The.Church.of.Christ.is.a.Sect

The.Church.of.Christ.is.a.Sect: The Sect they call The Way or Road or Pattern. It is sectarian, exclusive in doctrine, narrow and Strait. The World is the Kosmos or ECUMENICAL meaning the kingdom of Satan. It is a SHOLE or School (only) of the Word (only). Anything beyond becomes a CULT. Dare to be a Sectarian.

3.19.15 Middle Eastern ECUMENICAL religion, any of the religious beliefs, attitudes, and practices developed in the ancient Middle East (extending geographically from Iran to Egypt and from Anatolia and the Aegean Sea to the Arabian Peninsula and temporally from about 3000 to 330 bc, when Alexander the Great conquered much of the area). They have had an enduring influence on Western civilization.

In Egypt, Thoth was the scribe in the pantheon. Mortal scribes were viewed as the human reflections of Thoth, and “the beak of the Ibis (i.e., Thoth) is the finger of the Scribe” (Wisdom of Amenemope, ch. XV, 17:7). The ancient Middle Eastern people believed that the universe resulted from the injecting of order (cosmos) into chaotic primordial beings or matter, followed by divine acts of creation

NACC SAYS: Also on Wednesday morning, Randy Harris of Abilene Christian University will usher us into heaven’s throne room in Revelation 4-5. As we enter this cosmic corporate worship service, we will suck in our breath, shield our eyes and drop to our knees before a God so glorious we can only describe Him with thunder, lightning, rainbows and jewels. He is the reason we will be victorious.

Jesus said that neither He nor His Little Flock are OF the World and are therefore able to hear the Word. He does not pray for the Cosmos or ECUMENICAL masses.

Cosmos , metaph., of ornaments of speech, such as epithets, Id.9.9 (pl.), Arist.Rh.1408a14, Po.1457b2, 1458a33; hadumelē k. keladein to sing sweet songs of praise, Pi.O.11 (10).13 (s.v.l.).

Pind. O. 11 My tongue wants to foster such themes; [10] but it is by the gift of a god that a man flourishes with a skillful mind, as with anything else. For the present rest assured, Hagesidamus son of Archestratus: for the sake of your boxing victory,

        I shall loudly sing a sweet song, an adornment for your garland of golden olive,
        [15] while I honor the race of the Western Locrians.
There, Muses [Locusts led by Apollon], join in the victory-song; I shall pledge my word to you that we will find there a race that does not repel the stranger, or is inexperienced in fine deeds, but one that is wise and warlike too.

Cosmo-krator epith. of ouranos, Orph.H.4.3; “Zeus Mitras Hēlios k. Dam.Pr.131; hoi k. tou skotous toutou the cosmic rulers of this sinful world, Ep.Eph.6.12; “hoi k. hoi ta hupo selēnēn stoikheia dioikountes”
selēn-ē II. as fem. pr. n., Selene, the goddess of the moon

kosm-eō 2. generally, arrange, prepare, “dorpon ekosmei” Od. 7.13; “k. aoidēn ē” Bacch.59; “erga” Hes.Op.306;
RELIGIONISTS OUTSIDE OF GOD'S GRACE

Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world,
        according to the prince of the power of the air,
        the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Kosmos , ho, natgural, II.rnament, decoration, esp. of women; “hieros k.” OGI90.40 (Rosetta, ii B. C.): pl., ornaments, A.Ag.1271; “hoi peri to sōma k.” Isoc.2.32: metaph., of ornaments of speech, such as epithets, Id.9.9 (pl.), Arist.Rh.1408a14, Po.1457b2, 1458a33; hadumelē k. keladein to sing sweet songs of praise, Pi.O.11 (10).13 (s.v.l.).

Hēdu^-melēs , Dor. had- , Aeol. ad- , es, A. sweet-singing, “khelidoi” Anacr.67, cf. Sapph.122（Comp.), Pi.N.2.25; sweet-sounding, “xoana” S.Fr.238, etc.: poet. fem., “hēdumeleia surigx” Nonn.D.29.287.

Lectio-Divina speaks of the Thessalian Witch or Hag: she and the women worshipped the moon and moon blood in their agapae.

The Ancient Middle East constituted an ecumene. The term ecumene comes from the Greek word oikoumene, which means the inhabited world and designates a distinct cultural-historical community. The material effects of the commercial and cultural interconnections that permeated the component regions of the ancient Middle Eastern ecumene are richly supplied by archaeological excavations, which provide evidence of the spread of architectural, ceramic, metallurgical, and other products of ancient Middle Eastern man's industry.

Manufacturing and services tended to be monopolized by professional guilds, including religious personnel specializing in sacrifices, oracles, divination, and other kinds of priestcraft. The mobility of such guilds throughout the entire area helps to explain the spread of specific religious ideas and techniques over great distances. Just as guild potters spread ceramic forms and methods, so also guild priests spread their religious concepts and practices from the Indian Ocean to the Aegean Sea, and from the Nile River to Central Asia. The Greek poet Homer, in the Odyssey, noted the mobility of guildsmen, mentioning religious personnel as well as architects, physicians, and minstrels. Guild priests called kohanim were found at ancient Ugarit on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria as well as in Israel. Moreover, Mycenaean Greek (late Bronze Age) methods of sacrifice are similar to the Hebraic methods, which are preserved in many countries to this day in the traditional techniques of Jewish ritual slaughter.

In Revelation 18 they are called "lusted after fruits." They serve the Babylonian mother as craftsmen, speakers, singers, instrument players and probably prostitutes based on the brides or NYMPHS and the piping sound of the grinder-prostitute. John says that they will be cast alive into the lake of fire.

"The ancient Middle East [ecumenical] made a place for homosexuality and bestiality in its myths and rites. In the Asherah cult the qedeshim priests had a reputation for homosexual practices, even as the qedeshot priestesses for prostitution. Israel eventually banned both the qedeshim and qedeshot, while in Ugarit the and kohanim were priestly guilds in equally good standing. Baal is portrayed in Ugaritic mythology as impregnating a heifer to sire the young bull god. The biblical book of Leviticus (18:22--27) bans homosexuality and bestiality expressly because the Canaanite population had been practicing those rites, which the Hebrews rejected as abominations. Middle Eastern Religion p5

Many of the psalms are Ugaritic probably including psalm 137 lusting to bash out the heads of infants and Psalm 149 where David seems to want to sing and get his god in his bed.

Parasi_t-os [parasites], ho, A.one who eats at the table of another, and repays him with flattery and buffoonery, parasite, peri Parasitou, title of work by Luc.: c. gen., “kenēs p. trapezēs” [Money Changer's Table: collection Plates] metaphors., ikhthus ēn p. (v. opson) Luc.Lex.6. II. of priests who had their meals at the public expense,

'Dinias?' I put in; 'Who is Dinias?' 'Oh, he's a dance-for-your-supper carry-your-luggage rattle-your-patter gaming-house sort of man; eschews the barber, and takes care of his poor chest and toes.' 'Well,' said I, 'paid he the penalty in some wise, or showed a clean pair of heels?' 'Our delicate goer is now fast bound. The governor, regardless of his retiring disposition, slipped him on a pair of bracelets and a necklace, and brought him acquainted with stocks and boot. The poor worm quaked for fear, and could not contain himself, and offered money, if so he might save his soul alive.'

I am deathly cold; if I could get some warmth into me, I had rather listen to these light-fingered gentry of flute and lyre.' 'What is this you say, Eudemus?' says I 15. 'You would exact mutation from us? are we so hard-mouthed, so untongued?

Parasi_t-i^kos , ē, on, A.of a parasitos : hē -kē （tekhnē) the trade of a parasitos, toad-eating, ib.4 ; in full, Ath.6.240b.
        LEGALISM: tekhn-ē , hē, (tektōn) A. art, skill, cunning of hand of a soothsayer, A.Ag.249 (pl., lyr.), Eu.17, S.OT389, etc.; “tekhnai heterōn heterai” Pi.N.1.25; “ōpase t. pasan” Id.O.7.50.
III. an art or craft, i.e. a set of rules, LAWS system or method of making or doing, whether of the useful arts, or of the fine arts, Pl.Phdr.245a, Arist.Rh.1354a11, EN1140a8; “hoi tas t. tōn logōn suntithentes LAWS of rhetoric, Arist.Rh.1354a12, but rather TRICKS of Rhetoric, in Aeschin. 1.117)

Cosmos

Gender conflict is always connected to religious craftsmen: rhetoricians, singers, instrument players, actors or dancers. That may not be true but it is recorded as a reason for up to half of a congregation fleeing their investment.

Jesus came to seek and save a Little Flock: lambs rarely engage in expensive musical performances. It is the SECT called the WAY: a very narrow, exclusive road that fools cannot stumble into. Why should people become violent when others will not bow when they pipe.

Sectarian Instrumental Music Worship Timeline The Church of Christ (The Rock) prohibited vocal or instrumental rejoicing including rhetoric or "speaking your own words." ALL "dreams" about music in the assembly defined as a School (only) of the Word (only): Those who do not speak that Word Christ said there is no light in them. This timeline considers only the American Restoration Movement which fell into musical idolatry and claimed Biblical to become sectarian in the year 1878. However, that timeline applies to almost all protestant groups which needed no justification. That defines the World or Ecumenical as the reign of Satan (any anti-Logos influence). The ekklesia which assembles itself ONCE EACH WEEK by direct command and all approved examples as "synagogue" is defined as the SECT called the Way or Road commanded to teach what Christ taught in the Prophets and Apostles. This timeline is ignored in the brutal attacks against those who followed the pattern from the wilderness onward. Dr. H. Christopher Instrumental Music defines the Jewish-Catholic Pattern.

Col 2:[6] As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him, [7] rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving. [8] Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ

The heretic was the priest who lifted up the lamb to cut its throat: the parasite was the Levites who made noise and never music to make the lambs dumb before the slaughter. God does not provide any FUNDING for anyone to perform religious observations to which the kingdom does not come. Therefore, the cost of musical performances feed parasites and WALKS DISORDERLY.

Because there is no command, example or remote inference of God calling people out of their REST to engage in congregational singing with or without instruments, those who CHOOSE to make the assembly (synagogue) into a musical performance are FLAUNTING Scripture which uses musical instruments to mark those who say WE WILL NOT teach or obey what you commanded to be taught. Musical performances intends to contradict the command of Jesus:

Ray Downen: The heretic is the one who creates division. In this case, those who separate are those who have added their unscriptural ANTI-instrument law and choose to have no fellowship with us who freely use musical instruments.

Christian Churches separated from the Disciples for the same reason that Churches of Christ were never part of the "society and instrument party." Disciples understand that vocal and instrumental rejoicing was outlawed for the Church of Christ (the Rock) in the wilderness and was never part of its School of the Word. For the first time in recorded history the Christian Churches invented the PSALLO word and insisted that it commanded turning school of the Word into a theater for holy entertainment. Psallo never had a musical content but includes only "plucking with a string with your fingers and never with a plectrum." That happened in 1878.

A heretic is one who IMPOSES A PRACTICE not commanded by God and not necessary to carry out the command to "teach that which is written for our learning." The method is to "us one mind and one mouth" as the only way to prevent any of the hypocritic performers Jesus called the Scribes and Pharisees.

Paul outlawed self-pleasure in Romans 15 which means "creating mental excitement." The latin placeo includes rhetoric, singing, playing instruments acting or anything. The command then is to "use one mind and one mouth to speak that which is written for our learning." These words define a Heretic or Sectarian who according to Paul in Ephesians 4 are LYING IN WAIT TO DECEIVE.

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Aresko (g700) ar-es'-ko; prob. from 142 (through the idea of exciting emotion); to be agreeable (or by impl. to seek to be so): - please.
Areskos A. pleasing, mostly in bad sense, obsequious, cringing, the STAFF borne by pornoboskoi [brothel keeper] on the stage

Airo (g142) to lift; by implication to take up or away; figuratively to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind); specifically to sail away (that is, weigh anchor); by Hebraism (compare [ H5375 ]) to expiate sin:--away with, bear (up), carry, lift up, loose, make to doubt, put away, remove, take (away, up).

Anaireô, anêirêka (v. haireô): --take up, anelontes apo chthonos having raised the victim from the ground, so as to CUT its THROAT II. make away with, destroy, of men, kill,

Exairô -lift up, lift off the earth 2. raise in dignity, exalt, magnify, exaggerate it. Rhetoric, treat in elevated style, of music

3. arouse, stir up excites thy wish to die, pervert, make away with, get rid of, to be excited, agitated.
Includes: Choreia [choreuô] a dance, esp. the choral or round dance with its music.

The word HAEIRO has the same meaning as aeiro. Heresy is invading and making war to LIFT YOU UP with musical excitement.

The ECUMENICALS are the WORLD for which Jesus refused to pray: they are huge, rich, famous and spiritually murderous

Pro-airesis , eôs, hê, choosing one thing before another, wrongs done from malice prepense, contrary to one's purpose, 3. in political language, deliberate course of action, 5. political party, b. sect or school of music, philosophy

Hairesis I. a taking especially, esp. of a town, a taking for oneself,
4. a sect, school, etc.: esp. a religious sect, such as the Sadducees and Pharisees, NTest.5. a heresy,

Pharisaios 1 a Pharisee, Separatist (from pharash, to distinguish),
one of a sect who separated themselves from other Jews as affecting superior holiness.

Phrik-ôdês, es, attended with shivering, b. inspiring religious awe.

A heretic or ECUMENICAL sectarian invades and steals your property;

Haireô Il.; hair, tina kheiros to take one by the hand,
A. Act., take with the hand, grasp, seize, having taken up [the song], Od.8.500.

2. take away II. take, get into one's power, overpower, kill, of passions,
catch, take, zôon [ZOE: take away life] helein Il.21.102 ; take in hunting, get into one's power, entrap,
II. take, get into one's power, nēas ib.13.42; esp. take a city, 2.37, S.Ph.347,
freq. of passions, etc., come upon, seize,
B. Med., with pf. hērēmai (v. supr.), take for oneself, egkhos helesthai take one's spear,
II. take to oneself, choose,

Hairetos verb. adj. of haireō I. that may be taken or conquered, Hdt.; that may be understood, Plat.

Homer, Odyssey The muses were taught by Apollo
So he spoke, and the minstrel, moved by the god, began, and let his song be heard, [500] taking up the tale where the Argives had embarked on their benched ships and were sailing away, after casting fire on their huts, while those others led by glorious Odysseus were now sitting in the place of assembly of the Trojans, hidden in the horse; for the Trojans had themselves dragged it to the citadel.

Girard 5.4.2 Behind the anthropological predilections against the victim's perspective, there is a very practical, quasi-historical reason:
namely, he victim is shunned and often killed. In the ancient world,
the role of music during ritual sacrifice was often
to drown out any cries from the victim.

When the priests who still believed that Dionysus or the "new wineskin god" was to be the Messiah
It roused the lust of many to restore the Abomination of Desolation in the temple now dedicated to
Zeus (now they say "Je-Zeus or hail Zeus just out of college). The "initiation of Dionysus" involved
the singing and dancing they hoped to induce in Jesus when they Piped. This was the "religion"
of the Agora or marketplace. This was a PAINFUL initiation and they played loud music to hide
the agony.

It is crucial that the victim not be heard.
        The practical mechanics of making victims
        means that it is unusual for the victim's perspective to survive.
        In the world of ancient ritual it was probably impossible.
The Greek verb musteron means to close the mouth or shut the eyes.
        Myth means to close ourselves to the victim
        and tell the tale according to the perpetrator's perspective;
        mystery cults are based on the silence of the victims;
        music derives from drowning out the voice of the victim.

It was prophesied that Judas would FAIL in this attempt but the Levitical Warrior musicians
Mocked Jesus to the cross. However, their celebration. was short.

