Today I was listening to an FM radio station that plays classical music. One of the station's listeners was explaining his personal interest in the station's music. What he said made my musical blood boil. He stated, " People look to classical music in the same way they view religion. They look to it with a sense of awe. So, then, music is my religion." Immediately I recoiled at that statement, but now that I have settled down a bit, I wonder what made him make that statement?
How did he come to that recognition? What have we done as a culture to open "Pandora's Box" philosophically? How can a musician become deceived and depraved enough to falsely believe that music can take the place of God? How can a musician so stand in awe of music to let it become his god? Immediately my thoughts go to Romans 2:28, "And even as they did not like to retain God in there knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate [adokimos 96--unapproved] mind..." As you know, postmodern musicians most often do not even consider God in any part of their musical knowledge or understanding of music philosophy.
Romans 1:20-22 states, "For the invisible things [music is an invisible part of God's creation] of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened, Professing themselves to be wise they became fools." When you open Pandora's Philosophical Box, musically speaking, and do not believe that God created and owns music, it is quite easy to falsely conclude that one can love and worship music and ipso facto embrace music as one's religion.
At this point, I am reminded of another Scripture verse found in Romans 1:25, "Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature[ ktisis 2937--the created thing] rather than the creator[kitzo 2936--the one who created i.e. music]." Now we can conceptualize how a musician who has left God completely out of his knowledge and understanding of music can fallaciously deduce that one can worship music as a religion.
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