What the Bible teaches about Music is True Truth

What the Bible teaches about Music is True Truth

            A host of Christian musicians believe that the Bible contains but does not necessarily embody truth, or is the whole truth or true-truth.  To modern and post-modern man it is truth mixed with error.  They think like Porgy that, “Those things that your liable to read in the Bible, they ain’t necessarily so.” It is often hard for the thesis thinker to understand that Christian musicians who are pluralists actually believe that the Bible not only contains truth about music but that also it contains error.  As a matter of fact, many of them believe that the references to music in the Bible have outlived their relevancy.

            These pluralistic musicians have a non-rational, non-logical autonomous faith in Christ that is not totally Bible based. Their autonomous faith goes beyond the truth of Scripture since synthesis faith (a faith based on truth and error) is based on their personal encounter with Christ that does not come under the scrutiny of Scripture.  These musicians may not even believe creation, in the Deity of Christ, the Trinity, the virgin birth, a literal hell, and eternal punishment, the witness of the spirit, a personal relationship with Christ, a literal creation or original sin.

             So, it is important that you operate from the presupposition that the Bible is the infallible, completely accurate, inspired Word of God and that it does not contain a mixture of truth and error. It is important to understand that post-modern Christian musicians do not often believe II Timothy 3:16 when it asserts: “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:”   If a Christian is unable to trust much of what the Bible teaches about music and musicing, that musician’s musical beliefs are developed without Scriptural basis.