God Owns Music-part-2
Why
all this fuss over ownership? God is autonomous. God made music. As Christian musicians, we must give Him
preeminence--that includes music. Any
other philosophical belief will lead down the long slippery slope of humanism.
We, as Christian musicians, are not autonomous.
As
a Bible College music teacher for over forty years, I have seen very talented
music students that headed down that philosophical path. They found out early on that they were
talented enough to proceed without God's help. They would deny that they were
"religious humanists" but deep down in their heart they were not sold
out to God. They either secretly or
sometimes openly held ownership to music especially when it came to matters of
musical style. Like Thomas Aquinas, they
followed a philosophical path in their musical pursuit that was independent
from the Lordship of Christ. Remember
that Aquinas believed that man was fallen in matters of grace but that he was
not depraved when it came to matters of nature--which ipso facto included music.
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