Russ Adcox: No Other Gospel Gal. 1:1-10

Review: Russ Adcox at Maury Hills Church in No Other Gospel defines another gospel as requiring obedience. This is the usual Faith Only dogma recently invented. It is particularly used to sow discord among churches of Christ which believe with all early church history that we are justified by faith but we are saved by the life, teachings and obeying the commands of Jesus Christ.

3.14.11  Click for an inserted table with a fuller definition of the meaning of ANATHEMA
which is not integrated into the rest of the discussion for now. This has the same meaning as the "locusts" which were the musical worship team of Apollo, Abaddon or Apollyon.  They were unleashed from the pit to separate those with the "mark of the beast" from those with the seal of Christ.  John calls the speakers, singers and instrument players SORCERERS who had deceived the whole world once.

For follow up proof that the Bible and all historic scholars and founders of denominations always defended the Bible as the sole source for faith and practice.  You are free to discuss it.

See some proofs on "the law of silence" that Christ was never so silent that He needed Self-Will

Purpose Driven Patternism

The purpose is to deny the Biblical and historical view that Jesus bestowed Grace to those of faith by teaching them to repent and be baptized. That is heaven's will for accepting believers into discipleship and not ceremonial paganism as a Makes Works Project.

The patternism for teaching people how to revolt against heaven is based on ignorance of the Word.
  1. First, the object is to prove that Paul got his gospel directly from God.
  2. He refused to learn from the original Apostles because they "didn't get it."
  3. They assume by proof texting that Paul taught SALVATION by faith only.   
  4. That abrogates what Jesus commanded and the older apostles taught about baptism..
  5. That is the old "two gospels" pattern of "believer's baptism" where you are "washed" because you are already clean.
  6. That is because they never learned to distinguish between righteousness and salvation.
12.13.09 A SUMMARY FROM "BRENT." I've done an exasustive study about the reasons for denominations and have come to a conclusion that there are three gospels and that there are rules for each gospel. The reason for denominationalism is the inability to separate the requirements from gospel to gospel. Found in the books Matt., Mark, Luke, john and acts
      we find the reference to the gospel of the Kingdom and the gospel of God
.
      The first mention of the gospel of grace is in Acts 20:24.

This was invented by Marcion and became the basis for the two gospel's teaching of historic Baptist churdhes.
 
Christ Administration – as explained above – Ends with Pentecost officially, but practically with the latter part of Acts, due to those still zealous for the law.

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III

But they are again in error, when saying that the Christ and Saviour from above was not born, but that also, after the baptism of the dispensational Jesus, he, [the Christ of the Pleroma, ] descended upon him as a dove. Therefore, according to these men, the angels of the Ogdoad lied, when they said, "For unto you is born this day a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord, in the city of David."

For neither was Christ nor the Saviour born at that time, by their account; but it was he, the dispensational Jesus, who is of the framer of the world, the [Demiurge], and upon whom, after his baptism, that is, after [the lapse of] thirty years, they maintain the Saviour from above descended.

And again, when Paul says, "How beautiful are the feet of those bringing glad tidings of good things, and preaching the Gospel of peace,"  he shows clearly that it was not merely one, but there were many who used to preach the truth


Luke 2:40 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom:
       and the grace of God was upon him.
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,
       (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)
       full of grace and truth.
John 1:16 And of his fulness have all we received,
       and grace for grace.
John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses,
       but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

PROVING THAT THERE WAS NO DIFFERENCE

Acts 15:8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness,
         giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
Acts 15:9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
Acts 15:10 Now therefore why tempt ye God,
         to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples,
        which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Acts 15:11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they

THE PROMISE OF THE ONLY SPIRITUAL COVENANT MADE TO ABRAHAM

Abraham was not a Jew: Here is the ONLY spiritual covenant made to ALL people. Why accuse God of  being a respecter of persons?

Gen. 22:17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying
        I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven,
        and as the sand which is upon the sea shore;
        and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Gen. 22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
        because thou hast obeyed my voice.

The GENTILES are GENTILES: these were the 70 nations: that's all. The Jews under the Monarchy asked to be GENTILES and God ABANDONED them to that.  He didn't say a blessing FIRST to the Jews and THEN to the Gentiles.

