The Christian Standard and Instrumental Music In Worship

2.23.20

Musical Instrument MARK
Abomination, Witchcraft, the BEASTS, Demon worship, Viper worship, Sorcery, Charming, Soothsaying,  enchantment, harlots, beguilers, serpents, vipers, Serpo, Herpo, inducing wine-drinking, Cunning Craftsmen or Sophists, Rhetoricians, Dogs or Catamites, magic, Voodoo in primitive America, Melodies to deceive, Deceiver, Techne. religious craftsmen, Lucifer,  Locusts, Apollyon, Levi-Leviathan

ONE EXAMPLE OF THE UNIVERSAL MARK OF ANY MUSICAL SOUNDS WHICH MARK SORCERERS.

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Plato, Euthydemus

[289d] On what proof do you rely? I asked.

I see, he said, certain speech-writers who do not know how to use the special arguments composed by themselves, just as lyre-makers in regard to their lyres: in the former case also there are other persons able to use what the makers produced, while being themselves unable to make the written speech. Hence it is clear that in speech likewise there are two distinct arts, one of making and one of using.

I think you give sufficient proof, I said, that this art of the speech-writers cannot be that whose acquisition would make one happy. And yet I fancied that somewhere about this point would appear the knowledge which we have been seeking all this while.

[289e] For not only do these speech-writers themselves, when I am in their company, impress me as prodigiously clever, Cleinias, but their art itself seems so exalted as to be almost inspired. However, this is not surprising; for it is a part of the SORCERER'S art, epōdōn tekhnēs

Latin 289e:
kai mentoi ouden thaumaston: esti gar tēs tōn epōdōn tekhnēs morion mikrō te ekeinēs hupodeestera.

Thaumaston Is a Lying wonder which claims that your rituals are ordained by God.

-epōdē , Ion. and poet. epa^oidē , hē, A.song sung to or over: hence, enchantment, spell, LADEN BURDEN
ou pros iatrou sophou thrēnein epōdas pros tomōnti pēmati
of the Magi, Hdt.1.132
  oute pharmaka..oud' au epōdai” Pl.R. 426b ; thusiai kai e. ib.364b ;
charm for or against.., “toutōn epōdas ouk epoiēsen patēr” A.Eu.649.

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.

epōd-os , on, （epadō）

A.singing to or over, using songs or charms to heal wounds, “epōdoi muthoi”

b. Subst., enchanter, “e. kai goēs” E.Hipp. 1038 (but “goēs e.” Ba.234): c. gen., a charm for or against, “ethusen hautou paida epōdon Thrēkiōn aēmatōn” A.Ag.1418 ; e. tōn toioutōn one to charm away such fears, Pl.Phd.78a.

c. c. dat., assisting, profitable, 2. Pass., sung to music, “phōnai” Plu.2.622d ; fit for singing, “poiētikēn e. parekhein
2. epōdos, ho, verse or passage returning at intervals, in Alcaics and Sapphics, D.H.Comp.19 ; chorus, BURDED, refrain,

Pl.Lg.903b    Athenian
Let us persuade the young man by our discourse that all things are ordered systematically by Him who cares for the World—all with a view to the preservation and excellence of the Whole, whereof also each part, so far as it can, does and suffers what is proper to it. To each of these parts, down to the smallest fraction, rulers of their action and passion are appointed to bring about fulfillment even to the uttermost

Plat. Euthyd. 290a and only slightly inferior to that. The sorcerer's art is the charming of snakes and tarantulas and scorpions and other beasts and diseases, while the other is just the charming and soothing of juries, assemblies [Ekklesia or church], crowds, and so forth. Or does it strike you differently? I asked.

No, it appears to me, he replied, to be as you say.

kēl-ēsis , eōs, hē, *A.  bewitching, charming, ekheōn, nosōn, Pl.Euthd. 290a: enchantment by eloquence, dikastōn k. te kai paramuthia ibid.; by music and sweet sounds, Id.R.601b, Stoic.3.97.

Plat. Rep. 601b whether he speak in rhythm, meter [melos] and harmony [rhuthmon]  about cobbling or generalship or anything whatever. So mighty is the spell¹ that these adornments naturally exercise; though when they are stripped bare of their musical coloring [metron] and taken by themselves,² I think you know what sort of a showing these sayings of the poets make. For you, I believe, have observed them.” “I have,” he said. “Do they not,” said I, “resemble the faces of adolescents, young but not really beautiful, when the bloom of youth abandons them?³” “By all means,” he said. “Come, then,” said I, “consider this point: The creator of the phantom, the imitator, we say, knows nothing of the reality but only the appearance.

hōraios , fruits ripe for plucking or rippe for death.

