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Being Christian isn't the only way to glorify God. Christianity is but one view of thousands of what or who God is.

Let's strip it down to the basics of what must be God.

It must be one entity or a series of entities which are part of a singularity. It must be the creator of all things. It must be sentient and intelligent.

You can believe in God and be completely against the Christian church. I am. The church as it is now is all ritual. There is no soul there, not for me. It's just chanting the same things, week after week, in a hypnotic and mindless way. Kind of scary, really.

The prophets you add on the God's creation list or take off of it in no way removes any of the base features of God. Therefore, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and even Hindus and possibly Wiccans can be said to worship God. Sure, they have a different title, and their idea of God has several parts, but ours has three parts. Who is to say God can't have 500 aspects instead of just three?

So, you can glorify God without being Christian, and you can thus glorify God without Christian music.

I think that we do have to be careful as to what music we listen to. As far as musicians glorifying God, that's up to them. But we have a duty as Christians to glorify God in all we do, including listening to music.

A songs meaning can vary from listener to listener, some christian songs have nothing to do with God when one person listens to it, and is all about God when another listens to it ( some switch-foot songs can be examples of this )

I don't think that Non-Christian music can glorify the Lord. In advance, this can be a long post with numerous verses. Also, I am using the KJV. I often teach about music and the influences it has, so I will try not to get in depth that much of it. Maybe I will give more in depth about it, later on.



What I believe that this verse is telling us that the World and the Spirit are two seperate Kingdoms. What is of the world, involving things of this world (Which I will get into later) is the enemy of the Kingdom of the Spirit, or the Kingdom of God. This verse also is almost the same meaning of Luke 16:13, which says

Now let's jump to 1 Thessalonians 5:21. We read, The word, "prove" means to try, to test. It means that it is a good thing to look critically at the thin,gs around us and to prove them. And after you have proved it, tried it, tested it, discerned it, hold fast to which are good. But the scripture doesn't say on what to do if it isn't good, but I believe it means that if it is not good, throw it away.

Now let us turn to a few more books to 1 John 2. We'll jump right into the middle of the chapter. Here is John writing to a Church, I forget to which Churh though. But in these words, there is a warning and a commandment. In 1 John 2 15 - 16, we read "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world."

That comes back to John 3:6, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." I believe that the things that are not of God is of this World. This can be applied to many things, and I believe that music is one of them.