H1471 gôy gôy go'ee, go'-ee Apparently from the same root as H1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—Gentile, heathen, nation, people.

Christ in Spirit had already informed any literate person:

Is. 49:5 And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant,
       to bring Jacob again to him,
       Though Israel be not gathered,
       yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.
Is. 49:6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest
      be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
      and to restore the preserved of Israel:
      I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles,
      that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

Brent and Russ are saying that Jesus FAILED to be that promised seed (singular)

Matt. 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,
        All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matt. 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach (disciple) all nations, (by)
       1. baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
       2. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
            and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.  Matt. 28:20

What is a NATION?

G1484 ethnos eth'-nos Probably from G1486 ; a race (as of the same habit), that is, a tribe; specifically a foreign (non-Jewish) one (usually by implication pagan):—Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
  1. A Disciple is first Baptized and then taught what Christ taught primarily in the prophets and apostles.
  2. The Disciples were called CHRISTIANS at Antioch--lots of Gentiles and lots of troubling Jews.
  3. Therefore, if you are not a baptized student (only) of Christ (only) you cannot be a Christian.
  4. You are not FORCED to become a Christian but "believeth not" or Apistos means a person in REVOLT and a treacherous person.
The remission of sins by simply obeying the command of Jesus Christ IS PURE GRACE.

The gospel of the Grace  of God IS the gospel of the Kingdom of God.


Acts 20:24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself,
        so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry,
        which I have received of the Lord Jesus,
       
to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
Acts 20:25 And now, behold, I know that ye all,
        among whom I have gone
preaching the kingdom of God,
       
shall see my face no more.

BRENT: If we would consider the likelyhood that before Paul,
     the message had to do with the establishment of the kingdom
     then the rules for entry into that kingdom
          would be quite different
         
from a salvation into the church of Jesus Christ

Only those SAVED by repentance and baptism at  Pentecost were added  to the  CHURCH of Christ.

Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them,
       Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ
       for the remission of sins,
       and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Where is a gentile promissed remisssion on the same conditions?
Rom. 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ
      were baptized into his death?
Rom. 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death:
      that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father,
      even so we also should walk in newness of life
Rom. 6:17 But God be thanked,
       that ye were the servants of sin,
       but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Rom. 6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Acts 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children,
      and to all that are afar off, [Long distance or very long time]
      even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Eph. 2:11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
Eph. 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Eph. 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Eph. 2:14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Acts 2:40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort,
       saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
Acts 2:41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized:
       and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
Acts 2:47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people.
         And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

They were added to the kingdom because they were added to the Church.

BRENT:
This would clarify the dissention of works, baptism and loss of salvation.

RESPONSE:

The Kingdom of Christ is the Church of Christ.

Eph. 5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger,
         nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater,
         hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Eph. 5:32 This is a great mystery:
          but I speak
concerning Christ and the church.

The PLAN was that Christ would bring light to a tiny remnant of Jews and to the Gentiles. "Believer's Baptism" says that Christ did not die for THEM at the cross: when they are saved by FAITH ONLY then if the group approves Christ comes and dies FOR that person or even THEY become Christ and die for themselves.

And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
        [1] and to restore the preserved of Israel:
        [2] I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles,
        [3] that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth. Isa 49:6

Paul had a special mission ot the Gentiles but he preached the SAME GOSPEL as the original Apostles. The TWO GOSPELS is a very ancient but now popular dogma that Jesus commanded baptism to the JEWS but that Paul's Gospel of grace is by FAITH ONLY.  One local preacher decided to promote that dogma but planned to LEAVE OUR Galatians 3 where Paul leapfrogs the Law of Moses and explains that there was only ONE COVENANT which Christ made with Abraham 430 years BEFORE the Law.  

Matt. 24:14 And this
gospel of the kingdom
        shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations;
        and then shall the end come.

John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,
        (and we beheld his glory,
        the glory as of the only b


John 1:16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
John 1:17 For THE LAW was given by Moses,
        but GRACE and TRUTH came by Jesus Christ.

In the proof text passage the gospel of THE GRACE has the same meaning as THE KINGDOM OF GOD. After the day of Pentecost when the kingdom DID COME with power, the kingdom,  baptism and the Name of Jesus Christ are preached.

