Terry Rush has an agenda to promote instrumental music. These are rough notes as a rebuttal to a forum promoting Terry Rush as a guide into the future: we will add more rebuttal in time. I will add links to the Greek and Latin literature which you can read or ignore. To begin, let me challenge you to find any "religious practice" in the ancient world which did not function as witchcraft to get people aroused to believe a lie and be damned. Furthermore, I challlenge you to find any history which does not MARK gender confused males performing religious music. Therefore, to impose music contrary to all known evidence is using the "law of silence" which gives the individual the right to speak where God has been silent; and to make that opinion into a law which you should not reject for fear of being branded.
See Ronnie Norman First Colony Church: The SHEPHERDING MOVEMENT from Promise Keepers etal.
No one in history thought that melody or the Greek Psallo had any musical meaning but was used as late as 1878 by the Disciples of Christ.
ALL of the proof-texts used by the NACC agents using psallo to authorize diverting peaceable churches identify older males plucking the harp in order to seduce a young man whose hairs had been "plucked" and been emasculated.
The primary meaning of psallo connects to warfare and Apollo or the Apollyon of Revelation who uses the Muses (prostitutes) as his musical worship team. The second major connection is to MARK those who dallied in the marketplace where Jesus consigned the pipers, singers and dancer. The polluted rope twitched them so they would be MARKED when they were forced to the ekklesia for verbal instruction only. Click for the polluted message of psallo.
Only in an metaphorical sense is Psallo used of "shooting fortth hymns."
The latest ploy--100 years later after the Churches of Christ refused to be counted as part of the "organ and society party" a new effort is based on the claim that "God commanded instrumental praise and we should not be disobedient." This is within the context that simple singing is NOT WRONG.
It is probably true that no one on the discording preacher level knows that Israel fell from Grace because of Musical idolatry and the monarchy, king, temple and sacrificial system is explained by Stephen as "God turned them over to worship the starry host." We know that the fatal blow was when the tribal elders fired God and demanded a central king "like the nations." God understood that to mean "so we can worship like the nations." That is why He gave them kings in His anger and took the away in His anger.
The next First Principle is that throughout the Old Testament and confirmed in the new is that the Spirit OF Christ spoke through the prophets. The prophets -- and therefore the Christ of God -- were hostile to the kingly-priestly religion and most of those prophets utterly repudiate any kind of music as the work of "hypocrites" in the employ of a national sacrificial system quite identical to that of Babylon and Egypt.
The problem is derived from a new attempt to bond the Old and New Testament as equal in authority for faith and practice. If so, the best place to begin is to listen to a tiny sample of the universal condemnation of the monarchy as "an experiment in the idolatry of nationhood" which God warned woud impose slavery and destruction
- As a Covenant of Grace God gave The Book of the Covenant to govern the nation.
- Israel fell fatally from Grace because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.
- God turned them over to worship the starry host (Acts 7 and a dozen more passages)
- God burdened them with The Book of The Law and the Levites to "bear the burdens of sin."
- The Abrahamic Covenant was lost and the First Born sons replaced.
- No one not of Levi and not specificially ordained could COME NEAR the Tabernacle without sinning.
Because the false teachers REST on the curse of the Law and the Monarchy, the elders, preachers and artistic performers would die if they ventured in or near the area of animal slaughter.
Furthermore, no Levite, used as Warrior Noise makers-- and later under the king and commanders of the army--could come near the holy places of the sanctury or they would be executed. The patternism is that if a musician enters into the body of Christ as fulfilment of the Holy Place he / she / it is worthy of death.
Num 18:2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister BEFORE the tabernacle of witness. [never IN]
H8334 sharath shaw-rath' A primitive root; to attend as a menial or worshipper; figuratively to contribute to:--minister (unto), (do) serve (-ant, -ice, -itor), wait on.Num 18:3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle:
only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar,
that neither they, nor ye also, die.Nadab and Abihu violates several commandments.
All of the non-Levites were called STRANGERS: therefore, if you were not of the tribe of Levi with the assignment to serve you could not even minister to the priests outside of the Temple-proper. Therefore, no member of the "church" could come near the Tabernacle and none of the "ministers" could ENTER it.
"A stranger," that is, one, neither a priest nor a Levite, who should intrude into any departments of the sacred office, should incur the penalty of death. ROBERT JAMIESON
Num 18:4 And they shall be joined unto thee,
and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation,
for all the service [hard, legalistic bondage] of the tabernacle:
and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.The sacrificial system was NEVER the spiritual worship but part of the WRATH DISPELLING curse imposed because of Musical idolatry.
Num 18:5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar:
that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.Contrary to being a spiritual worship service, the sacrificial system had been imposed and if it were not performed it would bring down God's wrath as punishment due for NOT performing what they had been abandoned to.
Num 18:6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel:
to you they are given as a gift for the LORD,
to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.Num 18:7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office for every thing of the altar,
and within the veil; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s office unto you as a service of gift:
and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
"And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. Numbers 18:21
That also removes any modern cleric from imposing the tithe.
H5656 ‛abodah ‛abodoh ab-o-daw', ab-o-daw' From H5647 ; work of any kind:--act, bondage, + bondservant, effect, labour, ministering (-try),"Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die. Numbers 18:22
H5647 ‛abad aw-bad' keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute
THE MEANING OF PARASITES
Because God had abandoned Israel to "worship the starry hosts" we understand that the Levites became a burden and not a blessing to the nation.
