Are all music offerings Acceptable?-part
2
Considering our musical
offerings unto God in the light of them being quality art is a complicated
matter. The Bible is not completely
silent about what makes an acceptable musical offering. Amos 5:23 states, “Take thou away from me the
noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.” There were a number of factors that caused God
to reject Israel’s worship. So, it is
difficult to say with specifity why God declared that he would not accept their
musical offerings. Nevertheless He did
refuse their musicing. Whether it was a
combination of factors that caused God’s rejection is a mystery to us as we
read this chapter thousands of years later.
We are left with the possibility that the
condition of the musician’s hearts could have affected the music part of the
music they attempted to present to a high and holy God. Was it the quality of the musical art that
caused rejection? There is no reason to
believe that God rejected their musicing completely on the basis of the quality
of their art.
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