5.5.3 This is not to say that the victim's perspective is on display everywhere in the Hebrew scriptures. Girard has called them a "text in travail," that is to say, a text struggling to finally and clearly give voice to the victim in history.
The Suffering Servant Song of Isaiah 53 is but a pinnacle in this long, excruciating process in history of the victim's voice becoming heard

THE ABSOLUTE SEPARATION MADE BY GOD IN CHRIST AND MARKED FOR OUR AVOIDANCE

Luke 9:26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my WORDS,
        of him shall the Son of man be ashamed,
        when he shall come in his own glory,
        and in his Father’s, and of the holy angels.

Logos is God's Regulative Principle: opposite of self-speak rhetoric, singing or playing instruments. Jesus called these hypocrites.

If they quote part of a verse and then twist out a bunch of sausage from their own attempt to ENHANCE the LOGOS they Jesus will be ASHAMED of them when He comes in HIS glory.

John 7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory:
        but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

John 8:50 And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.

THAT PRETTY WELL EXCLUDES THE ECUMENICAL MASSES AND THE SECT CALLED THE WAY WILL BE ALMOST INVISIBLE AND FEW WILL FIND IT.

Gary Holloway Ecumenical: First, [ecumenical] is biblical. “Ecumenical” is from the Greek word oikoumena, which is used 15 times in the New Testament for “the entire inhabited world.” The most interesting passage that relates to the modern meaning is Matthew 24:14: “And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.”

Richard Beck ACU'S universalists or Ecumenical without knowing the meaning of words: maybe God made him do it.

As I’ve written about before, right now there are two streams in the Churches of Christ,
a sectarian stream
and an ecumenical stream.

JESUS DOESN'T EVEN PRAY FOR THE BROAD WAY:

INHABITED: Late Latin oecumenicus ; from Classical Greek oikoumenikos, of or from the whole world ; from oikoumenē (gē), the inhabited (world) ; from oikein, to dwell, inhabit ; from oikos:

Dik-ēma A.dwelling-place. esp. bed-chamber, temple, shrine, brothel, the kosmos .
Dioik-eō “diōkēsamēn” keep house: hence, generally, control, manage, administer, manage after one's own will and pleasure, managing to make such iniquitous profits, act collusively with ton kosmon” Id.Phdr.246c;
kosmos , ho, A. order, kata kosmon in order, duly, shamefully, generally, of things, natural order, ornament, decoration, esp. of women, metaph., of ornaments of speech, such as epithets, to sing sweet songs of praise, world-order, universe, first in Pythagoras, of earth, as opp. heaven, 3. in later Gr., = oikoumenē, the known or inhabited world, 5. houtos ho k. this present world, i.e. earth, OPPOSITE. heaven, Ev.Jo.13.1; regarded as the kingdom of evil, ho arkhōn tou k. toutou ib.12.31.

Kosmo-krator epith. of ouranos, Orph.H.4.3; “Zeus Mitras Hēlios k.
Dam.Pr.131; hoi k. tou skotous toutou the cosmic rulers of this sinful world, dentified with Apollon.
Ep.Eph.6.12; “hoi k. hoi ta hupo selēnēn stoikheia dioikountes”

A CHURCH OF CHRIST WHICH SPEAKS THE WORD OR LOGOS, SAYS JESUS, WILL BE DESPISED, HATED, REJECTED AND EVEN MURDERED

The Church or Synagogue (in assembly) Christ is defined as a SECT: it's road (WAY) is narrow and it's gate or entry point is strait: almost impossible to find because the ecumenical or oikoumena.

Matt. 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way [hodos], which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Thlib-ō , of a person heavy-laden, hōs thlibomai! Ar.Ra.5, Ev.Matt.7.14; bios tethl. a scanty subsistence, D.H.8.73, oppress, afflict, distress, opsōnion

Ar.Ra.5 Xanthias
So why should I have to carry all this stuff,
without doing any of the jokes that Phrynichus
and Lycis and Ameipsias always make
the baggage-carriers say in all their comedies?

Dionysus
Just don't. Since when I'm in the theater
and hear any of these stupid jokes,
I go away just older by a year.

opsōnion gratuity to tax-farmers, gramma^t-ikos , ē, on, 2. one who occupies himself with literary texts, grammarian, critic
3. concerned with textual criticism, “exēgēsis” IV. grammatikon, to, fee paid to scribes in Egypt,

The Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites names as popular preacher for HIRE, singer instrument player in Ezekiel 33. Peter outlawed "private interpretation" or further expounding to AID the Spirit of Christ.

g4728. stenos, sten-os´; probably from the base of 2476; narrow (from obstacles standing close about): — strait.

stenos , close, confined, apeilēthentes es steinon driven into a corner Hdt.9.34; scanty, petty,
small-minded, narrow-minded, of sound and style, thin, meagre,

Hdt.9.34; According to the legend, the Argive women were driven mad by Dionysus for refusing to take part in his orgies [Paul's wrath], and cured by Melampus. Many Greek authors refer to it, with varying details.

diakeima afflicted 2. of things, to be settled, fixed, or ordered, to be suspected by the people,

FEW WILL FIND THE NARROW, SECTARIAN WAY

oligos Little, small, opp. “megas,
with small, low voice Degree, o. kai megas of low and high degree,
of Number, few, or of Quantity, little, b. en oligois one among few, i.e. exceedingly, remarkably

Luke 13:24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

prosekhō mostly, p. ton noun turn one's mind, attention to a thing, be intent on it, give heed to him, pay court to him,devote oneself to a thing, devote oneself to the service of any one, esp. a god,

Heb. 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him:
for he that cometh to God must believe that he is,
and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Logos verbal noun of legō (B), with senses corresponding to legō daccount, reckoning, analogy, rule, explanation, statement of a theory, argument, of arguments leading to a conclusion, rule, principle, law, as embodying the result of logismos, principle directed to an end, orthos l. true principle, right rule,

2Tim. 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

2 Timothy 2:15 spoudason seauton dokimon parastēsai tō theō, ergatēn anepaiskhunton, orthotomounta ton logon tēs alētheias.

ortho-tomeō ,
A.cut in a straight line, “tas hodous” LXXPr.3.6 : metaph., o. ton logon teach it aright, 2 Ep.Ti.2.15.

c. in Neo-Platonic Philos., of regulative and formative forces, derived from the intelligible and operative in the sensible universe, La, rule of conduct, universal principle,“polloi logon mē mathontes zōsi kata logon”
legō 1.to say, speak,to say something, i. e. to speak to the point or purpose,
9.to boast of, tell of, Xen.: to recite what is written, labe to biblion kai lege

LITTLE FLOCK [SHEEP] IS

SIZE:
mikros , petty, trivial, slight, of persons, of small account,
Arist.Ph.197a30; but to para mikros sōzesthai to be only just saved, Id.Rh.1371b11,

Opposite megas megas= 2. generally, vast, high, ouranos, oros, purgos (theōn b. ho m., of Zeus [Father or KAIROS, demon son], Pi.O. 7.34) 3. of sounds, great, loud, Opposite. “oligos opp. mikros   Mētēr m., of Cybele, “Mētēr theōn m.
mega eipein to speak big, and so provoke divine wrath,

Polus Number, many, Intensity, much, mighty, p. humenaios a loud song, if she flow with full stream, the many, i.e. the greater number
cithari-zo , a-re, v n., = kitharizô, to play on or strike the cithara, Nep. Epam. 2, 1; Vulg. Apoc. 14, 2.

Alalētos alalē II.a loud noise, aulōn Alala (halal) war cry, make dumb

Pind. O. 7 That man is prosperous, who is encompassed by good reports. Grace, which causes life to flourish, looks with favor now on one man, now on another, with both the sweet-singing lyre and the full-voiced notes of flutes. And now, with the music of flute and lyre alike I have come to land with Diagoras, singing the sea-child of Aphrodite and bride of Helios

The triple-godesses as "trinity" included the three Graces: they were blue-eyed blond prostitute singers.

THAT WAY
HODOS 3. method, system, “hodō” methodically, systematically,Pl.R.533b, Stoic.2.39, etc. ; so “kath' hodon” Pl.R.435a ; “tēn dia tou stoikheiou ho. ekhōn egraphen” Id.Tht.208b (cf. “diexodon” 208a). 4. of the Christian Faith and its followers,Act.Ap.9.2, 22.4, 24.14.

Plat. Theaet. 208b Socrates
Socrates
Yes, but with his opinion he has rational explanation; for he wrote with the method in terms of letters in his mind, and we agreed that that was rational explanation.

There is, then, my friend, a combination of right opinion with rational [logon] explanation, which cannot as yet properly be called knowledge?

Sōkratēs
logon ge ekhōn meta orthēs doxēs. tēn gar dia tou stoikheiou hodon ekhōn egraphen, hēn dē logon hōmologēsamen.

THE ONLY PURPOSE
Method-os , hē, (meta, hodos) Pattern

II. pursuit of knowledge, investigation, Pl.Sph.218d, 235c, al.; m. poieisthai to pursue one's inquiry, ib.243d; “en tē prōtē m.” Arist.Pol.1289a26: hence, treatise, Dam.Pr.451.
2. mode of prosecuting such inquiry, method, system, Pl.Phdr.270c, Arist.EN1129a6, Pol.1252a18, etc.; “hē dialektikē m.” Pl.R.533c,

THE ONLY ONES INVITED OR ALLOWED TO ATTEND THE SECT OF THE WAY OUTSIDE THE ECUMENICAL

Matt. 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matt. 11:29 Take my yoke upon you,
        and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart:
        and ye shall find rest unto your souls

ana-pausis A.repose, rest, relaxation

REST FROM:

ALL forms of music which upset the rest and which is for sale

ka^koō , A.maltreat, distress, in Hom. always of persons physically, injure, paralyse, “tas arkhas tōn neurōn”

Leitourg-ia III. public service of the gods, “hai pros tous theous l.” Arist.Pol.1330a13; “hai tōn theōn therapeiai kai l.” D.S.1.21, cf. UPZ17.17 (ii B.C.), PTeb.302.30 (i A.D.), etc.; the service or ministry of priests, LXX Nu.8.25, Ev.Luc.1.23.

THE SINGLE PURPOSE FOR THE ASSEMBLY
skholē , skholēn agein to be at leisure, enjoy ease, keep quiet, amphi heauton for one's own business, a work for leisure, i.e. requiring attention,
2. a group to whom lectures were given, school,

Dem.44, Plu.Per.35, Alex.7, etc.; s. ekhein to keep a school, Arr.Epict. 3.21.11; skholēs hēgeisthai to be master of it, Phld.Acad.Ind.p.92 M., D.H.Amm.1.7.
3. Lat. schola, = skholastērion,
THE METHOD IS DIALOG: NOT PREACHING OPPOSITE LECTION-DIVINA
dialegō , A.pick out, hold converse with, c. dat. pers., “moi tauta philos dielexato thumos” Il.11.407
2. in Philosophy, practise dialectic, elicit conclusions by discussion, “ouk erizein alla d.” Pl.R.454a, cf. 511c, Tht.167e, etc.

Christian Lectio:
lectĭo , ōnis, f. lego.
I. A gathering, collecting.

A. In gen. (post-Aug. and rare): “lectio lapidum,” Col. 2, 2, 12: “florum,” Arn. 5, 173.—*

B. In partic., a picking out, selecting: “judicum,” Cic. Phil. 5, 6, 16. —
II. A reading, perusal; a reading out, reading aloud.
that which is read, reading, text, “juris lectiones,” passages of the laws,

JUDAS GOATS MARKED BY THE SOP OR PSALLO WORD.

PAUL SEPARATED OR SECTED OUT THE TINY SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS FROM THE MASSES OR ECUMENICAL.

Plēthos great number, multitude, esp. of people, hōs plēthei for the mass of men, Pl.R.389d.
greater number, the mass, main body, of the popular assembly, to humeteron p., to p. to humeteron,

THE ECUMENICAL SECTARIANS ACCEPT EVERYONE'S MONEY BUT USE THE LEGALIST OR SECTARIAN WORD TO SHUT DOWN DEBATE.

Aristot. Pol. 5.1313b    [1] in fact the close watch upon all things that usually engender the two emotions of pride and confidence, and the prevention of the formation of study-circles and other conferences for debate

And it is a device of tyranny to make the subjects poor, so that a guard [20] may not be kept, and also that the people being busy with their daily affairs may not have leisure to plot against their ruler. Instances of this are the pyramids in Egypt and the votive offerings of the Cypselids, and the building of the temple of Olympian Zeus by the Pisistratidae and of the temples at Samos, works of Polycrates （
        for all these undertakings produce the same effect,
         constant occupation and poverty among the subject people）;
        and the levying of taxes, as at Syracuse
(for in the reign of Dionysius the result of taxation used to be that in five years men had contributed the whole of their substance）.

Also the tyrant is a stirrer-up of war, with the deliberate purpose of keeping the people busy and also of making them constantly in need of a leader. Also whereas friends are a means of security to royalty, it is a mark of a tyrant to be extremely distrustful of his friends,

ECUMENICAL attempts to promote a WORLD VIEW to attract those OF the World. Jesus was sent and sent evangelists out to SEEK and save LOST SPIRITS. They are not OF the World (ecumenical) as Jesus is not OF the World. Stuffing the pews almost never has the Driven Purpose. A disciple is washed with water INTO the Word or into the school of Christ.

THE FIRST HERESY WHICH SPLIT THE EAST FROM THE WEST WAS MAKING SINGING HYMNS A PART OF THE ASSEMBLY: C 393

There is no command, example or remote inference of God calling people out of their REST to engage in congregational singing with "musical instruments." Instruments or machines are always the mark of people refusing to listen to God and sowing discord to turn the enemy into cowards. The Disciples of Christ INVENTED the psallo word in 1878 to prove that it COMMANDED musical instruments and those who refused to join were defined as "sons of perdition." Since there was no LAW of music Churches of Christ could hardly have ADDED an ANTI-instrumental law.

Christ the ROCK outlawed vocal or instrumental rejoicing for the Church in the wilderness. This quarantined the GODLY SECT from the Civil-Military-Clergy whom GOD abandoned, turned over to or SECTED OUT to "worship the starry host" because of instrumental idolatry at Mount Sinai which was without redemption becaus it had such a low view of God. There was no need for a LAW to silence people assembled (synagogued) only to REST, read the Word and rehearse it or discuss it. Reverence and Godly fear silences everyone but the speaker of the WORD, LOGOS or regulative principle.

Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time
        hath in every city
        them that PREACH him,
        being READ in the synagogues every sabbath day.

ALL of the Scriptures command that God's Word be READ or SPOKEN and never sung because everyone knew that poets and song writers were liars and deceivers.

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..

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..

Matthew 11:25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

sophis-tēs , ou, ho, A.master of one's craft, adept, expert, of diviners, Hdt.2.49; of poets, “meletan sophistais prosbalon” Pi.I.5(4).28, cf. Cratin.2; of musicians, “sophistēs . . parapaiōn khelun”
with modal words added, “hoi s. tōn hierōn melōn” Ael.NA11.1 Melody in a holy place

2. sophist (in bad sense), quibbler, cheat, Ar.Nu.331,1111, al., Pl.Sph. 268d; “goēta kai sophistēn onomazōn” D.18.276.
3. later of the rhētores, Professors of Rhetoric, and prose writers

[395] Sophistry is not wisdom, and to indulge in thoughts beyond man's ken is to shorten life; and if a man on such poor terms should aim too high, he may miss the pleasures in his reach.
These, to my mind, are the ways of madmen and idiots. Oh! to make my way to Cyprus, isle of Aphrodite, where dwell the love-gods strong to soothe man's soul, or to Paphos, which that foreign river, never fed by rain, enriches with its hundred mouths!

[402] Oh! lead me, Bromian [Dionysus "to roar"] god, celestial guide of Bacchic pilgrims, to the hallowed slopes of Olympus, where Pierian Muses have their haunt most fair.

