If you had a record full of hyms and played it backwards, would you hear god speak to you?
116042
Well that all depends on if you "choose" to belive that.  What I mean is, God speaks to us all the time! It is how a person "hears" it. God speaks to you through song, an article in a magazine, through others, etc. From a Spiritual view point it is within your own "personal truths" to how this happens. Choose to listen and you will hear!
1099113
It says that God makes mistakes.....which would explain so much.
374655
No, but then again the answer would be very subjective depending on the music and who is listening.
126920
Yes, but backwards.\nNamowa.
1156701
If it wasn't how would you understand what you heard?
275776
I would ask him "How does it feel to never be better than God"?\n\nHe sure did make a wrong choice didnt he when he thought he was better then God.  I'm sure deep down is satan's mind he knows he messed up when he questioned God and got kicked out of Heaven.
1183991
no, afraid not, its only recording what you've paused or rewound to onto a disk then playing it back, jst go back to being the crazy man u r! if ur lucky the pigeons will start talking 2 u!!!!
691414
Maybe God isn't as smart as you...
31354
Yes God speaks directly to us through our ears. john 10;26-30 tells us if we are His sheep we hear His voice and know Him and follow Him. If you don't hear his voice in some form then you don't know Him.
675628
you might have the next messiah
895757
you can write them backwards and pronounce them from there, but if you want the sounds to be backwards where if you taped yourself and played it the oppisite way you would get the word- you should tape yourself talking normally, then listen to it played backwards and mimick what oyu are hearing- after some practice you will be better able to make the appropriate sounds so you don just have the letters backwards but you are truly saying the word backwards.
617075
Perhaps OVERHEAR it as God speaks those words to the few, but to hear it as being toward them or for them, I think not.Just as they who overcome will overhear the words of Christ, resounding in a voice of many waters, toward the damned:"Depart from me ye workers of inequity, I never knew you".
940340
can you not simply listen to the song for this answer?
816750
In short, no, I do not think that satanic messages are embedded within Stairway to Heaven.  Backmasking, the process of playing a song backwards, usually with the intent to discover subliminal messages of a recorded medium, such as a song or movie/television dialogue, was popularized when the Beatles released the song "Rain." John Lennon later acknowledged intentionally recording an innocent backmasked message in the song. Later, radicals decided to look for satanic messages that they assumed were concealed within Rock and Roll music. Led Zepplin faced quite the assault when so many reported that "Stairway to Heaven" contained satanic references.  In fact, in 1982 a California State Assembly was held to hear the song, and they said that, when played backwards, these lyrics could be heard:\n"I sing because I live with Satan\nThe Lord turns me off-- there's no escaping it\nHere's to my sweet Satan, whose power is Satan\nHe will give you 666. I live for Satan."\nWhile the band and the label usually made no comment to the propaganda, Robert Plant later professed, "To me it's very sad, because "stairway" was written with every best intention, and as far as reversing tapes and putting messages on the end, that's not my idea of making music."\nMany research projects have since ensued.\n\nI found this from an online source:\n\n"In 1985, university psychologists John R. Vokey and J. Don Read conducted a study using Psalm 23 from the Bible, Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust," and various other sound passages made up for the experiment. Vokey and Read had subjects listen for phrases that they themselves could hear in a backward playing of these recordings. They then asked subjects if they could hear these same phrases, and other phrases that Vokey and Read did not hear in the recordings. Subjects were in agreement with the researchers "assignment of the passages" of the time. Vokey and Read conclude that "people do in fact" hear "intelligible phrases in streams of backward speech". They also found that "people cannot be induced to hear virtually anything in backward speech". In other words subjects heard phrases that Vokey and Read heard and told subjects were there, and did not hear phrases that Vokey and Read did not hear but said were there."\n\nThe conclusion made by Vokey and Read in the study described above was that if backmasking did indeed exist, it was ineffective. Their volunteers had trouble even noticing the backmasked phrase when the tape was played forward, were unable to judge the type of message (whether it was Christian, Satanic, or commercial) it contained, and were not led to behave in any certain way as a result of being "exposed" to the backmasked phrase. \n\nMany would agree that the power of suggestion is strong.  Furthermore, we discussed this in my psychology class and concluded that subliminal messages are generally ineffective or quite limited in their influence.  A message recorded backwards is unintelligible when the record is played forwards. It could not be understood even if it was played apart from the music. A backmasked message superimposed on a musical passage would be itself masked by the music so that it would not readily be heard.\n\nSo basically, no, i don't think there are satanic messages even though the imagination is powerful enough to suggest that there might be.  And even if there were, it wouldn't be significant to the song itself played forward.  Still pretty fascinating though!
718449
I agree. Pastors don't do that in our church, though.  It's about the message; not how a pastor looks or sounds.  Too many make sounds to get the congregation going, but the message gets lost.  Back in the day, James Brown had a jam called, "Talkin' loud...but/and sayin' nothin'"; people would say, "He really preached today!" When they're asked about the actual sermon, the answer is "I don't know, but he really preached today!" "We had church!"\nPeople do things b/c others do them; did them.  They've been informally...maybe even formally taught to do this.  It is annoying...so is saying the Holy Spirit moves through you through the music...and when the music immediately stops...so do you.   Hmmmmmmmmm!  I wonder...\nThere's a difference between singing and screaming.\nI guess these days, I'll b accused of judging. I came from an era of questioning and discerning.  Oh,well, focus on God and His message.
790219
sorry I don't know, but it sound more like something that Evander would have said.
760739
I would just try to understand if it is really God. And if it is (if i feel it) i would just start to cry and ask God to hug me! (i know this sounds strange but i tried to be honest)