Music theology that is based on God’s Word

 

Music theology that is based on  God’s Word

Any music theology or philosophy that is not based on or at least congruent with, the true truths that are written in God’s Word is faulty. Also, if a music theology or philosophy does not give God and His Word preeminence, it is not  Bible based, Christocentric, or truly faith based. All Bible based beliefs concerning music’s origin must espouse the truth that in the beginning God created and that those actual acts of creation included music. Music was not originally the creation of any ancient musician or any ancient culture. Remember, God took nothing and made something which we call music and that  man only takes the building blocks of music which God created and organizes them into creative patterns. No musician has ever taken nothing and created music. Believing that music was an actual part of the acts of God’s creation, and not the original work of some musician or evolutionary process is necessary to place music squarely under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. This knowledge and understanding is absolutely necessary in the process of developing a Christocentric music philosophy.

It is not a novel thought that the 21^st century Christian musician should be deeply involved in thinking about music. As far back as the Levite musicians in ancient Israel, the Egyptian musicians, the musicians from Sumer, Akkad, and Ugarit philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, and the church fathers such as Aquinas, Augustine, Martin Luther, John Calvin, John and Charles Wesley, to mention only a few, have been greatly concerned about music as is reflected in their writings.