Bromian also of music, lura bremetai kai aoida Pi.N.11.7

Pindar Nemean 11. [6] often they worship you, first of the gods, with libations, and often with the savor of burnt sacrifice. Lyres and songs peal among them, and Themis, who belongs to Zeus the god of hospitality,

There dwell the Graces; there is soft desire; there thy votaries may hold their revels freely. The joy [417] of our god, the son of Zeus, is in banquets, his delight is in peace, that giver of riches and nurse divine of youth. Both to rich and poor alike hath he granted the delight of wine, that makes all pain to cease;

CLICK BELOW FOR THE DEFINITION OF A SECTARIAN OR HERETIC.

A sectarian or HERETIC in the sacrificial systems was the priests who "lifted the lambs up to cut their throats."
The PARASITE was the musical sonder who "made the lambs dumb before the slaughter.

The heresy outlawed in Romans 15 was the SELF-PLEASURE of any and all performances such as rhetoric, singing, playing instruments or acting which created mental excitement (laded burden) which made the role of the assembly impossible: to use one mind and one mouth speaking that which is written for our learning.

HOWEVER, A DISCIPLE OF CHRIST IS A SECTARIAN OF THE WAY AND CONSISTS OF ONLY A VERY TINY NUMBER OF THOSE JESUS CALED OUT OF THE WORLD MEANING ECUMENICAL.

Because Churches of Christ had never in recorded history thought that the command to SPEAK meant a command to MAKE MUSIC, they did not JOIN with the Disciples of Christ or Christian Churches who became INSTRUMENTAL SECTARIANS by delibrately sowing discord among their own group. Churches of Christ were called Reformed Baptists in 1832 when the Christians claimed that "the Reformers have come over to us."

Fellowship means that you AFFIRM musical idolatry, that you ASSEMBLE with them (being at two places at the same time?), that you SUPPORT them. The New Covenant was made with the LAITY exclusive of Priests and Levites: it removes the laded burden (music and money) and repudiates the Burden Laders. In Ephesians 4 the Christ-gifted elders--if APT--were commanded to eject the cunning craftsmen or SOPHISTS defined as popular preachers for hire, singers or instrument players. Paul commanded that the be DESECTED because the hypocritic performers are marked as LYING IN WAIT TO DECEIVE.

12.22.14 New with the yellow background is some Scripture to warn you against those who accues you of what they are doing but at a higher ticket cost.

ALL OF THE "PROGRESSIVES" CLAIM: As I’ve written about before,
right now there are two streams in the Churches of Christ,
        a sectarian stream
        and an ecumenical stream.

Only the sectarians of the WAY are a Church or assembly of Christ. Christ in the wilderness and the Campbells defined:

A CHURCH is a School of Christ or the Word
Worship is READING and MUSING the Word of God

Paul commanded that we SPEAK the Biblical text or that which is written for our learning
All of the Logos speak words such as LEXIS is the opposite of ODE or singing.
"ODE and PSALLO" is the second part of Paul's series of parallels. Therefore, as in 1 Corinthians 14 ode and psallo are IN the heart meaning Keep it Silent while God speaks through the Word (only)
If you REFUTE that then you are marked as NOT a School of Christ.
The Ekklesia word as a means of financial gain is reallly the citizens of the Kingdom who live their own lives during the week without having to feed the threshing oxen.
The members of the local citizenry gathers as SYNAGOGUE and ONCE A WEEK by direct command and approved examples.
Both men and women are peaceful and silent (1 Timothy 2) so that "we might all be SAFE and come to a knowledge of the truth." That is the PATTERN.
Richard Beck etal are correct but Jesus said that doctors of the law take away the key to knowledge and He sends strong delusions what they can never know is that:

A tiny few Churches of Christ belong to the SECTARIANS of the WAY which is a Road, Method or Pattern as a School (only) of the Word (only) as the Regulative Principle.

ECUMENICAL speaks of the World or Kosmos ruled by Satan and Jesus does not even pray for them.

The command of Scripture and the Restoration Movement was to COME OUT OF BABYLON.

That is because the Sect of the Way consist of an almost invisible and certainly inaudible group "umbrellaed from the storm" while the ECUMENICAL ruled by Satan gets the massed or collectivized mega-groups.

Worry a lot when you find yourself among the rich and popular.

Job 27:8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained,
        when God taketh away his soul?

Ezekiel 33 speakers for hire, singers, instrument players.

răpĭo , bird of prey, harpagē, harpazō bird of prey, harpagē, harpazō
“Nasonis carmina rapti,” i. e. torn from his home, borne far away, Ov. P. 4, 16, 1; cf. id. H. 13, 9; Stat. S. 3, 5, 6. — To carry off by force; to seize, rob, ravish; to plunder, ravage, lay waste, take by assault, carry by force, [Meaning of a sectarian in a bad sense]
1.To carry along or away with passion, to transport, ravish, captivate; and with a designation of the limit, to carry or hurry away, to attract strongly to any thing

carmen I. In gen., a tune, song, air, lay, strain, note, sound, both vocal and instrumenta
“per me (sc. Apollinem) concordant carmina nervis, citharae liquidum carmen,”
“lyrae carmen, 4. A response of an oracle, a prophecy, prediction: 5. A magic formula, an incantation: 7. Moral sentences composed in verses:[LADED BURDEN]

Matt. 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the wholeWORLD ,
         mundum universum   kosmos Ecumenical
         and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Luke 9:25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world,
        and lose himself, or be cast away?
Phil. 3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

The SECT of the WAY separated from the Kosmos or Ecumenicals

Those Jesus separated out of the world are and expect to be tribulated, slandered and even treated with violence: if they will lie to God to "turn your SCHOOL of the Word into a theater for holy entertainment" they will most likely hurt you if you follow the message of Jesus that if you SPEAK the Logos or regulative principle the massed multitudes (ecumenicals) will despise and hate you.

It is prophesied that almost all of the people with a WORLD VIEW will be collectivized or communed with a staff to regulate your waking hours.

Luke 12:29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink,
        neither be ye of doubtful mind.
Luke 12:30 For all these things do the NATIONS of the WORLD seek after:
        and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
Luke 12:31 But rather seek ye the kingdom of God;
        and all these things shall be added unto you.
Luke 12:32 Fear not, little flock;
        for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

zēt-eō AS THE ONLY WORSHIP CONCEPT: what is sought for may be found, inquire, examine, of philosophical investigation,

Heb. 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him:
        for he that cometh to God must believe that he is,
        and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

In all CIVIL societes before the Post-Literate Dispensations

lectĭto , āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a. 2. lego.
I. To gather or collect eagerly or often (postclass.): “conchulas et calculos in litore lectitasse,” Val. Max. 8, 8, 1: “flores,” Arn. 5, 183. —
II. To read often, with eagerness, or with attention (class.): “Pyrrhi te video libros lectitasse,” Cic. Fam. 9, 25, 1: “auctores quos nunc lectito,” id. Att. 12, 18, 1: “Platonem studiose,” id. Brut. 31, 121: “libros non legendos sed lectitandos,” Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 8: “libros conquisitos lectitatosque,” Tac. A. 14, 51: “orationes,” to read aloud, Plin. Ep. 7, 17, 4; Quint. 9, 1, 12.

The PATTERN from the wilderness and never changed was on the REST day to PREACH the Word by READING the Word for comfort and Doctrine.

Of those who do not speak that word or "speak their own words" (Isaiah 58) in Isaiah 8 THERE IS NO LIGHT IN THEM. Logos permits no personal comments, jokes, boasting, singing, playing instruments, acting or dancing.

LITTLE FLOCK [SHEEP] IS

SIZE:
mikros , petty, trivial, slight, of persons, of small account,
Arist.Ph.197a30; but to para mikros sōzesthai to be only just saved, Id.Rh.1371b11,

Opposite megas megas= 2. generally, vast, high, ouranos, oros, purgos (theōn b. ho m., of Zeus [Father or KAIROS, demon son], Pi.O. 7.34) 3. of sounds, great, loud, Opposite. “oligos opp. mikros   Mētēr m., of Cybele, “Mētēr theōn m.
mega eipein to speak big, and so provoke divine wrath,

Alalētos alalē II.a loud noise, aulōn
Alala (halal) war cry, make dumb

Pind. O. 7 That man is prosperous, who is encompassed by good reports. Grace, which causes life to flourish, looks with favor now on one man, now on another, with both the sweet-singing lyre and the full-voiced notes of flutes. And now, with the music of flute and lyre alike I have come to land with Diagoras, singing the sea-child of Aphrodite and bride of Helios

THAT WAY
HODOS 3. method, system, “hodō” methodically, systematically,Pl.R.533b, Stoic.2.39, etc. ; so “kath' hodon” Pl.R.435a ; “tēn dia tou stoikheiou ho. ekhōn egraphen” Id.Tht.208b (cf. “diexodon” 208a). 4. of the Christian Faith and its followers,Act.Ap.9.2, 22.4, 24.14.

Plat. Theaet. 208b Socrates
Socrates
Yes, but with his opinion he has rational explanation; for he wrote with the method in terms of letters in his mind, and we agreed that that was rational explanation.

There is, then, my friend, a combination of right opinion with rational [logon] explanation, which cannot as yet properly be called knowledge?

Sōkratēs
logon ge ekhōn meta orthēs doxēs. tēn gar dia tou stoikheiou hodon ekhōn egraphen, hēn dē logon hōmologēsamen.

THE ONLY PURPOSE
Method-os , hē, (meta, hodos) Pattern

II. pursuit of knowledge, investigation, Pl.Sph.218d, 235c, al.; m. poieisthai to pursue one's inquiry, ib.243d; “en tē prōtē m.” Arist.Pol.1289a26: hence, treatise, Dam.Pr.451.
2. mode of prosecuting such inquiry, method, system, Pl.Phdr.270c, Arist.EN1129a6, Pol.1252a18, etc.; “hē dialektikē m.” Pl.R.533c,

THE ONLY ONES INVITED OR ALLOWED TO ATTEND THE SECT OF THE WAY OUTSIDE THE ECUMENICAL

Matt. 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matt. 11:29 Take my yoke upon you,
        and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart:
        and ye shall find rest unto your souls

ana-pausis A.repose, rest, relaxation

REST FROM:

ALL forms of music which upset the rest and which is for sale

ka^koō , A.maltreat, distress, in Hom. always of persons physically, injure, paralyse, “tas arkhas tōn neurōn”

Leitourg-ia III. public service of the gods, “hai pros tous theous l.” Arist.Pol.1330a13; “hai tōn theōn therapeiai kai l.” D.S.1.21, cf. UPZ17.17 (ii B.C.), PTeb.302.30 (i A.D.), etc.; the service or ministry of priests, LXX Nu.8.25, Ev.Luc.1.23.

THE SINGLE PURPOSE FOR THE ASSEMBLY
skholē , skholēn agein to be at leisure, enjoy ease, keep quiet, amphi heauton for one's own business, a work for leisure, i.e. requiring attention,
2. a group to whom lectures were given, school,

Dem.44, Plu.Per.35, Alex.7, etc.; s. ekhein to keep a school, Arr.Epict. 3.21.11; skholēs hēgeisthai to be master of it, Phld.Acad.Ind.p.92 M., D.H.Amm.1.7.
3. Lat. schola, = skholastērion,
THE METHOD IS DIALOG: NOT PREACHING OPPOSITE LECTION-DIVINA
dialegō , A.pick out, hold converse with, c. dat. pers., “moi tauta philos dielexato thumos” Il.11.407
2. in Philosophy, practise dialectic, elicit conclusions by discussion, “ouk erizein alla d.” Pl.R.454a, cf. 511c, Tht.167e, etc.

Christian Lectio:
lectĭo , ōnis, f. lego.
I. A gathering, collecting.

A. In gen. (post-Aug. and rare): “lectio lapidum,” Col. 2, 2, 12: “florum,” Arn. 5, 173.—*

B. In partic., a picking out, selecting: “judicum,” Cic. Phil. 5, 6, 16. —
II. A reading, perusal; a reading out, reading aloud.
that which is read, reading, text, “juris lectiones,” passages of the laws,

JUDAS GOATS MARKED BY THE SOP OR PSALLO WORD.

PAUL SEPARATED OR SECTED OUT THE TINY SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS TO THE MASSES OR ECUMENICAL.

Plēthos great number, multitude, esp. of people, hōs plēthei for the mass of men, Pl.R.389d.
greater number, the mass, main body, of the popular assembly, to humeteron p., to p. to humeteron,

THE ECUMENICAL SECTARIANS ACCEPT EVERYONE'S MONEY BUT USE THE LEGALIST OR SECTARIAN WORD TO SHUT DOWN DEBATE.

Aristot. Pol. 5.1313b    [1] in fact the close watch upon all things that usually engender the two emotions of pride and confidence, and the prevention of the formation of study-circles and other conferences for debate

And it is a device of tyranny to make the subjects poor, so that a guard [20] may not be kept, and also that the people being busy with their daily affairs may not have leisure to plot against their ruler. Instances of this are the pyramids in Egypt and the votive offerings of the Cypselids, and the building of the temple of Olympian Zeus by the Pisistratidae and of the temples at Samos, works of Polycrates （for all these undertakings produce the same effect, constant occupation and poverty among the subject people）; and the levying of taxes, as at Syracuse （for in the reign of Dionysius the result of taxation used to be that in five years men had contributed the whole of their substance）. Also the tyrant is a stirrer-up of war, with the deliberate purpose of keeping the people busy and also of making them constantly in need of a leader. Also whereas friends are a means of security to royalty, it is a mark of a tyrant to be extremely distrustful of his friends,

ECUMENICAL attempts to promote a WORLD VIEW to attract those OF the World. Jesus was sent and sent evangelists out to SEEK and save LOST SPIRITS. They are not OF the World (ecumenical) as Jesus is not OF the World. Stuffing the pews almost never has the Driven Purpose. A disciple is washed with water INTO the Word or into the school of Christ.

PAUL'S MARK OF A TRUE MINISTER OF GOD:

The false teachers were hired and defended their greed by claiming that Paul's teachings were not WORTH a wage. Paul MARKS a true evangelist command to GO and teach only what Christ taught:

2 Cor 6:3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
2 Cor 6:4But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God,
        in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

Diakonos (g1249) dee-ak'-on-os; prob. from an obs. diako , (to run on errands; comp. 1377; an attendant, i.e. (gen.) a waiter (at table or in other menial duties); spec. a Chr. teacher and pastor (techn. a deacon or deaconess): - deacon, minister, servant

2 Cor 6:5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
2 Cor 6:6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness,
        by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
2 Cor 6:7 By the WORD of truth, by the power of God,
        by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
2 Cor 6:8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report:
        as deceivers, and yet true;
2 Cor 6:9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live;
        as chastened, and not killed;
2 Cor 6:10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich;
        as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

PAUL COMMANDS THEM TO SECT OUT THE MERCINARIES:

2Cor. 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers:
        for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?
        and what communion hath light with darkness?
2Cor. 6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial?
        or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
2Cor. 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?
        for ye are the temple of the living God;
        as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them;
        and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2Cor. 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them,
        and be ye separate, saith the Lord,
        and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

2Cor. 6:18 And will be a Father unto you,
        and ye shall be my sons and daughters,
        saith the Lord Almighty.

Pater —Of the founder of a school: “Zeno, pater Stoicorum,” Cic. N. D. 3, 9, 23; “of a teacher, as a source or creator: Isocrates pater eloquentiae,”
AGAIN: Many (Ecumenical) are called or invited but few (Sectarian) are elected or called OUT of the World.

Matt 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen.
14 polloi gar eisin klētoi oligoi de eklektoi.