Parasītus (parasitos, “table companion”). A word which among the Greeks denoted originally the priest's assistant, who, like the priest, received his support from the offerings made to the temple, in return for certain services. These services included the collection and care of supplies of corn due to the temple, assistance at certain sacrifices, and the preparation of the banquets connected with[p. 1175] certain festivals. The assistants of civil officials, who were maintained at the expense of the State, were also called parasites in many places. The word received another meaning in the Middle and New Greek comedy, where it means the hanger on, who plays the flatterer and buffoon, with a view to getting invited to dinner. The parasite was transferred as a standing character to the Roman imitations of Greek comedy, and figures largely in the plays of Plautus. Good examples of the stage parasite will be found in his CaptiviMenaechmiPhormio of Terence. See Know, Die Parasiten bei den Griechen and in the (1876). and A.one who eats at the table of another, and repays him with flattery and buffoonery, parasite, Epich.36, Arar.16, etc.; name of plays by Antiph., Alex., and Diph.; peri Parasitou, title of work by Luc.: c. gen., kenês p. trapezêsAP11.346 (Autom.) : metaph., ichthusên p. (v. opson) Luc.Lex.6. Parasitus Phoebi, a player
II. of priests who had their meals at the public expense, Clitodem.11, Polem.Hist.78
2. one who dines with a superior officer, Arist.Fr.551.The sacrificial system was imposed on the Levites as a curse or burden.Ezek 22:27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves [YELLOW] ravening the prey, o shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
Zeph. 3:3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
XLII. Instead of herds of oxen, endeavor to assemble flocks of friends about your house.
XLII As a wolf resembles a dog, so much does a flatterer, an adulterer, a parasite, resemble a friend. Take heed, therefore, that instead of guardian dogs, you do not inadvertently admit ravening wolves.
[All musicians were also called PARASITES and not allowed to feed on polite society]
The Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of Naucratis Book XIII: Concerning Women
"Hear, ye Styacs, vendors of twaddle, hypocritical mouthers of words who alone by yourselves gobble up everything on the platters before a wise man can get a share, and then are caught doing the very opposite of what you solemnly chant;" oglers of boys you are, and in that alone emulating the founder of your philosophy, Zeno the Phoenician, who never resorted to a woman, but always to boy-favourites.
Bdellolarunx, leech-throat, name for a greedy parasite
Mark 13:14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:
Bdelugma (g946) bdel'-oog-mah; from 948; a detestation, i.e. (spec.) idolatry: - abomination.
And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lambs book of life. Rev 21:27
Bdeluktos (g947) bdel-ook-tos'; from 948; detestable, i.e. (spec.) idolatrous: - abominable.
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. Tit.1:16
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Re.21:8
Rev. 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
Rev. 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Num 18:23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation,That this was a curse
and they shall bear their iniquity:
it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations,
that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel;
Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. Jeremiah 7:21
For I spake NOT unto your fathers, nor commanded them I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Amos 5:21 in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: Jeremiah 7:22
See the Law of Silence in Jeremiah 7Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. Amos 5:22
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs;
for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. Amos 5:23BUT this thing commanded I them, saying,
Obey my voice, and I will be your God,
and ye shall be my people:
and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you,
that it may be well unto you. Jeremiah 7:23BUT let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream Amos 5:24
Amos 5:25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?BUT they HEARKENED NOT, nor inclined their ear,
but walked in the counsels
and in the imagination of their evil heart,
and went backward, and not forward. Jeremiah 7:24Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day,
I have even sent unto you all MY servants the PROPHETS, daily rising up early and sending them: Jeremiah 7:25Yet they HEARKENED NOT unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. Jeremiah 7:26
Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them;
but they will not hearken to thee:
thou shalt also call unto them;
but they will not answer thee. Jeremiah 7:27Amos 5:26 BUT ye have borne the tabernacle of your and Moloch and Chiun [#666] your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
They burned infants to the beat of instruments in 2 Chron 28 just before the PURGE and EXORCISM and in chapter 30 just AFTER Hezekiah's ceremony SOLELY to get the priests to return to Jerusalem to help defend it.
Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivitybeyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
This was the sentence conditionally imposed because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. Canaan as the promised land became the Killing Fields as God let the kings lead them into captivity and death.
Furthermore, all of the performing arts are identified as the Hypocritic arts and because they produced nothing good and caused lots of destruction of morals they were called PARASITES.
Why are people so anxious to impose the CURSE of hypocrites and parasites.
NEHEMIAH IDENTIFYING THE PARASITES
The False preachers also missed that the Spirit OF Christ spoke ONLY through the prophets: it is a lie that the "holy spirit" guided the elders and preachers to lie about all of the Bible. The prophets thought that the kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers were lawless parasites.
So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would. Neh 9:24
And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance:
so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delightedNevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee,
and cast thy law behind their backs,
and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee,
and they wrought great provocations. Neh 9:26Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them. Neh 9:34
For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works. Neh 9:35
Behold, we are servants this day, [and so are you]
and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof,
behold, we are servants in it: Neh 9:36And it yieldeth
much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us
because of our sins:
also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle,
at their pleasure,
and we are in great distress. Neh 9:37They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns:
they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit:
and they shall be ashamed of your revenues
because of the fierce anger of the Lord. Je.12:13That is THE meaning of having a Senior Pastor set over you with no Biblical nor common sensical justification.
