy, you've got to be kidding!" They carry a Bible but it is like a man who is dirty carries around a bar of soap to prove he is clean. When challenged he presents the soap, even smearing some on his body, spraying a bit of perfume here and there and declares you have nothing in your case against him. To bolster his case he brings along some folks in the exact same condition as himself who chime in with their support.

The power of deception these folks are under has created a strong delusion.

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The delusion CR proponents operate under is what they pretend, and in some cases actually believe, is genuine Christianity. This is because they have nothing to judge their experience by within their culture. It is a culture of no accountability, where true Christians are their enemies and the Bible is used as a shield protecting them from the light of truth. They do not seem to realize what is going on, as if they are in some sort of stupor. I believe it is mass deception similar to Hitler's Germany when an entire nation went mad under one man's demonic influence. I don't like using that example because I know it will make people furious, but there doesn't seem to be anything else to compare it to.

When a person gazes into the depth of this unholy culture of "Christian" Rock and Death Metal music they will find a thin gauze of religious covering on an immense rotting sore of Satanism. All the satanic symbols are present and sprinkled with crosses, doves and a few scripture references. Some don't even have enough conviction to denote any difference between themselves and the secular satanic realm. Very seldom do you see originality in all of "Christian" music today and there certainly isn't any in "Christian" Rock and Death Metal. It is truly music borrowed from the halls of death where tortured spirits foam out their pent up pain in outbursts of passionate, violent, protests against God, morality, sanity, goodness, and every other godly thing.

An accurate example would be if someone visited a place where they sheltered insane people, recorded their distorted, pathetic, tortured sounds, then marketed them commercially to the public as Christian music and form bands to mimic them and make their sounds somewhat melodic. What is worse would be if professing Christians actually regressed to the point they used these recordings for listening pleasure. Another example would be to venture into the deepest regions of a jungle where the most bizarre rituals of witchcraft and voodoo were practiced with human sacrifices. Then to record those sounds and events, design a stage show to mimic the whole thing in a concert complete with lights and smoke and a sprinkle of scriptures so that it could be called "Christian." This is as close an account of what "Christian" Rock and Death Metal proponents have done except they have declared the bondage of the satanic realm has been authorized by God to reach and set free the lost souls whoa re ensnared by it.

Is it Christian? Absolutely not! Beyond any shadow of doubt it is, simply put, the flesh in an unbridled attempt to surrender to all that is unholy and do it in the name of Jesus. The fact is that this evil did not begin in the church and is still not connected in any accountable way. This is a problem for these renegades from darkness that, when exposed, provokes angry, hostile, responses.  I believe there will be a "Christian" Rock music denomination, if there isn't one already, formed for the sole purpose of legitimizing this foul swill from darkness. The next step will be acceptance by other religious organizations and the apostasy will be complete.

This is what happens when love for the truth departs from a generation. They become religious, the apostate, and the next generation grows up hating and despising the church so much they develop an extreme opposite counter culture. This generation has created a substitute system for discovering the truth, false standards for truth, then embraced falsehood itself, which birthed another "gospel" that necessitated another "Jesus."

The deceived never seem to know how deceived they are and therefore cannot understand the attempts to reach them. To a deceived person, deception is truth and the truth that challenges it is deception. Mister "Up-side-down-man," Satan himself, designed the apostate "Christian" music deception so that all who receive it will believe they are in great shape. There is no way to talk to them logically or even ethically. Ever try to talk to a cult member? Try telling a Satanist he or she is wrong. Talk to the Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses who come to your door, do they listen to the truth and say, "Wow, what a revelation! I've got to get out of this cult!"?

No, they do not. They give scriptures and point to their fruit to validate their position. A common tactic is to make you believe they are just like you, believe in the same Jesus you believe in, only they have something extra you don't know about. CR proponents, as do all errant CCM proponents, use same tactics. It isn't because they studied these tactics, as do the cults, but because they follow Mister "Up-side-down" man, Satan, and they do not realize it in many cases.

Satan is making converts to false Christianity, releasing some of them from the bondage's of alcohol, drugs, perversion, suicide spirits and etceteras through CR music. Why is he doing this? These people are actually being enlisted in a special demonic task force that is carrying out a satanic mission to apostatize a generation of Christian young people by validating the music with a personal experience. Satan doesn't care if he releases his grip on a few people who will do his bidding to make his followers appear to be fruitful. After all, he's still got them only they don't know it. Christians coming into it are walking into a trap deadlier than what the world system is bound in. Many professing Christians coming into aberrant CCM are biological Christians, never been born again, just raised in a religious home. They were churched with Christ but not crucified with Him.

It's like the famous anti-drug commercial where two grown men are in a bedroom firing up a joint. The mother cries out asking the older man if he had gotten a job yet. It is embarrassing to see this grown man who is still leaching off his parent and still irresponsible make his immaturish response. He replies in false sincerity to her then mocks his jobless state, loose and liberal, having fun, smoking dope all day long. The he remarks to his friend that the pot isn't so bad. After all, he says with a laugh, "I've been smoking it all this time and its never done anything to me."  He's a loser and doesn't realize it because the very thing he loves has blinded him.