A Music Philosophy Is a Belief System—part 1

A Music Philosophy Is a Belief System—part 1

            A music philosophy is a belief system by which a musician governs musical activities. Utilizing a philosophy of music will help a musician make wise musical choices. Music philosophers refer to a music philosophy as a belief system because it systematically justifies a musician’s musical choices. If it is not congruent with what the Bible teaches it is without doubt faulty, and if it is not systematic and congruent with other Christian beliefs, it is incomplete at best.

            Someone, along with Frank Peretti, needs to herald the message that there is a matrix of “This Present Darkness”. A matrix is something from which something else develops or exudes. On one side there is God’s matrix and on the other, the matrix of this world, which is influenced by Satan. Matthew 6:24 explains that “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”  So, congruency with what the bible teaches about music and musicing is a must if a music philosophy follows the matrix of God rather than that of Satan.