Luke 12:32 Fear not, little flock;
for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Luke 12:33 Sell that ye have, and give alms;
provide yourselves bags which wax not old,
a treasure in the heavens that faileth not,
where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
Col. 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness,
and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son
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Mousa , ēs, hē, Aeol. Moisa II. mousa, as Appellat., music, song, “m. stugera” A.Eu.308 (anap.); “euphamos” Id.Supp.695 (lyr.); “kanakhan . . theias antiluron mousas” S.Tr.643 (lyr.); “Aiakō moisan pherein” Pi.N.3.28; tis hēde mousa; Mousa , Apollyon's Musical Worship Teams-LocustsDios aigiokhoio thugateres” [Daughters whatever the sex] |
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MUSICIANS
stugeros
A .hated,
abominated, loathed, or hateful,
abominable, loathsome
mousa
music, song, “m.
stugera kanakhan
. .1Cor. 13:1 Though I speak with the
tongues of men and of angels, and have not
charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a
tinkling cymbal. THEIAS etheiazon obtained inspiration through ritual antiluron responding to the lyre or guitar. Aoidos , ho, (aeidō) A.singer, minstrel, bard THEIOS a Enchanter, Sorcerer [2] MUSICIANS “adein [singers are] adokimon mousa adokimon disreputable, discredited, reprobate, [3] MUSICIANS They are from Aidēs” Haidēs Aidao domoisi in the nether world to the nether world, 2. place of departed spirits, 2. gen. hadou with nouns in adjectival sense, devilish, “thuousan ha. mēter'” A.Ag.1235; “ha. mageiros” thuousan Silenced in Romans 12 so that Worship is Spiritual, rational or teaching the Word, Logos, Regulative Principle only[4] MUSICIANS are FOREORDAINED to this JUDGMENT and a "Locusts" chase the GODLY out. Jude.There.Should.Be.Mockers.in.the.Last.Time.html [5] MUSICIANS MOCKED Worship.Androgyny.The.Pagan.Sexual.Ideal.html Jeanene.Reese.LGBT.MUST.be.Included.html [6] MUSICIANS They Do NOT know God nor Christ 2.John.1.9.The.Doctrine.of.Christ.html 2John 9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son |
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A SCHOLAR WOULD UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS NO MUSIC [REPLACING THE COMMAND TO SPEAK] UNTIL CONGREGATIONAL SINGING WAS IMPOSED WITH GREAT DISCORD UNTIL AFTER THE REFORMATION,
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THE PATTERN: APT ELDERS HOLD SCHOOL OF THE BIBLE ONCE EACH REST DAY
that all of the early Greek and Latin scholars agree with churches of Christ especially about the Word. Logos or Regulative Principle and music.
I have noted that Simon the
Sorcerer was so powerful because of his musical skills,
Brandon
Scott Thomas Zoe Group: The Word
says that God inhabits the praises of His people and we are a
people desiring to be inhabited!
The Holy
Spirit is the true worship leader.
Our job
as church worship leaders is to
lean
completely into His leading.
We cannot
force anyone to worship,
all we can do
is STAND IN
the doorway [holy place] an
and invite people
into the presence of the Living God.
What an honor!
What a joy! What a profound burden!
ALL notes of singing with a beautiful and
playing on a harp are the mark of BURNING
Ezek. 33:30
Heb. 12:28
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved,
[music]
let us have grace, whereby we may serve God
acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
Heb. 12:29 For our God is a consuming
fire.
Leonard Allen ignorant of Holy Scripture slanders: "Among Churches of Christ it often has meant that we simply discounted eighteen centuries of Christianity as, at worst, a diseased tumor or, at best, an instructive failure. Churches of Christ were built upon the matchmaking power of poverty, marginality, social estrangement and antebellum primitivism.
http://www.pineycom.com/Elders.Are.The.Only.Gratuitous.Teachers.in.A.Church.of.Christ.html1Pet. 5:1The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder,
and a WITNESS of the sufferings of Christ,
and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
1Pet. 5:2 FEED the flock of God which is among you,
taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly;
NOT FOR FILTHY LUCRE , but of a ready mind;
aiskhro-kerdēs greedy for gain.
Hdt.1.187, E.Andr.451, And.4.32 (Sup.), cf. Pl.R.408c, Arist.EN1122a8, etc. Adv. “-dōs” 1 Ep.Pet.5.2.