Chapter XXII.-So Also Were Sacrifices and Oblations.
"And that you may learn that it was for the sins of your own nation,
and for their idolatries and
not because there was any necessity for such sacrifices ,
that they were likewise enjoined, listen to the manner in which He speaks of these by Amos, one of the twelve, saying:`Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is this day of the Lord for you?
It is darkness and not light, as when a man flees from the face of a lion, and a bear meets him; and he goes into his house, and leans his hands against the wall, and the serpent [devil] bites [stings with tithes] him. Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, even very dark, and no brightness in it? I have hated, I have despised your feast-days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies:
wherefore, though ye offer Me your burnt-offerings and sacrifices, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your presence.
Take thou away from Me the multitude of thy songs and psalms; I will not hear thine instruments.
BUT, let judgment be rolled down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.
Speaking of dominant pastors now replacing the elders and firing the deacons:
"The pastor is not a necessity. He is a FUNGUS GROWTH upon the church, the body of Christians, DWARFING its growth, PREVENTING its development of its members; and until the church GETS RID of him it will NEVER prosper as it should. In the Bible we can find all the necessities.
"I can testify from my own observation that a good eldership will lose its efficiency, and its members become both UNABLE and UNWILLING to do the work of elders, in a very few years after the employment of a pastor. And if under the pastor system a good eldership has ever developed, I have never seen or heard of the case. I don't believe that has or ever will be done." --James A. Harding, Gospel Advocate, May 20, 1885
A professional jester, buffoon, or parasite. In spite of the difference of quantity, balatro is probably connected with balare (to bleat like a sheep) and hence, to speak foolishly. It is donbtless also akin to blatero, a chatterer (Gell.i. 15). Balatrones were paid for their jests, and the tables of the wealthy were generally open to them for the sake of the amusement they afforded. See Scurra; Parasitus.
I. Orig., an elegant, town-bred man; a fine gentleman, gallant, dandy
1. A city buffoon, droll, jester (usually in the suite of wealthy persons, and accordingly a kind of parasite; -Of the clown in a pantomime, rhetores scurra. rhe-tor rhetorician, speechifier,malako-kolax voluptuous parasite, Clearch.26
Malakos (g3120) mal-ak-os'; of uncert. affin.; soft, i.e. fine (clothing); fig. a catamite: - effeminate, soft.
But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings courts. Lu.7:25
And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like? Luke 7:31
They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept. Luke 7:32Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 1Co.6:9
Abusers are:
Arsenokoites (g733) ar-sen-ok-oy'-tace; from 730 and 2845; a sodomite: - abuser of (that defile) self with mankind.For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; 1Ti.1:10
Because they were abandoned to worship the Starry Host and never able to worship the Creator again, you should look at the form of worship Israel brought with them as abominations out of Egypt. This form of musical "ritualism" was invented by the pagan deities always MARKED by loud music.Rhetoricians fell under the same band when they ventured away from clear SPEAK and SAY and began possessed.Plato Ion 534a continues to speak of the female musical worship team - the Muses:
"and attract other rings; so that sometimes there is formed quite a long chain of bits of iron and rings, suspended one from another; and they all depend for this power on that one stone.
In the same manner also the Muse inspires men herself, and then by means of these inspired persons the inspiration spreads to others, and holds them in a connected chain. For all the good epic poets utter all those fine poems not from art, but as inspired and possessed, and the good lyric poets likewise; [534a] just as
the Corybantian worshippers do not dance when in their senses,
so the lyric poets do not indite those fine songs in their senses,
but when they have started on the melody and rhythm they begin to be frantic, and it is under possession--as the bacchants are possessed, and not in their senses, when they draw honey and milk from the rivers--that the soul of the lyric poets does the same thing, by their own report.For the poets tell us, I believe, that the songs they bring us are the sweets they cull from honey-dropping founts [534b] in certain gardens and glades of the Muses [prostitute singers in Rev 18 John called sorcerers]--
"For a poet is a light and winged and sacred thing, and is unable ever to indite until he has been inspired and put out of his senses, and his mind is no longer in him: every man, whilst he retains possession of that, is powerless to indite a verse or chant an oracle. Seeing then that it is not by art that they compose and utter so many fine things about the deeds of men.like the bees, and winging the air as these do.1 And what they tell is true. (Plato then explains a lot of musical worship and even preaching out of their own head)
In response to a forum thread, I have posted a quick parallel view of the connection between religious musicians and fruits. There are many but Amos 8 and Revelation defines the Mother of Harlots using "lusted after fruits" as rhetoricians, singers and musicians which John identified as sorcerers. This will become a commentary on Amos which proves that when you hear INSTRUMENTS anywhere--including Revelation-- it is the MARK of impending Judgement and the "other" angel commands those still living (real or spiritually) to PREACH THE GOSPEL. You cannot preach "that which is written" with music. Click for he harps in Revelation as WARNING.
Besides agents of the NACC masked under UNITY has been a primary means of defending instruments as the BASIS of unity, the Stone-Campbell Movement founded shortly after the last break with the Disciples has been a major stalking horse to force instruments to restore unity between two groups with radically different roots and NEVER joined in any sense after the first "society" attempt and the adding of Organs which made simply meeting together without discussing the differences impossible.
