the Bible and music

[TouchTestimony]

does the Bible have anything negative to say about music??

 

[Strypes]

does the Bible have anything negative to say about music??

Not if it is to worship God.

Here are a couple of scriptures regarding music and worship of idols for you to check out.

Ezekiel 26:13

And I will stop the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.


Daniel 3:5

that when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.


Daniel 3:7

Therefore, as soon as all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, all the peoples, nations, and languages fell down and worshiped the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.


Daniel 3:10

You, O king, have made a decree, that every man who hears the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image.


Daniel 3:15

Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, well and good.1 But if you do not worship, you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?”

 

[Fraction]

Only when it comes to using the music for worshiping false idols.

 

[paganmystic]

Hi TouchTestimony. All you will find on music and evil is in the Old Testiment. There is a reason for that. In the history of our Saviour's people they have had a serious problem remaining faithful to God. As a result their Great Temple, based on the Gift of the Prophets, continued narrowing the scope of their faith. At the same time those that preached of magic and sooth-seeing chose alluring sounds to warp the most vulnerable. The reason for Strypes post. This was the path of the Semetic people to the Hebrews to Jews always struggling to keep faith while fighting the temptation of "want" verse need. They were all the same peoples just different eras through out their history.

With the New Testament our faith is now based on "personal" commitment and not the path of family and family hierarchy. Today this is equally hard to grasp, so now we want to form groups to believe by, the Religious System. We inundate ourselves with a group mentality based on the bad side of ancient history and completely ignore the "personal commitment" part of the equation.

That brings us back to the question. If the music lends itself to humility, the need for redemption (based on "personal" experience- Romans 5:3-4), or general knowledge that forewarns us of paths of transgressions. Then it would be good music regardless of the genre.

 

[TouchTestimony]

Thank you for your answers people, they helped.