Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Understanding God’s Building Blocks of Music-part 4 


Understanding God’s Building Blocks of Music-part 4   

            It is of little wonder that the writings of Christian musicians are almost silent when it comes to any reasonable historical or exegetical understandings of the music of ancient Israel and the music of other cultures that surrounded Israel which are also mentioned in the Old Testament.  This stony silence by Christian writers is the result of musical and historical ignorance of the music of these ancient cultures.  This silence is also the result of the notion that the music of the Bible is not relevant to the music and musicing of Christian musicians today. 

            If Christian musicians are going to come to any clear understanding that are relevant to sacred music in the twenty-first century, these musicians must come to grips with the building blocks of music that were created by God in His acts of creation.   All Scripture is God breathed and has been made profitable to Christian musicians in every generation.  Christians should quit whining about “seeing through a [musical] glass darkly”, as though the study of music in the Bible is the only difficulty in studying and understanding the meanings found in the Bible. 




No comments:

Post a Comment