Polus Number, many, Intensity, much, mighty, p. humenaios a loud song,
if she flow with full stream, the many, i.e. the greater number

Oligos i^, ē, on, later olios (q.v.), of Size, A.little, small, with small, low voice, ew, or of Quantity, little, slightly

FEW Are Eklektoo to be SPARATED i.e.purified LXX Isa 52:11

Isaiah 52:[11] Depart you, depart you, go you out from there, touch no unclean thing; go you out of the midst of her; cleanse yourselves, you who bear the vessels of Yahweh.

The PARTS or STEPS leading to salvation in Romans 10 is prophesied by Christ in Isaiah after He warns of those who will musically mock Him in Isaiah 50.

Isa 52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth

Rom 10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be SENT? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good thing

Calling on the name is done only at the time and place of baptism. Those who reject baptism call the Spirit of Christ a liar.

Rom 10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

Eph 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

Isa 52:10 The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations;
        and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

Most Self-Fueled efforts to make it possible for Jesus to return will never "grow" remotely close to the growth of the population. While self-will can drag a few into an institution not devoted to being the school of Christ (from the wilderness onward) will reject the command of Jesus to GO and just spread the Word while millions or billions will never hear the invitation.

THE UNIVERSAL ACCUSATION AGAINST CHURCHES OF CHRIST WHO WILL NOT GO INSTRUMENTAL AND ECUMENICAL

A CHURCH OF CHRIST IS A TINY SECTARIAN BODY SECTED OUT OF THE WORLD OR ECUMENICAL PEOPLE OF THE WORLD.

Richard Beck ACU'S universalists or Ecumenical without knowing the meaning of words: maybe God made him do it.

As I’ve written about before, right now there are two streams in the Churches of Christ,
        a sectarian stream
        and an ecumenical stream.

PROVING THE STRONG DELUSION PROMISE, HE IS STATING THE TRUTH.

The historic Church from the wilderness is called a SECTARIAN quarantine of the godly people for the Civil-Military-Clergy abandoned to worship the starry host including Abaddon or Apollyon with the Jacob-cursed and God-abandoned Levites being the sorcerers (Revelation 18) singing and playing instruments. It is called the SECT they call THE WAY.

The Scribes and Pharisees were the EVIL sect: Jesus called them hypocrites and Christ in Ezekiel 33 named popular preachers for hiire, singers and instrument players.

The Instrumentalists became a SECTARIAN SPLIT from the historic Church of Christ and the modern heirs have become the ECUMENICAL SECT including any massed multitude separated into a performing "worship ritual."

Alfred T. DeGroot
        (1) Christian UNITY in a new freedom, but also (defined as 'church')
      (2) BUT: a return to the doctrine, ordinances, and discipline of the New Testament church."
            (p. 153) (defined as 'sect')

Gary Holloway Ecumenical: First, [ecumenical] is biblical. “Ecumenical” is from the Greek word oikoumena, which is used 15 times in the New Testament for “the entire inhabited world.” The most interesting passage that relates to the modern meaning is Matthew 24:14: “And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.”

INHABITED: Late Latin oecumenicus ; from Classical Greek oikoumenikos, of or from the whole world ; from oikoumenē (gē), the inhabited (world) ; from oikein, to dwell, inhabit ; from oikos:

Dik-ēma A.dwelling-place. esp. bed-chamber, temple, shrine, brothel, the kosmos .
Dioik-eō “diōkēsamēn” keep house: hence, generally, control, manage, administer, manage after one's own will and pleasure, managing to make such iniquitous profits, act collusively with ton kosmon” Id.Phdr.246c;
      kosmos , ho, A. order, kata kosmon in order, duly, shamefully, generally, of things, natural order, ornament, decoration, esp. of women, metaph., of ornaments of speech, such as epithets, to sing sweet songs of praise, world-order, universe, first in Pythagoras, of earth, as opp. heaven, 3. in later Gr., = oikoumenē, the known or inhabited world, 5. houtos ho k. this present world, i.e. earth, OPPOSITE. heaven, Ev.Jo.13.1; regarded as the kingdom of evil, ho arkhōn tou k. toutou ib.12.31.

Kosmo-krator epith. of ouranos, Orph.H.4.3; “Zeus Mitras Hēlios k.
Dam.Pr.131; hoi k. tou skotous toutou the cosmic rulers of this sinful world, dentified with Apollon.
Ep.Eph.6.12; “hoi k. hoi ta hupo selēnēn stoikheia dioikountes”

THE MARK of the Kosmos [oikoumena], a Pythagoras dogma silenced in Romans 14.

"...this sect crowned the image of Jesus along with those of Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle. Further, there were impostors of all varieties: magicians, soothsayers, jugglers, deceivers and hypocrites, 'who appeared using mighty words with a host of unintelligible formulae and taking up with scandalous ceremonies in order to rob men of their money." (Int. Std. Bible Ency., Gnosticism, p. 1246).

ALSO OF THE SECTS SILENCED IN ROMANS 14

"The Orphic creeds were the basis of the Pythagorean brotherhood, which flourished in southern Italy beginning in the 6th century bc. The Pythagoreans were aristocratic fraternities that sometimes had a political scope. Their main achievements, however, lay in the fields of music, geometry, and astronomy. They discovered that these subjects could be explained by numbers and ratios. Combining Orphic eschatology (the study of the last things, especially death and afterlife) with their discoveries, they invested music, geometry, and astronomy with religious values. According to their doctrine, the original home of the soul was in the stars. From there ... (100 of 10,561 words)

"In cultic action music was used in preparation for prophecy. Julius Firmicus Maternus refers to this fact in his remarks on an African cult.

With the air full of flute music,
the priests would put on women's clothing and
then call on the goddess so that,
filled with a wicked spirit, they might
predict the future to foolish men.

"In considering this cultic background it is necessary to understand the

view of music as dispositive to divination,
a view which derives from pagan philosophy.

This opinion resided in the old Pythagorean school, as Cicero notes. The Stoa also recognized the employment of music in the service of divination. According to Stoic teaching, ascesis and listen to music were preparations for the ecstasy which, along with purity of heart and a relationship with God, was considered to be the most favorable condition for prophesying.

The notion which was basic to this conception was closely connected with belief in the purifying power of music. In both instances there was a question of eleminating tensions and obstacles in man which could stand in the way of the infusion of the divine and its revelation. (Quasten, Johannes, pg. 40)

Abaddon-Apollon as leader of the muses (Locusts) was called the WASHER claiming that the music-induced madness purified the soul.

THE DESTINY WITH THE MUSES OR LOCUSTS SEPARATING THE SECTS.

Jesus Whom God made to be both Lord and Christ to make the prophecies more certain.
The Spirit OF Christ speaking through the PROPHETS and APOSTLES but not through kings or Levites.

Matthew 13:38 The field is the world;
        the good seed are the children of the kingdom;
        but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
Matthew 13:39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil;
        the harvest is the end of the world;
        and the reapers are the angels.
Matthew 13:40 As therefore the tares are gathered
        and burned in the fire;
        so shall it be in the end of this world.
Matthew 13:49 So shall it be at the end of the world:
        the angels shall come forth,
        and sever the wicked from among the just,

This is the baptism in WIND and FIRE.
And his breath [SPIRIT], as rushing water in a valley, reach reach as far as the neck, and be divided, to confound the nations for their vain error; error also shall pursue them and overtake them. Isaiah 30:28 LXX
    Must ye always rejoice, and go into my holy places continually, as they that keep a feast? and must ye go with a pipe, as those that rejoice into the mountain of the Lord, to the God of Israel Isaiah 30:29 LXX
    and the Lord shall make his glorious voice to be heard and the wrath of his arm, to make a display with wrath and anger and devouring flame: he shall lighten terribly, and his wrath shall be as water and violent hail. Isaiah 30:30 LXX
     For by the voice of the Lord the Assyrians shall be overcome, even by the stroke where with he shall smite them. Isaiah 30:31 LXX
    And it shall happen to him from every side, that they from whom their hope of assistance was, in which he trusted, themselves shall war against him in turn with drums and with harp. Isaiah 30:32 LXX
     For thou shalt be required before thy time: has it been prepared for thee also to reign? nay, God has prepared for thee a deep trench, wood piled fire and much wood: the wrath of the Lord shall be as a trench kindled with sulphur. Isaiah 30:33 LXX

Matthew 22:13 Then said the king to the servants,
Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mark 16:16... but he that believeth [will not comply] not shall be damned.

Matthew 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen. [OUT of the Oikoumen- not INTO] Mark 16:20 And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.

Sectarianism: Church of Christ adds anti-instrument law and rejects fellowship with musical instruments. Does this constitute heresy or make one a sectarian?

10.06.14 Was the Spirit OF Christ and Paul too illiterate to know how to command the use of instruments in the assembly?

See how Amos condemns the musical worship of Remphan, Chiun or Molech (Chaldee 666). The chart proves that not even in the VILEST pagan temple could singers (associated with prostitutes) and musicians (associated with sodomites) could evern enter into the HOLY PLACE of their "god's presence." Any Levitical musician or singer who entered into the Holy Place as a type of the body or Church of Christ would be executed. Stephen shows how God TURNED THEM OVER TO WORSHIP THE STARRY HOST because based on the meaning of words the Israelites returned to MUSICAL IDOLATRY which always involved sexuality and homosexuality.

Ray Downen: The heretic is the one who creates division. In this case, those who separate are those who have added their unscriptural anti-instrument law and choose to have no fellowship with us who freely use musical instruments.

We believe the heretic is the one who creates division by adding their unscriptural instrumental law which says: take it or leave. Those who sow discord in order to attract a bigger crowd and thereby disrupt fellowship with their own body of believers sever the ties that bind. Christianity Today notes that one Methodist church has created five different Musical Sectarian Divisions.

A SECTARIAN in a remote sense is one who has the power to choose what they will do and with whom they will do and what they will do. Christian liberty gives one the power to be a sectarian.

However, in the Greek language and real examples, a heretic is one WHO CHOOSES to take your property by force.

Pro-airesis , eôs, hê, choosing one thing before another, wrongs done from malice prepense, contrary to one's purpose, 3. in political language, deliberate course of action, 5. political party, b. sect or school of music, philosophy

Hairesis I. a taking especially, esp. of a town, a taking for oneself,
4. a sect, school, etc.: esp. a religious sect, such as the Sadducees and Pharisees, NTest.5. a heresy,

Pharisaios 1 a Pharisee, Separatist (from pharash, to distinguish),
one of a sect who separated themselves from other Jews as affecting superior holiness.
Phrik-ôdês , es, attended with shivering, b. inspiring religious awe

Jesus identified them as HYPOCRITES by pointing to speakers, singers and instrument players.
And the audience who would be attracted just for the entertainment. A musical instrument is defined
as "a machine for inducing the shock and awe in battle or in RELIGION.

Haireô Il.; hair, tina kheiros to take one by the hand,
A. Act., take with the hand, grasp, seize, having taken up [the song], Od.8.500.

2. take away II. take, get into one's power, overpower, kill, of passions,
catch, take, zôon [ZOE: take away life] helein Il.21.102 ; take in hunting, get into one's power, entrap,
II. take, get into one's power, nēas ib.13.42; esp. take a city, 2.37, S.Ph.347,
freq. of passions, etc., come upon, seize,
B. Med., with pf. hērēmai (v. supr.), take for oneself, egkhos helesthai take one's spear,
II. take to oneself, choose,

Hairetos verb. adj. of haireō

I. that may be taken or conquered, Hdt.; that may be understood, Plat.

Homer, Odyssey The muses were taught by Apollo
So he spoke, and the minstrel, moved by the god, began, and let his song be heard, [500] taking up the tale where the Argives had embarked on their benched ships and were sailing away, after casting fire on their huts, while those others led by glorious Odysseus were now sitting in the place of assembly of the Trojans, hidden in the horse; for the Trojans had themselves dragged it to the citadel.

The fact is that "innovators" or "progressives" either forced the introduction of the instrument or separated (disfellowshiped) from those who had never used instruments.

BLASPHEMY IS DENYING CHRIST IN THE PROPHETS AND USING THE MONARCHY AS ITS PATTERN.

The first two reasons assert that under the Old Testament, God did not just allow instrumental music, He commanded and blessed it. Rick offered the following passages for these contentions: 2 Chronicles 5:13-14; 7:6; 29:25-26; Psalm 33:1- 3; 92:1-3; 150:1-6.

Never mind that the godly tribes were quarantined. No singer or player went INTO or NEAR a holy thing or place on the penalty of death. Some of these patterns are separated from the last by up to 300 years.

CHRIST IN THE PROPHETS WARNED ABOUT THE LYING PEN OF THE SCRIBES.

Stand in the gate of the Lords house [courts], and proclaim there this word,
and say, Hear the word of the Lord, all ye of Judah,
that enter in at these gates to worship the Lord. Jeremiah 7:2

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,
Amend your ways and your doings,
and I will cause you to dwell in this place. Jeremiah 7:3

Trust ye not in lying words, saying,
The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord,
The temple of the Lord, are these. Jeremiah 7:4

Jer. 8:8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is WITH US?
LO, CERTAINLY IN VAIN MADE HE IT;
THE PEN OF THE SCRIBES IS in vain.

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

Cyril of Alexandria, Commentary on John,

That the Pharisees puffed up unto strange boasting,
        were wont to pretend that the Divine Word was with them and in them,
        and therefore foolishly affirmed that they had advanced to marvellous wisdom,
        the Spirit Itself will testify,
        since Christ says by the Prophet Jeremiah unto them,
                How do ye say, WE are wise, and the word of the Lord is with us?
                For nought to the scribes became their lying pen;
                the wise men were ashamed, were dismayed and taken;
                what wisdom is in them? because they rejected the word of the Lord.

For how are they not taken rejecting the Living and Hypostatic Word of God,
         receiving not the faith to Him-ward,
       but dishonouring the Impress of God the Father,
         and refusing to behold His most true Form (so to say)
   through His God-befitting Authority and Power?

THE PROPHECIES BY CHRIST WERE FULFILLED BY JESUS CHRIST: JESUS AND PETER MAKES THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS THE ONLY TRUTH.

John 6:44 No man can come to me,
except the Father which hath sent me draw him:
and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:45 It is WRITTEN IN THE PROPHETS
And they shall be all taught of God.
Every man therefore that hath heard,
and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.

2Pet. 3:2 That ye may be mindful of the words
which were spoken before by the HOLY PROPHETS
and of the commandment of us the APOSTLES of the Lord and Saviour:

IT WAS THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST WHO SPOKE THROUGH THE PROPHETS AND NOT LYING SCRIBES whom He called hypocrites by naming speakers, singers and instrument players in Ezekiel 33.

1Pet. 1:10 Of which salvation the PROPHETS have inquired and searched diligently,
who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
1Pet. 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time
the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify,
when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ,
and the glory that should follow.

God did NOT speak through the lying pen of the Scribes who recorded the Monarchy which God had NOT commanded.

Heb. 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Heb. 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us BY HIS SON
whom he hath appointed heir of all things,
by whom also he made the worlds;
Heb. 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory,
and the express image of his person,
and upholding all things by the WORD of his power,
when he had by himself purged our sins,
sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high

THOSE WHO DELIBERATELY SOW DISCORD BY QUOTING THE LYING PEN OF THE SCRIBES (hypocrites: speakers, singers, instrument players) are defined by the Spirit:

Jer. 23:16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you:
they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart,
and not out of the mouth of the LORD.

Jer 23:17 They say still unto them that despise me,
The Lord hath said, Ye shall have peace;
and they say unto every one that walketh
after the imagination of his own heart,
No evil shall come upon you.

Despise tthe Word of God of God and using your own words is:

Blasphēm-eō , pf. A. “beblasphēmēka” D.18.10:—speak profanely of sacred things, “eis theous” Pl.R.381e; offer rash prayers,

What we want to do in this section is to show that sectarianism is created before an actual separation by those who add articles of faith or practices to a unified church; 1) with no explicit Biblical authority, and 2) over something not absolutely necessary for worship to take place.