Acts 8:12 But when they believed Philip
        preaching the things
        [1] concerning the kingdom of God,
        [2] AND the name of Jesus Christ,
        they were baptized, both men and women.

Acts 20:24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself,
        so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry,
        which I have received of the Lord Jesus,
        to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
Acts 20:25 And now, behold, I know that ye all,
        among whom I have gone
preaching the kingdom of God,
        shall see my face no more.

GRACE and TRUTH comes through THE GOSPEL of THE KINGDOM.

Acts 15:10 Now therefore why tempt ye God,
        to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples,
        which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Acts 15:11 But we believe that through THE GRACE  of the Lord Jesus Christ
        we shall be saved, even as they.
Gal. 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free,
        there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Gal. 3:29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed,
        and heirs according to the promise
Acts 28:30 And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house,
         and received all that came in unto him,
Acts 28:31 Preaching the kingdom of God,
          and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ,
          with all confidence, no man forbidding him.  

Jesus said that the APISTOS or the "unbelieveths" are damned because they DENY the antecedant statement "He that believeth AND is baptized SHALL be saved."

It was PAUL who understood that obeying a FORM at baptism makes us THEN free from sin (Romans 6). That is because the TUPOS means "a pattern capable of being imitated."  That is when we are buried and rise LIKE Jesus.  The word ANTE- literally means INSTEAD OF.  Grace means that we can "imitate' that FORM and be free from sin.  Wouldn't it be UNgracious to try to do a legalistic end run around what everyone always understood?

Rom. 6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin,
        but ye have obeyed from the heart
        that FORM of doctrine which was delivered you.
Rom. 6:18 Being THEN made free from sin,
        ye became the servants of righteousness.

Why would Paul preach a DIFFERENT GOSPEL which denies OBEDIENCE IN BAPTISM which is the ONLY connection with the REMISSION OF SINS?  

Col. 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness,
         and hath
translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Col. 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood,
        even the forgiveness of sins

Being translated into the kingdom of His dear Son is to be added to the Church of Christ.  This is never said to happen until one has been baptized.

Col. 1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you,
         and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh
         
for his body’s sake, which is the church:
Col. 1:25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God
         which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
Col. 1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations,
           but now is made manifest to his saints:
Col. 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery
        among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

Jesus send the Apostles to ALL of the nations He was promised to BLESSED. You are denying that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God Who SEPARATED His people  in the synagogue FROM the cursed people of the Monarchy.

Paul was a Jew and literate too: He was convincing the racist Jews that they had absolutely no superior priority.

Gal. 3:7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith,
        the same are the children of Abraham.
Gal. 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith,
      preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
Gal. 3:9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
Gal. 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse:
       for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things
      which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Gal. 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident:
       for, The just shall live by faith. (before, during, after the Law)
Gal. 3:12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
Gal. 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Gal. 3:14 That the blessing of Abraham
        might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ;
        that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

G1484 ethnos eth'-nos Probably from G1486 ; a race (as of the same habit), that is, a tribe; specifically a foreign (non-Jewish) one (usually by implication pagan):—Gentile, heathen, nation, people.

There was no blessing through David or Solomon or any earthly Monarch who did NOT follow Moses.

Jesus died on the cross for the GENTILES.  The Believer's Baptism of TWO GOSPELS calls Paul a liar. The only way that either Jew or Gentile could appropriate that blood was being BAPTIZED in water after which they were FREE FROM SIN. Just as with the Jews at Pentecost--all guilty of one thing or another and  probably NONE directly crucifying Jesus--Paul show that being baptized made one FREE OF SIN which is the meaning of being saved by THE FAITH of Jesus Christ.

Gal. 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Gal. 3:27 For (I mean that) as many of you
      as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Gal. 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek,
       there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female:
       for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Gal. 3:29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed,
       and heirs according to the promise. 


Being a Jew was a nulity: God abandoned them because they refused to listen to His voice at Mount Sinai. People who lived under the LAW were justified by faith which exercised itself in righteousness and justice.

1John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not.
        And if any man sin,
        we have an advocate (Comforter) with the Father,
       Jesus Christ the righteous:
1John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only,
        but also for the sins of the whole world.
1John 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him,
        if we keep his commandments

2Th. 1:7 And to you who are troubled rest with us,
        when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

2Th. 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance
        on them that know not God,
        and that
obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

In Romans 6 above those who have been baptized by OBEYING are then free from sin. Therefore, God will take vengeance upon those who do NOT obey the direct command to be baptized.

So, people resist even the Authority of God may not WANT to come to the LIGHT: most don't
Part Two Read Todd Loyd define away any OBEDIENCE required for salvation.  Galatians 1:11-24

All such dogma is confusing Paul's denial of THE LAW OF MOSES as having any justifying power with obeying the laws of Christ.  However, it is from within the curse of the Monarchy where the authority for music is gleaned from the Levites. They were an old cult in Egypt and when Israel fell beyond redemption because of musical idolatry, the tribe of Levi carried on the NATIONAL sacrificial system. This was quite identical to that of Babylon.

It is clear that Russ Adcox nor his mentors know the difference between justification and salvation.  Because Abraham was JUSTIFIED by faith they conclude "justified by faith only."  Then they replace the word justified with "saved" to say that Abraham was SAVED BY FAITH ONLY.   However, THE FAITH is in contrast to THE LAW added because of musical idolatry.

To refute the Judaizers:
Acts 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said,
        Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
Acts 10:35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

Cornelius was justified by faith, but to be saved, Paul commanded him to be baptized. THE VERSE WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO PUT A CURSE ON THOSE DEMANDING OBEDIENCE.

Gal. 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

Accursed is "Anathema excommunicated without redemption."  That is why you can use foul means to try to destroy those who understood the Bible prior to the postmodern joke on all theologians.
"Any object so sacrificed or devoted to the Lord could not be redeemed (Num. 18:14; Lev. 27:28, 29); and hence the idea of exterminating was connected with the word. The Hebrew verb (haram) is frequently used of the extermination of idolatrous nations. It had a wide range of application. The anathema or herem was a person or thing irrevocably devoted to God (Lev. 27:21, 28); and "none devoted shall be ransomed. He shall surely be put to death" (27:29). The Hebrew word therefore carried the idea of devoted to destruction (Num. 21:2, 3; Josh. 6:17); and hence a majority of scholars have treated the word anathema similarly, generally as meaning a thing accursed. For example, in Deut. 7:26 an idol is called a herem = anathema, understood to mean a thing accursed
  1. Russ Adcox would define obeying the Words of Christ as Law based. This allows him to judge as acceptable all of those who have FAITH.
  2. That is contrary to what the Gospel of THE KINGDOM which gives us REST from self-speaking, burden singing and being taxed to hear fale teaching.
  3. The MARK of preaching another GOSPEL is the word ANATHEMA which is identified by the SIGHT and SOUNDS of music.  Isaiah 30 shows that Hell was prepared for them and the SOUNDS of them being driven into ANATHEMA to be burned is the same wind, string and percussion instruments Lucifer brought into the Garden of Eden.
  4. The Bible and many extra Biblical writings such as The Book of Enoch proves that once you have made the connection between musical or rhetorical arousal you have fallen and cannot be redeemed.
THE ANOTHER GOSPEL IS DENYING CHRIST THE RIGHT TO COMMAND OBEDIENCE

Russ had planned to SKIP the heavy Abraham material on obedience but was convinced otherwise. For now, let us say that Abraham being justified by faith is directly related to obedience of faith. However, there never was more than ONE Spiritual covenant made with Abraham because of his faithful obedience and restored with Power by Jesus Christ.
Gen. 26:2 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
Gen. 26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
Gen. 26:4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
Gen. 26:5 Because that Abraham
        obeyed my voice,
        and kept my charge,
        my commandments,
        my statutes        
        and my laws.
Gen. 26:6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:  [He obeyed God's conditional promise]

  1. God restated The Book of The Covenant of Grace as the Abrahamic Covenant at Mount Sinai.
  2. The people rose up in musical idolatry of their old Egyptian trinity.
  3. God turned them over to worship the starry host BUT ordained the Synagogue or church in the wilderness as an ACADEMIA or school of the Bible. That outlawed vocal or instrumental rejoicing and high sounding speakers.
  4. The spiritual people always attended Synagogue and were quarantined from the curse of the sacrificial system.
  5. All of the prophets speaking by the spirit of Christ called them robbers and parasites and blames the "music" for their fall.  Ezekiel and Josephus agree.
  6. The New Covenant is the Abrahamic Covenant (Galatians 3) where we become the children of Abraham when we are saved BY FAITH when we are BAPTIZED INTO or clothed with Christ.
  7. That is Christ's way to WEED out the "believeth nots" which means WILL NOT COMPLY because are in revolt or treacherous.
  8. Therefore, Paul never rejects obedience as absolutely required before or sins are removed.
THE FALSE ANOTHER GOSPEL STILL COVERS ONLY GAL 3:19-25 BY RUSS

However, the WAY to be Saved after being Justified is to obey and be baptized.
Gal. 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ,
        that we might be justified by faith. [not saved]
Gal. 3:25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
Gal. 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith IN Christ Jesus.
Gal. 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized INTO Christ have put on Christ.
Gal. 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free,
        there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Gal. 3:29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
You cannot have your sins remitted by faith only and therefore you cannot hav A holy spirit or A good conscience into which Christ will let His BLACK words on BROWN paper reside.
THEREFORE RUSS ADCOX IS TEACHING ANOTHER GOSPEL

The MARKS of teaching another gospel and being consigned to the lake of fire is ANATHEMA which points directly to the ritualistic religionism using sophists, singers and instrument players as sorcerers.

The law could not bring righteous as the Jews believed.  However, all people who were made righteous by faith OBEYED whatever it was they trusted.

Paul never connects OBEDIENCE to the Will of Christ with being LEGALISTIC. In fact, the only definition of legalism in the Greek world meant to SING the laws of Apollo (Abaddon, Apollyon) by the muses or musicians in Revelation 18 John calls sorcerers fit only for burning.

Russ Adcox: No Other Gospel (Gal. 1:1-10)
 
Gal. 1:1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man,
        but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
Gal. 1:2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:

Therefore, they were The Church of Christ: Russ has removed that vital public confession.


Gal. 1:3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,

Grace means power: it never means unlimited forgiveness for unlimited sins.
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Titus 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Gal. 1:4 Who gave himself for our sins,
        that he might deliver us from this present evil world,
        according to the will of God and our Father:


Added 3.14.11 Response to those who pronounce anathema for posting the Biblical and historic text.

This table is added to define the meaning of Anathema and is not integrated into the original response to Russ.
Gal. 1:1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man,
        but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
Gal. 1:2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:


John marks as Anti-Christ those who do not believe what all of the Bible teaches:
Acts 2:34 For David is not ascended into the heavens:
         but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord,
        Sit thou on my right hand,
Acts 2:35 Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
Acts 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly,
        that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified,
        both Lord and Christ.

1Timothy 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
1Timothy 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
1Timothy 2:5 For
        there is one God,
        and one mediator between God and men,
        the man Christ Jesus;
1Timothy 2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
1Timothy 2:7 Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
Gal. 1:3 Grace be to you and peace
        from God the Father,
         and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
Gal. 1:4 Who gave himself for our sins,
        that he might deliver us from this present evil world,
        according to the will of God and our Father:

Jesus will not pray for the World: that is Cosmos or Kosmos and speaks to the people who connect music to the worship of the physical world which needs adorning.

Throughout the Bible musical instruments are the MARK that God has removed His grace: the speakers, singers and instrument players in Revelation 18 are called sorcerers: Anathema meaning to be predestinated to the Lake of fire.

Gal. 1:3 Grace be to you and peace
        from God the Father,
         and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
Gal. 1:4 Who gave himself for our sins,
        that he might deliver us from this present evil world,
        according to the will of God and our Father:

Jesus will not pray for the World: that is Cosmos or Kosmos and speaks to the people who connect music to the worship of the physical world which needs adorning.

Gal. 1:5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Gal. 1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him
        that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
Gal. 1:7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you,
        and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

Anything which added to the promise of Jesus to remove the laded burden (songs) and the burden laders perverts the gospel of REST: the word rest forbits all commercial or entertaining performances used to create "spiritual anxiety through religious rituals."

4190.  poneros, pon-ay-ros´; from a derivative of 4192; hurtful, i.e. evil (properly, in effect or influence, and thus differing from 2556, which refers rather to essential character, as well as from 4550, which indicates degeneracy from original virtue); figuratively, calamitous; also (passively) ill, i.e. diseased; but especially (morally) culpable, i.e. derelict, vicious, facinorous; neuter (singular) mischief, malice, or (plural) guilt; masculine (singular) the devil, or (plural) sinners: --  bad, evil, grievous, harm, lewd, malicious, wicked(-ness). See also 4191.

Phortos
a burden is anything imposed to be performed as the works of human hands denies that Jesus paid it all.
A. make, produce, first of something material, as manufactures, works of art, epoiēsanto me ph., expld. as pepragmateumai, prodedomai, phortos gegenēmai,
Prasso   III. achieve, effect, accomplish
tina Nēreidōn p. akoitinId.N.5.36; humnon p. grant power of song, ib.9.3;
2. metaph., heavy load or burden, ph. khreias, kakōn, E.Supp.20, IT1306; cf. phortion.

II. Att., vulgar stuff, rubbish, balderdash, Ar.Pax748 (anap.) Pl.796.
ph. erōtos, of Europa on the bull

A laded Burden is: A. poieō , A. make, produce, first of something material, as manufactures, works of art,

3. of sacrifices, festivals, etc., celebrate,p. hiraHdt.9.19, cf. 2.49 ; p. sabbata observe the Sabbath, LXXEx.31.16;
4. after Hom., of Poets, compose, write, p. dithurambon, epea, Hdt.1.23, 4.14; “p. theogoniēn HellēsiId.2.53; p. Phaidran, Saturous, Ar.Th.153, 157; p. kōmōdian, tragōdian, etc., Pl.Smp.223d; “palinōdianIsoc.10.64, Pl.Phdr.243b, etc.; “poiēmataId.Phd.60d: abs., write poetry, write as a poet,orthōs p.Hdt.3.38; “en toisi epesi p.Id.4.16, cf. Pl.Ion534b: folld. by a quotation, “epoēsas pote . .Ar.Th.193; “eis tinaPl.Phd.61b; “peri theōnId.R.383a, etc.
b. represent in poetry,Homēron Akhillea pepoiēkenai ameinō OdusseōsPl.Hp.Mi.369c, cf. 364c, Smp.174b; poiēsas ton Akhillea legonta having represented Achilles saying, Plu.2.105b, cf. 25d, Pl. Grg. 525d, 525e, Arist.Po.1453b29.
c. describe in verse,theon en epesinPl.R.379a; epoiēsa muthous tous Aisōpou put them into verse, Id.Phd. 61b; “muthonLycurg.100.
A laded Burden is B: To Study or practice of drama , atos, to/, (draō)

A. deed, act, opp. pathos, A.Ag.533; office, business, duty, Pl.Tht.150a, R.451c; to d. dran to go about one's business, Id.Tht.169b.

II. action represented on the stage, drama, play, Ar.Ra.920, Arist.Po.1448a28, etc.; en d. not in the action on the stage, ib.1460a31; exō tou d. ib.1453b32; “d. poieinAr.Ra.1021; “saturikon d.Pl.Smp.222d (with play on 1): metaph., stage-effect of any kind, “ta eleina tauta d. eisageinId.Ap.35b: also, tragical event, Plb.23.10.12, Him.Ecl.1.12, etc.

A laded Burden is C. Sullog-ismos
A. computation, calculation
2. in the Logic of Arist., a syllogism or deductive argument, defined provisionally as an argument in which, certain things being posited, something different from them necessarily follows, APr.24b18, cf. 47a34, al.; of several kinds, e.g. ho apodeiktikos s. APo.74b11; o( dialektikos s. Top.100a22; eristikos s. ib.b24; sts. opposed to epagōgē (q.v.); ho ex epagōgēs s. the syllogism which springs out of induction, APr.68b15; “to enthumēma s. tisRh.1355a8.
Epagōg-ē4. allurement, enticement,tais elpisi kai tais e.D.19.322. b. incantation, spell, in pl., Pl.R.364c, Lg.933d; Hekatēs phaskōn epagōgēn gegonenaispell, Thphr.Char.16.7.
7. leading away into captivity, captivity, LXX Is.14.17: generally, distress, misery,Si.23.14 (pl.of tax-gatherers demand from one as the price for a thingsaying that Hecate had put it under a ib.
A laded Burden is DEur. Supp. 20 so now their mothers would bury in the grave the dead, whom the spear has slain, but the victors prevent them and will not allow them to take up the corpses, holding the laws of the gods in no honor. [20] Here lies Adrastus on the ground with streaming eyes, sharing with them the burden of their prayer to me, and bemoaning the havoc of the sword and the sorry fate of the warriors whom he led from their homes. And he urges me to use entreaty to persuade my son [25] to take up the dead and help to bury them, either by winning words or force of arms, laying on my son and on Athens this task alone. Now it happened that I had left my house and come to offer sacrifice on behalf of the earth's crop [30] at this shrine, where first the fruitful corn showed its bristling shocks above the soil. And here at the holy altars of the two goddesses, Demeter and the Maiden, I wait, holding these sprays of foliage, a bond that does not bind, in compassion for [35] these childless mothers, gray with age, and in reverence for the sacred garlands. My herald has gone to the city, to call Theseus here, so that he may rid the land of that which grieves them, or loose these suppliant bonds, [40] with pious observance of the gods' will; for women should in all cases invoke the aid of men, women that are discreet.

A laded Burden is EAristoph. Peace 748 Chorus
The Chorus turns and faces the audience.
Undoubtedly the comic poet who [735] mounted the stage to praise himself in the parabasis would deserve to be handed over to the sticks of the beadles. Nevertheless, oh Muse, if it be right to esteem the most honest and illustrious of our comic writers at his proper value, permit our poet to say that he thinks he has deserved a glorious renown. First of all, he is the one who has compelled his rivals no longer [740] to scoff at rags or to war with lice; and as for those Heracleses, always chewing and ever hungry, he was the first to cover them with ridicule and to chase them from the stage; he has also dismissed that slave, whom one never failed to set weeping before you, [745] so that his comrade might have the chance of jeering at his stripes and might ask, “Wretch, what has happened to your hide? Has the lash rained an army of its thongs on you and laid your back waste?” After having delivered us from all these wearisome ineptitudes and these low buffooneries, he has built up for us a great art, like a palace with high towers, [750] constructed of fine phrases, great thoughts and of jokes not common on the streets. Moreover it's not obscure private persons or women that he stages in his comedies; but, bold as Heracles, it's the very greatest whom he attacks, undeterred by the fetid stink of leather or the threats of hearts of mud. He has the right to say, “I am the first ever dared to go straight for that beast with the sharp teeth [755] and the terrible eyes that flashed lambent fire like those of Cynna, surrounded by a hundred lewd flatterers, who spittle-licked him to his heart's content; it had a voice like a roaring torrent, the stench of a seal, the unwashed balls of a Lamia and the arse of a camel

A laded Burden is F.  Aristoph. Pl. 771

Wife Do you refuse these gifts?

Plutus [795] I will accept them at your fireside, as custom requires. Besides, we shall thus avoid a ridiculous scene; it is not meet that the poet should throw dried figs and dainties to the spectators; it is a vulgar trick to make them laugh.

Wife [800] You are right. Look! yonder's Dexinicus, who was already getting to his feet to catch the figs as they flew past him.

A laded Burden is G  Erōs , ōtos, o(, acc. erōn for : (heramai, eraō A):—love, mostly of the sexual passion, “thēlukratēs e.A.Ch.600 (lyr.)

II. pr. n., the god of love, Anacr.65, Parm.13, E.Hipp.525 (lyr.), etc. ; “E. anikate makhanS.Ant.781 (lyr.) : in pl., Simon.184.3, etc.
III. at Nicaea, a funeral wreath, EM379.54.
IV. name of the klēros Aphroditēs, Cat.Cod.Astr.1.168 ; = third klēros, Paul.Al.K.3 ; one of the topoi, Vett.Val.69.16.
klēroi khthonosE.Heracl.876; “tōn labontōn en Orkhomenō klaron ē oikian
Aesch. Lib. 600 Chorus
But who can tell of man's overweening spirit, [595] and of the reckless passions of women hardened of soul, partners of the woes of mortals? Inordinate passion, overmastering the female, gains a fatal victory over the wedded unions of beasts and humans alike. [600]
The Kleros of Aphrodite: hence, of oracles, E.Hipp.1057, Ph. 838; “Hermēs gar ōn klērō poiēseis oid' hotiAr.Pax365;
III. of the Levites, “Kurios autos klēros autouLXX De.18.2: hence, of the Christian clergy, “en klērō katalegomenos

khthōn , h(, gen. khthonos,
hupo khthonos, of the nether world,Tartaron cf. A.Eu.72; hoi hupo kh. philoi, i.e. those in the shades below, Id.Ch.833
2. earth, i.e. the world, Id.Pr.139 (anap.), Ag.528; “ep' eskhata khthonosS.Fr.956.
3. Earth, as a goddess, A.Pr.207, Eu.6.

