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The Instrumental Music Question Answering Arguments from the Bible Part 2

Answering Arguments Used in Patriarchal times (Gen.4:21; Ex. 15:20-21). Answer: What was used by individuals in Patriarchal times does not apply to the local church in the New Testament.

Answering Arguments Used by King David in the Psalms (1 Chron.23:5; 2 Chron.29:25-28; Neh. 12:36; Psa.98:5-6; 149:3; 150:3- 5). Answer: What was used (commanded) in the Temple service in the Old Testament does not apply to the local church in the New Testament. The Law of Moses as has been abolished (Rom.7:6; Eph. 2:14; Col.2:14; Heb.10:9).

Answering Arguments Are you willing to introduce other Old Testament practices into the church such as the Sabbath Day, the Passover, animal sacrifices, incense, etc? In Psalm 149 and 150 there is dancing with instruments. Would this authorize church dancing today? In Psalm 66:15 there is sacrifice and incense. Would this authorize church sacrifices and incense today?

Answering Arguments If you bind one thing from the OT, you are obligated to bind all (Gal. 5:1-4)

Answering Arguments Used by the father of the prodigal (Lk.15:25). Answer: “Music” in this passage is from the Gr. symphonia (used by the LXX in Dan. 3). What was used by individuals in a personal party does not apply to worship in the local church (see also Mt.11:16-17). Note that “dancing” is also mentioned in this verse. Would this justify church dances?

Answering Arguments Used by Paul (1 Cor.13:1; 14:7-9). Answer: Paul was using an illustration of an instrument to make a point, not giving a description of New Testament worship (see also 1 Cor. 9:24).

Answering Arguments Used in Eph.5:19 because the Gr. psallo (“psalms”) is used. “Psalms” were played on an instrument like King David did. The Gr. psallo means to play an instrument. Answer: Yes, the Gr. word psallo can mean “to play an instrument,” but in NT times, it meant to “sing”.

Answering Arguments Answer: The basic meaning of the Gr. psallo is lit. “to pluck; to twang; to twitch; to strike”; then, “to play an instrument”; then, in the NT, “to sing a hymn”. Greek lexicographers are careful to point out the change in meaning from OT times to NT times: from plucking, to playing, to singing.

Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon of the NT, page 675

Answering Arguments Answer: A “psalm” can be sung just as easily as it can be played on an instrument. A “psalm” is still a psalm without an instrument being played (see Psa. 95:1-2).

Psallo in the New Testament ** Greek Word Meaning Passage psalleto sing psalms Jas. 5:19 psallantes making melody Eph. 5:19 psallo sing Rom. 15:9; 1 Cor. 14:15 (2x) psalmo / psalmon psalms (quoted) Lk. 20:42; Ac. 1:20; 13:33 psalmois in psalms (quoted, singing) Lk. 24:44 Eph. 5:19; Col. 3:16 psalmon a psalm (spoken) 1 Cor. 14:26 ** Psalms were quoted, spoken, and sung, but never played in the NT

Answering Arguments Paul wrote “singing and making melody (music)” in Eph. 5:19. “Singing” (Gr. ado) and “making melody” (Gr. psallantes) are two different things: singing and playing an instrument. Answer: First, psallantes is lit. “psalming” (or praising); thus, “singing and psalming…” The English “melody” (or “music”, NIV) is a translation.

Answering Arguments Second, psallantes is from psallo, which we have already shown to mean “sing” in NT times. Third, the “heart” (see also Col.3:16) is specified as the object of “making melody”; that is, “singing and making melody with [in] the heart”. The object [an instrument of any kind] is not inherent in the definition of psallantes.

Answering Arguments The object must be determined, specified or supplied by the context. In Eph. 5:19, it’s the heart. In the OT psalms, the mechanical instrument is specified (see Psa. 92:3; 150:3-5). Why did Paul, who knew the psalms, not specify the mechanical instrument(s) to be used?

Answering Arguments Fourth, the parallel passage in Colossians 3:16 tells us that singing is what is meant.

speaking one to another Ephesians 5:19 Colossians 3;16 speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord. ... teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

Psallo Summary Psallo, by NT times, meant “to sing”, not “to play” Psallantes (“making melody”) is a command for everyone, not just one member or a few; all must do it Psallantes (“making melody”) is done “with your heart”, not with an mechanical instrument

Psallo Summary Psalms were quoted, spoken, and sung in the NT, but never played

Answering Arguments Used by Jesus (1 Thess.4:16). Answer: What Jesus uses at His second coming has nothing to do with New Testament worship (see also 1 Cor.15:52).

Answering Arguments Used in Heaven (Rev.14:2). Answer: John heard a “voice,” not an instrument. The “voice” began to “sing” (v.3). Also, the word “as” or “like” (Gr. hos ) is used three times in v.2 to show what the “voice” sounded like (see ASV, NASV, NIV, RSV, NRSV).

Answering Arguments But what about Rev.5:7-8; 15:2-3? What is done in this heavenly scene does not apply to the New Testament church on earth (see Mt.22:30). Revelation also speaks of a throne, a sea of glass, golden bowls, lamps, living creatures, precious stones, and incense in heaven. Should these things also be in the church today?

The Instrumental Music Question Do we understand better the issue over the instrument? We “sing” because that is what God said he wanted. We refuse to play a mechanical instrument because God never authorized it in the New Testament.

The Instrumental Music Question We can unite upon what is in the New Testament. We can never unite upon what is not in the NT. Mechanical instruments of music in worship to God by Christians is never found in the New Testament.