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The "opera" does not help the salvationary spread of the gospel.

I contest that assertion and submit myself as evidence.

Even if JCSS was totally wrong, JCSS steered me toward the Scriptures. If Rice was trying to hurt G-d, he merely forgot G-d's power.

I'll ask you again, does your pastor preach?

Shalom.

What makes you think you even know the Christ of the Bible, anyway?

Most professing Christians in our day of easy-believism don't. The Lord said most nominal seekers would not even find, much less enter the narrow doorway of true conversion.

The antichristian deception is worse than you have realized. You need to wake up to this horror. The waking up is repentance unto life. If you think that JCSS is even close to the real Jesus, you are badly mistaken.

Even if JCSS was totally wrong, JCSS steered me toward the Scriptures. If Rice was trying to hurt G-d, he merely forgot G-d's power.

I knew if I read far enough on this thread I would find something to agree with. I would take the contingency off the first clause; JCSS is totally wrong. It is a humanist protrayal of the Gospel of Christ. BUT, you are right, Tim Rice (and bitter little people like "the_doc") forgot (and regularly forget) the Power of God.

Worry not about 'the_doc' and others of his small-minded ilk, who shout lugubrious condemnations on all who disagree with their own embittered view of life. Jesus Christ overcame the Cross, He can surely overcome a rock musical with a humanistic bent.

There is a risk, however. One of my nieces once displayed her appalling historical ignorance about the Civil War and upon questioning explained that the sum total of her 'knowledge' came from her 'history' class in HS where her teacher played the (entirely fictional) movie "Glory" in lieu of any other study of the Civil War. She had no idea what she had missed (until I shared a little).

Similarly, the risk is that others will not be led (as you were) to go further and will think that they know something of Jesus Christ because someone put His name (without His permission, of course) in the name of a humanist rock musical. Now, the obvious riposte to this argument is that a lot of hard-hearted determinists like 'the_doc' regularly put Jesus' name on their hateful, manmade doctrines without His permission and with the same risk.

I have no answer to that one.