That is the definition of sectarianism or heresy by all except those who revise history and say:

"I shot you in the heart and you broke our friendship by spurting blood all over my choir gown."

No one ever introduced instruments believing that they had Biblical authority. No one ever suggested that they could not worship without instruments. Therefore, introducing "teams" or instruments is an automatic fracturing of the fellowship even if it does not produce a split. Once this split has occurred, as in a divorce, congregational separation is simply a formality to allow peace to continue under different roofs.

Lipscomb wrote as late as 1878 that:

We do not think anyone has ever claimed authority from Scriptures to use the organ in worship. They only claim it is not condemned. It is used as an assister in worship...Prayer, praise, thanksgiving and making melody in the heart (mind) unto the Lord are acts of worship ordained of God, but no authority do we find for for the organ."

We allow it as a remote possibility that those with a vendetta against non-instrumental churches do not read history, do not care about history and therefore do not know who shot cock robin.

First, hauled before detectives,

the guiding light of the NRA

glibly hyped his lines,

lauding, "...handguns, like vitamins,

can never be oversold.

If only poor Cock Robin

had packed a trusty .38

he'd have done the dirty varmint in

and lived to tell the tale."

"There were those saying that they could "not abide the election of a Republican President." In which event they would destroy the Union. "And then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer." Abraham Lincoln, Frost, Vol. 1, p. 274

Let Jack Guess, Baptist tell you who uses The Law of Silence:

"The Argument From Silence is Invalid."

"Some, in trying to get around the plain New Testament teaching on the type of music to be used in the church, have endeavored to argue from silence.

"According to this method, because the New Testament does not say,

"Thou shalt not use the instrument,"
and since there is no express condemnation of the practice,
it must be acceptable to God.

"This is a false conclusion derived from the erroneous premise that the silence of the word of God is as much a guide for men as its positive commands. In other words, some wrongly believe that a thing is all right for worship unless explicitly forbidden. But it can easily be demonstrated that this type of reasoning will not work.

I get those gut-wrenching e-mails from people who have to endure teams claiming authority to worship for the people or to lead them into worship. Christianity Today notes that there are up to 5 different "musical sects" in some Methodist churches. The author's view is that one who introduces a new musical style creates a new musical sect. And, refusing to listen and admire the "idolatry of talent" does not make one a heretic.

We get a frequent response from those defining non-instrumentalists as Pharisees, hypocrites, sectarians and legalist. And yes, Zelots, fratricides, fire bombers and racists. With uncontrolled glee, they note how many readers they have or how the non-instrumental position is a loser:

Ray Downen: I note that fewer and fewer church members are led astray by thinking that God opposes use of musical instruments by Christians.

If we can believe that:

> Satan as Lucifer caused the FALL of the angels from heaven and came into the garden of Eden to WHOLLY SEDCE Even and, according to all traditions, sodomize Adam. He came equipped with wind, string and percussion instruments as a symbol of the replacement of the HOLY TRIBES.

As a NACHASH the "serpent" was a MUSICAL ENCHANTERS.

In Gnosticism which fed on ancient Babylon theology, Sophia was the SERPENT. Zoe, her daughter was the BEAST and the female instructing principle. Most experience based (music) churches are not remotely CHRISTIAN but Gnostic.

> That ALL of the falls in the Old Testament were caused or MARKED by instrumental music.

> That Jesus denounced music in several ways. (The water drawing festival, Feast of Tabernacles, casting out the MUSICAL WORSHIP TEAM like dung, observing that the Jews were PIPING hoping that Jesus woudl SING and DANCE the sodomizing Dionysus Abomination of Desolation right in the temple earlier. Psalm 41 prophesied that led by JUDAS (whose Judas bag carried the 'tongues' of wind instrument) whout try to TRIUMPH OVER Jesus. This word which outlawed "playing instruments and 'making a joyful noise before the Lord'" as the Warrior's Panic chant. And on and on which NO PREACHER is expected to know anything about.

> That Paul PROHIBITED instruments when he defined the MELODY (bow twanging, arrow singing, murderous) as INTERNAL or IN THE SPIRIT where Jesus and Paul said worship takes place. The booming and clanging and lifeless instruments or "carnal weapons" are NOT the way to do battle with principalities and powers in high places who seduced the world with mind-altering music.

> That the Holy Whore of Revelation 18 is defined by John so that literate people could see CIRCE the holy whore as a model of the end-time worship.

> That the REMNANT will be a tiny group of people who will be OUTSIDE THE CITY or camp to meet Jesus NOT in the PLACE of a human temple but in the PLACE of the human spirit--the ONLY place God promises to meet us.

Then you may not want to join Ray Downen as the MAJORITY are collected (as prophesied) by the MUSES who were resurrected LOCUSTS in the book of Revelation.

I almost prophesy that ALMOST ALL churches (named after Circe, the holy whore who seduced with music and drugs) and worshiping GOD who is GAD, the "god of FORTUNES" when the TRUMPET VOICE OF JESUS SOUNDS. Everyone will be heavily drugged by ENDORPHINS created by music with the effect of FIGHT, FLIGHT OR SEXUALITY.

When you trade "affirmations" to gain knowledge you might be surprised if eyes were suddenly open and the instrumentalists blaming the singers could read the Word of God just as it is written in black ink on white paper for all to see but, like the parables of Jesus, hiding the truth from those who don't love it or who would market it.

Based on the fall just off the Ark, the "backsliding" at Mount Sinai, the association between instruments and loss of respect for the Word (as it has been delivered), the captivity of Israel for loss of knowledge while enjoying music, the king of Tyre and of Babylon and the end-time Babylon repeat, we should expect that only a tiny remnant will be standing "outside the camp" when Jesus sounds the last trump while the universal church will be engaged in a trumpet quartet. I would expect that every musical instrument on the earth will be sounding in churches. So, being in the minority gives one confidence.

In spite of the actual truth, it is a historical oddity that those who create the new musical sects are not truly confident in their decision. Therefore, they may get relief by blaming "those being invaded" for "attacking the invaders." (Rubel Shelly.)

"To Lamar goes the credit for phrasing the 'guilt clause' which became a cardinal refrain of the organ apologists.

The organ was in the churches to stay.
The next move was to fasten 'guilt' upon any person or church who would commit one of the 'seven deadly sins' by dividing the church over the organ."

And, Post-Modernism in the modern world:

"In August, the president's four-and-half minute speech-his first acknowledgment of wrongdoing-was a textbook example of post modernism at work.

Here were compartmentalization (I did wrong, but it doesn't matter because it was private),
contradiction (I accept full responsibility, but I'm a victim of my accuser), and
constructivism (my account, while legally accurate, was not forthcoming).

So the charge and counter charge of sectarianism is a bit like: "That depends on what the meaning of is is."

Here is How and Why The Holy Spirit Was Not Silent About "Music."

Those whom I would bet have never read any original John Locke love to use "Locke myths" to identify churches of Christ as sectarians based on Lockian or Campbellian legalism. Before continuing to do so, you may read John Locke's A Letter Concerning Toleration by Clicking Here. John Locke understood Paul's principle of a new form of "teaching" which was so radical that it would allow once Orphic Vegetarian Instrumentalists in Rome to "assemble" perhaps for meal fellowship or "worship" with once Meat-Eating, Wine-drinking instrumentalist Dionysics. The prescription in Romans 15 which is not silent says that:

WE then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Romans 15:1

Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification (education). Romans 15:2

For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me. Romans 15:3

In at least three Psalms, the AFFLICTION or OPPRESSION upon Jesus is connected to SINGING and or INSTRUMENTS. "There was never a PRAISE SERVICE in the synagogue" which began as "the church in the wilderness with Playing instruments and 'making a joyful noise before the Lord' outlawed." This singing and instruments was the TRIUMPH OVER to be used by Judas on Jesus and it was the WARRIOR'S BATTLE CRY something like the REBEL YELL.

See the Charismatic- Homosexual worship connection

sumphôn-ia , hê, concord or unison of sound, tên en têi ôidêi harmonian, ê dê s. kaleitai Pl.Cra.405d ; hê gar harmonia s. esti, s. de homologia tis Id.Smp.187b , cf. R.430e; logos arithmôn en oxei ê barei Arist.AP0.90a18 , cf. de An.426a29; krasis esti logon echontôn enantiôn pros allêla Id.Pr.921a2 .

3. harmonious union of many voices or sounds, concert, hoi tôn s. logoi, the Pythag. doctrine of the music of the spheres, Id.Cael.290b22, cf. IG14.793 (Naples).

III. band, orchestra, Hellênika 1.19 (Gytheum, i A.D.), PFlor.74.5 (ii A.D.), POxy.1275.9 (iii A.D.), and so perh. in Plb.26.1.4, 30.26.8, but used of a musical instrument in LXXDa.3.5; so Lat. symphonia, of a kind of drum, Isid.Etym.3.22.14, but of a wind instrument, Plin.HN8.157; symphoniae et cymbala strepitusque, Cels.3.18.10; êkouse sumphônias kai Chorôn Ev.Luc.15.25 .

chrêstêrios [chraô3] of or from an oracle, oracular, prophetic, Aesch., Eur.; Apollon chrêstêrie author of oracles, Hdt.

chrauô to scrape, graze, wound slightly, hon rha te poimên chrausêi Il.; cf. enchrauô, epichraô.

chraô or chrêsamenos

1. Act. of gods and oracles, to furnish the needful answer, to declare, pronounce, proclaim, chrêsô boulên Dios Hhymn.; hê Puthiê hoi chrai tade Hdt., etc.: c. inf. to warn or direct by oracle, chrêsant' emoi ektos aitias einai that I should be, Aesch.; tou theou chrêsantos Thuc.

And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: Acts 16:16

The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation. Acts 16:17

Puthon (g4436) poo'-thone; from Putho, (the name of the region where Delphi, the seat of the famous oracle, was located); a Python, i.e. (by anal. with the supposed diviner there) inspiration (soothsaying): - divination

chrêstêrios , a, on, also os, on A.Eu.241: (chraô (B) A): oracular, prophetic, ephetmai l. c.; ornithes Id.Th.26 ; chrêstêrian esthêta Id.Ag. 1270 ; tripous ch. E.Ion1320 ; tounoma Id.Hel.822 ; also Apollon chrêstêrie author of oracles, Hdt.6.80 , cf. OGI312 (Aegae, ii B. C.).

Chresis (g5540) khray'-sis; from 5530; employment, i.e. (spec.) sexual intercourse.

Chraoamai (g5530) khrah'-om-ahee; mid. of a prim. verb (perh. rather from 5495, to handle); to furnish what is needed; (give an oracle, "graze" [touch slightly], light upon, etc.), i.e. (by impl.) to employ or (by extens.) to act towards one in a given manner: - entreat, use. Comp. 5531, 5534.

Cherphah (h2781) kher-paw'; from 2778; contumely, disgrace, the pudenda: - rebuke, reproach (-fully), shame.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. Ps.22:6

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, Psalm 22:7

Leag (h3932) law-ag'; a prim. root; to deride; by impl. (as if imitating a foreigner) to speak unintelligibly: - have in derision, laugh (to scorn), mock (on), stammering.

Laeg (g3934) law-ayg'; from 3932; a buffoon; also a foreigner: - mocker, stammering.

Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. Isa 28:9

For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. Is.28:11

To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. Isa 28:12

For the zeal (jealousy) of thine house (temple) hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. Psalm 69:9

Cherphah (h2781) kher-paw'; from 2778; contumely, disgrace, the pudenda: - rebuke, reproach (-fully), shame.

Charaph (h2778) khaw-raf'; a prim. root; to pull off, i. e. (by impl.) to expose (as by stripping); spec. to betroth (as if a surrender); fig. to carp at, i. e. defame; denom. (from 2779) to spend the winter: - betroth, blaspheme, defy, jeopard, rail, reproach, upbraid.

Homer continues to show the source of a superstitious view that pagans were SONS OF GOD:

Hermes, crawled out of his BIRTH BED, found a turtle, made it into a GOD by gouging out its life and stringing its guts to make a harp. With this harp the infant stole Apollo's cows (worshipers) and forced them to walk backward to hide his THEFT BY MUSIC: a God at birth. DOES THIS SOUND POSTMODERN, POST-BIBLICAL AND POST CHRISTENDOM ERA?

(ll. 503-512) Afterwards they two, the all-glorious SONS of Zeus turned the cows back towards the sacred meadow, but themselves hastened back to snowy Olympus, delighting in the LYRE. Then wise Zeus was glad and made them both friends.

And Hermes loved the SON of Leto (Apollo) continually, even as he does now, when he had given the LYRE as token to the Far-shooter, who played it skilfully, holding it upon his arm.

But for himself Hermes found out another CUNNING ART and made himself the PIPES whose sound is heard afar.

(ll. 513-520) Then the SON of Leto said to Hermes: `Son of Maia, guide and cunning one, I fear you may steal from me the lyre and my curved bow together;

or you have an office from Zeus, to establish deeds of barter amongst men throughout the fruitful earth. Now if you would only swear me the great oath of the gods, either by nodding your head, or by the potent water of Styx, you would do all that can please and ease my heart.'

But as for sooth-saying, noble, heaven-born child, of which you ask, it is NOT LAWFUL for you to LEARN IT, nor for any other of the deathless gods: only the MIND of Zeus knows that.

I am pledged and have vowed and sworn a strong oath that no other of the eternal gods save I should know the wise-hearted counsel of Zeus.

And do not you, my brother, bearer of the golden wand, bid me tell those DECREES which all- seeing Zeus INTENDS.

As for MEN, I will HARM one and PROFIT another, sorely PERPLEXING the tribes of unenviable men.

Whosoever shall come GUIDED by the CALL and flight of birds of sure omen, that man shall have advantage through my voice, and I will not deceive him.

But whoso shall trust to idly-chattering birds and shall seek to INVOKE my PROPHETIC ART contrary to my will, and to understand MORE than the eternal GODS, I declare that he shall come on an IDLE journey; yet HIS GIFTS I would take.

PLEASE IS: Aresko (g700) ares'-Jo; prob. from 142 (through the idea of EXCITING EMOTIONS)

AIR (g142) awry; a prim. verb; to LIFT; by imp. to take up or AWAY; fig. to RAISE THE VOICE, KEEP IN SUSPENSE the MIND

WWJD?

Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28

Jesus didn't tell you to COME to a church which has used PROGRAMS and PERFORMANCE to make the assembly into a SLAVE LABOR CAMP: you are SLAVES OF THE WATCH TOWER where the watchmen are watching themselves and ENJOYING a trumpet quartet: until their brain kicks.

Labor is:

Phortizo (g5412) for-tid'-zo; from 5414; to LOAD up.. figurative to OVERBURDEN with CEREMONIAL or SPIRITUAL ANXIETY.

MUSIC IS A POWERFUL CREATOR OF SPIRITUAL ANXIETY: its effects are pronounced SEXUAL. However, you don't reach the VINEYAR'S sexual climax with God until you undergo something like the RUNNER'S HIGH. Those who PROMOTE MUSIC know that they are USING the musicians to keep your RATIONAL or spiritual mind off Christ. It needs no proving: if you are GIVING HEED to the musicians you CANNOT be giving heed to Lord Jesus Christ and HIS songs and sermons.

And the burden is the TITHE to pay for something for which Jesus Christ DIED. You tithe and you repudiate the SACRIFICE of Christ and when you MUSICATE you repudiate the WORD of Christ by the GIFT of Lucifer or Satan "the harp-playing and singing prostitute."

Phoros (g5411) for'-os; from 5342; a load (as borne,) i.e. (fig.) a tax (prop. an individ. assessment on persons or property; whereas 5056 is usually a gen. toll on goods or travel): - tribute.

The LAW OF GIVING is part of the DISTINCTLY AMERICAN RELIGION which is barely if at All CHRISTIAN. But Carroll Wimber of Vineyard says that AFTER you have had your MUSIC-INDUCED climax with God or the imaginged Holy Spirit "person" then NEXT ACT is GIVING OF MEANS. Doesn't it figure?

