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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