The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum True Worship John 4:23

jenya,

I perceive you are working on the premise, "Don't confuse me with the facts. I've got my mind all made up!"

Now, that's fine. And perhaps you are unable, or perhaps unfortunately unwilling to accept the basic understanding of biblical hermeneutics and its application. We DO come to understand the O.T. by the N.T., but we cannot overwrite the O.T. with the N.T. We must preserve the historical, social and theological content of what the Holy Spirit inspired and maintain its divine purpose; i.e., the foundation of the N.T. They are reciprocally complimentary. Therefore, if you insert the name of the Lord Jesus Christ into a Psalm, you are not singing the actual Psalm, but N.T. revelation, which goes to prove my point, i.e., we are to sing ALL the truth of the Scripture which is God's self-revelation and of His great redemption accomplished in The Lord Christ.

Secondly, the N.T. is no less inspired than the O.T. and thus contains inerrant and infallible propositional truth which is essential to the life of a believer. Thus it is just as valid a source for doctrine as the O.T. concerning both, objective truth and experimental truth.

Thirdly, there is nowhere to be found a command restricting the worship of God in song to the Psalms. We are, however, told to "sing unto the Lord a new song" and even to do so accompanied by instrumental accompaniment. Notice that these injunctions are contained in the Psalms themselves, indicating something other than the actual Psalm where these injunctions occur. (Ps 33:3; 96:1; 98:1; 144:9. Cp also: Isa 42:10; Rev 5:9; 14:3)

Lastly, and again I recommend this article to you if you haven't read it already: Exclusive Psalmody or New Testament Hymnody?.

In His Grace,