The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #140779 Message #3236690
Posted By: GUEST
10-Oct-11 - 09:44 AM
Thread Name: Reputation of Musicians in Rural America
Subject: RE: Reputation of Musicians in Rural America
Well if singing the Psalms is encouraged, then what about Psalm 150? It quite clearly states:
1 Praise ye the LORD.
Praise God in his sanctuary:
praise him in the firmament of his power.
2 Praise him for his mighty acts:
praise him according to his excellent greatness.
3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet:
praise him with the psaltery and harp.
4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance:
praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals:
praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD.
Now if singing the Psalms is OK, then presumably one is supposed to take some notice of the words of the said Psalms? Otherwise why sing them? Now if there's a psalm with direct and specific instructions to use musical instruments, on what basis can they possibly interpret that as 'don't play instruments'.