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I fully agree that not all wisdom about instrumental music is earthly, sensual, and demonic wisdom and have never said otherwise.

Who has written "a blank check statement" that says "that any [in the sense of every] instrument is evil"? I certainly have not made any such statements.

Actually, no, it is not possible for ordinary humans to explain specifically and exhaustively what makes certain musical instruments sinful beyond saying that those musical instruments that have been made with earthly, sensual, and demonic wisdom are evil instruments. No human who does not have...

It is true that God made the properties of sound. You have provided no evidence for your view that "it is not whether the sound comes from an approved piece of physical apparatus." Your attempt to liken that to human speech is faulty because God makes all people, but He does not make all the...

James 3:13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is...

2 Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16 And what...

There is no biblical reason that any of us who are strongly musically conservative have to believe that rock music is acceptable to God. Keep standing against it!

I already have. There is no biblical basis to claim that the divine revelation in Galatians 1:3-5 about God's wanting to deliver us from this present evil world has no relevance concerning instrumental music. I am not interested in discussing any specific instruments, music, etc. It is...

Actually, no. I have studied that passage intensely for more than a decade. I am well aware of how people try to use that passage to support their views about music. To claim that Romans 14:14 applies to instrumental music when music is not mentioned at all in the passage but deny that...

Romans 14:14 is indirectly talking about music? Can you explain just exactly how that is true?

Hmm. So, you believe that pornography is not "unclean of itself" because the Bible never directly speaks about pornography?

I have a perfectly good basis for my statement. Claiming that "this present evil world" does not have anything to do with any of the instrumental music or musical instruments of the world cannot be legitimately asserted without providing any valid biblical support.

The Bible shows that God's people used a number of different instruments. Other peoples had other instruments besides the ones that God's people used. I do not know of any legitimate biblical basis that requires us to hold that God accepted all the instruments of all the people of the world...

Actually, the discussion that I want to have is how do you determine biblically what "this present evil world" does and does not include. Does the Bible have anything to say about musical instruments that are not acceptable to God? If not, does that automatically mean that any and all...

No, there is no logical fallacy. The verse says that God wants to deliver us from this present evil world. You claim that revelation from God has no relevance to instrumental music. You have to provide a legitimate biblical basis for asserting the validity of your claim.

I am interested in hearing about how people reason for whether they believe that there is instrumental music that is evil from which God wants to deliver us. Of course, there is evil vocal music as well.

This statement is not true. The Spirit does not say that "this present evil world" does not have anything to do with any of the instrumental music of the world.

No, I am not saying that at all. What I am saying is that when the Spirit inspired Paul to speak of this present evil world, He had in mind the instrumental music of the world that is evil. There is instrumental music that is evil, and there is instrumental music that is not evil.

Evil instrumental music certainly can profoundly have evil, detrimental effects on us.

No, I am not saying that any and all instruments are bad. The Bible makes clear that is not true. I agree "that not all music qualifies properly as praise to the Lord." I do not agree with the view that "it is not the instrument that matters." This present evil world includes some...