Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

lvmaus wrote:

Struggler wrote:I think SS changed "When we all get to heaven" to "When the saved get to heaven". Anyone have a copy of SS handy to check that out?

The SS has definitely changed the wording to ... When the SAVED get to Heaven.

I had absolutely no idea that When the Saved Get to Heaven wasn't the original title/lyric!

[quote]It's so ridiculous how the coc splits hairs over lyrics. But what many of them don't realize is that a lot of the songs they sing are written by people from the "denominations"[quote]

So true! We sang songs/hymns by Fanny Crosby, Isaac Watts, etc. in C o C. According to C o C teaching these folks are in Hell because they weren't in "THE CHURCH."

Just another example of C o C inconsistency.

musicman wrote:So true! We sang songs/hymns by Fanny Crosby, Isaac Watts, etc. in C o C. According to C o C teaching these folks are in Hell because they weren't in "THE CHURCH."

Just another example of C o C inconsistency.

Many COC preachers use CS Lewis, either by direct quote or through the shaping of their arguments. They often don't stop to consider that Lewis was: Anglican, married to a divorced woman, sympathetic toward homosexuals, British, and wrote the manuscripts for many of his books in a pub while enjoying a pint. The way I've seen COC preachers get around this with Lewis (and nearly any other non-COCer who publishes stuff that's worth citing in a sermon) is to prelude the quote with something like, "Now I don't agree with everything CS Lewis wrote, said, or did, but he makes a good point in The Screwtape Letters when he says..." For Pete's sake just quote the man and get on with it. We don't need a disclaimer every time. Nobody does this in real life. If I had to disavow Shakespeare every time I used one of the silly cliches that came from his plays I'd just abandon him altogether.

Lev

I knew someone that objected to I've Got a Mansion(s) line "and walk the streets that are purest gold" because the description of heaven in the NT only mentions one street. This person had a very loud voice and would belt out "and walk the STREET that IS purest gold."

FCOCER wrote:I knew someone that objected to I've Got a Mansion(s) line "and walk the streets that are purest gold" because the description of heaven in the NT only mentions one street. This person had a very loud voice and would belt out "and walk the STREET that IS purest gold."

A hardcore, ultra conservative, legalistic, Pharisaical nit picker comes to mind!

FCOCER wrote:I knew someone that objected to I've Got a Mansion(s) line "and walk the streets that are purest gold" because the description of heaven in the NT only mentions one street. This person had a very loud voice and would belt out "and walk the STREET that IS purest gold."

I objected to "I've got a Mansion" because of its rejection of poverty in favor of overt materialism. Maybe that's just me.

Lev

There are MANY songs in its songbooks which C o C can't logically sing because they run counter to C o C doctrine.

"To the Work" is one example.A couple of places the song says "salvation is free." Those of us who grew up or spent time in C o C know that it certainly does NOT teach that "salvation is free." All C o C statements to the contrary, one must earn salvation by his/her own good works.

Another is "let the water and the blood, from Thy wounded side flowed"("Rock of Ages.". C o C certainly doesn't believe that the blood of Christ is the "cure" for sin. The only water about which it cares is that in the baptistry.

Why do we have to walk in the streets in Heaven? Are there no sidewalks? Is there no transportation?

klp wrote:Why do we have to walk in the streets in Heaven? Are there no sidewalks? Is there no transportation?

I want angel wings!

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