Image of God, Common Grace, and Instrumental Music

[Scripture More Accurately]

Because of the image of God in man and common grace, no distinctive people group could ever be objectively superior in its instrumental music to any other distinctive people group in its instrumental music.

True or False?

 

[Ben1445]

No more than ensuring that all a cappella music is equally good.

 

[Scripture More Accurately]

No more than ensuring that all a cappella music is equally good.

Most people would say that a cappella music is different from instrumental music because it is to be judged based on the content of the lyrics. Some would agree that not all a cappella music is equally good and still hold that all kinds of instrumental music are equally good.

 

[Scripture More Accurately]

A description of a musical activity by cannibals in Irian Jaya:

While the men were preoccupied with the butchering, the women . . . took down drums . . . and began to dance back and forth . . . Sustaining a high-pitched rhythmic chant, they pounded in steady unison on lizard-skin drumheads glued on with human blood. Their heavy grass skirts flounced in time to the brooding thunder of the drums.

---From page 34 of the missionary biography, Peace Child by Don Richardson, 2005; published by Bethany House Publishers; ISBN 978-0-7642-1561-2

Plainly, such musical instruments and such musical activity are the product of earthly, sensual, and demonic wisdom about the making and playing of musical instruments. Holding that the image of God in man and common grace ensure that even such musical activity is still pleasing to God would be indefensible.

 

[Psalty]

There is godly music and ungodly music. I cant wait to see what worship is like in the age to come!