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NASB | Ephesians 5:19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ephesians 5:19 Speak to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, [offering praise by] singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; |
Bible Question:
Dear brother kalos, I am sure it will come as no surprise that I disagree with your staement regarding the use of instruments in worship. Please allow me to state however that I am not one of those who believe it is a salvation issue as a general statement. Allow me to explain something about the word psalms. As you referenced it, each time the word psalms is used it is a reference to the book of psalms, context tells us this. Second you spoke of the definition of psalms but what you may not realize is that this is the greek word used during the translation of the hebrew Bible into the greek septuagent(circa 250 bc I believe). However, the actual hebrew title is Tehillim meaning praises. I respectfully would like to understand your view point so I would like to ask this question, considering the example of Nadab and Abihu found in Lev 10 which I think you would agree was an atempt to worship God, shouldn't we hesitate to offer to God what He hasn't asked for, especially when, like the recipe for incense,He has said to sing apparently indicating that pleases HIm? |
Bible Answer: '...in the area of religious practices, whatever the Bible does not forbid (explicitly or implicitly) is not to be condemned or marked as less than Christian. In other words, the Restorationists' motto, “Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the scriptures are silent, we are silent,” is actually violated when they speak against those things which Scripture neither mentions nor condemns explicitly or implicitly.' 'As for the biblical argument, at best it is fallacious (since it is based merely on the silence of the New Testament)...' TO READ MORE GO TO: www.equip.org/free/DC600.htm |