Wednesday, October 22, 2014

What is Philosophy? part 2

What is Philosophy? part 2 

If one is going to search after wisdom the Bible should be the place to start.  In I Corinthians 1:17 Paul presents a discourse on wisdom, “For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom (sophia, 4678) of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.” Paul was more interested in what God thought than what man’s “wisdom” taught at that time.  His reasoning was that as he states in verse 19, “For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”  He was referring to Isaiah 29:14, “Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder: for the wisdom (chokmah, 2451) of their wise (chakam, 2450) men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.”
 After only a brief study of sophia, chokmah, and chakam in the context of Paul’s discourse on philosophy in the first chapter of I Corinthians, it is evident that he was referring to conventional worldly wisdom as compared to God’s wisdom.  If we as Christian musicians are not careful we will place current philosophical thought on an equal basis or even above what God’s Word teaches. We claim that we are not squeezed into the world’s mold, but if one was to shake us all up together in a sack, when we came out would our music philosophy sound any different than that of worldly musicians who are not Christians?

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