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Why Do You Believe That Instrumental Worship Music Is Different?
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SavedByGrace
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how can what the words used in the Bible, be wrong when showing what they actually mean? The Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek, not English!
LOL. The verse you're citing has nothing to do with church.so we are not to sing using our VOICES in Church???
SavedByGrace
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Scripture More Accurately
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so you can SHOUT to the LORD in private, and play instruments, but in Church, ZIP it!
1 Cor. 14:26 is very clearly in a context of corporate worship and the same word is used there:
26 How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
There is no legitimate way to claim that Psalm in this verse has to mean only speaking the words or singing them a cappella.
Moreover, there is no contextual basis to limit James 5:13 to only a cappella singing:
13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
LOL. Just know what verses you're citing.so you can SHOUT to the LORD in private, and play instruments, but in Church, ZIP it!
For crying out loud where does some of this stuff come from? Good grief!
Ephesians 5:19 is not about worship, or even music. It is about the Source of our joy and fulfillment and the manner in which we interact with our own souls, each other, and with God. A Psalm is an hymn, and an hymn is a spiritual song, and there is considerable overlap. But by psalms are meant The Book of Psalms, and by extension, the whole of Scripture, and hymns and spiritual songs are those praises and testimonies that are the fruit of our day to day conversation as saints. And these are 'spoken.' This is the only 'music' that God is moved by.
This manner is contrasted with the excessive, drunken and riotous manners in which the children of this world find and express their joy. Their bacchanalian festivals were marked by excess of wine and riot and considerable lasciviousness. Paul doesn't even speak of some of the musical genres that were congruous to and that often accompanied their partying, and those were paeans and dithyrambs. Paeans were heavily rhythmic and dithyrambs wildly exuberant.
So there is a marked distinction in the decorum of the communion of saints, and the communion of the world.
This manner is contrasted with the excessive, drunken and riotous manners in which the children of this world find and express their joy. Their bacchanalian festivals were marked by excess of wine and riot and considerable lasciviousness. Paul doesn't even speak of some of the musical genres that were congruous to and that often accompanied their partying, and those were paeans and dithyrambs. Paeans were heavily rhythmic and dithyrambs wildly exuberant.
So there is a marked distinction in the decorum of the communion of saints, and the communion of the world.
Because from our earliest memories, we are taught, quite erroneously, that there has been a slow and steady progression of the development of man, and of civilization and the arts, we unconsciously bring that to our thinking of the music of ancient civilization in moral decline. We think that todays musicians are the pinnacle of technical and artistic prowess. And, indeed, for sweetness, it's hard to top something like the Londonderry Air.
But man has not changed. Civilizations rise and fall according to their morality. Man was performing metallurgy and making sophisticated musical instruments by the seventh generation from Adam. In ancient Greece, a skilled piper was considered to be inspired by the gods .
But lest one think the primitive nature of the some of the their flutes was a limiting factor in the kinds of music a skilled piper could make take a listen to this . . .
But man has not changed. Civilizations rise and fall according to their morality. Man was performing metallurgy and making sophisticated musical instruments by the seventh generation from Adam. In ancient Greece, a skilled piper was considered to be inspired by the gods .
But lest one think the primitive nature of the some of the their flutes was a limiting factor in the kinds of music a skilled piper could make take a listen to this . . .
Scripture More Accurately
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Try reading the opening post and you will see what I mean.