“Doing” Exercises One’s Philosophy part 2

“Doing” Exercises One’s Philosophy part 2 

             No Christian musician is forced, by the norms and beliefs of other twenty first century believers or non-believers, to perform any style of music that contrary to Bible principles of musicing or that which is not congruent with changed life principles dictate.  When a musician performs various styles of music, he or she is acting on personal music philosophy and actual beliefs that that they are the best choice that he or she can make to music unto a holy, infinite God.  That Christian musician is testifying that these types of music are more appropriate, proper and profound than the time honored musical genera that have been used for multiplied centuries to honor and praise the triune God.    

            A Christian musician may be convinced by another’s arguments that a style of music is not philosophically the best music to use to worship God, and yet that musician may continue to perform that music.  My father used to say, “If you convince a man against his will, he’ll be of the same opinion still.”  So, regardless of what musicians say they believe philosophically, I am drawn to the conclusion that they are doing what they like to do.  Again, Richard S Taylor summed up the matter quite well, when he wrote, “Free domestic philosophies, such as existentialism, exaggerate individualism.  Freedom is the watchword, and personal autonomy is the aim.”  A Return to Christian Culture, by Richard S. Taylor p.66.