Christ as "Son" said that He subjected Himself to the "Father" so that He never spoke anything which He had not heard from the Father. Jesus then told the Apostles that unity depended on the Word. Paul decided that He would speak only what he had been told or had been later revealed by Christ the Spirit. Paul then told everyone who had problems to do the same thing: be like Christ and speak the Words of Christ or Spirit which the Spirit of Christ had revealed and would reveal (1 Pet 1:11).

Because there is no operative command to "sing" but to "teach" then to please our diverse neighbors by teaching or edification we should honor God by honoring His words. All of the sects in Rome would have depended heavily on meats or no meats, wine or not and ALL were addicted to the use of INSTRUMENTAL music to bring on the SPIRITUAL ANXIETY to make people believe that the gods were within. Paul prescribed the SYNAGOGUE which never had a "praise service" and assuredly no instruments. MUSIC is never a spiritual worship word in the Bible

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning (teaching), that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Romans 15:4

Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: Romans 15:5

That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 15:6

Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us, to the glory of God. Romans 15:7

We can truly "speak the same things" if we speak the revealed Biblical material.

Haven't we heard that before? Sure. Look at the parallel chart:

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess;

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. Col 3:15

but be filled with the Spirit; Eph 5:18

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom

Speaking to yourselves;

teaching and admonishing one another

in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, (all inspired)

in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs

singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord Eph 5:19

singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord

Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name (authority) of our Lord Jesus Christ; Eph 5:20

And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name (authority) of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. Col 3:17

MUSIC in the Greek world included both GRACE and MELODY. Neither of these included INSTRUMENTS. When instruments are included then they are NAMED. A psalmIST would be one who both sings and plays. If PSALLO "authorized" instrumental music it would ALSO authorize making the bow TWANG to send a SINGING arrow into the hearts of those we are DRIVING OUT INTO THE COLD just so we can become MUSICALLY SECTARIAN. Why not try shooting some of the good people with an arrow rather than driving them into having SEXUAL feelings?

Plato, Republic

[522a] that we seek." "No." "Is it, then, music, so far as we have already described it?1 " "Nay, that," he said, "was the counterpart of gymnastics, if you remember. It educated the guardians through habits, imparting by the melody a certain harmony of spirit that is not science,2 and by the rhythm measure and grace, and also qualities akin to these in the words of tales that are fables and those that are more nearly true. But it included no study that tended to any such good as

1 The ordinary study of music may cultivate and refine feeling. Only the mathematics of music would develop the power of abstract thought.

2 Knowledge in the true sense, as contrasted with opinion or habit.

Ioannes Secundus: The grace and melody of the lines and their voluptuous warmth of feeling have led them to be compared with the love-lyrics of Catullus, and the comparison is fully justified.

Phrynichus: But the dialogue was still quite subordinate to the lyrics of the chorus. In this department he won extraordinary celebrity by the grace and melody of his verses, which continued to be sung at Athens long after

When you SPEAK (externally) and SING and MAKE MELODY or WITH GRACE in the heart (internal) then the TEACHING of the REVEALED metrical material creates spiritual melody or:

Grace is: Charis (g5485) khar'-ece... Spiritual: the DIVINE INFLUENCE upon the HEART, and its REFLECTION in the life; including GRATITUDE

If the Lord Jesus Christ has not authorized it directly or through inspiration then it is imposible to do it with His authority.

He says "observe the silence" because if I haven't authorized it then you cannot do it with my authority.

He still does not (because He is not a legalist) say: "Don't do anything I have not authorized."

Why is that? That is because Christ was in the World and in Spirit in the Evangelists who go out seeking those who are capable of worshiping God in spirit and in truth. If He has to treat us like Children and say: "Don't play in the intersection" then He is not looking for us.

This is not remotely a "musical" or "symphonia" concept which was uniquely secular and is related to the end-time Babylonian religious-commercial institution which is probably set up in your hometown. This is a "teaching" concept.

Now, it is a fact that Paul didn't say: "Don't get drunk eating peyote buttons to move you into the presence of the gods."

Now doesn't that sound like Paul's earlier parallel statement? Christ is the one Teacher and He "sings to the Gentiles" only when we speak or sing His words:

If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: Ephesians 4:21 (My Words are Spirit and Life. John 6:63)

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; Ephesians 4: 22

Lust is the overwhelming urge to do something we know is wrong. Once we do it we are forced to defend it. "Conversation" here seems to literally be "conversation" in the speaking to one another sense. The old deceitful lusts of the Ephesians, Colossians, Romans and Corinthians was for the uncovered prophesiers (female) to teach them where "authority" meant sexual authority.

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; Ephesians 4: 23

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Ephesians 4: 24

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Ephesians 4: 25

Truth is: Aletheuo (g226) al-ayth-yoo'-o; from 227; to be true (in doctrine and profession): - speak (tell) the truth.

That "speak" word is the same as in the passages erroneously used for "music" rather than Scripture Singing or truth singing.

Jesus said that God is only aware of those who worship "in spirit" or in the mind and in truth as we speak His words one to another.

And doesn't that sound like the only acceptable form of worship according to Jesus?

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. John 4:23

Truth is: Aletheia (g225) al-ay'-thi-a; from 227; truth: - true, * truly, truth, verity.

And what does that mean, Jesus?

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. John 4:24

Our mind is to our spirit self as the Mind of Christ is to the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 2). And that nous or mind is equivalent to the naos or holy place. Only one worshiper and God will fit into the holy place (our mind) at one time. Paul defined the spiritual Jew as:

But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly;

and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit,

and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. Ro.2:29

I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia. 2 Co .2:13

Paul and others obeyed the direct command that worship is IN the PLACE of the human Spirit;

For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. Phil 3:3

Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: Phil 3:4

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers; Rom 1:9

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; 2 Tim 1:3

John was in his own Spirit as he worshiped on the Lord's day:

I was in the Spirit on the Lords day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, Re.1:10

And the musical Levites cannot go there or lead us or jack us up to God without suffering death for a presumptious sin.

If you make deliberate mind-altering music while I am trying to meet God in my mind as His Holy Place, the Temple type will not treat you with kindness.

But, Jesus, you did not say: "Thou shalt not worship with thy instrument, hands and feet."

But then why should the Incarnate God of the Univere have to tell us that we cannot worship in every nerve (every) ending stimulated by an instrument which vibrates thy brain in thy brain cage and stimulates the impulse of "fight, flight or sex?" Again, the women singers were exercising authentia or sexual authority.

Using Albert Barnes terms, musical teams aim at "the lust of the eye and the lust of the ears."

I wouldn't even try to make such a law. It would have no value: the "doctors of the Law" would go to a 'Christian University' and stack up enough Phds to find a loophole. Neither would Jesus make such a law because God only seeks those who can worship in spirit (in the mind) devoted to teaching and comtemplating and dialoging the Word without having to draw lines because we don't enact legalistic rituals with or without instruments.

If God has to tell you: "Don't do it" then He won't bother.

So, let's look at some of the dialog which has been going on about this issue. I have decided to focus on this one observation because it has become a mantra. Our comments in Black and other quotes in blue. Perhaps, I can address the other things I believe misrepresent the non-instrumental view but it would be fruitless unless we determine what constitutes sectarianism.

Ray Downen outreach@sofnet.com

Ray Downen: The heretic is the one who creates division. In this case, those who separate

are those who have added their unscriptural anti-instrument law

and choose to have no fellowship with us who freely use musical instruments.

There is a good reason that "rhetoricians, Sophists (Ophis=end-time serpents), singers, musicians and craftsmen (techne) were the SOOTHSAYERS and all defined as of the SECT of the Hypocrites and known as PARASITES. Non instrumental churches down through history ADDED NOTHING. The entire Bible, church history and founders of denominations DENOUNCED instruments as the devies of the pagan SOOTHSAYERS or PROSTITUTES (and Sodomites). A parasite is one who DOES NOT KNOW either the Bible or history and CHARGES an unlawful wage for it.

The INSTRUMENTAL group ADDED their unscriptural PRO-INSTRUMENT LAW based on what they ignorantly term the LAW OF SILENCE.

The instrumental group choose not to have fellowship with the OWNERS OF THEIR OWN PROPERTY. They had to SUBMIT or GET OUT. It is a fact that non-instrumentalists were DISFELLOWSHIPED from participation in the neo-pagan churches which added INSTRUMENTS 100% to ADD attendance and contribution.

Correct: a heretic is the one who creates division.

If I have helped found and pay for a church building and YOU come in and decide to ADD INSTRUMETS contrary to minimal ethics, the entire Bible and ALL scholarship, and I am not strong enough to stop the invasion and STEALING THE CHURCH HOUSES OF WIDOWS then I will have to DEPART for two reaslons: First, my literacy and conscience will not allow me to participate. Secondly, in the original SECTARIANISM by instrumentalists and in PRESENT PERFECT TENSE CHURCHES I am told that if I publically object then I AM SOWING DISCORD and "we have issued you your first WARNING."

The illiteracy and rank immorality which forced the instrument in in the first place has no qualms about blaming the peacable believers for BLEEDING on them when THEY have shot them in the heart as surely as the MUSICAL MOCKING LEVITES helped lead Jesus into crucifixion

However, heresy may just mean that I have made a choice not to try to worship in my mind or spirit while the temple-like diversion noise is taking place. You see, animal sacrifices were not for God: He owns the cattle on a thousand hills and dispelled the pagan notion of sacrifice by saying: "If I get hungry I will not tell you." Additions to the trumpets as "church bells" made the horrors of animal slaughter tolerable to the priests who, as in all "like the nation's" temples, kept the evil noise of death and dying from the ears of the priests. Sacrifices are over.

There were no "chief musicians" in the Hebrew text: we get that like "psallo and psalmos" from the Greek. He was really the "overseer" or "exceller" or "straw boss" or "slave driver." He even drove Isralites into slavery to build a temple God could not live in. His work-product was not "music" because music is not a Biblica, spiritual worship word. He "sounded" or made a great crashing sound but he did not play music.

Later in Romans 15 Paul will allude to "singing to the Gentiles." David was miliitary commander and when he played and sang to the Gentiles it was because he believed that he had put the "Gentile" necks underneith his feet. David shed the blood OF the Gentiles.

Jesus is the Peace Maker and He shed His blood FOR the Gentiles.

But Sectarianism in the true sense means upsetting the assembly usually for some personal gain.

But fellowship does not mean attending a meeting where instruments are played. Fellowship means being a joint participator

Koinonia (g2842) koy-nohn-ee'-ah; from 2844; partnership, i.e. (lit.) participation, or (social) intercourse, or (pecuniary) benefaction: - (to) communicate (-ation), communion, (contri-) distribution, fellowship.

Koinonos (g2844) koy-no-nos'; from 2839; a sharer, i.e. associate: - companion, * fellowship, partaker, partner

We are aware of a huge body of material by many groups rejecting instrumental music because it is unscriptural and violates Paul's command which imitated Christ and which would unite an assembly.

But, we are aware of no latter-day defense of instruments which will hold water in the face of its divisiveness in every denomination. The claim by one of Ray's writers that Post-Biblical writer's use of "psallo" authorizes instruments assuredly needs to be addressed.

However, we are aware of no collection of epithets aimed at the heart of the persons of instrumentalists. If these words do not add up to "Raca" I don't know how you would call one an evil fool.

A sectarian is one who creates "a division and the formation of a party or 'sect' in contrast to the uniting power of 'the truth,' held en toto; 'a sect' is created "generally with the expectation of personal advantage." (Vine)

That was assuredly the MOTIVE of the Standard Publishing in declaring THEIR song book the only authentic book and even signing up little children as LIFE MEMBERS: Sure, just like Jim Bakker.

In Christianity Today Hamilton recognizes the common meaning of sect: If one party in a congregation introduces a new style of worship based on instrumental music or choirs or "musical worship teams" one has created a new musical sect. It is a new division of the congregation based on introducing a new musical style. The Christian Church introduced the instrument and usually tried to get the church building with it. At times they excluded the non-instrumentalists because they didn't want them upsetting the new "spirit."

Those who are alienated by the youthful play simply have to suffer in silence or to keep doing what they have always done in rented property.

This means that I cannot create a sect if I refuse to be coerced to participate in the new musical sect and leave in order to continue doing what I have always done.

Continuing to teach against that which broke the fellowship does not make one a Pharisee, hypocrite, sectarian or legalist. One might believe that the hostility toward those who try to present the Biblical and historical reasons means a loss of confidence in the instruments which "broke the camel's back."

The Book of Enoch we noted along with its other versions model the thesis that once you have been seduced with music you can never turn loose. The only sense of peace which "Genun" as the Jubal, Jabal, Tubal-Cain and Naamah character could get was to try to force everyone to join the "mixed-sex choir and instrumental music" Sect. The Book of Enoch is quoted at least 128 times in the New Testament, including by Jesus, Peter and Jude. Whether inspired or not it was kicked out of the Catholic package because it would repudiate much of its system.

Now, why do you suppose that all of the ancient Jews had that opinion about the origin of music?

When the post-dispersion Jewish Kabbalists began to ask "what happened?" they finally read the Bible and saw that the Enoch story and the nature of the Law, the temple and all that went with it was clearly right there where it had been overlooked by all of the "scholars." Josephus also has a different take.

You don't have to remove your body into another building to have created a new sectarianism right there in the middle of yesterday's unity. And you have created the "in place" musical sect without any Biblical or personal absolute need in order to worship acceptably.

Our e-mail shows that in many churches there is a thick, blackness between yesterday's Biblically united group and today's new musical worship team sect separated from the continuing congregational singing group.

The "expectation of personal advantage" makes the definition of a Pharisee and sectarian fairly certain

Yet, Ray Downen is locked into the association between not performing music with being a Pharisee:

Ray Downen: What I note is that they were hypocrites, and performed the pious deeds to be seen of men, and that's what Jesus condemned them for.

I am not sure how congregational singing as spiritual worship using the spiritual "harp of God" and not having the instruments means that one is "performing a pious deed to be seen of men." The world, almost universally doomed, would love you if they saw you performing "music" but consider you strange if you do not.

A "band" would mask out the voice of a retarded girl we see who cannot carry a tune nor read the words. But she has memorized the words and sings "in spirit and in truth."

What we know for a fact is that the new praise craze confesses that the "talent and spiritual looks of the team lead the worshipers to think about God." Does the Rock guitarist not perform to be seen of men?

So, we again have truth turned on its head: hypocrite really means "an actor." Rarely, will any one voice stand out for admiration when the congregation is singing "with one voice."

So, let's all confess to being hypocrites and get that out of the way. Next, we need to understand why refusing to worship with instruments makes one a sectarian pharisee hypocrite brother-killer. And we need to look for some personal advantage in not using instruments in order to be branded a sectarian.

Ray Downen: << Surely our goal is to seek to be like JESUS rather than like those He soundly and thoroughly condemned.

How could one be like Jesus and sing and play an instrument. The Old Testament is filled with associating musical instruments (noise instruments since the word music is not there) and ignoring His Word. And Jesus put out the musical mourning team "more or less violently" so he could heal the young Girl. The word means LIKE DUNG.

Watch below for the EQUALITY SIGN:

Latin: cithari-zo , a-re, v n., = kitharizô, to play on or strike the cithara, Nep. Epam. 2, 1; Vulg. Apoc. 14, 2.

And I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder; the voice I heard was like the sound of harpers playing on their harps, Isa 14:2

It is a fact: pagans used DRUMS to create the sound of THUNDER to awe the ignorant:

Strabo Geography 10.3.16

Of the rites of Dionysus condemned by Paul in First Corinthians using the "weapons" of warfare or even the metallic chisel to help with the clangs and booms to bring down the gods:

"And he mentions immediately afterwards the attendants of Dionysus: one, holding in his hands the bombyces, toilsome work of the turner's chisel, fills full the FINGERED melody, the call that brings on frenzy,
while another causes to resound the bronze-bound cotylae.

