“True Truth” Not Exhaustive
Truth Part 2
It was
only a few generations ago that the United States was known for its strong
Judeo-Christian ethic. Now whether or
not the Bible is accurate in what it teaches about music and musicing is almost
a mute point to many Christian musicians, because the basis on which they
develop a music philosophy does not include what the Bible says about the
nature and value of the whole of music. Although they may quote a few verses in
the Bible that mention music, what they say and what they do is often
diametrically opposed.
Christian musicians must realize that all the
truth we have available to us in the Bible is congruent truth. The reason that so many Christian musicians’
music philosophies are not congruent is that much of their study has been
isolated and therefore not congruent. Francis Schaeffer stated, “We have
studied our exegesis as exegesis, our theology as theology, our philosophy as
philosophy; we study something about art as art; we study music as music,
without understanding that these are things of man, and the things of man are
not unrelated parallel lines.” Escape from Reason, by
Francis Schaeffer, p. 12 Because of this isolation of
the various disciplines, more and more Christian musicians see no problem with
studying music as music without bringing it into amenability with the Lordship
of Jesus Christ. It is no wonder that
there are so many incongruncies in the way that many twenty first century
Christians music.
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