Gigi Baba Shadid

The eleventh song on this CD entitled "The Body of Christ" contains some words which lean toward an anti-Christian, Gnostic worldview. The problematic line if the following:

"We were not redeemed by material things
But by the blood of the Cross of our God."

The implication is that the Blood of God is not a material thing, but this runs contrary to the Orthodox doctrine of the Incarnation by which God became enhumanized having a material body of flesh and blood. The Blood of Christ is both a spiritual and material reality.

Therefore it is preferable not to use this song in any Church curricula.… (más)