Re: Tim Lambesis ateo: Metal Cristiano no es Cristiano
Hablemos sobre Stryper. Antes llamados Roxx Regime, quienes eran una banda metal secular:
Eran una banda de metal secular, hasta que segun ellos tuvieron un "despertar espiritual" y cambiaron el nombre de la banda por Stryper, sacado de Isaias 53. Pero si se analiza sus comienzos como banda de metal secular, donde tocaban, con que bandas hacian giras, lo que posteriormente no era muy diferentes cuando "convertirse al cristianismo", ¿fue genuina su aparente conversion?. ¿Que proposito tenian con pasar de bando, o mas bien, añadir un nuevo bando en el ambito musical?.
Que Ozz Fox se llame Ozz Fox por ser fanatico de
Ozzy Ousbourne y no Richard Rodriguez su nombre real, que Tim Gaines tenia un problema de alchoholismo todo el tiempo que estuvo en Stryper cuando comenzaron, y el que en muchas entrevistas televisivas y en revistas a finales de los 80 ellos hablaran de su supuesta fe, y reconocieran que no se consideraban realmente cristianos, ¿No es preocupante ese aspecto y nos alerta sobre el cuidado que debemos tener a la hora de aceptar en nuestras vidas este tipo de musica?.
Aqui extractos de sus comentarios en entrevistas:
Stryper is not exactly
"good little Christian boys." In 1989 Stryper toured with secular rockers White Lion. Drummer, Greg D Angelo, says,
"We threw a party . . . About two in the morning ROBERT SWEET WAS WHACKED! DRUNK! He was being dragged around on his tiptoes by two women holding him up!" (
RIP, June, 1989, p.41)
Stryper also toured with the perverted secular group WASP , (whose name stands for
We
Are
Sex
Perverts). WASP singer Blackie Lawless drinks blood on stage ow.o a human skull. WASP spreads their satanic message, as they tell young people the vicious lie that
Lucifer loves them much they're drunk on his love and magic, in "Sleeping in the Fire":
Bass player Steve Gaines says ,
" . . . we NEVER wanted to get caught up in the whole Christian music scene in the first place. . ." (
Inside Music, Oct/Nov 90 p.16) Robert Sweet confesses,
" . . . we're about the MOST UNRELIGIOUS Christian band you could imagine. . ."(
Hit Parader, Nov. 1986, p.21) And according to lead singer, Michael Sweet,
"We don't consider ourselves to be overly religious. . .In fact,religion has NOTHING to do with what Stryper's all about."(
Hit Parader, Feb. 1987, p.41)
Stryper guitarist Oz Fox's real name is Richard Martinez. Why does Richard use the name Oz Fox?
Because of an obsession with satanic rocker OZZY OSBOURNE! In fact, on their
Reason for the Seasonalbum, Stryper's guitarist is listed as
"OZZIE" Fox!
The name Stryper supposedly comes from Isaiah 53:5 (with his STRIPES we are healed), but in
Youth magazine, Stryper guitarist Oz Fox tells the real reason:
"One day Robert came up with Stryper because it rhymed with hyper . . ." (
Youth, Jan. 1987, p.10)
It has nothing to do with Isaiah 53! They admittedly didn t make the connection to Isaiah 53 till somebody showed them!
Stryper wears the number "777" supposedly depicting the Biblical number of perfection. But "777" is highly esteemed in witchcraft and satanism! Satanist Aliester Co liey wrote a book titled
"Liber 777". The satanic group Danzig (see our tract Rock Music: The Devils Advocate) has a song titled "777" The
Treasury of Witchcraft says of the number seven:
"this number, in occult rites, possessed mystic implications . . . POWERFUL: TRIPLE REPETITION is characteristic of magic ritual." (
Treasury of Witchcraft, p.23)
Stryper wears the colors yellow and black.
But did you know yellow and black is the color of the devil's livery or clothing!
Devil's Livery
"
According to mediaeval legend, the livery of the Devil is Black and Yellow; Black indicating Death, Yellow implying Quarantine."
(Treasury of Witchcraft, Wedeck, p.111)
In a poster, dated August 12, 1982, for the band Roxx Regime with Michael and Robert Sweet. On the poster "777"'s are displayed in the corners! And they're called the "yellow and black attack" — same as Stryper.
But their conversion to Christ took place in 1983 — a year later! But they're displaying the "777"'s and "yellow and black" the year before they're saved!
Stryper's unique triangle logo (with a curved bottom, outline around the edge and rays emitting) on the cover of "In God We Trust" is nearly an exact copy of satanist Aliester Crowley's infamous triangle! Could the Holy Spirit of the Bible possibly be the one inspiring these Christian Rock stars to copy satanic symbols! Not once. . . but over and over and over!
