The discussion of who
and to whom music should be sung reveals that there is a multiplicity of
reasons for singing unto God. The Bible
teaches that that there is a universal responsibility for all to sing unto God.
Those who consider religious music to
be merely a vehicle to display the church musician’s talents misuse sacred
music. Rather than using it as a vehicle
of communication with God, they reduce its mission and purpose to a mere
hocking of a talented (or not so talented) musician’s musical wares.
It is no doubt true
that women were excluded from participation as Temple musicians in both the
first and second Temples. This does not
infer that women musicians were inferior in talent or intellect. There is evidence that it was the customs of
ancient Israel and the type of music that women performed which kept their
species of music separate from that of men.
I have not found any implication from the study of music in the Bible that
women should be excluded from church music today.
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