Hdt. 1.187 If any king of Babylon in the future is in need of money,AGAIN
let him open this tomb and take as much as he likes:
but let him not open it unless he is in need;
for it will be the worse for him.”----
[5] After opening the tomb,
he found no money there, only the dead body,
with writing which read:
“If you were ever satisfied with what you had
and did not disGRACE yourself seeking more,
you would not have opened the coffins of the dead.” [or the WILLS of the dead]
Eur. Andr. 451 Andromache 445] Dwellers in Sparta,
most hateful of mortals in the eyes of all mankind,
wily plotters, masters of the lie, weavers of deadly contrivance,
with thoughts that are always devious, rotten, and tortuous,
how unjust is the prosperity you enjoy among the Greeks!
Andoc. 4 32 It is the spendthrift, with his endless wants,
who stoops lowest to fill his pockets.
In fact, it will be a public disGRACE
if you show tolerance towards a man
who has achieved his success only with the help of YOUR money
1Pet. 5:2 FEED the flock of God which is among you,
taking the OVERSIGHT thereof, not by constraint,
but willingly;
not for filthy lucre. BUT OF A READY MIND
turpis lucri gratia sed voluntarie
poimn-ion II. METAPHORS. of disciples, Ev.Luc.12.32, al.; “p. Theou” 1 Ep.Pet.5.2.
“manthanein” Hom. uses only the Ep. aor. forms mathon, emmathes, emmathe:—learn, esp. by study (but also, by practice, Simon.147, Arist.EN1103a32,OVERSIGHT: prō-vĭdĕo , 2. To see to, look after, care for, give attention to; to prepare or provide for any thing:
Matt. 28:19 GO ye therefore, and TEACH [ma^thēt-euō] ,all nations,
baptizing them in the name [singular] of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matt. 28:20 Teaching them to observe all thingsma^thēt-euō ,II. trans., make a disciple of, instruct, “panta ta ethnē” Ev.Matt.28.19, cf. Act.Ap.14.21:—Pass., Ev.Matt.13.52.
whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen
THE world is aion or the end of the Messianic Kingdom.
Plat. Lach. 201b to go to school at our time of life, I think we should appeal to Homer,
who said that ““shame is no good mate for a needy man.””Hom. Od. 17.347
So let us not mind what anyone may say,
but join together in arranging for our own and the boys' tuition.Lysimachus
I gladly approve of your suggestions, Socrates; and as I am the oldest,
so I am the most eager to have lessons with the young ones.
Now this is what I ask you to do:
care for; to provide, make preparation or provision for any thing.
PART THREE 8.10. 16
Larry.Souder.Amazing.Grace.with.Leonard.Allen.html
Larry.Souder.Amazing.Grace.with.Leonard.Allen informed the watching world that the [marginal] Church of Christ got its doctrine from Lipscomb.Sewel.Questions.Answered.html
Churches of Christ have never ceased to Exist under that name. All but historic churches claim to be Apostolic or Built upon the Prophets and Apostles.
There was no Congregational singing in holy Scripture nor anywhere until after the reformation.
The first to use the "trias" word was to repudiate paganism and honor God by saying that the Almighty always had his wisdom, breath [spirit] and Word with Him.within Himself.
I am slow because my 92 year old wife had to have an emerency pacemaker,
Madison sowed massive discord when it introduced a professional singing group. Working with Lipscomb they brought in a Conflict Resolution president. The way to solve conflict was to dissociate from Churches of Christ. God would call that 'Casting the owners out of theit own synagogue." Ronda Lower brought in WITCHCRAFT called Spiritual Formation.
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Rhonda brought in a female president. She brought in Allen who spent some time at Fuller.
http://www.pineycom.com/Earl.Lavender.Spiritual.Formation.html
Leonard Allen makes the sectarian mistake that "church" is defined as a "worshiping" group deciding what actions [legalism] constitutes a pattern which best appeases or tickles God. That leads to as many patterns as there are sacred enclaves. I was eleven years old and I doubt that Leonard suddenly learned how to repudiate a father "who done him wrong."
People who infiltrate a congregation or a university, paid for by sacrificial giving even by widows, are not qualified to speak for anyone
THERE WAS NEVER A STONE-CAMPBELL MOVEMENT
http://www.pineycom.com/Stone.Campbell.Movement.html
1. Allen says that churches of Christ got their roots from LIPSCOMB
2. John Calvin called for a Restoration of the Church OF CHRIST. He also says that the FANATICAL think they hear SPIRIT outside the Word.