Together for Greater Ministry Impact.
Rather than being A Soul Saving Workshop the Tulsa event has always had the agendas of uniting the Church of Christ and the Christian Church. Of course, unity to the NACC and all of their false writers is that you AFFIRM their view of instruments or CONFORM by adding instruments. Wade Hodges prefers to sell peacable churches of Christ by IMPOSING instruments knowing that they will sow discord. Hey, a church in the NACC corner with the loss of half its members is a lot better than building their own. All Restoration writers make it clear that the mask of UNITY is an intention to STEAL a church house. Hardeman used the term "steal" of the one stolen church in Nashville during the Hardeman-Boswell debate THRUST upon the Disciples after they tried to use UNITY to subvert preachers with a free O. E. Payne book which is the major source of false teachings.Pat Boultinghouse tells us how she found her freedom from the old Biblical restrictions while working for Howard Publishing Co. of West Monroe, LA. With the help and encouragement of Alton and John Howard, she and her husband launched Image magazine, precursor of Wineskins. She tells of working with influential leaders of the change movement such as Joe Beam, Rubel Shelly, Lynn Anderson, Jeff Walling, Mike Cope, Terry Rush and Marvin Phillips (p. 135).
She asks, "Do we lift up our Lord and draw others to him when we rigidly hold to human traditions and a fifties culture" (p.141).
I remind her and others of like-mind that the limitations on women in the leadership and worship of the church originated with the apostles in the first century, not the 1950s.
From Wade Hodges: I’ve been asked a number of times what I hoped would come out of the reconciliation and unity celebrations that occurred at events like the Tulsa Workshop and NACC. I kept saying I hoped it would lead to some concrete demonstrations of unity beyond getting together for a worship assembly.The TRUTH is that the Christian Churches did not SECT out of the Disciples fully until the 1970s. If they were interested in unity why did they become SECTARIAN. The Church of Christ never belonged to the DISCIPLES and in 1906 simple refused to be COLLECTIVIZED into the Organ and Society Party. So the reconcilliation concept is a VIPER BITE intending to blame the Church of Christ for not BEGINNING to use instruments when the faithful people had NEVER used instruments. All such "unity" meetings are invitations for the instrumentalist to present their view with no intention of taking note that the "proof" ignore the context and story line and all of the "psallo" proofs point to warfare or to perverted males seducing young males: this is why Paul put the "plucking" in the heart and not young boys and further equated "melody" to "grace" in Colossians 3.
Posted by Terry Rush at 7:14 AM
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
http://terryrush.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html
Terry Rush: Our people are so tied up in knots trying to sort through the church lingo that many have all but given up on sharing the good news with their neighbor because they can't keep the story straightThe knots and blowing the winds have been manufactured by men who have been used by the instrmentalists to do "unity meetings" and "soul winning workshops." They set up a debate between Church of Christ INSTRUMENTALISTS and Christian Church INSTRUMENTALISTS. Even so, Terry uses the discording mantra of YOU ARE FAILURES so that people dare not defend the BIBLE as opposed to preachers as skillful rhetoricans but NOT Disciples of Christ.
SPEAK WHERE THE BIBLE SPEAKS (Excludes music)
Why then, when they have invented on their part unscriptural phrases,What is so strange about SAYING that making melody IN the heart is NOT making melody upon a harp. The caveman child understand that SPEAK does not mean MUSIC which demands singing AND dancing.
for the purposes of irreligion,
do they accuse those who are religious in their use of them
For irreligiousness is utterly forbidden,
though it be attempted to disguise it with artful expressions and plausible sophisms;
but religiousness is confessed by all to be lawful,
even though presented in strange phrases ,
provided only they are used with a religious view,
and a wish to make them the expression of religious thoughts.
Now the aforesaid grovelling phrases of Christ's enemies have been shewn in these remarks to be both formerly and now replete with irreligion; whereas the definition of the Council against them, if accurately examined, will be found to be altogether a representation of the truth, and especially if diligent attention be paid to the occasion which gave rise to these expressions, which was reasonable, and was as follows:- 19. The Council wishing to do away with the irreligious phrases of the Arians, and to use instead the acknowledged words of the Scriptures, Athanasius in 346 and his flight in 356, De Decretis or Defence of the Nicene Definition
Terry Rush: All know God is against man-made doctrine, yet we've accepted with open arms this Trojan horse. Enormous strain develops in trying to assure ourselves that much of our doctrine did not come from man but from God Himself.All history knows that "music" is the Trojan horse used to shut down the rational or spiritual mind to slip the enemy into the walls withut rational thinking.
What is troubling to people who have read the Bible and Restoration history is the man-made doctrine of preaching as in sermonizing without knowing or caring what the Bible speaks.
To Paul, "unity" is based on rejecting the "diversities" in Rome which included musical SELF-pleasure among the "diet" sects in Rome and all market-places. Click to see Mark Henderson and the Quail Spring elders to see that music is ALWAYS the mark of gender confused people, while they send out the flute-girl when decend men want to "speak that which is written" in the words of Paul contrasting Romans 14 (the marketplace) and the ekklesia or school of the bible (Rom 15; Eph 5; Col 3)
Jesus cast out the musical minstrels and consigned the pipers, singers and musicians to the market-place.