Instrumental Music Intends to Destroy

The Disciples of Christ--Christian Church was always a distinct denomination to which Churches of Christ (Christian Baptists in 1832) as independents were never "unioned".  In the mid 1800's most people could attend most assemblies and not be offended by the performance of rhetoric, singing, playing instruments and other attempts to make the invisible kingdom both visible, audible and costly.  The Christian Standard as a marketing organization went to divisive extremes trying to force Churches of Christ to "Join." That would mean the Sunday School Movement supplied by the Standard in which musical instruments were first imposed with an agenda. And buying ONLY their authorized song book and imposing teachers independent of the local elders.  There was no common grounds at the time other than men seeing godliness as a means of financial gain.

The Church of Christ continued John Calvin's Call for the Restoration of the Church of Christ: this would happen simply by removing everything that the Catholics had imposed over the centuries.  John Calvin and all historic scholars taught the Regulative Principle which insisted that a church be Apostolic or faith and practice based on the Prophets and Apostles.  The Disciples did not and does not rest on the Regulative Principle perhaps without ever knowing that when God breathed (spirit) into Jesus He became the LOGOS and the LOGOS defines the regulative principle of the universe.  Alexander Campbell defining the Regulative Principle consistent with historic scholars and A Church of Christ thought that a Disciple of Christ should pay heed to what Jesus Christ commanded to be taught and observed in the Great Commission.

To think of 'Using Instrumental Music As Worship' fails to grasp that Jesus denied that the kingdom came with observation or Religious Worship Services' and defined the only reason for the assembly was to PREACH the Word by READING the Word for Comfort and Doctrine.  "Worship Services" among the massed multitudes is defined as Threskia which is opposite to what James called PURE religion.

NEITHER STONEITES, CAMPBELLITES OR LATTER DAY LEVITES HAVE ANY CONNECTION TO THE SCHOOL OF CHRIST.

Jesus said that doctors of the law take away the key to knowledge and make merchandise of godly people.

One thing the Catholics never imposed was "congregational singing with organ accompaniment." Organs introduced by rich patrons in the Cathedrals at major Fair Towns was used for prosessionals, intermissions and recessionals.  There was no congregational singing in the beginning because the Command was to "use one mind and one mouth" to "teach that which is written for our learning."

Because they were Old Testament scholars, the Campbells understood the pattern for the Qahal, synagogue, ekklesia or Church of Christ (the Rock) in the wilderness. That pattern never changed for the godly people who attended Qahal which quarantined them from the Civil-Military-Clergy complex.  It was because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai that the Jacob-cursed and God-abandoned Levites were turned over to worship the starry host which was the worship of the Starry Host.

MUSIC FROM MYSTEREY MEANS TO MAKE THE LAMBS DUMB BEFORE THE SLAUGHTER.

Clay Tablets 2000 years old when Moses was born and most recorded history warns that the instrumentnal sounds of wind, string and percussion are able to penetrate into all of the nerve endings and pleasure centers taking captive the God-given rational or spiritual nature. Furthermore, the collected opinion is that when people IMPOSE instrumental noises they INTEND silence the voice of God:

Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1175b.1

But things that are akin to things of different kinds must themselves differ in kind.
        [3] A still clearer proof may be drawn
        from the hindrance that activities
        receive from the pleasure derived from other activities.
For instance, persons fond of the flute
        cannot give their attention to a philosophical discussion [The LOGOS or Regulative Principle]
        when they overhear someone playing the flute,
        because they enjoy music more than the activity in which they are engaged;
                therefore the pleasure afforded by the music of the flute
                impairs the activity of study.

[ 5] And since our activities [of the flute] are sharpened,
        prolonged and improved by their own pleasure,
        and impaired by the pleasures of other activities,
it is clear that pleasures differ widely from each other. In fact alien pleasures have almost the same effect on the activities as their own pains; since, when an activity causes pain, this pain destroys it, for instance, if a person finds writing or doing sums unpleasant and irksome; for he stops writing or doing sums, because the activity is painful.

Aristotle on Politics 8
2. or whether we ought rather to think that music tends in some degree to virtue
        (music being capable of producing a certain quality of character
        just as gymnastics are capable of producing a certain quality of body,
        music accustoming men to be able to rejoice rightly);
3. or that it contributes something to intellectual entertainment and culture (for this must be set down as a third alternative among those mentioned).
        Now it is not difficult to see that one must not make amusement the object of the education of the young;
        for amusement does not go with learning--learning is a painful process.