3. Calvin defines Adult baptism by quoting Holy Scripture.
4. Groups calling themselves church of Christ existed in all ages.
5. The Rule of Faith by all church faith is direct commands or examples from Holy Scripture.
6. Campbell quotes many church fathers who can read BLACK Text on BROWN paper
Col. 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness,
and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
THAT KINGDOM DOES NOT COME WITH RELIGIOUS "OBSERVATIONS"
https://www.pineycom.com/Luke.17.Kingdom.Not.Observation.html
Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us,
by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Heb. 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, [Church of Christt]
which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all,
and to the spirits OF just men made perfect,
https://www.pineycom.com/The.Old.Paths.Reconsidered.html
And they that shall be of thee shall build
the old waste places:
thou shalt raise
up the foundations of many generations;
and thou shalt be
called,
The repairer of the breach,
The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Isa 58:1
Isa 59:20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion,
and unto them that turn
from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.
h7725. שׁוּב shuwb, shoob; a primitive root; to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);
Spirit, figurative, is in the form of God puts His WORDS into the Mouth of Jesus for the last days.Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted [TURN], that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
Is 59:21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD;
My SPIRIT that is upon thee , and
My WORDS which I have put in thy mouth,
shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed,
nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed, saith the Lord,
from henceforth and for ever.
Leonard Allen missed Prophecy and the sources quoted by Alexander Campbell pre antebellum
Campbell: "...and safely landed in New York on the 29th of September, 1809.Campbell raised money for a building, understood that Holy Scripture was the only authority and was Baptized
"On the 28th of the next month I arrived in Washington, Pennsylvania, to which place I have been known ever since. I arrived in this country with credentials in my pocket from that sect of Presbyterians known by the name of Seceders. These credentials certified that I had been both in Ireland in the presbytery of Market Hill, and in Scotland in the presbytery of Glasgow a member of the Secession church, in good standing. My faith in creeds and confessions of human device was considerably shaken while in Scotland, and I commenced my career in this country under the conviction that nothing that was not as old as the New Testament should be made an article of faith, a rule of practice, or a term of communion amongst christians. In a word, that the whole of the christian religion exhibited in prophecy and type in the Old Testament, was presented in the fullest, clearest, and most perfect manner in the New Testament, by the Spirit OF wisdom and revelation. "
Campbell published The Christian System and Christianity Restored but he never called for a restoration of any "primitive" Assembly. He Quotes Scripture for every teaching. The New Covenant is the Last Will and Testament of Jesus. The only thing Directly commanded and approved as THE pattern is to honestly read and mutually confess.
https://www.pineycom.com/Church.of.Christ.Pattern.html
https://www.pineycom.com/The.Ekklesia.A.Church.of.Christ.html
No one I ever knew was able to understand that the "creation" or Assembly of Messiah is defined by the prophets both inclusively and exclusively. That includes baptism, the seven spirits (never aperson)
Eph. 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;Built upon means [educated in the ekklesia] Both Stone and Campbell denied that there was any UNION before OR after the 1832 agreement by a few gathered men
https://www.pineycom.com/Stone.Campbell.Burnett.html
Alexander Campbell rejected a trinity of ONE God the Father,
The MAN Jesus and A god named Holy Spirit. Holy Scripture
names Holy Spirit and the SPIRIT OF GOD.
"Richard Hughes and C. Leonard Allen have placed the Stone-Campbell movement in the larger context of American antebellum primitivism.
Specifically, the Puritan and Christian American primordium -- not the only primordium available on the current market refers to a sort of mythic time.
In essence this was "the primal (or "primitive" or "first") time in which Christianity was given and unfolded in fullness. " The time of Jesus, the apostles and the earliest Christian community
was "the normative TIME to which men and women of the present must,
in imagination, 'return' for saving guidance and empowerment."
Among these are members of the Churches of Christ and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsThat's a lie:
Jude 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was ONCE delivered unto the saints.
GOD SENT APOSTLES, PROPHETS AND SCRIBES AS THE ONLY WAY TO PROTECT THE "LAOS OPPOSITE OF PRIESTS AND LEVITES OR
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"The root of the word (Nicolaitans) through historical evaluation shows us that the word Nicolaitans comes from Greek nikao, to conquer or overcome, and laos, which means people and which the word laity comes from. The two words together especially means the destruction of the people and refers to the earliest form of what we call a priestly order or clergy which later on in church history divided people allowing for leadership other than those led by the Lord Jesus Christ.
Surely preaching the gospel should no more be regarded as a profession than the talk of loving parents to children. Is the Church justified in confining its attention to the ministry of one man?
In most modern congregation there are some Christian men who, by natural ability, by experimental knowledge and inspiration are far more qualified to instruct and comfort the people than their professional and stated minister.
Surely official preaching has no authority, either in Scripture, reason, or experience, and it must come to an end sooner or later." (Pulpit Commentary, 1 Cor. p. 464).
