Thursday, October 25, 2018

Musical Sound Communicates Meaning Part 13


Musical Sound Communicates Meaning Part 13  

            As can be expected, Satan is always present in this dark world to assist men and women in messing up God’s wonderful creation called music.  Any philosophical belief about music that denies that God intends music for our good and that Satan intends to pervert it to aid in our spiritual failure is simply a naive and over simplistic misguided belief system.  In the Book of Genesis, it is stated very clearly that ALL of God’s creation, which without doubt had to include music, was created in a very good (maod towb 3966, 2896) condition [see Genesis 1:31].  However, God always gives man a choice.  If man had not listened to Satan he would not have fallen from that wonderful state where he walked and talked with God in the Garden of Eden [see Genesis chapter three].  However, he did listen to Satan, fell spiritually when he disobeyed God, and took on Satan’s sinful rebellious nature.  Since man has a choice today, he can compose and arrange musical sounds that honor God or that feed the lust of sinful men and women.   

            I Corinthians 14:7 states, “And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped.”  This Scripture has been subjected over the centuries to a plethora of confusion of opinions concerning its meaning.  We know that the Greek words translated giving sound (didomi phone-1325, 5456) mean something that yields sound.  The words “give a distinction in the sounds” (didomi diastole phthoggos 1325, 1293, 5353) mean to yield a distinction of musical notes in the process of utterance of musical sounds.  

Thought for the Day-  

Just  because God gives a Christian musician a choice concerning how he or she musics unto Him, that musician is not relieved from the responsibility of using music in a way that will represent His moral nature and thereby bring honor to His name.


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