MUSIC MARKED A FALL FROM GRACE WITHOUT REDEMPTION AT MOUNT SINAI:

Of The Golden Calf "From time immorial music had been especially valued in the service of prophecy. Pliny the Elder gives us a report of the cult of Apis: Exod 32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow,  and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings;          and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play "In Egypt an ox is honored in place of the god. He is called Apis and he lives in isolation. If he ever goes among the people he stalks along while the lictors make way for him and throngs of boys accompany him, singing songs in his honor. He appears to understand what is happening and seems to wish to be adored. The throngs [of boys] sudddenly become inspired and prophesy the future. (Pliny, Natural History) Consequently Apollo (Abaddon, Apollyon) was god of prophets and musicians and Pan was god of medicine, music and divination. "Here singing served as a means of inducing ecstatic prophecy (speaking in tongues). Thus the essential relationship between music and prophecy can be clearly seen. This relationship also explains why the expression for "making music" and "prophesying" was often identical in the ancient tongues. origen contra celsum 8.67. The Hebrew word Naba signifies not only "to prophesy" but also "to make music." (Quasten, Johannes, Music and Worship in Pagan and Christian Antiquity, p. 39) WORD DEFINITIONS IN LATIN Ludo  A. To sport, play with any thing, to practise as a pastime, amuse one's self with any thing, B. To sport, dally, wantonly Esp., to play on an instrument of music, to make or compose music or song: “carmina pastorum,”  -jūcundus (jōcundus ),dv.: jūcundē , agreeably, delight fully: “vivere,” Cic. Cael. 6, 13: “cantare et psallere,” Suet. Tit. 3: “jucundissimi ludi,” Suet. Tit. 3 very ready in the Latin and Greek tongues, both in verse and prose; and such was the facility he possessed in both, that he would harangue and versify extempore. Nor was he unacquainted with music,         but could both [1] sing and [2] play upon the [3] harp sweetly [iucunde] and scientifically You will notice that it ALWAYS takes three words to command singing and playing and what to play or pluck. Psallo means pluck with the fingers and never with a guitar pick. Psallo outlaws guitar picks, flutes, drums or cymbals. You despise God and Paul when everyone knew that you needed compound words to PLAY an INSTRUMENT: Different compound for every type of instruyment. -lūdĭus , ĭi, m. ludus. I. A stageplayer, pantomimist: “fite caussā meā ludii barbari,” Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 63: “ipse ille maxime ludius, non solum spectator, sed actor et acroama,” Cic. Sest. 54, 116; id. Har. Resp. 11; Plaut. Aul. 2, 9, 6: “ludius aequatam ter pede pulsat humum,” Ov. A. A. 1, 112: “triviales ex Circo ludios interponebat,” Suet. Aug. 74; cf. ludio.— II. A gladiator: “comitata est Hippia ludium ad Pharon,” Juv. 6, 82 -lūdo , si, sum A. To sport, play with any thing, to practise as a pastime, amuse one's self with any thing: “illa ipsa ludens conjeci in communes locos, Cic. Par. prooem.: Prima Syracosio dignata est ludere versu Nostra ... Thalia,” Verg. E. 6, 1.—Esp., to play on an instrument of music, to make or compose music or song: B. To sport, dally, wanton (cf. "amorous play," Milton, P. L. 9, 1045): “scis solere illam aetatem tali ludo ludere, Vellem a comedy which wishes (i. e. is meant) to be in demand, b. Of the wishes of those that have a right to command, the gods, masters, parents, commanders, etc., I want, wish, will, am resolved, it is my will: Canto I. Neutr., to produce melodious sounds (by the voice or an instrument), to sound, sing, play, Less freq. of instrumental music, and only with abl. of the instrument, in comedy, to sing and play while the actor accompanies the song with gestures or dancing, Tuba war trumpet, Apart from military purposes, it was used on various occasions, as at religious festivals, games, funerals, a signal for war, exciter, instigator. Remember that Bacchus or Dionysus was what God abandoned Israel to and common in all paganism. Origen Book VI, Chapter XLI. In the next place, as if he had forgotten that it was his object to write against the Christians, he says that, "having become acquainted with one Dionysius, an Egyptian musician, the latter told him, with respect to magic arts, that it was only over the uneducated and men of corrupt morals that they had any power, while on philosophers they were unable to produce any effect, because they were careful to observe a healthy manner of life." If, now, it had been our purpose to treat of magic, we could have added a few remarks in addition to what we have already said on this topic; but since it is only the more important matters which we have to notice in answer to Celsus, we shall say of magic, that any one who chooses to inquire whether philosophers were ever led captive by it or not, can read what has been written by Moiragenes regarding the memoirs of the magician and philosopher Apollonius of Tyana, in which this individual,

AFTER THE FALL FROM GRACE BECAUSE OF MUSICAL IDOLATRY AT MOUNT SINAI TWO THINGS HAPPENED:

God turned the Jacob-Cursed and God abandoned Levites over to worship the starry host.  Because they were a murderous lot they volunteered to execute 3,000 of the "brethren" who engaged in the Prototypical Worship Service of singing, playing instruments and playing with one another.  Paul will prove that this was DEMON worship under the image of Apis the golden calf representing the trinity of Osiris, Isis and Horus: the universal meaning of father, mother (spirit) and son of polytheism.

The Pattern for the Church of Christ (the Rock) in the wilderness was the Qahal still used to denote synagogues as Schools of the Word.
John Calvin who called for a Restoration of the Church of Christ defined the Synagogue for the godly people.

