Is Music a Closed System?--Part 2

 

Is Music a Closed System?--Part 2            

 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).  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 either arrange musical sounds in ways that honor God or that feed the lust of sinful men and women and that can be a source of spiritual failure of Christians.

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) in verse seven 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.