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The Bible does not teach that this is true.

Actually, no, having one single passage would very likely not solve the problems. Suppose that there were such a passage saying that music "X" is the kind of music that God wants during worship. Multitudes of people would make all kinds of arguments against even such a direct statement by...

There is no biblical basis to hold that any (in the sense of every) "form" of music can be used acceptably to God in corporate worship.

To answer this question properly, lots of wrong beliefs have to rejected. The Bible does not ever teach that God accepts the use of all kinds of instrumental music in worship.

On the contrary, it is you who are showing who you are through your unedifying remarks that provide no valid counterargument.

This was the objection that I was expecting to get. A closer look at the passage answers this objection. Revelation 18:21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be...

The right way to interpret Revelation 18:21-24 is to let the text speak for itself. Paying attention fully to what God has actually explicitly said shows us that the permanent termination of the various, specified music makers of Babylon that is spoken of in the passage is a divine judgment that...

We have very different understandings of the book of Revelation. Trying to discuss anything with you about what the book says would be pointless because you impose an extrabiblical understanding on the book that is entirely unsupported by anything in Scripture itself.

Hmm. So, your approach is to insist that everything in the list that will be brought to a permanent end has to be of the same character--all have to be good things or all have to be bad things. Is that a correct understanding of your view?

Yes, it was a judgment against Babylon. I intentionally left the nature of the acceptability unspecified.

Good. I look forward to seeing just what doing so comprises.

Revelation 18:22 is the final reference in Scripture that speaks about instrumental music: Revelation 18:21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at...

I use both software (BibleWorks 10) and hardbound texts (many Greek and some Hebrew resources) extensively to study both biblical Greek and Hebrew when I want to study something beyond what resources in English allow.

You are welcome. I knew what you did and why you did it. Still, a lack of response does not justify ascribing positions to people. I take my time in responding and have many other obligations.