COC Songs

[catlady]

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!

[musicman]

[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.

[Lev]

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

[FCOCER]

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."

[lvmaus]

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!

[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."

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

[musicman]

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.

[KLP]

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

[Moogy]

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

I want angel wings!

[zeek]

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