Jer. 18:15 Because my people hath
forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they
have caused them to stumble in their ways from the
ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast
up
Controlling
rhetoric and music FOR SALE is well defined by men who blew
whistles, plucked strings and beat on drumes to steal your
lambs or wife
"When tribes grew too large for effective co-operation (and inbred), they often became subdivided into smaller kinship groups (clans, sibs, gentes) which continued to regard each other as close allies. Government was exercised by individual chieftains assisted by councils of elders" (p. 26).
"In this fashion every common tribal interest--the recurrence of the seasons, the increase of the food supply, successful hunting--was likely to become embodied in some regularly repeated ceremony, which usually included group dancing, singing, and feasting.
Besides enabling men to express, and thereby to allay, ANGER and ANXIETY, such ceremonies also promoted tribal UNITY and strengthened the loyalty of the individual to TRIBAL TRADITION,
for the emotional excitement they aroused had the effect of breaking down the barriers between individuals
and thus fusing all tribesmen into a collective whole. Meanwhile, whole systems of magical devices were gradually elaborated." (H. Bamford Parkes, Of Gods and Men p. 29)
'Certain members of a tribe, marked out either by unusual skills or by some emotional abnormality, ususally became particularly adept at these operations, and gradually assumed specialized functions. RELEASED [Parasites] from the duty of hunting, and concentrating on the practice of MAGIC, the shaman, SORCERER, or medicine man was the world's first professional." (Parkes, p. 29).
The development both of religion and of the arts can be traced back in a continuous line to the hunting era. The group ritual of the primeval tribesmen were the origin not only of all religious ceremonial, but also of the drama and of poetry and music, while magic gave birth to the visual arts." (Parkes, Henry Bamford, On Gods and Men, p. 30).
"Awed by the mysteries of his own spirit no less than by those of
nature, primitive man was likely to attribute to divine
influence any abnormal emotional state, whether
above or below the usual level. Medicine men customarily went
into states of trance in which they were believed
to be in communication with the gods, and many tribes
supposed lunatics and sexual deviants to be
divinely possessed.
Paul warned about Feminist Theology.Worshipping chiefly divinities of the sky and the weather, and seeing them definitely in masculine forms, pastoral peoples did not usually deify the processes of sexual reproduction or regard human sacrifice as more than an extreme and unusual expedient; and their gods, being nomadic rather than fixed to particular localities, and not normally represented by means of images, could be universalized and spiritualized more easily than the peasant deities." (Parkes, p. 48).
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PROOF OF 'CRACKING AWAY" TO THE primitive:
Madison boasted of having over 5,000 in attendance when Keith Lancaster was brought in to RESTORE THE PRIMITIVE WHICH MAKES MEN BLUSH.
The Praise Team leads the congregation into the presence of the Lord with exciting praise and worship. The Word says that God inhabits the praises of His people and we are a people desiring to be inhabited!
Our role as worship
leaders is to MINISTER to the heart of God
Himself
our worship is about HIM
and Him alone.
We also serve to BLESS those who gather for
worship in OUR
services,
not so that they can
walk away “satisfied” or “FILLED
BY THE MUSIC” ,
but so that SPACE is created for THEM to encounter the living God.
But you,
worship leader—you know (or at least you ought
to know) where you are LEADING
them.
Ours is
not a role of “forcing worship” upon OUR people.
It
is merely PROMPTING them OUT
of the sheep pen [A
Church of Christ]
and
into a space where the kingdom of God does its
transformative work within them.
Our job is to merely open the
gate and lead them into GREENER pastures.
Brandon Scott
Thomas Zoe Group: The Holy
Spirit is the true worship leader.
Our job
as church worship leaders is to
lean
completely into His leading.
We cannot
force anyone to worship,
all we can do
is STAND IN
the doorway [holy place] an
and invite people
into the presence of the Living God.
What an honor!
What a joy! What a profound burden!
Worship is one of the greatest ways we
have of speaking TRUTH INTO the spiritual realm
and reminding ourselves of those same truths.
Worship is adoration. Worship calls for transparency. To
be honest, all of life should be a worship offering to
our Father.
Our worship
ministry participants are challenged to view
themselves as worship leaders…
not just back-up
singers to the worship leader.
Therefore, we have a tremendous responsibility to come
prepared,
to lead with great conviction
and feeling,
and to exhibit
lives that reflect the glory of the Lord.
I’ve always said,
“The best way to be an
effective worship leader is to just be a devoted
worshipper.”
PROOF THAT GOD HIDES FROM THE WISE: RHETORIC, MUSIC, SCENIC
Amos 5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch
and Chiun your images,
the STAR of
your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Acts 7:41 And they made a calf in those days,
and offered sacrifice unto the idol,
and rejoiced in the works of their own hands
The practice in the wilderness, tyre and
Jerusalem
Acts 7:42 Then God turned,
and gave them up to worship the
HOST of heaven;
as
it is written in the book of the prophets,
O
ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts
and sacrifices
by
the space of forty years in the wilderness?
Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into
captivity beyond Damascus,
saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
Acts 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch,Mark.10.They.Shall.Mock.Him.With.Music
and the star of your god Remphan,
figures which ye made to worship them:
and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
Trumpet, drums, flute, cymbals and castinets
with buffoons
Psallo permits ONLY smiting a string with your FINGERS:
not a plectrum
Psallo and SOP have the same root meaning.
Revelation 18F: they are all called Sorcerers who HAD once deceived the whole world.
They WILL BE CAST ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.
The Hebrews Slogan
THEREFORE we ought to give the more earnest heed (honor or worship) to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. Hebrews 2:1
For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; Hebrews 2:2
How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; Hebrews 2:3
God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will (pattern)? Hebrews 2:4
Chrysostom's Commentary on Galatians:
Galatians 5:1.-"With freedom did Christ set us free; stand fast therefore.115 ."
Ver. 12. "I would that they which unsettle you would even cut themselves off." And he says well "that unsettle you." "A man that is heretical after the first and second admonition refuse." (Tit. iii: 10) If they will, let them not only be circumcised, but mutilated. Where then are those who dare to mutilate themselves; seeing that they draw down the Apostolic curse, and accuse the workmanship of God, and take part with the Manichees?
Chrysostom understood that the pagans used vocal or instrumental noise to stir up or create anxiety so that they could steal your food money. Christ outlawed this in Isaiah 55. Christ outlawed BLASPHEMY in the modern context of saying that God commanded instrumental distractions when He DID NOT.For the ear enchanted by the sound of a flute hath often enervated the soul;
But if you will not allow this, why do you not mutilate the tongue for blasphemy, the hands for rapine, the feet for their evil courses, in short, the whole body?
and the perception of a sweet perfume by the nostrils hath bewitched the mind, and made it frantic for pleasure .
Music. Cantillation signs guide the READER in applying a chant to Biblical READING. This chant is technically regarded as a ritualized form of SPEECH intonation rather than as a musical exercise like the singing of metrical hymns: for this reason Jews always speak of SAYING or READING a passage rather than of singing it. (In Yiddish the word is leynen 'read', derived from Latin legere, giving rise to the Jewish English verb "to leyn".)
Cyprian of Carthage on THE SHOWS speaking to much church "worship."
b. AD 200,, Carthage. d. Sept. 14, 258, Carthage 2. Believers, and men who claim for themselves the authority of the Christian name, are not ashamed-are not, I repeat, ashamed to find a defence in the heavenly Scriptures for the vain superstitions associated with the public exhibitions of the heathens, and thus to attribute divine authority to idolatry.
For how is it, that what is done by the heathens in honour of any idol is resorted to in a public show by faithful Christians, and the heathen idolatry is maintained, and the true and divine religion is trampled upon in contempt of God? Shame binds me to relate their pretexts and defences in this behalf.
"Where," say they, "are there such Scriptures? where are these things prohibited? On the contrary, both Elias is the charioteer of Israel, and David himself danced before the ark.
We read of psalteries, horns, 6 trumpets, drums, pipes, harps, and choral dances. Moreover, the apostle, in his struggle, puts before us the contest of the Caestus, and of our wrestle against the spiritual things of wickedness. Again, when he borrows his illustrations from the racecourse, he also proposes the prize of the crown. Why, then, may not a faithful Christian man gaze upon that which the divine pen might write about? "At this point I might not unreasonably say that it would have been far better for them not to know any writings at all, than thus to read the Scriptures. 7
Ezek. 26:12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise:
and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses:
and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
Ezek. 26:13 And I will cause the NOISE of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
Is. 24:8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
NOISE h1995. הָמוֹן hamown, haw-mone´; or הָמֹן hamon (Ezek. 5:7), haw-mone´; from 1993; a noise, tumult, crowd; also disquietude, wealth:—abundance, company, many, multitude, multiply, noise, riches, rumbling, sounding, store, tumult.
Is. 5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
Ezek. 33:30 Also, thou son of man, the children of thy peopleVulgate translates, "They turn thy words into a song of their mouths." heart goeth after covetousness--the grand rival to the love of God; therefore called "idolatry," and therefore associated with impure carnal love, as both alike transfer the heart's affection from the Creator to the creature.
still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses,
and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying,
Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD.
Ezek. 33:31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh,
and they sit before thee as my people,
and they hear thy words, but they will not do them:
for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
God picked the worst example of people who reject His Word
Ezek. 33:32 And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice,
and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Ezek. 33:33 And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.