Therefore, give the Campbells the UNIQUE CREDIT for restoring the absolute single-piece pattern for the assembly

Church is A School of Christ
Worship is Reading and Musing The Word of God.

THE ABSOLUTE AND ONLY PATTERN: Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that PREACH him, being READ in the synagogues every sabbath day. Gathering, assemblying and coming together uses synagogue type words in Paul's writings. Lego  To say something, i. e. to speak to the point or purpose, 7.Pass., legetai, like Lat. dicitur, it is said, on dit, Hdt., also legontai einai they are said to be 9.to boast of, tell of, Xen.: to RECITE what is written, labe to biblion kai lege Plat., etc.:—but the sense of Lat. lego, to read, only occurs in compds., analegomai, epilegomai. 13. recite what is written, “labe to biblion kai lege” Pl.Tht.143c; and freq. in Oratt., as “lege ton nomon” D.21.8 and 10, etc.; of lectures, “akousate mou skholia legontos” The  only Resource biblion or bublion , to, 3. ta b. place in which books are kept, library, “anethēkate eis ta b.” D.Chr.37.8. 4. ta b. ta hagia the sacred books or Scriptures, LXX 1 Ma.12.9; ta b. tou nomou The  only Purpose Driving the Church Skholion   A.“skholē” 111) interpretation, comment, Cic.Att.16.7.3; “skholia legein”  esp. short note, scholium, Gal.18(2).847, etc.; “skholia sunageirōn”  s. eis ti on a book,  From the Church of Christ (the Rock) in the wilderness we don't PERMIT "vocal or instrumental rejoicing" or preachery rhetoric when Jesus comes to be out only teacher when the Elders teach that which has been taught. Jesus died to give us REST from the laded burden and burden laders: these are any kind of singing or other hypocritic art which creates mental anxiety through religious ritual.  PAUO in Greek is highly devoted to saying STOP the preaching, STOP the singing, STOP the singing, STOP the collection of taxes not in time of war. Skholē , hē,  A.leisure, rest, ease, enjoy ease, keep quiet,  II. that in which leisure is employed, ou kamnō skholē I am not weary of talk, Id.Ion 276; esp. learned discussion, disputation, 2. a group to whom lectures were given, school, Arist.Pol.1313b3, Phld.Ind.Sto.10, D.H.Isoc.1, Dem.44, Plu.Per.35, Alex.7, etc.; s. ekhein to keep a school, The  church is ekklesia or synagogue Suna^geirō , aor. sunēgeira, Ep. A.“xunageira” Il.20.21: Ep. 3pl. aor.1 Pass. “sunagerthen” Theoc.22.76:—gather together, assemble, hōn heneka xunageira (sc. tous theous) Il. l.c., cf. Pl.Criti.121c; “ekklēsiēn” Hdt.3.142, cf. 1.206; Analegō , Ep. impf. allegon  ek biblōn a. collect materials from books, select or take up a theme for discussion [The synagogue read through especially the prophets in a planned pattern.] III. in Med., read through, “to peri psukhēs gramm' analexamenos” Call.Epigr. 25; “sukhnas analexamenos graphas” D.H.1.89; “ek grammatōn a. ti” Plu. 2.582a:—Pass., Sapphous -omenēs Logos is the opposite of poetry or music or preacher jokes or examples. 4.speech, delivered in court, assembly VI. verbal expression or utterance, lego, lexis PAUL SET A RAT TRAP SO THAT THE MASSES CANNOT GRASP THAT HE PRECLUDES BOTH ODE and PSALLO both which have an ugly and destructive root meaning: Psallo is the SOP Word for those who have no intention of being a Disciple (only) of Christ (only). We adult disciples do not LUST to make music meaning "to make the lambs dumb before the slaughter. Speaking that which is Written for our LEARNING is Opposite singing (Ephesians 5) Lexis A. speech, opposite ōdē,Pl.Lg.816d; l. ē praxis speech or action, Id.R.396c; ho tropos tēs l. ib.400d; ta lexei dēloumena orders given by word of mouth, opposite exegesis [Peter's private interpretation outlaws exegesis or FURTHER exppounding] And for the Slow ones in the Slow Group: "in your heart in 1 Cor 14 meant keep it to yourselves. ōdē , hē, contr. for aoidē,opposite. lexis, 2. = epōdos, magic song, spell,Longus 2.7. joyful songs, songs of praise, “kallinikos” “en tais ōdais kai melesin [Odes and musical melody is opposite to speaking for learning] Praxis  II. doing, tōn agathōn moral action, opposite. poiēsis , [Melody]   tekhnē, [rhetoric, soothsaying, all religious trades] opposite. pathos, [My personal experiences, opinions, jokes] Don't worry about it: Paul commanded that we SPEAK that which is written for our learning one to another. BUT, Ode and Psallo in the heart or as in 1 Corinthians 14 Let him sing to himself IN the heart or MIND.