Chysostom Letter to Theodore After His Fall
In fact, the second major use of the Psallo word has to do with the polluted rope used to MARK those who dallied around the Agora. They would show up at the ekklesia (church) as totally polluted.Wherefore I pray and beseech you to banish all this Satanic mode of thinking from your soul, and to return to this state of salvation.
For if indeed I were commanding you to ascend to your former altitude all at once, you would naturally complain of there being much difficulty in doing this: but if all which I now ask you to do is to get up and return thence in the opposite direction, why do you hesitate, and shrink, and make a retrograde movement?
Have you not seen those who have died in the midst of luxury and drunkenness, and sport and all the other folly of this life?
Where are they now who used to strut through the market place with much pomp, and a crowd of attendants? who were clothed in silk and redolent with perfumes, and kept a table for their parasites, and were in constant attendance at the theatre?
What has now become of all that parade of theirs? It is all gone;-the costly splendour of their banquets , the throng of musicians, the attentions of flatterers, the loud laughter, the relaxation of spirit, the enervation of mind, the voluptuous, abandoned, extravagant manner of life-it has all come to an end.
In Romans 14 Paul left the diversities in the market-place where much of the diet word also defines musical sects which made place for the parasites which was a synonym for an instrumentalist who would do ANYTHING to get on the chicken dinner circuit.
Because of the susceptibility of this enervation of mind: aton-ia or asthen-eia without dipping his pen Paul outlawed self-pleasure or the "creation of mental excitement" which afflicts the weak and infirm and points to the "reproaches" prophesied of Jesus which meant musical mocking and exposing his private parts. This is obvious to readers of Psalm 41. The version at the Dead Sea is much more explic in proving that mocking means musically. Lucifer as "the singing and harp-playing prostitute" in the garden of Eden and Nimrod down to modern science knows that music induces the impulses of fight, flight or sexuality: that's why people are willing to deliberately sow discord to USE music and musicians.
Outlawed as SELF-pleasure in the ekklesia.Terry is defining obeying the direct command of the Spirit OF Christ for the "church in the wildernes" a man-made doctrine. Fact is, there was never any preaching in the synagogue or church so there was no 'collection plate' to feed Terry while sows discord. The Synagogue existed side-by-side with the Temple State ABANDONED to Sabazianism or Dionysus worship. Fact is, Jesus exampled standing up to READ in the synagogue and decently sitting down without becomming a buffoon which is the MARK of God's Wrath. Fact is, there was no singing for almost 400 years.
Areskos A. pleasing, mostly in bad sense, obsequious, cringing, Arist.EN1108a28, 1126b12, Thphr.Char.5.1. II. areskos, ho, the staff borne by pornoboskoi [brothel keeper] on the stage, Poll.4.120.
Arist.EN1108a28 Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics book 2
[12] In respect of truth then, the middle character may be called truthful, and the observance of the mean Truthfulness; pretence in the form of exaggeration is Boastfulness, and its possessor a boaster; in the form of understatement, Self-depreciation, and its possessor the self-depreciator.
[13] In respect of pleasantness and social amusement, the middle character is witty and the middle disposition Wittiness; the excess is Buffoonery and its possessor a buffoon; the deficient man may be called boorish, and his disposition Boorishness. In respect of general pleasantness in life, the man who is pleasant in the proper manner is friendly, and the observance of the mean is Friendliness; he that exceeds, if from no interested motive, is obsequious, if for his own advantage, a flatterer; he that is deficient, and unpleasant in all the affairs of life, may be called quarrelsome and surly.
Tertullian, without a Phd, understood the destructive effect of spectacle on the human body. For instance we discuss the creation of endorphins in the body by music or any visual-audible performance.
"and not to vex Him with rage, ill-nature, anger, or grief.
Well, how shall this be made to accord with the shows?
- For the show always leads to spiritual agitation,
- since where there is pleasure,
- there is keenness of feeling giving pleasure its zest;
- and where there is keenness of feeling,
- there is rivalry giving in turn its zest to that.
- Then, too, where you have rivalry,
- you have rage, bitterness, wrath and grief."
- (Tertullian, de Spectaculis, Ante-Nicene, III, p. 86).
Strabo in Geography wrote of performance worship ritual which Jesus and Paul outlawed:
for all agree in regarding the women as the chief founders of religion, and it is the women who provoke the men to the more attentive worship of the gods, to festivals, and to supplications, and it is a rare thing for a man who lives by himself to be found addicted to these things.
Terry Rush: As far as evangelistic effectiveness is concerned, we live in fundamental neutral. How can we remember how it goes when the Word really isn't there to show our neighbor?An evangelist goes: there is no such thing as a located travelling salesman! Evangelists have a GO button.
I would say that those who rather than moving on have decided to lie about the music issue have tried to put everyone in reverse--back to the towers of babbling or to what Paul warned about in Corinth about those known as the Mad Women.
Korinthios Corinthian, Hdt., etc.; K. korê courtesan, hetairai K. Ar.Pl.149; oinos K. Alex.290; K. kadoi Diph.61.3 . Adv. -iôs in Corinthian fashion, oikos (house, Temple) K. estegasmenos J.AJ8.5.2 :-- fem. Korinthias , ados, hê, St.Byz.:--also Korinthiakos , ê, on, X.HG6.2.9; K. gluphai Ph.1.666 : Korinthikos , AP6.40 (Maced.).Following O.E.Payne who collected many historical quotes using the word Psallo, Tom Burgess is probably the latest to use these texts to prove that the word psall demands the use of instruments in Christian worship. We have quoted the REST OF THE STORY on Plutarch, Moralia: Click Here. Strange as it seems, all of these point to older males plucking the harp to seduce a young boy.
