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NASB | Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Isaiah 5:20 Woe (judgment is coming) to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! |
Bible Question:
Thank you, brother Ed for the music reference passages. How do these passages weigh in on the question: "Is sound capable of moral influence? Does music alone, with or without lyrics, carry and communicate moral value? Is music amoral (i.e., does God have no opinion about music)?" In Him, Doc |
Bible Answer: Doc I think I might have touched on that in my other post but I didn’t clearly address this aspect.. Beat or tempo can elicit emotions that are not emotions we should entertain. Also lyrics can of course be amoral. God has clearly told as to avoid anything that doesn’t produce pure, clean, holy thoughts. However I think the bigger problem is the songs that slip under most people’s radar. These songs sound good, may have a hymnal type beat or perhaps a more contemporary beat, their words sound good but there is element of deception, an element of falsehood contained in them that goes unnoticed. This is where I think the adversary is at work in the music in the church today. I think he has so deflected our focus to beat, tempo, and perhaps instruments used that he can successfully slip lies into the church in songs we consider sung and played in what we consider an “acceptable” manner. I notice 90 percent of all songs in the church from the old favorite hymns to the new contemporary choruses are songs about us, what we are going to do, what benefit we receive by being Christian, What God is going to do for us. Very few songs are actually songs that worship the Living God. EdB |