Quote Originally Posted by popcornbird
I'm not going to comment on the music issue, but I do want to say something to those of you who feel religion is a way of 'controlling' people.

Like it or not, we are ALL controlled by something. God has given us the freedom of choice, and it is our choice to choose what we want to be controlled by. Those of us who do not keep ourselves in control end up in a ditch. We can choose to be controlled by something good, or we can choose to be controlled by something evil. We can choose to be controlled by something God loves, or we can choose to be controlled by something God hates. We can choose to be 'out of control' too, but who loves an 'out of control' child?

Those of us who wants to be under the control of 'good' and lead a good, prosperous life, we have that option. Those of us who want to be under the control of evil, or under the control of Satan, or 'out of control', we have that option too. The decision is your's. I'm not a mother yet, but if God blesses me with that gift someday, my kids will have to know that there is both good and evil in this world, and there are also both good and evil people in this world. Not everyone is 'good', and there are lots of actions that make a once good person 'bad'.
I have always been curious...I'm just wondering, if God is omniscient, how can we ever make choices that are not what God would have expected all along? Indeed, if God is both omniscient and omnipotent, how could we ever make choices at all?

I personally don't see how a "good" person could "go bad" just by poor choices. There are many forces in this world, not just good and evil.