2. courtesan, Hdt.2.134, Ar.Pl.149, Ath.13.567a,571d, etc.; opp. pornê (a common prostitute), Anaxil.22.1 ; opp. gametê, Philetaer.5 ; Aphroditê he. Apollod.Hist.17.
Ar.Pl.149, Aristophanes Plutus
Cario
I myself was bought for a few coins; if I'm a slave, it's only because I was not rich.
Chremylus
And what of the Corinthian whores? [150] If a poor man offers them proposals, they do not listen; but if it be a rich one, instantly they turn their arses to him.
Cario
It's the same with the lads; they care not for love, to them money means everything.
Chremylus
[155] You speak of male whores; yet some of them are honest, and it's not money they ask of their patrons.
Aphrodite III. ho tas Aphroditas [astêr] the planet Venus, Ti.Locr.97a, cf. Pl.Epin.987b, Arist.Metaph.1073b31, etc.
Plato Epinomis: [987b] is clearly a sign of witlessness; and as to their having got no names, the cause of it should be stated as we have done. For indeed they have received titles of gods: thus, that Lucifer, or Hesperus (which is the same), should almost belong to Aphrodite [Zoe],1 is reasonable, and quite befitting a Syrian lawgiver 2 ; and that that which follows the same course as the sun and this 3 together should almost belong to Hermes. 4 Let us also note three motions of bodies5 travelling to the right with the moon and the sun.
B. Korê.. the Daughter (of Demeter), name under which Persephone (Proserpine) was worshipped in Attica
Pausinius, Corinth: Greeks considered madness an important aspect of worship. Women in particular responded to Bacchus (also known as Dionysus), the god of madness; 'him of the orgiastic cry, exciter of women, Dionysus, glorified with mad honors'. (Plutarch, Moralia 671c Ancient Corinth was a center of Dionysiac worship,
"While women were famed for their wildness in the Bacchic cult and in certain other mystery cults, other aspects of their worship were more traditional. Of special importance to the study of the situation Paul addresses is the concept of clamor, noisy outbursts of religious pandemonium. "
This was such a "female" concept that even David is noted for his "initiation" and that when a male fell into this abused and abusive act such as singing and playing "he was drunk, homosexual or 'just having fun'." You know, like males playing dress up.
Don't forget that Revelation 17 identifies the Mother of Harlots and in Revelation 18 identifies the FRUITS and the "musicians" meaning the Muses and all instrument players as sorcerers: real and virtual prostitution.
The MUSES were always the performers for Apollo or the Abaddon or Apollyon in Revelation. In the area of Patmos the Mother of Harlots was Circe (church) and the Muses were identified as the Locusts who put you to sleep and give you the sting of death with their scorpion's tail.
INTENDING TO DECEIVE: This is the universal music term beginning in the garden of Eden with a type of Lucifer called "a singing and harp-playing prostitute.The Bible outlaws MAKING your own Biblical text. Those who MAKE poetry or song were the MYTH makers and not prose writers or TRUE history writers. poiêsan c. describe in verse, makers of mythHetaira 1. a companion, Il.; phorminx, hên daiti (feast) theoi (god) poiêsan (make poetry, improvise) 2. opposite to a lawful wife, a concubine, a courtesan
Pl.Phd.61b,Plato Phaedo. [61b] before making sure that I had done what I ought, by obeying the dream and composing verses. So first I composed a hymn to the god whose festival it was; and after the god, considering that a poet,
if he is really to be a poet, must compose myths and not speeches,
since I was not a maker of myths, I took the myths of Aesop, which I had at hand and knew,
and turned into verse the first I came upon.
Therefore, the literature agrees that the MAKERS of Religious poetry or music were always, poiêsan, prostitutes. Peter's "corrupters" of the word "peddle learning at retail" and are therefore "adulterers." The instrument or weapon of the religious musical prostitute was often the Phormix: this was and is the MARK of Apollo or Apollyon and the Mother of Harlots (Rev 17) who uses the "lusted after fruits" and rhetoricians, singers and musicians are called SORCERERS (Rev. 18). hoi pêchees poieuntai the horns of which are made into the sides of the lyre, Hdt.4.192; b. represent in poetry, invent, improvise
Phorminx 1 the phorminx, a kind of lyre or harp, the oldest stringed instrument of the Greeks, esp. as the instrument of Apollo, Hom.; with seven strings (after Terpander's time), Pind. [Commonly referred to pherô, as if it were the portable lyre: better perh. from Root .phrem, Lat. fremo, to sound.]
The MARK of music in the Bible is that it causes people to hunger and thirst for the WORD--as it has been taught without further expounding insists Paul--but search all around in pulpits and Bible classes and cannot find it any more. Jesus says that Doctors of the law TAKE A WAY the key to knowledge.
Aristotle: Melody Deceives: "Poets also make use of this in inventing words, as a melody "without strings" or "without the lyre"; for they employ epithets from negations, a course which is approved in proportional metaphors.How can you SPEAK the Gospel with instruments when SPEAK is the opposite of poetry or music. Only a 'conversational style' was permitted in the ekklesia and the rhetoricians, singers, musicians, dancers and sellers of SELVES and radishes was quarantined to the Agora with the PSALLO ROPE..
