Is the pergamum band a Christian band?

Answer 1

This is a question prone to disagreement due to the subjective nature of defining who is a, or, what is Christian. The band identifies as Christian. Some believe using the name of Jesus in lyrics in an evangelical way is required for the music to qualify as being Christian. To others, using Jesus name would be tantamount to using His name in vain.

Pergamum was one of the seven churches referenced in The Bible. Revelation 2:12.

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In all actuality NOT really. With a name like Pergamum (Meaning=Seat of Satan), one has to wonder what the underlying purpose to such a name or very dark and non-Christian Lyrics is about. It has been reported that on their FB page they had been asked many times in 2011 if they were a Christian band and they actually denied being one. Now rumors have started that they are a "Christian band."

Many claim that since they have a title called "Awesome God," (which is mixed with a Christian version and made with the traditional Christian hymm) that this justifies their title as being a "Christian band." However, not once in their lyrics do they ever mention the name of Jesus. Instead they have very NON-Christian lyrics:

Lyrics to Serpent :

Its time for our escape 'cause we are gnashing from the mud

You came with risen faith and gave us fangs to rise above

It's not the evil that made our kindness hiss

It's the temptation that stole our serpent's kiss

'Cause its time to bring on the chaos

My work's done here, let me maul my prey

Stop me before I can't say the creature from within me wants to have my destiny

The taste of your corpse is exciting to me the creature from within wants to have my destiny

And we are all murdered of delicacy and I can't avoid this monster from living inside me

You have no time, run faster and forward you will run

Take your weapon take your weapon 'cause this is not a march

They're coming, keep running 'cause now its time to charge

You tore out my artery and I am grateful for your dying

Blood lust is my ecstasy and I am hardly there.

Grab the bodies take them to me

Is that all you've got

And all you see in your dreams is fear, problem

Surely we will not be discarded to blank out all the problems

Bite me

I pray an avalanche kills you

You won't demise me of my faith

You tore out my freedom

"Awesome God" lyrics are laden with occult language and can possibly mean Lucifer:

"You can't break the kingdom I know, I can guarantee

You can't hide the light from this world cause I will believe

Sent someone down to resque us up against the odds oh!

You can't black the light from this world cause our God is an awesome God!"

Pergamum= Seat of Satan

Lucifer = Fell from heaven (cast down) and can appear as an angel of Light (2 Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.)

"Reign Angel" Lyrics

There you go,

What did I do to make you happy all this time?

And I, I don't feel alive as everybody

Till the nail becomes satisfied engulfed living in Your right hand

I see You coming through the night

Beware all the signs that lurk there

I see You coming through the night

Beware all the signs that lurk there, they're in spit disaster

And you're afraid to move

I don't know how I'm made for such a time as this

I don't know how I'm made,

for such a time as this has come from grace

To make way for the King to take his rightful place

Complete disaster is heading on my way

But I'm the master of everything I say it's come to now

I don't know how I'm made for such a time as this

Has come from grace to make way for the King to take his rightful place

Reveal the curtain from my eyes

And crucify me

I don't know how I'm made for such a time

. Very vague as to who it is describing and read as a first person account. They mention "CRUCIFY ME" and "I don't know how I'm made for such a time"... This is not Jesus Christ they describe. And to claim to be crucified as Christ is to demote His Divinity. If this is a "christian band" they present a very very mixed and vague message as to describing or claiming Jesus Christ as their savior.