"and again, stringed instruments raise their shrill cry, and frightful mimickers from some place unseen bellow like bulls, and the semblance of drums, as of subterranean thunder, rolls along, a terrifying sound.

Greek with similar meaning: parasi-tor . a-ri, v. dep. [id.] , to play the parasite, to sponge: parasitarier, Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 54: parasitando pascere ventres suos, id. Pers. 1, 2, 3 .

Aristotle, Athenian Constitution

These then are the matters administered by the Council. Also ten men are elected by lot as Restorers of Temples, who draw 30 minae from the Receivers and repair the temples that most require it; and ten City Controllers,

five of whom hold office in Peiraeus and five in the city;

it is they who supervise the flute-girls and harp-girls and lyre-girls to prevent their receiving fees of more than two drachmas,

and if several persons want to take the same girl these officials cast lots between them and hire her out to the winner.

And they keep watch to prevent any scavenger from depositing ordure (dung) within a mile and a quarter of the wall;

and they prevent the construction of buildings encroaching on and balconies overhanging the roads, of overhead conduits with an overflow into the road, and of windows opening outward on to the road;

and they remove for burial the bodies of persons who die on the roads, having public slaves for this service.

See Aristot. Ath. Pol. 7.3. A drachma (say 9 1/2d. or 1 franc) was a hundredth part of a mina (say 4 pounds.)

Psaltôid-eô means singers with instruments.

psalmôid-ia , singing to the harp, Aristid.2.310J.

Word with similar definition

barbit-ôidos , on, singing to the barbiton, Luc.Lex.14.

kômôido-loicheô , play the parasite, peri tina Ar.V.1318

In addition to the SECARIAN Pharisees and Scribes, Jesus adds the HYPOCRITES. This was a SECT in the Greek world. "rhetoricians, Sophists (note OPHIS or serpent meaning), singers and musicians" performed the TASKS of the sorcerers or soothsayers in the book of Revelation. They added nothing to anything and were therefore PARASITES. All musicians with the ISTS such as harpISTS were polluted and were parasites:

Latin: cithari-zo , a-re, v n., = kitharizô, to play on or strike the cithara, Nep. Epam. 2, 1; Vulg. Apoc. 14, 2.

Greek with similar meaning:: parasi-tor . a-ri, v. dep. [id.] , to play the parasite, to sponge: parasitarier, Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 54 : parasitando pascere ventres suos, id. Pers. 1, 2, 3 .

Psalm 41 prophesied that Judas would try to triumph over Jesus. That means to blow instruments and make a joyful noise before the lord. That was the warrior's cry. Click to read Psalm 41 translated by the Essenes for the music-destroy Jesus connection.

Here are those He condemned along with the performing Pharisees:

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. Matthew 11:15

But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, Matthew 11:16

And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. Matthew 11:17

This was the Dionysus singing and choral dance engaged in by women not under authority, or by effeminate men. Paul compares speaking in tongue or singing our of our own spirit to a lifeless musical pipe which cannot speak a known language.

And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 1Co.14:7

The Pharisees did their religion as show and tell even though they did not play instruments like the organized clergy.

And they still try to overpower the Word of God by playing the pipes and insisting that spiritual worshipers dance to their tune. Jesus would warn all of us to "come out of her."

If you have ears you can hear God always condemning instrumental attempts to silence His quiet Word.

So, to be like Jesus you must recite the Psalms which He inspired as "Spirit." He said that He would only speak what He heard from the Father. How can you be like Jesus and "sermonize" the words of the Father to give them more power, and versify sentimental poetry?

How would you go about proving that Jesus played instruments and sang sentimental, often-erotic love poems?

Ray Downen: EVERY "worship law" for Christians which has been made a cause for division within the Restoration Movement is based upon the law of silence, for God certainly made no such laws.

That is also a fact. One another singers have continued the practice of the Synagogue, the example of Jesus, the direct command of Paul and the 2,000 year acknowledged principle that worship is directed to God and not to the performers who are always added to attract a crowd. There is no "music" term associated with the Bible except in secular parties and the end-time harlot church. Music to the Greek meant singing and dancing with or without instruments.

However, instrumentalists claim authority to make new laws up out of silence and financial expediency. They say, in many of the reviewed articls, that one who will not worship with instruments are Pharisees, hypocrites, sectarians, heretics and sowers of discord. That constitutes judging.

Next, by cranking up the 50 horsepower pipe organ they make a law: if you meet with us you will worship with instruments. If you leave, we will use psychological violence against you and accuse you of what we did. This will teach those grown Biblically illiterate from sermonizing and versifying not to imitate you or we will "get 'em also."

Finally, they do something they know is not necessary for them or others to worship. They force this on the heads of people who cannot worship when the machine blots out the voice from your wife sitting next to you. They, therefore, violate Paul's direct laws of Romans 15. They further violate the direct commandment to "speak" the revealed Word "with one voice." Now, sure enough, musical sectarians can truly say:

Paul didn't say: "Thous shalt not use the voice of lifeless instruments and trumpets."

This "law of silence" is used by musical dividers as a true LAW.

Paul didn't say, "sing and make melody with or without an instrument." Paul said to "teach" or preach to one another or "to ourselves" (in our heart). Therefore, the operative word is not sing or worship but teach or preach.

The "law of silence" absolutely fabricates out of thin air and all ancient pagan religions that God is controlled or appeased by singing praise songs and making a great noise.

Now, Ray has said that he cares not for anything not included in the record of Christ and the apostles.

However, if you are going to make up the false LAW that non-instrumentalists introduced the LAW OF SILENCE and that is not the truth then we are found to be false witnesses and false accusers and haters and despisers of those we verbally abuse while ignoring all of the history.

For those who are willing to look at the evidence, if we can find one person before Daniel Sommers who used this law and the resulting Guilt Clause then you can disregard all of the false witnesses of the world.

John Calvin is a good place to begin because he informed men like Thomas and Alexander Campbell to reject instruments based on the Bible, and he knew that Scripture has to be the basis of agreement. Because he was hit with the "guilt clause" he understood that being blamed for other's sins is a malady of humanity. I kid my wife for hiding things which are always found just where I put them. That's the original sin of Adam.

John Calvin

b. July 10, 1509, Noyon, Picardy, France

d. May 27, 1564, Geneva, Switz.

I, for my part, deny not that when impiety reigned, her kingdom was disturbed by us. [by leaving and teaching against additions which included instrumental music in worship]
But if, at the moment when the light of sound and pious doctrine beamed upon the world, all, as in duty bound, had spontaneously, and with ready mind, lent their aid, there would at the present day be no less peace and quietness in all the churches, (the kingdom of Christ flourishing), than in the days when Antichrist tyrannized.

> Let those who, it is manifest, impede the course of truth, desist from waging war with Christ, and there will instantly be perfect concord;

> or let them desist from throwing upon us the blame of dissensions, which they themselves excite.

Separate a ray from the body of the sun, the unity of the light is not divided. Break a branch from a tree, that which is broken cannot germinate. Cut off a stream from the fountain, and it dries up. So, also, the church of God, irradiated with light, sends its beams over the whole world. Still it is one light which is everywhere diffused. The unity of the body is not violated" (Cyprian, De Unitat. Ecclesi.).

Heresies and schisms, therefore, arise when a return is not made to the origin of truth,

when neither the Head is regarded,

nor the doctrine of the heavenly Master preserved.

Let them then show us a hierarchy in which the bishops are distinguished, but not for refusing to be subject to Christ, in which they depend upon him as the only head, and act solely with reference to him,

> in which they cultivate brotherly fellowship with each other,

> bound together by no other tie than his truth;

> > then, indeed, I will confess that there is no anathema too strong for those who do not regard them with reverence, and yield them the fullest obedience.

But is there anything like this in that false mask of hierarchy on which they plume themselves?

The Roman pontiff alone as Christ's vicar is in the ascendant, and domineers without law and without measure, after the manner of a tyrant, nay, with more abandoned effrontery than any tyrant.

The rest of the body is framed more according to his standard than that of Christ. The light of which Cyprian speaks is extinguished, the copious fountain cut off;

in short, the only thing exhibited is the tallness of the tree, but a tree dissevered from its root.

Let us now attend to the only remedy left us by those who think it impiety to move a finger, how great soever the evils by which the church is oppressed. They put us off to a universal council.

What? If the major part, from obstinacy, rush upon their own destruction, must we therefore perish along with them,

when we have the means of consulting for our own safety?

But they tell us it is unlawful to violate the unity of the church,

and that unity is violated if any party decide an article of faith by themselves, without calling in the others. [They invented the law all by themselves]

Then they enlarge on the inconveniences to which such a course might lead &endash; that nothing could be expected but fearful devastation and chaotic confusion, were each people and nation to adopt for itself its peculiar form of faith.

Things like these might be said justly, and even appositely to the occasion, if any one member of the church, in contempt of unity, should of its own accord separate itself from the others. But that is not the point now in dispute.

> Calvin denied that people are obligated to remain with an institution which they do not believe fulfills the obligations imposed by Christ.

> However, the group always insists that if you leave you are guilty of sowing discord and division.

> Instrumental music added according to Catholics from paganism (Candles, Catholic Encyclopedia) was a primary reason for the Protest Reformation because it agreed with the Catholics that it was pagan.

> Those who have been deserted (the instrumental Catholics by the Psalm Singing protestants) continue the chant that all who separated from "her" are heretics and sectarians and therefore, by definition, going to hell.

John Locke: English philosopher who was an initiator of the Enlightenment in England and France, an inspirer of the U.S. Constitution. He is singularly responsible for our political and religious freedom.

b. Aug. 29, 1632, Wrington, Somerset, Eng.

d. Oct. 28, 1704, Oates, Essex

John Locke on Schism

Now, we know that sectarian anti-sectarians hate John Locke because he defined, like Paul and Thomas Campbell, how people with different personally-held opinions can assembly together for edification by removing anything from the collective assembly which sows discord because it does not have Biblical authority.

This must meet the tests of Paul's Roman 14 discussion of sects and His Roman's 15 definition of speaking the revealed Word of God to provide unity among Vegetarian, musical Orpheus experience and the Meat-Wine, musical Dionysus experience.

It simply will not work to follow the very young and totally unique new theology which says:

If God has not absolutely outlawed it then we can do it even if it does sow discord.

John Locke begins:

Schism
Let us now consider schism, which is a crime near akin to it; for both these words seem unto me to signify an ill-grounded separation in ecclesiastical communion
made about things not necessary.
But since use, which is the supreme law in matter of language, has determined that
heresy relates to errors in faith, and
schism to those in worship or discipline, we must consider them under that distinction.
Schism, then, for the same reasons that have already been alleged,
is nothing else but a separation made in the communion of the Church
upon account of something in divine worship or ecclesiastical discipline
that is ~~not~~ any necessary part of it.
Now, nothing in worship or discipline can be necessary to Christian communion (unity)
but what Christ our legislator, or the Apostles by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, have commanded in express words.

Again we say, anyone can do what they wish, but the eternal principle is based on the Word of the Incarnate God of the Universe because that is what He claimed (John 6:63)

Those who added instruments just because "God didn't say, 'thou shalt not'" admit that they are adding something which is not commanded and not necessary for worship.

Therefore, adding the instruments makes one the sectarian.

If modern instrumentalists believe that they cannot worship without instruments, and they have direct Biblical authority for instruments then they have the right, as Alfred T. DeGroote claims, to be the one true church. And then churches of Christ who have no Biblical authority for "one another" singing but left just to be evil, could be branded as sectarians.

This is not based on anything but DeGrootes claim to the "high church" right of Catholics to change the rules with the change in times.

Locke didn't say that you are a sinner if you hold some different opinion. However, he along with Paul's "singing" passages (Romans 15; Eph 5; Col 3) and also Thomas Campbell say that you simply cannot have fellowship with people if you insist on forcing them to do something which doe not have clear Biblical authority which they cannot practice. Paul truly meant that we can "all speak the same things" if we have dialog by speaking what Jesus said and would say if present. Instrumentalists and non-instrumentalists violate that direct command and condition of unity and show contempt for the Words of Christ (Spirit) by substituting the words of Fanny Crosby or Twila Paris. Based on the ancient Hittite and other's view that a hymn after the composer's death became almost an idol simply because they gave attention to the composer and not to the Word of Christ it is asked: "Are Hymns Idols?"

Locke continues:

In a word,

he that denies not anything that the Holy Scriptures teach in express words,

nor makes a separation upon occasion of anything that is not manifestly contained in the sacred text- however he may be nicknamed by any sect of Christians and declared by some or all of them to be utterly void of true Christianity-

yet in deed and in truth this man cannot be either a heretic or schismatic.

I cannot wrestle it to the ground, but apparently after the division had been created by adding instruments, someone invented the notion:

That NOT using instruments is not expressly stated as a thus saith the Lord. God didn't have Scripture declare a legalism: "Thou shalt not use mechanical instruments for worship."

The musical group introduced instruments without authority and knowing that it would sow discord. They just did it for financial advantage according to their own confession. One reason was based on "what was good enough for Mars was good enough for Jehovah." However, after the fellowship was already fractured people tend to look backward to justify the condition and invented the guilt-shifting clause that:

If everyone didn't remain in place and participate in what they believed was sinful, and they continued to meet without instruments, they were suddenly guilty of creating a non-instrumental sect.

One becomes a sectarian by the first introduction of instruments which fractured the fellowship as much from distrust of the commercial motives as from the unbiblical motives.

Arguing against a non-Biblical view does not make one a legalist except among the very immature.

This is the way congregational singers without defending any hypocritical Pharisee out there who agrees:

One another singing of the inspired Biblical text is contained in express words. Furthermore, in Romans 14-15 Paul gave this as the only way not to judge or despise different opinions. Churches of Christ did not separate based on something not manifestly contained in sacred text.

> Instrumental worship is not given in express words, approved examples or necessary inferences.

> Instrumental music was included though not necessary for acceptable worship or manifestly contained in the sacred text.

> The instant the instruments were added there was a defacto separation made. It was made knowing that it would sow discord, made without pretense of Biblical authority or even depending on "the law of silence," made knowing that it would "offend many of these little ones" and without any need to worship correctly.

> Therefore, after there was already a musical sect created the instant instruments were forced in over the conscience of other. Division was as complete as it could every be. That exists now in several churches where "musical worship teams" have been added under the pretense of leading the worshipers into the presence of God therefore declaring them to be "mediators between man and God." It is highly unlikely that one can add a "musical worship team" without creating two or more sects in the same building.

> When the one another singers then choose to meet in the city hall they have not separated nor have they formed a sect.

By analogy:

> A wife brings a new "husband" into the bed.

> The marriage is automatically adulterated.

> The divorce certificate is simply to satisfy the tax collectors. Leaving does not break the unity.

In a very recent incarnation, a dominant pastor and his "little lamb elders" made that forced introduction not based on any expressed statement of Scripture nor was the instrument necessary for them to worship and then they said to the congregational singers:

This is now our church. We have introduced instruments. You will continue to attend and violate your Bible-based conscience and be a hypocrite or,

You will get out and quit sowing discord.

Alexander Campbell

Writing on: "Mark them who cause Divisions."
"THE Pope and his angels preached from this text half a century, while Luther, Zwingli, Melancthon, &c. were exposing the filthiness of the Mother of Harlots.

As Luther gave the Pope no quarters, he wreaked his vengeance on the Reformers,

denouncing them as heretics, schismatics, sowers of discord among brethren, haughty, self-willed, and contumacious dignitaries.

"He learned that lesson from his predecessors, who denounced the Messiah and his Apostles by similar arguments. Jesus was not a good man, for he made divisions among the people; and the Apostles were heresiarchs, for they turned the world upside down.