The form of diction should be neither metrical nor without rhythm. If it is metrical, it lacks persuasiveness, for it appears artificial, and at the same time it distracts the hearer's attention, since it sets him on the watch for the recurrence of such and such a cadence..
According to Philo, the gods of the pagans exploit this weakness of men. For the sake of a better effect, and with the intention of more easily cheating their devotes, that they have set their lies to melodies, rhythms and meters.."LOOK AGAIN: Plato Ion notes: In like manner the Muse first of all inspires men herself; and from these inspired persons a chain of other persons is suspended, who take the inspiration.
For all the good epic poets utter all those fine poems not from art, but as inspired and possessed, and the good lyric poets likewise;
just as the Corybantian worshippers do not dance when in their senses,
so the lyric poets do not indite those fine songs in their senses,
but when they have started on the melody and rhythm they begin to be frantic,
and it is under possession as the bacchants are possessed, and not in their senses, when they draw honey and milk from the rivers that the soul of the lyric poets does the same thing, by their own report.
Ion. Only too well; for I look down upon them from the stage,
and behold the various emotions of pity, wonder, sternness, stamped upon their countenances when I am speaking: and I am obliged to give my very best attention to them; for
For I have to pay the closest attention to them;if I make them cry I myself shall laugh,
and if I make them laugh I myself shall cry when the time of payment arrives.Or:
since, if I set them crying, I shall laugh myself because of the money I take,
but if they laugh, I myself shall cry because of the money I lose.
Terry Rush: 1. Our hermeneutic is made up: Man created it to claim the texts he wanted and to somehow dismiss those he doesn't. Hermeneutic is not a biblical term and was never taught by God.Only Terry's generation has denied God the right to command, example and infer: something Terry reserves for himself.
The "Direct Command", "Example", and "Necessary Inference" passages seem to have melted.
Look at it. Necessary Inference? That's what man does to get his way when the Bible won't back it. One can claim, "Well, at least it's inferred."
Terry cannot find a single passage to prove that musical instruments were commanded, exampled or even inferred for the people who met in the Qahal, synagogue or church in the wilderness.
Terry cannot find a single passage where instruments are not the CAUSE or MARK of people who have or are telling God to "shut your face."
Terry, cannot quote any imagined text supplied by "changelings" which does not lie: it is intentional because they intend to sow discord while being ignorant of the context and story line. The only other option is unspeakable.
Because Terry is working with people from the NACC he may believe their Anglican / Catholic Heritage where the HIGH CHURCH has the authority to use changed culture and not be "strict constructionists" for defining faith and practice. While that was and is the view of the Disciples, those used to divert churches of Christ still laugh about us being 'strict constructionists' not knowing that evolution makes reading the Bible impossible. Fact is, the Church of England nor anyone but their Catholic mother ever voted for the High Church view.
Those who promote instruments use the high church view of the Disciples who never pretended to have or need Biblical authority to add institutions and instruments: the driven purpose well documented is that it would bring in more money.
The Bible and all recorded history disagrees with Terry Rush.
Terry permits the authority to COMMAND, EXAMPLE AND INFER that he is CORRECT about musical instruments when he DENIES that God has that authority when he used the Spirit OF Christ in the PROPHETS to totally repudiate the use of MUSIC as a mark that 'WE HAVE NO INTENTION OF LISTENING to the Words of God.'The LAW of inferences or SILENCE is used only by the instrumentalists: they make it certain that "There is no LAW which saith 'thou shalt not play instruments in the Bible class' so we gonn use them KNOWING and planning for sowing discord and counting the costs.Balaam demonstrated a high ethical standard when he said:
'Even if Balak gave me his palace filled with silver and gold,.
There is no ROLE in the "school of the Bible" or ekklesia other than to SAY what the Lord has said. No humanoid can IMPROVE that by going to rhetoric school to learn a bisexual way to attract everyone.I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad,
to go beyond the command of the LORD--
and I must say only what the LORD says'? Num 24:13
Peter outlawed "further expounding" which means to make Scripture into sermon fodder and corrupt it meaning to "sell learning at retail" which word means adultry. You are commanded to "sing" that which is written and teach that which has been taught. Bible Card Class.
God makes "retailing" which requires "adding too" something God has not taught worthy of death. God as "father" thought and the "son" spoke those words: that is the meaning of "spirit without measure" meaning truth from God.
I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee,
and will put my words [Dabar, Logos] in his mouth;
and he shall speak unto them
all that I shall command him. Deut 18:18
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words
which he shall speak in my name,
I will require it of him. Deut 18:19
But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name,
which I have not commanded him to speak,
or that shall speak in the name of other gods,
even that prophet shall die. Deut 18:20
That PROVES that anyone who teaches anything that the WORD spoke from the FATHER within and as revealed by the Spirit OF Christ to the Apostles has PASSED from life to death and is worthy of execution. Zechariah identifies the "bowing to Baal prophesiers" who were musical frantics. After the signs following Pentecost, anyone who continued to try to manipulate people with music should be executed by their parents!
