The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Enya New Age Music Question

<img src="/forum/images/graemlins/nope.gif" alt="" /> Sorry.... but NOTHING is "a-moral"; EVERYTHING is either of itself evil or good. EVERYTHING is either acceptable to God or unacceptable to God. 1) We are not to judge things according to ourselves. Even though a believer may deem eating meat sold in the shackles as "evil", it is in fact "good". 2) It is certainly true that men may and often do take that which is "good" and use it for evil purposes. However, their sinful use of it does not make it "evil in and of itself".

Secondly, it is wrong to categorize all types of music as it they were all the same. Music, in and of itself is certainly not evil. But there are TYPES of music which are inherently evil. Again, the affect that a type of music may have upon different individuals is NOT a valid basis upon which to judge whether it is good or evil. Example.... one may be shot by a bullet and die.. so would you conclude that the individual who shot the bullet is a murderer? But what if that same man shot someone where the bullet penetrated the body and hit a cancerous tumor, destroying it and thus saving the man's life. Would you then conclude that the shooter performed a good deed? <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes2.gif" alt="" /> In short, subjective experience is not necessarily a valid basis to make judgments.

Lastly, I'll add my infamous comparison of syllogisms to show the fallacy in the popular idea that music is "a-moral":

Popular "logic" says:
God created music,
therefore, music is good.
New Age, Rock & Roll, Rap, etc., are all music,
therefore, they are all good.

Using the same "logic", let's substitute something which we KNOW is evil:

Using Popular "logic" #2 says:
God created sex,
therefore sex is good.
Prostitution, homosexuality, child pornography are all sex,
therefore, they are all good.

Point, match, game... !! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Simply put, a) Music is not a-moral, but good because God created it, and b) You cannot dump all types of music into one basket. God created the elements of music, but man is the one who assembles those elements for a particular purpose and expected result. Each type must be carefully scrutinized on its own to find out if it is glorifying OF and TO God and thus be deemed either evil or good. Thereafter one may consider how it affects individuals subjectively and make a judgment as a matter of Adiaphora.

In His Grace,