"God Likes Music of All Kinds"
In his chapter God, My Heart, and Music in the book Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World, Bob Kauflin writes,
Actually, it seems that God likes music of all kinds. No one style can sufficiently capture his glory or even begin to reflect the vastness of his wisdom, creativity, beauty, and order. That doesn't mean some kinds of music aren't more complex or beautiful than others. It just means no single genre of music is better than the rest in every way.
Tellingly, Kauflin offers no biblical support of his own for these statements.
I believe that wrong claims such as these (by Kauflin and others) about God and His supposedly liking "music of all kinds" is one of the chief reasons that we have the debacle that we have musically in the Church in our day.
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The Bible plainly teaches that supernatural, non-human spirit beings have languages that are not human languages. Your reasoning here is faulty because you seem to assert that all music only involves humans.
I agree that spirit beings have a language and they have music. The Bible doesn't tell us if this language has a name, but for the sake of this post, I'll call it "spirit-speak." I assume that humans would not be able to understand this language if they heard it, and I also recognize this is just an assumption since we don't have specific info in the Bible about it. I also don't think human voices would be able to duplicate the specific sounds of this language.
Now, what happened when the angels fell? Did the specific sounds of "angel-speak" change into something that sounded completely different when demons used it? Did the sounds get corrupted from what they had previously sounded like? The bible doesn't tell us the answer to that, does it?
So what about "spirit-music"? Just as I don't think humans can duplicate "spirit-speak," I also don't believe humans can duplicate "spirit-music" with our human instruments. Spirit-music began before any human instruments were even invented. You said, "Saying that Satan cannot corrupt entire "genres" of music begs the question that none of them are corrupt to begin with." So what was spirit-music like to begin with? At creation, both spirit-speak and spirit-music were perfect and were used to worship God. Now, what happened when angels fell? Did the sounds get corrupted from what they had previously sounded like? Just as the Bible does not tell us about the sounds of spirit language changing, it also does not tell us about the sounds of their music changing.
What kind of worship did Satan want? Satan wanted to be like the Most High God. It stands to reason, he would have wanted to be worshipped as God had been worshiped. Would Satan have accepted music that was inferior to what had been presented to God in worship? I don't think so. I admit I'm speculating, but it's also speculating to think that an entirely new "genre" was developed by demons for the worship of Satan.
There is no such thing in Scripture as "genre." It is a man-made concept into which some seek to invest meaning and necessary characteristics without any biblical evidence to support their positions.
Whether we use the word "kind" or "genre" or style," if you claim that demonic music has some "meaning" or "necessary characteristics," then by your own logic, you would need to present some biblical evidence to support that position.
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