As can be expected, Satan is always present in this dark
world to assist men and women in messing up God’s wonderful creation called
music. Any philosophical belief about
music that denies that God intends music for our good and that Satan intends to
pervert it to aid in our spiritual failure is simply a naive and over
simplistic misguided belief system. In
the Book of Genesis, it is stated very clearly that ALL of God’s creation,
which without doubt had to include music, was created in a very good (maod towb
3966, 2896) condition [see Genesis 1:31].
However, God always gives man a choice.
If man had not listened to Satan he would not have fallen from that
wonderful state where he walked and talked with God in the Garden of Eden [see Genesis
chapter three]. However, he did listen
to Satan, fell spiritually when he disobeyed God, and took on Satan’s sinful rebellious
nature. Since man has a choice today, he
can compose and arrange musical sounds that honor God or that feed the lust of
sinful men and women.
I Corinthians 14:7 states, “And even things without life
giving sound, whether pipe or harp,
except they give a distinction in
the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped.” This Scripture has been subjected over the centuries
to a plethora of confusion of opinions concerning its meaning. We know that the Greek words translated
giving sound (didomi
phone-1325, 5456) mean something that yields sound. The words “give a distinction in the sounds”
(didomi diastole phthoggos 1325, 1293, 5353) mean to yield a distinction of
musical notes in the process of utterance of musical sounds.
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