The triumphal hymn of Moses had unquestionably a religious character about it;
but the employment of music in religious services, though idolatrous,
is more distinctly marked in the festivities which attended the erection of the golden calf." (Smith's Bible Dictionary, Music, p. 589)."In the New Testament there is nowhere any emphasis laid on the musical form of the hymns;
and in particular none on instrumental accompaniment whereas this is significantly paganism."
(Delling, Gerhard, Worship in the New Testament, trans. Percy Scott Phil. Westminster press, 1962, p. 86).
Cyprian writes:
It is not lawful, I say, for faithful Christians to be present; it is not lawful, I say, at all, even for those whom for the delight of their ears Greece sends everywhere to all who are instructed in her vain arts. One imitates the hoarse warlike clangours of the trumpet; another with his breath blowing into a pipe regulates its mournful sounds; another with dances, and with the musical voice of a man, strives with his breath, which by an effort he had drawn from his bowels into the upper parts of his body, to play upon the stops of pipes; now letting forth the sound, and now closing it up inside, and forcing it into the air by certain openings of the stops; now breaking the sound in measure, he endeavours to speak with his fingers, ungrateful to the Artificer who gave him a tongue. Why should I speak of comic and useless efforts? Why of those great tragic vocal ravings? Why of strings set vibrating with noise? These things, even if they were not dedicated to idols, ought not to be approached and gazed upon by faithful Christians; because, even if they were not criminal, they are characterized by a worthlessness which is extreme, and which is little suited to believers.10. Let the faithful Christian, I say, devote himself to the sacred Scriptures, and there he shall find worthy exhibitions for his faith.
Athanasius (c. 296–373)
Against the Heathen, 1:3
“The holy and inspired b are fully sufficient for the proclamation of the truth.”
Ambrose (340–397 A.D.)
On the Duties of the Clergy, 1:23:102
“For how can we adopt those things which we do not find in the holy Scriptures?”
St. Augustine (354–430)
De unitate ecclesiae, 10
“Neither dare one agree with catholic bishops if by chance they err in anything, but the result that their opinion is against the canonical Scriptures of God.”
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)
Summa Theologiae, Question 1, art. 8
“For our faith rests on the revelation made to the Prophets and Apostles who wrote the canonical books.”
Basil the Great (ca.329–379)
On the Holy Spirit, 7.16
“We are not content simply because this is the tradition of the Fathers. What is important is that the Fathers followed the meaning of the Scripture.”
Chrysostom's Commentary on Galatians:
Galatians 5:1.-"With freedom did Christ set us free; stand fast therefore.115 ."
Ver. 12. "I would that they which unsettle you would even cut themselves off." And he says well "that unsettle you." "A man that is heretical after the first and second admonition refuse." (Tit. iii: 10) If they will, let them not only be circumcised, but mutilated. Where then are those who dare to mutilate themselves; seeing that they draw down the Apostolic curse, and accuse the workmanship of God, and take part with the Manichees?
Chrysostom understood that the pagans used vocal or instrumental noise to stir up or create anxiety so that they could steal your food money. Christ outlawed this in Isaiah 55. Christ outlawed BLASPHEMY in the modern context of saying that God commanded instrumental distractions when He DID NOT.For the ear enchanted by the sound of a flute hath often enervated the soul;
But if you will not allow this, why do you not mutilate the tongue for blasphemy, the hands for rapine, the feet for their evil courses, in short, the whole body?
and the perception of a sweet perfume by the nostrils hath bewitched the mind, and made it frantic for pleasure .
David's PRAISE word threatened the same sexual proof of superiority:
Ululo Ulŭlo I. Neutr., to howl, yell, shriek, utter a mournful cry. B.Transf., of places, to ring, resound, re-echo with howling: penitusque cavae plangoribus aedes Femineis ululant,Verg. A. 2, 488 : resonae ripae, Sil. 6, 285 : Dindyma sanguineis Gallis, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 269 .--
Clement of Alexandria
Clement Pedegogue 1: Vol III Commands, Examples and Inferences Chapter 3What, then, the Master desires and declares, and how He is disposed in deed and word,how He commands what is to be done, and forbids the opposite, has already been shown.
- b. AD 150, Athens
- d. between 211 and 215
Plainly, then, the other kind of discourse, the didactic, is powerful and spiritual, observing precision, occupied in the contemplation of mysteries.
But let it stand over for the present.
Now, it is incumbent on us to return His love, who lovingly guides us to that life which is best; and to live in accordance with the injunctions of His will, not only fulfilling what is commanded,or guarding against what is forbidden,
but turning away from some examples, and imitating others as much as we can, and thus to perform the works of the Master according to His similitude,
and so fulfil what Scripture says as to our being made in His image and likeness.