Stephen was murdered for denying that any of the abandoned sacrificial system was commanded by God.  In fact, the MONARCHY as the Christian Standard PATTERN for leading the introduction of instruments or "machines for doing hard work" into the Churches of Chist built upon the foundation of the Qahal or SKUL or school of the Word of God exclusive of "vocal or instrumental rejoicing" or self-speak preaching.

Acts 7:41 And they made a calf in those days,          and offered sacrifice unto the idol,          and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. > For I spake NOT unto your fathers, nor commanded them         in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,        concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: Jeremiah 7:22 > But 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 7:23 > 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 7:24 Euphrainō , Ep. euphr-, fut. Att.155.12, Pi.I.7(6).3   II. Pass., make merry, enjoy oneself, Pind. I. 6 Just as we mix the second bowl of wine when the men's symposium is flourishing, here is the second song of the Muses for Lampon's children and their athletic victories: first in Nemea, Zeus, in your honor they received the choicest of garlands, Pind. I. 7   In which of the local glories of the past, divinely blessed Thebe, did you most delight your spirit? Was it when you raised to eminence the one seated beside Demeter of the clashing bronze cymbals, flowing-haired [5] Dionysus? Or when you received, as a snow-shower of gold in the middle of the night, the greatest of the gods, when he stood in the doorway of Amphitryon, and then went in to the wife to beget Heracles? But since ancient grace sleeps, and mortals are forgetful of whatever does not reach the highest bloom of skillful song, joined to glorious streams of words, [20] then begin the victory procession with a sweet-singing hymn for Strepsiades; Aristoph. Ach. 5 I was in ecstasy and I love the Knights for this deed; ‘it is an honour to Greece.’ But the day when I was impatiently awaiting a piece by Aeschylus, what tragic despair it caused me when the herald called, “Theognis, introduce your Chorus!” Just imagine how this blow struck straight at my heart! Xen. Sym. 7.5 However, these questions also fail to promote the same object that wine does; but if the young people were to have a flute accompaniment and dance figures depicting the Graces, the Horae, and the Nymphs, I believe that they would be far less wearied themselves and that the charms of the banquet would be greatly enhanced.” “Upon my word, Socrates,” replied the Syracusan, “you are quite right; and I will bring in a spectacle that will delight you.” Acts 7:42 Then God turned,         and gave them up to worship the host of heaven;          as it is written in the book of the prophets,         O ye house of Israel,  have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices         by the space of forty years in the wilderness? Acts 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch,          and the star of your god Remphan,          figures which ye made to worship them:          and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

Therefore, those hearing a "spirit" tell them that God's abandonment is THEIR command to repeat the same pattern of abandonment may actually be hearing God tell them that they are beyond redemption.