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits (Old, empty wineskins), and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter (these people used musical devices and said that the gods lived inside of them): should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? Isaiah 8:19
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word,
it is because there is no light in them. Isaiah 8:20
Those doing "a school of Christ" as the Campbells agreed with Jesus, Paul and early history do not NEED to infer: the direct command it to SPEAK and the word SPEAK in the 'ekklesia' is defined as the OPPOSITE of poetry or music. You don't NEED a law to silence instruments when Jesus speaks when the elders "teach that which has been taught" and we "sing that which is written."
The CENI is well developed in the Bible and is defended by most historic church Scholars and all founders of denominations. The High Church notion of the Angiical-derived Disciples did not NEED any authority other than "will it make money." Only after they had stopped the RM in its track did the try to make PSALLO their authority for the organ. However, the scholars did not defend them.
All of that small band of men use the same mantra. They hesitate not a second to blame the "sectarian church of Christ" for INVENTING the "no instruments" position because the were "mean, southern, rednecked andignorant. No one allowed to get out of the institute can say that out of ignorance. I have to conclude that they don't know and just wiggle their lips when their handlers pull the strings.
The Bible begins the discussion with lucifer who was "the singing and harp playing prostitute" in the garden of Eden, and using the SERPENT word which identifies the NAGA agent as a "Musical
er" who wholly seduced Eve in a sexual sense. The Assyrians are identified as the TALLEST TREE in Eden.
Terry Rush cannot find one historical church scholar who does not KNOW what happened at Sinai and who does not repudiate instruments as tools or weapons of those doing MIND CONTROL which John called Sorcery.
No founder of a denomination failed to grasp the evil influence of music. They do not know that the Catholics NEVER did congregtional singing with an organ to accompany.
Why do they TWIST the facts? Because they know that YOU will not know any better.Terry Rush: 2. Our stance on instrumental music is wrong: Man created this doctrine which makes it a toughy if we are going to share the true doctrine with our neighbors.
One supposes that Jesus was ignorant when he cast out the musical minstrels "like dung" proving that He needed no magic to help the young girl. One supposes that Jesus was not informed when He commanded those willing to be evangelists to GO and preach the gospel. You cannot preach but you can hide the gospel with music.Terry Rush: 2. Instrumental music was not an issue in the first century church because it wasn't an issue with God. Instuments of worship are not new. They were abundantly available back in Jesus and Paul's day.
Then the whole Bible and most of church history is wrong: no one sang or played for almost 400 years and the Catholics say they got MUSIC because it was "common to all pagan cults." No pretense of getting it from the Bible.
For those not blinded to the word there are many examples in the New Testament denouncing the "frenzy" always incited with musical instruments--almost always percussion even with harps.
The instruments of worship were only in pagan religions such as that of Babylon where they originated. God abandoned the Israelites to worship the starry host way back at Mount Sinai BECAUSE of musical idolatry. All of the Old Testament proves that the instruments of NOISE were like all pagan sacrificial systems--exorcism.
A musical instrument is defined as a "machine for doing hard work primarily in warfare and in creating the shock and awe of pagan temples." The Levitical Warrior "musicians" did service or HARD BONDAGE. No one in the Old Testament is said to have worshiped with instruments. In fact the loud noise was a signal to fall on your face or be gone.
"The first three centuries of the church witnessed many controversies; some of them concerned themselves directly with music. The most important of these issues were:
(a) organized versus spontaneous praying and singing;
(b) scriptural versus extrascriptural poems;
(c) fusion with Hellenistic music;
(d) vocal versus instrumental music;
(e) the rise of monasticism and its influence upon ecclesiastical chant." (Interpreter's Dict of the Bible, Music, p. 467).The first problem occurred when the doxologies of the Bible which were like Psalms were replaced by "a great number of spontaneous and highly individualized doxologies."
........ However, the non-Biblical responses were ratified and codified at the second synod of Vaison in 529.This writing of their own "song book" virtually destroyed spontaneous or Biblical worship.
However, sectarian introduction of any thing not Biblical is almost always based on commercial interest (more attendees, etc.)
"The large displacement of the Psalter by other matter of praise in the Protestant Churches during the last one hundred years has been due, no so much to the lack of appreciation of the Psalms,
........ as to the commercial enterprise of music publishers." (Int Std Bible Ency., Psalms, p. 2494B).Terry Rush: 2. Did they not pick up on this
- The Spirit OF Christ who outlawed vocal and instrumental rejoicing in the "church in the wildernes" after God had abandoned the "national" or kingly-clergy over to musical idolatry BECAUSE of musical idolatry at Mount.
- The synagogue for the faithful "never had a praise service" and the noise-making instruments of the Warrior Levites was restricted to in and around the "national" temple and no where else on the whole world. Regular people would die if they came near.
- For hundreds of years the only "national" use of instruments was by imported non-Jews because the faithful males refused to "wear the hat of hermes" to perform including the Abomination of Desolation.
- But, for disciples, the Spirit Of Christ addressed MUSIC in prophecy and was musically mocked to the Cross.
- There was NO MUSIC for the synagogue, Jesus built His synagogue or ekklesia, so WHO would hallucinate the use of MUSIC in the synagogue. Its absence does not mean that God did not care any more than the absence of dancing and sex in the church does not mean that God CANNOT have an opinion.
- Paul outlawed the SELF-pleasure of the musical sects known for what the used for food. That means "creating mental excitement" which Simple Simons know NOT to do in church. The word absolute OUTLAWS instruments if you read Paul's knowledge base.