[Note: Elijah and the Word of God fought against the musical prophets of Jezebel. Jesus equated John to Elijah and the Jewish clergy was identified as children piping to try to force Him to sing and Dance while John had a demon. Luke 7]

"Elijah, too, was a disturber of the peace of Israel; and Daniel greatly marred the harmony of the devout fraternity who paid court to Nebuchadnezar.

In short, from the time that Moses caused divisions in the kingdom of Pharaoh, down to the last Dover Association, this text,

"Mark and avoid them that cause divisions," has never been unseasonable amongst the opponents of reform and of change; for as there can be no reformation without change--and as all who preach reformation preach a change,

the consequence must be, that those who will not change, must, to justify themselves, denounce the reformers; and no text does better than this--"Mark them who cause divisions, and avoid them." EDITOR.

[The Millennial Harbinger (December 1832): 604.]

In this case, they were denouncing instrumental music among other things.

J. W. McGarvey

Nor does God permit us to drive some of the brethren from the church

to avoid doing what they believe to be sinful.

To do so is to cause division in a way that God condemns.

and if we thus sin, he demands that we be marked and avoided as schismatics.

So it matters not how the effort may result, it condemns us in the sight of God. If the brethren submit and debauch their conscience by doing that which they believe to be wrong, we sin against them and against Christ, says Paul. (1 Cor. 8: 12.)

If we drive them from the church which they have to leave to avoid condemning themselves in this way,

we are guilty of the sin of causing division,

It will not do to say that this is a matter of expediency, and one, therefore, on which God has left us free.

Things of expediency on which God has left us free to act by majorities must be considered as such by both parties.

If one party believe it sinful, it may not be forced on them as a matter of expediency.

Nor will it do to plead conscience on the part of those who favor the organ as well as on the part of those who oppose it. There can be no such ground for conscience, unless

it is considered as divinely required so that

they cannot worship without it without feeling that they sin against Cod.

But the use of the organ is not urged on that ground. Hence there is no ground for the advocacy of conscience in the case.

In a case like this, where alienation and division are involved, conscience can require us to persist only when the issue is something that the word of God absolutely requires us to do;

but it is not held that God requires us to use an organ in the worship; it is only held that he permits it, and we have seen plainly that he permits nothing of this nature when such consequences result.

These good brethren fail to see that they apply the word "conscience" alike to two very different classes of things. If A conscientiously believes that, on the ground of expediency, the use of the organ will result in harm, and B, on the same ground, conscientiously believes that it will result in good, the conscience of one is just equal to that of the other;

If A believes that the use of the organ in the worship is divinely prohibited, so that he sins in its use,

and B believes that it is divinely required, so that he sins if he worships without it the conscience of one is just equal to that of the other.

But when A believes that it is divinely forbidden

and B simply holds that it would be for the best, as a matter of expediency,

there is the breadth of the heavens between the two.

B must believe that it is divinely required as an item of the faith, and hence a sin to dispense with it, before his conscience in the matter is of the same nature as that of A, and equal to it, who believes that God has forbidden it and that to use it is a sin.

A Common Love - From the Presbyterians

From the Watchman And Observer, Richmond VA February 22, 1849, Volume IV, No. 28.

"It has always been common among the advocates of this Popish mode of worship, to meet the objections of simple minded Protestants to the organ,

with the retort that their scruples were the relics of fanatical prejudice, and rustic ignorance.

The resort to this species of reply appears the more ill-considered, when we remember that Dr. Girardeau is

> supporting the identical position held by all the early fathers,

> by all the Presbyterian reformers,

> by a Chalmers, a Mason, a Breckinridge, a Thornwell, and by a Spurgeon.

[And Robertson , Rev. Dr. KERR Jubilee 1894, ]

Why is not the position as respectable in our author as in all this noble galaxy of true Presbyterians? Will the innovators claim that all these great men are so inferior to themselves?

But my object is to vindicate the great body of the Protestant church, and the Fathers of Protestantism, from the charge of ill taste, rudeness and blind prejudice, in their opposition.

It is not strange that men, such as the present advocates of the organ in Presbyterian churches in America, should bring such a charge against such men; many of them educated amidst the richest specimens of the fine arts in the old world, their youth imbued with the spirit of a gorgeous and poetic age? R. L. Dabney who rejected Alexander Campbell

The word "music" is not associated with the religion of Jesus Christ. Rather, the "proof-text" for singing is, like the true Pharisees turned into traditionalism. This violates Paul's commands and shuts the Mouth of the Spirit of Christ and His Word:

"The scripture represents religious music as the vehicle of religious instruction, and imply the necessity of distinct articulation. "I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also, else when thou shall bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned, say Amen at they giving of thanks seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest:" lst Corinthians 14; 15 and 16.

"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs" Col. 3:16. These passages fully sustain the assertion that religious music, to be scriptural, must contain intelligible articulate words, conveying some pious instruction or emotion.

But, Paul called them "lifeless instruments" or "carnal weapons."

It is a historical fact that no one ever introduced instruments and created sectarianism based on their convictions about the Word of God:

"It is always urged: " we must have an organ to keep pace with other churches in attracting a congregation, and in retaining the young and thoughtless."

"Has it come then to this, that the chaste spouse of Christ is reduced to borrow the meretricious adornment of the "scarlet whore," in order to catch the unholy admiration of the ungodly? Not thus did the Apostles devise to bring sinners to the church.

"They were taught to go after them, into the highways and hedges, with the wooings of mercy and love; to allure them by the beauty of holiness; to urge them by the terrors of the law.

Christ didn't send us into all the world to worship. Rather, there are good and honest souls in all of the world. They have not wounded their souls so that they cannot, like the Jews of Isaiah 6 and 29 and not spoken to by Jesus, hear the simple gospel message. By sending out "fishers of men" there was no concern for the "quality" of the fish but the purpose was to expose people to the idea that Christ is God who died for their sins rather than have them die for the "god's pleasure." If they accepted that fact then the evangelist must go on.

It is a fact that the scarlet whore is implicated in end-time instruments (Revelation 18) as she was the harp-playing prostitute king/queen of Tyre who "came equipped with musical instruments."

But when once she descends from the high vantage ground of intellectual, theological, and moral superiority, to chaffer [barter] for popularity by human devices, and doubtful arts, her prestige will be gone. Other churches are better adapted to win in that race, and will surely outrun her.

Hence when the advocates of innovation quote such words as those of the Psalmist,

"Praise the Lord with the harp," etc., these shallow reasoners are reminded that the same sort of plea would draw back human priests and bloody sacrifices into our Christian churches.

For these Psalms exclaim with the same emphasis, "Bind your sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar." George Girardeau same link as above.

It is a fact that musical worship teams consider themselves Levitical Musicians, priests and mediators between man and God. Is it sectarian to reject that?

ROBERT J. BRECKINRIDGE, D.D., Dec 1851. Lexington, Ky.

Persons who seek, openly or covertly, to undermine or to corrupt the faith or practice of our church, founded upon that grand principle, as, for example,

by the introduction of instrumental music into our churches, ought to be able to show much more than that such practices are indifferent.

They ought to be able to show that they are necessary; for, if they are only indifferent,

the positive, general, and long continued settlement of the sense, feelings, and faith of the church against them are reasons enough why offensive attempts should not be made to change the order of our worship,

merely to bring in things indifferent;

especially when thereby divisions, alienations, and strifes, and at last schism may be the result.

And, moreover, the needless change of the habits, manners, and ordinances of a people, or a church, is always attended with a risk of corruption, which nothing but necessity can justify.

And where it is a change from a simple and spiritual ordinance to a carnal and sensual one, the attempt is wicked.

And where, by the change, a people give up and set aside some of the most precious and distinctive peculiarities of their hereditary manners and history, and fall into a frivolous and contemptible imitation of the follies of those in all respects less enlightened than themselves, the whole affair is deplorable.

My third remark is, that the use, or refusal to use, instrumental music in God's stated public worship during that long midnight from the establishment of Popery to the Reformation

the various subdivisions of nominal Christians throughout the world, who were not subject to the Papacy, is perhaps as accurate a test as any other of the real condition of those sects; and whoever will inquire will see that whatever piety was in the world was mainly with those who disagreed with Rome on this subject.

My fifth remark is, that any change which has taken place since the Reformation, in any of the Protestant denominations, indicating a relapse towards Rome, in the use of instrumental music in God's public worship,

will be found to have been uniformly attended, in those denominations, by other changes injurious to their spiritual condition, which, though not very obvious at first, have worked themselves out disastrously in every case.

For myself, I have never ceased to testify against it, and to increase the directness and force of my protest, in proportion as I have seen the evil increase;

so that for many years I have refused even to be present, much less to preach in any Presbyterian church, where musical instruments were used - except they were silenced when I officiated.

In most cases, my brethren in the ministry have respected my conscientious scruples: in many others,

and some of them very painful cases, they have refused, and thus excluded me from their pulpits and some of them, in addition, have reviled me bitterly. In all this, and for years together, no man has stood fully with me.

Why would anyone form a sect knowing that it would bring on heartache and open hostility even from those who do not use instruments. There is some mystical lust to try to ascend or descend to God just as they did at Babylon.

While it is claimed that J. W. McGarvey did not "sect out" when instruments were added, this is false. He did continue to hold meetings where the organ was used but he did not endorse them or fellowship them any more than I would if the Pope asked me to preach in Saint Peters.

After having won the battle by teaching against instruments, J. W. McGarvey admitted that he lost the war by fellowshiping instrumental churches:

"In 1950 bro. J.P. Sewell, in a Harding College lecture, recalled the following advice, given to him by bro. McGarvey away back in 1902. It is advice preachers today might ponder.

"You are on the right road, and whatever you do,

don't let anybody persuade you

that you can successfully combat error by fellowshipping it and going along with it. I have tried it.

I believed at the start that was the only way to do it. I've never held membership in a congregation that uses instrumental music.

I have, however, accepted invitations to preach without distinction between churches that used it and churches that didn't. I've gone along with their papers and magazines and things of that sort.

During all these years I have taught the truth as the NT teaches it to every young preacher who has passed through the College of the Bible.

Yet, I do not know of more than six of those men who are preaching the truth today.

It won't work."

If our understanding of the musical worship as mind control is not true then the meaning of the Bible and the total secular and pagan history has no meaning. And one another worshipers (as opposed to audience) can never agree that instrumental of vocal performance singing has any spiritual meaning, "takes away the key to knowledge" and will always as it has always divide based on:

Adding things which have no expressed Biblical Authority (silence won't work) and

which is not absolutely mandatory for suitable worship to take place.

This may not be acceptable but it is the only way to keep from being the sectarian sowers of discord.

It is common to speak of an instrumental tradition or preference and a one another tradition or preference.

However, instrumentalists have no Divine Expression of God's Will which is required to keep from becoming the sectarian.

Nor, is their worship somehow invalid if they do not hear the instrumental sounds (noises in the O.T.)

Therefore, those who added non-essentials with no Divine mandate sowed the discord and were the Sectarians.

The Law of Silence says: "I can do anything God has not given a direct command not to do." However, it is like the "tradition" of the Pharisees which was adding new laws in order to get around God's laws.

One another singers may or not be Pharisees, hypocrites, racists, Zealots, fratricides or baby killers. However, these have no connection to their not using instruments. Or should we brand a huge Z on the foreheads of non-Instrumentalists.

This sign, found posted at the latest Asherah Pole Festival is made up of actual charges against non-instrumentalists in the payroll of non-instrumentalists grinding down the non-instrumental position. Some liberties taken.

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	Warning: These people don't worship God with instruments. May be armed and dangerous. Marked to indicate that they may fire bomb restaurants or abortion clinics. They may also attack anyone wearing real fur. Special warning to instrumentalists: Bearer of this Mark may try to engage you in a discussion about the Bible not authorizing instrument. This proves that they may be neurotic or psychotic. Please do not flash your zither in their presence. If they try to sell you a new tradition about washing your hands when you come from the latrine to the Dining Hall please call your nearest Rabbi: May be Sectarian Accursed Pharisee (SAP) and dangerous to temple music with animal sacrifices. Penalty for removing this sign: Thirty Shekels of Silver.
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What would motivate a group to remain outcast and despised and rejected even by its own clergy? Why not give up and add instruments and Sister Singers? It will surely increase the traffic. As we approach the end-times, if we understand the Tyre and Babylonian Lucifer connection and read Revelation 18 correctly, we should expect that the overwhelming majority will panic into music.

Jingling, banging, and rattling accompanied heathen cults, and the frenzying shawms of a dozen ecstatic cries intoxicated the masses. Amid this euphoric farewell feast of a dying civilization, the voices of nonconformists were emerging from places of Jewish and early Christian worship ..." (Encyclopaedia Judaica, 1971 ed., s.v. "Music")

"Based on the concept of an organic pattern in the life course of civilization, a morphology of history: the idea that every culture has its period of youth, its period of culmination, its years then of beginning to totter with age and of striving to hold itself together by means of rational planning, projects, and organization, only finally to terminate in decrepitude, petrification... and no more life. Moreover, in this view of Spengler's, we were at present on the point of passing from what he called the period of Culture to Civilization, which is to say, from our periods of youthful, spontaneous, and wonderful creativity to those of

uncertainty and anxiety, contrived programs, and the beginning of the end." (Campbell, Joseph, Myths to Live By, p. 84)

"Yet there is a great religious fervor and ferment evident among not only young people but old and middle-aged as well. The fervor, however, is in a mystical direction, and the teachers who seem to be saying most to many are those who have come to us

from a world that was formerly regarded as having left altogether behind in the great press forward of modern civilization,

representing only archaic, out-lived manners of thinking. We have gurus galore..." (p. 88)

"Within the span of a decade the religion had become archaic; and it was then that the peyote cult, the mescal cult, came pouring in from Mexico (Aztec land), onto and across the plains, as a psychological rescue... they would gather in special lodges to pray, to chant, and to eat peyote buttons, each then experiencing visions, finding within themselves what had been lost from their society." (Joseph Campbell, p. 89)

What one may or may not do is one issue. However, a more fundamental issue is how we read Scripture for its spiritual value without trying to make it more attractive than it is or by making it into authority to do what is highly offensive to what LaGard Smith notes as the "majority" who do not try to worship with instruments.

We truly believe that there is a growing problem with instruments as denominations see the solemn old pipe organ abandoned in favor of extreme forms of "music" which is not worship. As the "women and children's" rule comes to an end, perhaps people will see that letting the "hoof" under the tent always means that there is a camel attached.

We worry that John Calvin, Alexander Campbell and others may be right:

"The consequence must be, that those who will not change, must, to justify themselves, denounce the reformers; and no text does better than this--"Mark them who cause divisions, and avoid them."

See another E-Mail Response to show that the "chief musician" translates a word which means OVERSEER. He drove everyone in ministering to the priests during the burning of the sacrifice and of the huge quantity of animal carcasses. He was slave driver to force the building of the Temple. The word translated "worship" really means meniel bondage.

His "musical" role was filled in every pagan temple in the world.

Dwaine E. Dunning Number One: An AXE at the root of the MUSIC tree. killing off those who, like Daniel, will not bow to instrumental music. Review of Ray Downen's E-mail. Added: R. Christopher Heard, Southern Methodist University Annoints Rubel Shelly and C. Leonard Allen as THOUGHT LEADERS in churches of Christ to defend Dunning's views of Scripture.

Dwaine E. Dunning Number Two: Using the Sword Youthful Friar and Alexander the Great will Solve Music Problem--See James O'Kelly and a similar Methodist attempt to Restore a Catholic or High Church structure.

Dwaine E. Dunning" Number Three First Century Influences on Instrumental Music

Dwaine E. Dunning" Number Four Was Instrumental Music Only for Israel.

Dwaine E. Dunning" Number five Making Melody ln the Heart

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