On Stryper's video "In The Beginning" , you see scores of young people flashing the "satanic salute"! NOTE: If you didn't take the link on Amy Grant and the satanic salute
here is more info on the salute..
One has to wonder, with all the "satanic" references to Strypers music, what are they really saying in "To Hell with Devil"? Are they actually singing for the listener to go "To Hell WITH the Devil"? Jeff Godwin says in his book, "Dancing with Demons" (p. 274):
"Almost everyone assumes that 'To Hell With the Devil' means that Satan can go back where he came from. The meaning changes drastically, though, when read with the emphasis on a different word: 'To Hell WITH The Devil.' Used this way, the phrase shows that fans are being dragged to Hell along WITH the devil..."
Listen to it.
And what about the cover on "The Hell With the Devil"?Look at it. Why are the winged-members of Stryper wearing a satanic Pentegram and throwing someone into hell? It is NO coincident that the creatures coming out from hell in Revelation 9:7-8 is described as, "their faces were as the faces of men. And they had HAIR as the hair of women".
Robert Sweet makes a startling admission to the truth about rock music in RIP magazine:
"As a matter of fact, the band was one thing that was making us turn and walk the OPPOSITE DIRECTION from Christianity, because, let's face it, when you're out there playing rock 'n' roll,and you're having a real good time doing your own thing it's not that you hate God or anything — you just don't want to think about Christ, because what he does is he exposes a lifestyle. If you're doing something you like doing, AND GOD SAYS NOT TO DO IT then you're not going to pay attention."
(RIP, April, 1987 p. 49)
Did you read that?
"...walk the OPPOSITE DIRECTION from Christianity,...AND GOD SAYS NOT TO DO IT..." These Christian rock stars (if they're really saved) KNOW deep down in their heart that rock music IS NOT HONORING THE LORD JESUS CHRIST! And that's why they will not mention Him! Instead they talk about "values", "self-esteem", etc.
But values, self-esteem — won't keep you out of hell!
Do you still think Stryper was Christian "examples" for Christian young people?
Wake up and read the following:
Tim Gaines of Stryper said in HM magazine:
"From the end of 1988 'till February of this year, I was drunk every day." (HM, Mar/Apr 97 #64, p.47 emphasis added).
1988 Stryper was going strong! Stryper didn't disband until 1991! For the last three years, performing before young people as supposedly a "Christian" testimony —
Tim Gaines was drunk!
Michael Sweet says of Gaines drinking:
"I knew that he had a drinking problem.
For a while there we all did, we were all drinking. . . He never did in public and we never did till the against the law tour. I don't know if you know a whole lot about that, but...that was kind of the rebellious tour, a rebellious record and we kind of vented a lot out of our systems on that record for the bad and
we all did some drinking and there are some things that happened that were the exact opposite of what we always stood for. (On-Line Interview at
http://www.michaelsweet.com/interview.html)
Oz Fox of Styper says:
"To be honest,
Stryper wasn't what we should have been spiritually speaking. . . . I don't believe that the band as a whole was rooted like we should have been, . . . To me,
there was sin happening in the band, and it shouldn't have been happening. And the reason why it was happening is because
we didn't know the Lord like we should have." (HM, Mar/Apr 97 #64, p.49).
How many other CCMer's are leading a "double-life"? How many Sandi Patti's and Stryper's are in CCM?
The following is one of the most irresponsible, wicked, unChristian, attitudes that I have EVER read:
During one of Stryper's "Christian" concert tours, they hired the "secular" group White Lion as the opening act. During some of the concerts White Lion openly used filthy, vulgar profanity from the stage. At one concert White Lion even threw out filthy pornographic magazines into the "Christian" audience. When the interviewer asked Michael Sweet how "did you guys deal with those things when it happened" — Sweet unbelievably replied:
"We felt that we couldn't judge any other group. If we told them hey, you can't do this you can't do that, we would be judging them." (On-Line Interview at
http://www.michaelsweet.com/interview.html)
Incredible. . . Here's a "ton" of Christian young people that came to hear "Christian" rockers, Stryper — and White Lion is using filthy, vulgar language and throwing pornography into the young Christian audience and Stryper doesn't have enough conviction and backbone to even tell them to stop because — that would be judging them! What a wicked, ungodly, filthy, unChristian mess! And that's the RIGHT adjectives!
When is God's people gonna wake up!
¿Queda duda alguna para saber si en realidad esta banda, como en su mayoria son genuinas en su fe o tienen otras intenciones para llamarse "cristianas"?.