Direction Determines Destiny Philosophically. Part
1
One of the most unfortunate twenty-first century dilemmas
involving Christian music philosophy is that many Christian musicians have not
developed a series of systematic written beliefs concerning the nature and
value of the whole of music. Many
Christian musicians believe that music philosophy is somewhat like Jell-O
gelatin with too much water mixed in it and therefore it is not capable of
*solidifying into a *cohesive whole.
These musicians fail to realize how
important it is to know where they are going musically. Remember direction
determines destiny. These musicians want
to go west to Kansas City Missouri musically but fail to realize they are going
east on Interstate 70 musically. No
matter how sincere they are about going to Kansas City musically, they will
never get there going east from Indianapolis Indiana. Once a Christian musician starts with a
faulty premise it will take him or her in the wrong philosophical direction so
that the rest of that musician’s faulty conclusions topple like dominos all
lined up in a row.
Those who
conclude that music is amoral have to incorrectly assume that in the beginning
God did not create music in a personal real objective way. They believe that God sees music from a
distance through rose-tinted glasses. Since
they believe that God does not have an ultimate opinion concerning music, He is
not “there” when it comes to music.
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