Most of the massive sowing of discord got its first launch by Max Lucado not recognized as a Member of the Church of Christ.  However, the AGENT who has been ELEVATED by ACU, Pepperdine and the NACC triad is Rick Atchley.  Rick was known to be leading HIS church into using instruments but after more than a decade A SPIRIT told Him that he needed to DELIVER HIS MESSAGE. No one can hint that music is an element in the School of Christ from the wilderness onward without being led by an EVIL SPIRIT. He-they have to HIDE the fact that God abandoned Israel to the Worship of the Starry host because of musical idolatry or DEMON worship at Mount Sinai.  1 Corinthians 10 1Corinthians 10:7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them;         as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Ludo  A. To sport, play with any thing, to practise as a pastime, amuse one's self with any thing, B. To sport, dally, wanton Esp., to play on an instrument of music, to make or compose music or song: A. To sport, play with any thing, to practise as a pastime, amuse one's self with any thing: “illa ipsa ludens conjeci in communes locos, Cic. Par. prooem.: Prima Syracosio dignata est ludere versu Nostra ... Thalia,” Verg. E. 6, 1.—Esp., to play on an instrument of music, to make or compose music or song: Empaizō , fut. To be deluded  2. euphem. in mal. part., LXXJd. 19.25. II. sport in or on, hôs nebros chloerais e. leimakos hêdonais E.Ba. 866 (lyr.); tois choroisin e. to sport in the dance, Ar.Th.975; tôi  Luc.Lex.5 Paig-ma , atos, to, A. play, sport, lōtos hotan . . paigmata bremē whene'er the pipe sounds its sportive strains, E.Ba.161(lyr.); “Ludia p. luras” Lyr.Alex.Adesp.37.15. II. 'child's play', to toiouto p. tōn logōn Play always meant in religious performances DEMON WORSHIP 1Corinthians 10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils:         ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils. Hebrews 13:10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. Paul had just warned about the Fall into Musical Idolatry at Mount Sinai. Hebrews 12:25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: Hebrews 12:26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. Hebrews 12:27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Hebrews 12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire If you Make it, compose it or perform it God will BURN IT UP because you are defacto refusing to listing to the WORD of God which is the REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE. 1Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and DOCTRINES OF DEVILS daimoniōn G4107 planees plan-ay'-tace From G4108 ; a rover ("planet"), that is, (figuratively) an erratic teacher:wandering 2. Pass., wandering, roaming, fickle, “poikilon pragm' esti kai planon Poikilos i^, ē, on, 2. of Art, p. humnos a song of changeful strain or full of diverse art, Pi.O.6.87; “poikilon kitharizōn” Id.N.4.14; “dedaidalmenoi pseudesi poikilois muthoi” Id.O.1.29; of style, “lexis poiētikōtera kai p.” Isoc.15.47 (Comp.); “skhēmatismoi” D.H.Is.3. Daimonaō , A.to be under the power of a daimōn, to suffer by a divine visitation, “daimona domos kakois” A.Ch.566; “daimonōntes en ata” Id.Th. 1008 (lyr.): abs., to be possessed, to be mad James 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. If Musical Idolatry at Mount Sinai was DEMON WORSHIP and God abandoned them to worship the starry host with the Levites as Instrumental Sorcerers, then the "spirit" which sows discord has been cast down and unleashed the LOCUSTS which John knew to be the MUSES led by Apollo, Abaddon or Apollyon.  John calls all of the musical performers SORCERERS and Civil Greek society would call them prostitutes or brides or "nymphs." daimōn , onos, voc. A.“daimōn” S.OC1480 (lyr.), “daimon” Theoc.2.11, ho, hē, god, goddess, of individual gods or goddesses, esp. EVIL SPIRIT  demon, Ev.Matt.8.31, J.AJ8.2.5; “phauloi d. B. = daēmōn, knowing, d. makhēs skilled in fight, , names of celestial klēroi, “theōn, d., hērōōn, tōn en Haidou” Pl.R.392a The Daimons  are EVIL SPIRITS but they are worshiping HADES. The Jews had a covenant with Death and Hell and so does all of the Musical Sorcerers.   