Some are beginning to fall into the same error as the Church of Christ and others with the view that it is wrong to accompany the singing of hymns with music.
Their argument is that there is no proof that music was used in the early church - not for several hundred years after Christ. Alas, instead of focussing on the true Church which structure was based on the synagogue, they look at the early proto-Catholic Church's practice to support their stance. They are simply looking at the wrong Church!
But notice:
AQUINAS "Our church does not use musical instruments, as harps and psalteries, to praise God withal, that she may not seem to Judaize." (Thomas Aquinas, Bingham's Antiquities, Vol. 3, page 137)
LUTHER "The organ in the worship Is the insignia of Baal… The Roman Catholic borrowed it from the Jews." (Martin Luther, Mcclintock & Strong's Encyclopedia Volume VI, page 762)
CAMPBELL "[Instrumental music in worship] was well adapted to churches founded on the Jewish pattern of things and practicing infant sprinkling. That all persons singing who have no spiritual discernment, taste or relish for spiritual meditation, consolations and sympathies of renewed hearts should call for such an aid is but natural. So to those who have no real devotion and spirituality in them, and whose animal nature flags under the opposition or the oppression of church service I think that instrumental music would... be an essential prerequisite to fire up their souls to even animal devotion. But I presume, that to all spiritually-minded Christians, such aid would be as a cow bell in a concert." (Alexander Campbell, recorded in Robert Richardson's biography, Memoirs of Alexander Campbell, Vol. 2., p366)
So, it was anti-Semitism that led to the absence of music in the early neo-pagan Church. BUT, the true Church would have used music given that it is Biblical - and also because it based its structure on the synagogue. For further information, see:
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/culture/Music/TOSynagogueMusic/SynagogueMusic.htm
http://www.smithcreekmusic.com/Hymnology/Early.Hymnody/Jewish.influence.html
Their argument is that there is no proof that music was used in the early church - not for several hundred years after Christ. Alas, instead of focussing on the true Church which structure was based on the synagogue, they look at the early proto-Catholic Church's practice to support their stance. They are simply looking at the wrong Church!
But notice:
AQUINAS "Our church does not use musical instruments, as harps and psalteries, to praise God withal, that she may not seem to Judaize." (Thomas Aquinas, Bingham's Antiquities, Vol. 3, page 137)
LUTHER "The organ in the worship Is the insignia of Baal… The Roman Catholic borrowed it from the Jews." (Martin Luther, Mcclintock & Strong's Encyclopedia Volume VI, page 762)
CAMPBELL "[Instrumental music in worship] was well adapted to churches founded on the Jewish pattern of things and practicing infant sprinkling. That all persons singing who have no spiritual discernment, taste or relish for spiritual meditation, consolations and sympathies of renewed hearts should call for such an aid is but natural. So to those who have no real devotion and spirituality in them, and whose animal nature flags under the opposition or the oppression of church service I think that instrumental music would... be an essential prerequisite to fire up their souls to even animal devotion. But I presume, that to all spiritually-minded Christians, such aid would be as a cow bell in a concert." (Alexander Campbell, recorded in Robert Richardson's biography, Memoirs of Alexander Campbell, Vol. 2., p366)
So, it was anti-Semitism that led to the absence of music in the early neo-pagan Church. BUT, the true Church would have used music given that it is Biblical - and also because it based its structure on the synagogue. For further information, see:
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/culture/Music/TOSynagogueMusic/SynagogueMusic.htm
http://www.smithcreekmusic.com/Hymnology/Early.Hymnody/Jewish.influence.html
