is it a sin to steal the tunes of secular music and rewrite into christian music?

Question

or how is it christian to steal music and change out words to make own and then call it christian?

other than Paul of bible inventing christianity, what is original about christianity, anyways? isn't it largely borrowed from many cultures?

Answer 1

Borrowed??

If you borrow something that means sooner or later you GIVE IT BACK!!

Christians do not even admit their history / ideas are stollen from other cultures! To say they borrowed those ideas is really trying to white wash reality!!

Face it Christianity is a religion of theives!!
They haven't had an original idea about a God!
They don't even know their own bible!
If they did I'd bet 99% of them would be Atheists!!

Answer 2

If this is a music question, then it's not right to point out only christain artists. I am a musician and almost all of today's mainstream music is a generic copy cat of somebody elses work. That's the struggle to come up with the next, original yet good sound.

And as a christain I will say that I shut my ears to most christain music based on the fact that they are either talking down to the secular world or they're just flat out CHEESY as well as CORNY.

If this is a question about the christain religion, well in the same way, every culture's views on life is borrowed from somewhere else. Again to point out christianity as a religion of stolen ideas is very narrow minded as far as lokking at the whole picture goes. It's a matter of what religion (although I don't like the word religion) seems to provide the most logical way of viewing morality, science, and mysteries of the universe throughout history. In my experience christianity has done that through and through.

Answer 3

As with everything, origins and adaptions on the way have influence from other cu;tures etc. This doesn't mean to say that this is a fault. a great example is christmas. The winter festival was taken from the pagans and turned into a christian event to celebrate the birth of christ.
Using someone else's music to celebrate / praise god is very similar, it may not be original, but the end result is pleasing to god which can't be bad so I don't quite understand how using somebody's tune with your own words is a sin.
Yes it may be breaching the copywrite laws etc, but those laws were created by man to protect the profitablity of an idea etc, so illegal - maybe but sin - no.

Answer 4

verify those out - As a Christian music author, those may well be my possibilities for you ... Beastie Boys - look at Thousand Foot Krutch Bob Marley - look at Christafari The grimy Heads - look at Imisi Fall Out Boy - look at We The Kings think of Dragons isn't a "Christian band," yet 0.5 of the band individuals are LDS individuals. Jack Johnson - Jason gray Jack White - Jimmy Needham Jay Z - T-Bone Lupe Fiasco - holiday Lee Macklemore and Ryan Lewis - Lecrae

Answer 5

Many song tunes sound alike, we cannot just say that tune belongs to me, there are to many tunes to make that claim, and they cannot be owned, it is the lyrics that are owned. The whole lyrics in one song, not parts of them.
The ORIGINAL JESUS is the bottom line of them, and um no,,,Jesus wasnt borrowed.

Answer 6

If you use a secular tune (or any tune) , according to copyright laws (at least in the US) it is called a Parody, and it is perfectly legal. You do have to be doing a parody of the song in question though. (Like Weird Al or the group Apologetix).

Answer 7

If it's good enough for Vanilla Ice, then it's sure good enough for Christianity.

Answer 8

It's plagarism, and illegal if any attempt to broadcast or sell it is made.

how would it not be a sin? it's theft.

Answer 9

There is nothing new under the sun.

Answer 10

It scares me to think of how right this question is.