Concerning
Secular and Sacred Music part 8
Another reason for categorizing music into
sacred and secular is that these classifications have been used for thousands
of years by Christians and non-believers.
In a sincere efforts to build a faith based philosophy and communicate
that philosophy to believers and non-believers, a Christian musician needs to
be very careful to not overstate the nature, value and purpose of all music and
musicing by using the terms “sacred”,
“sacred action”, or “musical offering” to identify all of a Christian’s musicing.
I find no direct Bible support for considering that all of a Christian’s
musical actions are sacred acts or musical offerings unto God. Therefore, it is an error of philosophical
judgment to support an all “sacred” philosophical position to either musicians
or music philosophers who are not believers.
We already have many barriers to communicating with secular musicians
and secular music philosophers.
Therefore, it is unwise to add to the confusion by denying the time
honored sacred-secular music classifications.
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