Clement of Alexandria (d. 215)
The Stromata, 7:16
“But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.”
Cyprian of Carthage on THE SHOWS speaking to much church "worship."
b. AD 200,, Carthage. d. Sept. 14, 258, Carthage
2. Believers, and men who claim for themselves the authority of the Christian name, are not ashamed-are not, I repeat, ashamed to find a defence in the heavenly Scriptures for the vain superstitions associated with the public exhibitions of the heathens,
and thus to attribute divine authority to idolatry.For how is it, that what is done by the heathens in honour of any idol is resorted to in a public show by faithful Christians, and the heathen idolatry is maintained, and the true and divine religion is trampled upon in contempt of God? Shame binds me to relate their pretexts and defences in this behalf.
"Where," say they, "are there such Scriptures? where are these things prohibited? On the contrary, both Elias is the charioteer of Israel, and David himself danced before the ark.
We read of psalteries, horns, 6 trumpets, drums, pipes, harps, and choral dances. Moreover, the apostle, in his struggle, puts before us the contest of the Caestus, and of our wrestle against the spiritual things of wickedness.
Again, when he borrows his illustrations from the racecourse, he also proposes the prize of the crown. Why, then, may not a faithful Christian man gaze upon that which the divine pen might write about? "At this point I might not unreasonably say that it would have been far better for them not to know any writings at all, than thus to read the Scriptures. 7
The triumphal hymn of Moses had unquestionably a religious character about it; but the employment of music in religious services, though idolatrous, is more distinctly marked in the festivities which attended the erection of the golden calf." (Smith's Bible Dictionary, Music, p. 589).
"In the New Testament there is nowhere any emphasis laid on the musical form of the hymns; and in particular none on instrumental accompaniment whereas this is significantly paganism." (Delling, Gerhard, Worship in the New Testament, trans. Percy Scott Phil. Westminster press, 1962, p. 86).
Cyprian writes:
It is not lawful, I say, for faithful Christians to be present; it is not lawful, I say, at all, even for those whom for the delight of their ears Greece sends everywhere to all who are instructed in her vain arts. One imitates the hoarse warlike clangours of the trumpet; another with his breath blowing into a pipe regulates its mournful sounds; another with dances,
and with the musical voice of a man, strives with his breath, which by an effort he had drawn from his bowels into the upper parts of his body, to play upon the stops of pipes; now letting forth the sound, and now closing it up inside, and forcing it into the air by certain openings of the stops;
now breaking the sound in measure, he endeavours to speak with his fingers, ungrateful to the Artificer who gave him a tongue. Why should I speak of comic and useless efforts? Why of those great tragic vocal ravings?Why of strings set vibrating with noise? These things, even if they were not dedicated to idols, ought not to be approached and gazed upon by faithful Christians; because, even if they were not criminal, they are characterized by a worthlessness which is extreme, and which is little suited to believers.
10. Let the faithful Christian, I say, devote himself to the sacred Scriptures, and there he shall find worthy exhibitions for his faith.
-
Gregory of Nyssa on Scripture as Authority
- b. c. 335, Caesarea, in Cappadocia, Asia Minor [now Kayseri, Turkey]
- d. c. 394, feast day March 9
- And in this assertion they do not go beyond the truth; for we do say so.
- But the ground of their complaint is that
- their custom does not admit this,
- and Scripture does not support it. What then is our reply?
- We do not think that it is right to make their prevailing custom the law and rule of sound doctrine.
- For if custom is to avail for proof of
soundness, we too,
surely, may advance our prevailing custom;
- Let the inspired Scripture, then, be our umpire, and
- the vote of truth will surely be given to those
- whose dogmas are found to agree with the Divine words
“On the Holy Trinity”, NPNF, p. 327
“Let the inspired Scriptures then be our umpire, and the vote of truth will be given to those whose dogmas are found to agree with the Divine words.”
Died C. 110 Ignatius to the Ephesians And if those that corrupt mere human families are condemned to death, how much more shall those suffer everlasting punishment who endeavour to corrupt the CHURCH OF CHRIST, for which the Lord Jesus, the only-begotten Son of God, endured the cross, and submitted to death! Whosoever, "being waxen fat," and "become gross," sets at nought His doctrine, shall go into hell.
Irenaeus (ca. 150)
Against Heresies 3.1.1
“We have learned from none others the plan of our salvation, than from those through whom the gospel has come down to us, which they did at one time proclaim in public, and, at a later period, by the will of God, handed down to us in the Scriptures, to be the ground and pillar of our faith.”
