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Re: Is playing an instrument manly?

You just have to be careful to be playing for the glory of the LORD and not fooling yourself into thinking your playing for the glory of the LORD when really you're playing for your own glory. I've read some of your posts here, friend. If I were you, I'd pick up my Holy Bible and read it from beginning to end, asking the good LORD to reveal His Holy Will to you before picking up your guitar again.

Matthew 7:1-5 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

[Mary Etheldreda]

Re: Is playing an instrument manly?

Matthew 7:1-5 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

There is no plank in my eye, friend. I am a new creature in Christ, and Christ has no plank in his eye.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
2 Corinthians 5:17

[WilliamJenningsBryan]

Re: Is playing an instrument manly?

But if saxophones were not used for jazz they would be better? Just wondering, of course. Since I am a skilled saxophonist, I could play just about any songs. Not that I would play any songs, of course.

The closest thing to the saxophone in Biblical times is the Shofar (traditionally made from a ram's horn). The instrument definitely has a conical bore like the saxophone, but according to the Old Testament only male Jews were permitted to play it.

For those interested in music from the Bible, this crack pot has claimed to have deciphered the musical notation used in the Bible:

http://www.musicofthebible.com/

We here at Landover have not been able to vouch for the authenticity, but here is his take on what Psalm 146 would have sounded like:

For my tastes, there is nothing like the rousing sound of Sir Arthur Sullivan's "Onward Christian Soldiers" played on a mighty sphincter resonating pipe organ of the kind that can only be made with the excess wealth of God's chosen country – America.

Check out the massive key change modulation in this arrangement – Praise Jesus!

[Roberta]

Re: Is playing an instrument manly?

My parents took me to see E. Power Biggs play the Flentrop in Cambridge. I will never forget Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. Today even Bach is verboten. Chris Montez is there this month.

[Dr Laurence Niles]

Re: Is playing an instrument manly?

What I don't like is that music it is a form of artistic expression and that is nearly always about what the person feels about the world.

It's pretty self centred to inflict their own personal feelings on (for example, me) when I don't give a monkey's about what you're going through (unless it's about you doing what it says in the Bible (KJV1611)) or I'm being paid to care.

There, I've said it.

YIC
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