Are There Any Absolutes?—part
3
Before
Hegelian synthesis thought, the Scripture in I John 2:15, “Love not the world”,
meant just that, don’t love the world or become controlled by the system of
“this present age”. After acceptance of
Hegelian synthesis thought, it became acceptable to be a worldly
Christian. Those who accepted this
viewpoint no longer believed the Bible when it said that if you loved the
world, the love of the father was not in you.
Under this autonomous philosophy you could love the world and the Lord
at the same time. So, the synthesis
thinking church musicians, who were in many instances, graduates of Christian
colleges and seminaries began to think that if it was okay to love the world
system then it was okay to love the world’s music. Philosophically they believed that the answer
could no more be based on good music and bad music, God’s music and the Satan’s
music, or in appropriate or inappropriate music. They believed that all styles were equal and
that the musical answer must be somewhere between truth and error.
Thought
for the Day.
One of the ways that Christian musicians are swept into
philosophical error is by believing that it is not possible to develop a Bible
based music philosophy.
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