Justin Martyr with Typho a Jew Part One c 100-165
Chapter XI.-The Law Abrogated; The New Testament Promised and Given by God.
But we do not trust through Moses or through the law; for then we would do the same as yourselves. But now -(for I have read that there shall be a final law, and a covenant, the chiefest of all, which it is now incumbent on all men to observe, as many as are seeking after the inheritance of God.
Origen XLI In the next place, as if he had forgotten that it was his object to write against the Christians, he says that,
"having become acquainted with one Dionysius, an Egyptian musician,
the latter told him, with respect to magic arts,
that it was only over the uneducated and men of corrupt morals that they had any power,
while on philosophers they were unable to produce any effect,
because they were careful to observe a healthy manner of life." Tatian born AD 120, , Syria died April 173
Chapter XXXII.-The Doctrine of the Christians, is Opposed to Dissensions, and Fitted for All.
But with us there is no desire of vainglory, nor do we indulge in a variety of opinions. For having renounced the popular and earthly, and obeying the commands of God, and following the law of the Father of immortality,
we reject everything which rests upon human opinion. Not only do the rich among us pursue our philosophy,
but the poor enjoy instruction gratuitously, ( [Compare cap. xi. p. 69. And note, thus early, the Christian free schools, such as Julian closed and then imitated, confessing their power.]) for the things which come from God surpass the requital of worldly gifts.
Tertullian of Carthage (Quintus Septimius Florens Terullianus, b. 155 - 160 Carthage - d. 220? AD)
He specificially uses exclusion or necessary inference to repudiate music.
"Fortified by this knowledge against heathen views, let us rather turn to the unworthy reasonings of our own people; for the faith of some, either too simple or too scrupulous,
demands direct authority from Scripture for giving up the shows,
and holds out that the matter is a doubtful one, because such abstinence is not clearly and in words imposed upon God's servants. "Well, we never find it expressed with the same precision,
"Thou shalt not enter circus or theatre, thou shalt not look on combat or show; ""But we find that that first word of David bears on this very sort of thing: "Blessed," he says, "is the man who has not gone into the assembly of the impious, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the seat of scorners." Ps. i. 1. Though he seems to have predicted beforehand of that just man, that he took no part in the meetings and deliberations of the Jews, taking counsel about the slaying of our Lord, yet divine Scripture has ever far-reaching applications: after the immediate sense has been exhausted, in all directions it fortifies the practice of the religious life, so that here also you have an utterance which is not far from a plain interdicting of the shows.
as it is plainly laid down, "Thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not worship an idol; thou shalt not commit adultery or fraud." Ex. xx. 14.
Tertullian, De Spectaculis
"Tertullian, with his characteristic energy, takes up the same argument in his famous work "On Prescription Against Heretics". His general process of reasoning runs thus: Christ chose twelve Apostles to whom he communicated His doctrine. The Apostles preached this doctrine to the churches they founded, and thence the same doctrine came to the more recent churches. Neither did the Apostles corrupt Christ's doctrine, nor have the Apostolic Churches corrupted the preaching of the Apostles. Heresy is always posterior, and, therefore, erroneous.
"We have to show," he says (c. xxi), "whether our doctrine . . . is derived from Apostolic teaching, and whether, therefore, other doctrines have their origin in a lie. We are in communion with the Apostolic Churches, because we have the same doctrine; that is the testimony of the truth (Communicamus cum Ecclesiis apostolicis, quod nulla doctrina diversa; hoc est testimonium veritatis). In Tertullian's writings against Marcion (IV, v) we find an application of this apologetic argument. Having developed the historical argument founded on the preservation, as a matter of fact, of the Apostolic doctrine in the chief Apostolic Churches, we must add that, besides it, such writers as Irenaeus and others used often also a dogmatic argument founded on the necessary preservation of Christian truth in the whole Church and in the Roman Church in particular. The two arguments are to be carefully distinguished. Apostolic Churches
Theophilus of Antioch to Autolycus wrote:
Chapter V.-The Invisible God Perceived Through His Works.
For as the soul in man is not seen, being invisible to men, but is perceived through the motion of the body,
..........so God cannot indeed be seen by human eyes,
..........but is beheld and perceived through His providence and works. For, in like manner, as any person, when he sees a ship on the sea rigged and in sail, and making for the harbour, will no doubt infer that there is a pilot in her who is steering her; so we must perceive that God is the governor [pilot] of the whole universe, though He be not visible to the eyes of the flesh, since He is incomprehensible. For if a man cannot look upon the sun, though it be a very small heavenly body, on account of its exceeding heat and power, how shall not a mortal man be much more unable to face the glory of God, which is unutterable?
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