Not only are those who believe in FREE WILL atheists, they are apparently IDOLATERS.

NOT unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truths sake. Psa 115:1

Wherefore should the heathen (Gentiles) say, Where is now their God? Psa 115:2

God's ONLY predestinated plan was to INCLUDE the Gentiles in a GATHERING or synagoguing in one school of the Bible--without rituals. However, by quoting the passage, David Lawrence identifies US as IDOLATERS even thought we have as Gentiles BEEN INCLUDED in Christ.

But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. Psa 115:3

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of mens hands. Psa 115:4

They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: Psa 115:5

They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: Psa 115:6

However, the history of music as instruments or weapons to "move into the presence of the gods" or to "call the gods into their assemblies" is not complimentary: it is always effeminate and it is always symbolic of people who are illiterate. At least four times in the Old Testament, instrumental music is connected to the clear statement: "Depart from us we do not want to hear any more from God." These are Job 21:7-14; Isa 5:11-13; Amos 5:21-24; 6:1-7; 8:10-13; Ezkiel 33:30-32

"For nonliterate peoples, music often serves purposes other than entertainment or aesthetic enjoyment. Certain wind instruments are closely associated with the supernatural, and their sounds connote powerful magic.

Australian Aborigines, for instance, identify the sound of a bull-roarer with the voices of supernatural beings;

for the Plains Indians, the same sound signifies an awesome natural phenomenon, such as thunder.

Wind instruments are often among a group's most important ritual objects, and in some cultures they are specially venerated. The Kamairua Indians of the Amazon rain forest keep their giant flutes (three to four feet long),

wherein spirits are believed to dwell,

in a special shrine where they are worshiped. The flutes and drums of New Guinea are similarly housed and worshiped. "wind instrument" Members of Encyclopædia Britannica Online.

Habakkuk warned of making idols of things believed to speak for God:

What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? Hab 2:18

Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. Hab 2: 19

But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. Hab 2: 20

Plato Symposium 215c

"For I say that he is likest to the Silenus-figures that sit in the statuaries' shops; those, I mean, which our craftsmen make with pipes or flutes in their hands:

when their two halves are pulled open, they are found to contain images of gods.

And I further suggest that he resembles the satyr Marsyas.

Now, as to your likeness, Socrates, to these in figure, I do not suppose even you yourself will dispute it; but I have next to tell you that you are like them in every other respect. You are a fleering fellow, eh? If you will not confess it, I have witnesses at hand. Are you not a piper?

Why, yes, and a far more marvellous one than the satyr.

His lips indeed had power to entrance mankind by means of instruments;

a thing still possible today for anyone who can pipe his tunes:

for the music of Olympus' flute belonged, I may tell you, to Marsyas his teacher.

So that if anyone, whether a fine flute-player or paltry flute-girl, can but flute his tunes, they have no equal for exciting a ravishment,

and will indicate (prophesy) by the divinity that is in them who are apt recipients of the deities and their sanctifications.

So, musicians were always part of the HAREM OF THE GODS because they fooled the fools into believing that the GODS dwelled within. The familiar spirit of the Witch of Endor was an old, empty wineskin. When placed over a hole in the ground it became an INSTRUMENT to echo the Witch's ventriloquism. The familiar spirit has about the same meaning as the NEBEL or HARP named after NABAL, a vile fellow. The sounding brass of those seeking the VOICE OF ANGELS was a military vase or echo chamber to panic the enemy army.

We will look at some more of David Lawrence, David Lipscomb College, and his CALVINISM.

 

Eph 1:9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

Eph 1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: