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1 | Should music be allowed in church? | Bible general Archive 1 | Grace | 5641 | ||
My daughter recently invited a friend to visit her youth group. The girl's father wouldn't allow her to come because we play music and he said that they live by the new testiment and music (even Christian) should not be allowed in the church. Can anyone explain or disprove? | ||||||
2 | Should music be allowed in church? | Bible general Archive 1 | Scribe | 41115 | ||
One of the reasons most commonly given by the Church of Christ denomination (and it is a denomination in every definition of the word even if they say they are not a denomination) that the church should not use musical instruments in worship is that the New Testament does not mention the christians using musical instruments in worship. This is not true. I do not know why they say this it is an out right falsehood. It is a tremendously flagrant error. Here is the reference. Revelation 15:2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, [and] over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. Now if in heaven, where the saints are in the MOST Reverential state of worship they can be in they are using harps then it must be a very Holy thing. Now we do not HAVE to know how to play music on a stringed instrument now to be able to worship Him. But then we will all be able to. Praise God. That't good news for all you people that wish you had learned to play a guitar in order to worship the Lord with sweet music as you sing. No the fair question is not should musical instruments be allowed in worship but rather "can I worship God with just as much "will of God on earth as it is in heaven" without a harp?" and of course the answer is yes, but it would be a fair question since you read that the saints that get the victory over satan are worshippin in heaven with a harp. Now the arguement of not reading of harps in the book of Acts is very weak. We do not KNOW for sure that the New Testament saints did not use a harp or a lyre or a tamborine. There were Jews that did so it could be that there were NT saints that used them in worship. However we do KNOW for sure that the New Testament saints did not use Air Conditioning in their meetings. So in hot months they did sweat it out. So if the logic that we should not use instruments because we do not read of the church in Acts using it, why does not this logic apply to Air Conditioning. I have strong historical evidence that New Testament christians (especially Jews) would have used tamborines, and I have many verses in Psalms and even the prophets that show God was pleased with Praising Him with instruments and I have the resurrected glorified saints in their perfect condition with heavenly instrument of which the earthly harp is only a type. So I have strong biblical evidence that instruments dedicated to worshipping God are acceptable and encouraged by God. (also remember that Lucifer before his fall was discribed as having instruments as part of his being and he was the anointed cherub that covereth of which we see a type in the Cherubs that worship the Lord and say Holy Holy Holy, so again we see that God has made a point even in the angelic creation to use instruments in worship) As I stated I have strong Biblical evidence that God is pleased with instruments of music in worship but I have no Biblical evidence for Air Conditioning. We know that first church did NOT use Air Conditioning when they worshipped. So why is it that the Church of Christ denomination can use Air Conditioning in worship and we know the first church did not. and yet be so adamently against instruments and we DO NOT KNOW for sure that the church in Acts never used instruments. If they were honest in this approach they would not use Air Conditioning in worship. I think this exposes a possible false motive behind the COC teaching. It is the same motive that drives them to state that if you are not a member of the COC you are not the Church. |
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