They are CLERGY specificially the Levites used as the PATTERNISM for all of the musical discorders. klēros III. of the Levites, “Kurios autos klēros autou” LXX De.18.2: Hermēs gar ōn klērō poiēseis oid' hoti” Ar.Pax365; “k. Hermou” E Plat. Rep. 3.392a “We have declared the right way of speaking about gods and daemons and heroes and that other world.” “We have.” “Speech, then, about men would be the remainder.” “Obviously.” “It is impossible for us, my friend, to place this here. “Why?” “Because I presume we are going to say that so it is that both poets  All rhetoricians, singers and instrument players were ANTI-Logos where the Logos is Christ or the Regulative Principle. ti oun ktl. This is the alēthes eidos logōn. Plato has prescribed canons [LEGALISM] for the pseudeis logoi or legends about gods etc.; but rules for alētheis logoi, i.e. logoi relating to men and human affairs, Exermēneuō , A.interpret, translate, “eis tēn Hellada glōssan tounoma” D.H.1.67, cf. Jul.Or.2.77d:—Pass., Plb.2.15.9, D.H.4.67, Plu.2.383d, etc. II. describe accurately, Luc.Hist.Conscr.19. Peter said that private interpretation or further expounding MARKED false teachers because the LOGOS validating the PROPHETS by Christ is the ONLY thing permitted in A School of Christ. Plat. Rep. 3.392b and writers of prose speak wrongly about men in matters of greatest moment, saying that there are many examples of men who, though unjust, are happy, and of just men who are wretched, and that there is profit in injustice if it be concealed, and that justice is the other man's good and your own loss;         and I presume that we shall forbid them to say this sort of thing         and command them to sing and fable the opposite. Don't you think so?” “Nay, I well know it,” he said. “Then, if you admit that I am right, I will say that you have conceded the original point of our inquiry?” [984d] end finally in us men. Now the gods—Zeus and Hera  and all the rest—each man must regard in what light he pleases, though according to the same law, and must take this account as reliable. But as our visible gods, greatest and most honorable and having keenest vision every way, we must count FIRST the order of the stars and all else that we perceive existing with them; and after these, and FIRST come the stars, or“manifest gods”; then the creatures of ether, air and water（the second, third or fourth kinds（; and fifth and last, the creatures of earth or mankind. Plat. Epin. 984e NEXT below these, the divine spirits,1 and air-born race, holding the third and middle situation, cause of interpretation, which we must surely honor with prayers for the sake of an auspicious journey across.2 We must say of either of these two creatures—that which is of ETHER and, next to it, of AIR—that it is not entirely plain to sight: when it is near by, it is not made manifest to us; BUNKO, says Jesus: Jehovah is the Father and MY Words are SPIRIT 1 The daemons or divine SPIRITS had their existence and activity“ betwixt mortal and immortal,”and they served as interpreters and conveyors of men's prayers and offerings to the gods, and of the god's behests and requitals to men（Plato, Sympos. 202 D）. Good mortals might become daemons after death（Eurip.Alc. 1003; Plato, Cratyl. 398 B; Lucian, De morte Peregr. 36）, and such as they were charged with the guidance and care of mankind（Plato, Laws 713 D; Plutarch, De genio Socr. 588 C）. BUNKO, says Paul: 1Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 2 The “journey across” seems to refer to one part of the“conveying” that daemons performed—conducting the souls of deceased human beings from earth to the abode of the gods. Hermes, the meaning of the New Hermeneutic was the father of liars and the conductors of defunct spirits. daimōn , onos, voc. A.“daimōn” S.OC1480 (lyr.), “daimon” Theoc.2.11, ho, hē, god, goddess, of individual gods or goddesses, esp. EVIL spirit, demon, Ev.Matt.8.31, J.AJ8.2.5; “phauloi d. B. = daēmōn, knowing, d. makhēs skilled in fight, , names of celestial klēroi, “theōn, d., hērōōn, tōn en Haidou” Pl.R.392a [985a] but partaking of extraordinary intelligence, as belonging to an order which is quick to learn and strong in memory, we may say that they understand the whole of our thoughts, and show extraordinary kindness to anyone of us who is a good man and true, and hate him who is utterly evil, as one who already partakes of suffering. For we know that God, who has the privilege of the divine portion, is remote from these affections of pain and pleasure, but has a share of intelligence and knowledge in every sphere; and the heaven being filled full of live creature

