What we know about music from the Genesis record-part 3

            There is one more concept of God's creation  recorded in the Book of Genesis that we should be discuss here. As we considered  on February 5 2013, Genesis 1:31 recorded that in God’s opinion His music creation was very (ma’od 3966) good (towb 2896).  In other words, His music creation wasn’t merely good, but it was exceedingly good or beautiful.  The Hebrew word ma’od is a superlative term.  To God, music was not “just there”, but rather it was exceedingly good when used as He intended.  The word towb connotes not only goodness but also beauty.  Although it is difficult to fully ascertain what is meant by beautiful it is possible to understand that God created music for His glory and created it to be exceedingly beautiful and wonderful. We can also justly conclude that this creation which was ma'od towb was exceedingly valuable to mankind.  It was very beautiful,valuable meaningful,and had the ability to be very efficacious either for good or, if pervert, for evil.. 

            It stands to reason that if God created music to be exceedingly good and that it is the objective of Satan to pervert it by removing its goodness.  Since towb also means good or best, we may safely conclude that it is the work of Satan to pervert those elements of music that make it exceedingly the best.  If one believes that Satan’s perversion of music produces “good music”, then that person has just bequeathed Satan with the ability to produce “perverted good” music.  (See Chapter 5 of my Book, Church Music Matters).