Tracing Music’s Origin-part 9

Tracing Music’s Origin-part 9

            Many Christian musicians act as if the Lord doesn’t have anything to say about music philosophy or music making.  Some Christian musicians believe that all forms of music making and all music philosophies are acceptable unto the lord and, furthermore, that there are no absolutes in music philosophy or music making.  Ephesians 5:9-10 states, “Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.  And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”  What scriptural basis would lead a Christian musician to believe that in church music all forms and styles of music making are acceptable unto the Lord?

            Where do Christian musicians get the philosophy that all aspects of Christian living EXCEPT MUSIC must come under the Lordship of Christ?  They get this philosophy from Thomas Aquinas who had an incomplete view of the fall.  He believed that man had fallen from grace, but that he had not fallen in his intellect.  Therefore, man could develop a philosophical view of all things that relate to nature, that was independent of the Lordship of Christ.  With this faulty praxial view music, which rightly should be placed under nature instead of grace, becomes autonomous.