	This writer affirms that the division over instrumental music was within the Disciples of Christ: the NACC would not begin to happen until 1927 As a result of trying to, in the words of the Christian Standard, transistion churches of Christ into Christian churches, it became obvious that churches of Christ would be split as had the Disciples. The Stark Warlick Debate on Instrumental Music is said to have sealed the separation in Henderson over the instrument. This gave final evidence that any attempt at fraternal fellowship was not possible because the "unity" motive did and does mean "you give your property to us. Trying to validate the Instrumental Sect, Stark collected all of the references he could find where psallo was used.  Psallo has NOT musical content: it means to pluck or smite with the fingers but never with a plectrum. That is because Psallo meant to pluck a bow string to make it twang to send forth an arrow into the heart of an enemy. As it relates to SMITING a string of a lyre it carried the idea of shooting a love arrow into Apollo's male friends. ALL of the plucking a harp string points to older males plucking the harp trying to seduce a young male whose hairs had been plucked: he might have been emasculated as Paul warned. If one "psallos" a harp string then it makes a "sound" but that does not make "music" but a percussion sound since "melody as tunefulness belongs to the 19th century."
	M.C.Kurfees Origin of Instrumental Music. M.C.Kurfees Instrumental Music in Worship Most of the writers fail to define words in the text and understand that God excludes all of the performing arts and artists: Jesus called the Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites.  In the Ezekiel 33 version the Spirit OF Christ names speakers, singers and instrument players.  In fact a hypocrite is a self-speaker, singer, player or actor. The Christian Standard had been active in trying to "take Tennessee for the society much earlier."  However, because Warlick virtually shut down the Christian Churches effort to take over Churches of Christ, the book by Kurfees had to be silenced. See Comments from O.E. Payne It is apparent that NOT using instruments was not acceptable and all of the effort was spent trying to fool better Bible readers.  Payne lists more of the literary information.  What the Standard and perhaps Payne did not know was that PSALLO has never in any of the recorded literature carried any musical content.  Psallo means PLUCK or SMITE with the fingers.  If you pluck a boy's hair you intend to mollest him. ALL smiting of a musical string carrye the idea of violence. When Payne or others quote a passage they just quote the fact that psallo means to PLUCK.  We will link you to some REAL literature to see that the plucking was not pretty. Furthermore, you ALWAYS have to NAME what is to be plucked.
Instrumental Music is Scriptural (and commanded) By O. E. Payne, The Standard Publishing Company, 1921 This book was sent to a select group of preachers thought to be "translatable" by the Commission On Unity Sending out copies with "return to sender" (in this writer's collection) pasted in front "That you may have the advantage of these facts and use them in the interest of truth and unity to 'the breaking down of the middlewall of partition" and for the restoring of fellowship between those that use and those that do not use instruments in the church, this book is sent out, which after reading please return to The commission On Unity, Nashville Tenneessee. Recently I received the following communication: WEST NASHVILLE, TENN., May 1, 1922. Dear Sir and Brother: We sent you last year a copy of O. E. Payne's book on the church music question for your consideration and to be returned after reading. We have not yet received the copy sent you, so we are writing to [7] request the return of the same. Fraternally, THE COMMISSION ON UNITY. I wonder who appointed this Commission on Unity or who has any right to make suggestions as to how unity can be brought about or maintained. If this commission has been appointed by any one or by any church, I would like to know who or which, because that individual or church should know what this commission is doing to promote unity. But if it is a self-appointed commission, as I believe it is, I have as much right to offer suggestions as any one. If this commission is calling in O. E. Payne's book on the church-music question in order to destroy it, it is working on the right line, and I want to commend them; but if it is calling in these books in order to give them to others and thus continue their circulation, I suggest a change of name for the commission. It should be called "The Commission on Division" instead of "The Commission on Unity." I doubt whether one church in fifty in this country uses the instrument in their worship. If this book is circulated and read and changes no one, it could not assist in bringing about unity, because we already have unity on that question in most of the churches in these parts; but if it changes some one and makes him believe that he ought to have the instrument in worship, cannot this commission see that this would bring about division. The instrument would be forced into the worship by these new converts made by Payne's book, which would drive out those it did not convert, and thus we would have division instead of unity as a result of this work. Surely this commission could not hope to change every one on this question with this book and thus get every one wrong; but if it did not change all, but changed any, it would cause division instead of unity.[8] Why is it necessary to have a commission in order to circulate O. E. Payne's book on the church-music question? Is it possible that those who are doing this work are ashamed to come out in the open and do it as individuals, or are they trying to make the impression that some church or association of men and women are behind them in their divisive work? We know it is not necessary in this city to have the instrument in order to have unity on the music question, for it was demonstrated in the recent meeting at the Ryman Auditorium that even those brethren who use the instrument can unite with those that do not and sing without the instrument, for they did it in that meeting. The only way to have unity on this question is to stop circulating such literature as O. E. Payne's book and cease to encourage such a commission as the one that has sprung up in West Nashville. I cannot comply with the request herein made to return the copy of the book claimed to have been sent to me, as I have no recollection of having seen it, and no member of my family remembers anything about it; but I will agree to send a copy of M. C. Kurfees' reply to O. E. Payne's book, if the commission will agree to use it as an antidote to the Payne poison. If this commission is true to its name and is really a commission on unity, it will accept this proposition and will circulate this reply to Payne's book by Brother Kurfees as extensively as it circulates the Payne book; but if this commission is not true to its name, then the church where the individuals composing the commission hold membership should promptly withdraw from them, in harmony with the plain command of the apostle where he says: "Mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye [9] learned: and turn away from them." (Rom. 16:17.) While the foregoing says nothing about a debate, it was really the foundation for further correspondence, out of which grew the Nashville debate on the church-music question. The effort to slice off a few preachers trapped the "Commission" into a debate they did not want and were not prepared for.  Understanding that Churches of Christ were already UNITED and did not need the forced introduction of instruments knowing that it would sow discord and make friendly assemblies impossible.  In the words of Dwayne E. Dunning the wholesale efforts to DESTROY THE ROOTS have always sowed more discord and resulted in a tiny number of TRANSISTIONS, has decided on the present plot shuld be to LOP OFF A FEW BRANCHES. It is a fact that there is not a command, example or remote inference of any of God's people engaging in congregational singing with instruments; and Scripture is filled with negative or even Satanic influences, one wonders why people are so urgent to lop off a few preachers and lather them up with favor and use them as examples of a large defection to the Instrumental Sectarians. Boswell-Hardeman Discussion Instrumental Music Boswell-Hardeman Discussion of the Greek Psallo
The only LEGALISM concept in the literature are the LAWS (nomos or nomes) which regulated the RULES for playing instruments for Apollo (Abaddon, Apollyon). Then and now instrumental performance is the most works -intensive effort one could imagine: besides God is not worshipped with the works of human hands PsalloI Plucking the strings of a bow. Always destructive.  However in a remote sense. II. mostly of the strings of musical instruments, play a stringed instrument with the fingers, and not with the plectron, [1] “psēlai kai and [2]  krouein tō [3]  plēktrō You cannot use a PLECKTRON or guitar pick or blow a flute. Krouo  2. strike one against another, strike together, k. kheirasclap the hands,  allēlōn tous logous tois logois ekrouomen anwould have knocked their heads together, Pl.Tht.154e.  5. [1]  strike a[2] stringed instrument with a [3] plectron, Simon.183, Pl.Ly.209b: generally, play any instrument (v. krouma, kroumatikos）“, aulei . . krouōn iasti” Com.Adesp.415: c. dat., k. krembalois, = krembalizein, Plēk-tron , Dor. plaktron , to/, A. anything to strike with: 1. instrument for striking the lyre, plectrum, “khruseou hupo p.” h.Ap.185, cf. h.Merc.53, Pi.N.5.24, E.HF351 (lyr.); “keratina p.” Pl. Lg.795a; “p . . . xulinon”  “krouein tō p.” Pl.Ly.209b; “p. es lurēn rhapsai” Herod.6.51; “plēktrō . . plēgōn gignomenōn” Pl.R.531 There is NO BIBILICAL EXAMPLE of these words being used.

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