Jesus Christ died to REMOVE this burden: Click for Isaiah 28

Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: Is.28:15

A vital focus of questioning was the world of the dead. The recently deceased might exert influence on the living for good or for bad. Offerings to the dead, which were required by custom, were intended, among other purposes, to make them well disposed. People occasionally deposited with their offerings a letter telling the deceased of their problems and asking for assistance. A few of these letters are complaints to the deceased person, alleging that he or she is afflicting the writer. This written communication with the dead was confined to the very few literate members of the population, but it was probably part of a more widespread oral practice. Some tombs of prominent people acquired minor cults that may have originated in frequent successful recourse to them for assistance. Britannica Online

See The Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem

The Marzeah in Amos 5

"The marzeah had an extremely long history extending at least from the 14th century B.C. through the Roman period. In the 14th century B.C., it was prominently associated with the ancient Canaanite city of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra), on the coast of Syria...

The marzeah was a pagan ritual that took the form of a social and religious association... Some scholars regard the funerary marzeah as a feast for--and with--deceased ancestors (or Rephaim, a proper name in the Bible for the inhabitants of Sheol)." (King, Biblical Archaeological Review, Aug, 1988, p. 35, 35)

"These five elements are: (1) reclining or relaxing, (2) eating a meat meal, (3) singing with harp or other musical accompaniment, (4) drinking wine and (5) anointing oneself with oil." (King, p. 37).

"we recognize the same elements: the sacrifices and libation, the cultic feast in which the congregation gets a share of food and drink after it has been blessed by the king, and the merry-making, now in the form of instrumental and vocal music. But the central act of the ritual, which was performed by the king, is called literally 'drinking' the god (Gurney, O. R. Some Aspects of Hittite Religion, p. 33-34, Oxford University Press, 1977)

"The normal order of events was a meal, followed by a drinking party. Entertainment might include anything from a rhetorcian or philosopher discoursing on some topic, to musical entertainment, to sexual dalliance."

"Plutarch implicitly contrasts a serious dinner featuring a sage as the after-dinner speaker with the other sorts of dinners--where sexual play with the girl flute-players or hetairae was common." (Witherington, Ben, Why Not Idol Meat, Bible Review, June 1994, p. 41-42).


Pragma^t-euomai , 2. to be engaged in business, spend one's time in business
2. of authors, elaborate a work, Ar.Nu.526; of a science, work out,ha thelei
4. simply, write, treat,poiētēs ōn pepragmateutai peri to hieronIG11(4).544.5 (Delos, iii B. C.); ta pepragmateumena hup' autō his works, composilions
Gal. 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven,
        preach any other gospel unto you than
        that which we have preached unto you,
        let him be accursed.

331. anathema, an-ath´-em-ah; from 394; a (religious) ban or (concretely) excommunicated (thing or person): — accused, anathema, curse, x great.

1 Cor 16:22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.

The Levites cursed by Jacob were abandoned to carry out the work of the "lord" in the worship of the starry host for a nation sentenced to be returned to "beyond Babylon." They were dedicated to the Lord and "had no inheritance in Israel."

-Anathêma , /, (anatithēmi) A. that which is set up: hence, like agalma, votive offering set up in a temple, Hdt.1.14,92, S.Ant.286, etc.; “a. ek leitourgiōnLys.26.4. 2. used by Hom. only in first sense of agalma, delight, ornament,molpē t' orkhēstus te: ta gar t' anathēmata daitosOd.1.152, cf. 21.430, IG14.1390; tois tekousin anathēma biotou, of children, E.Fr.518, cf. Pl.Hp.Mi.364b; to help deserving poverty is “basilikou ploutou a. kai kataskeuasma lamprotatonD.H.19.14.

-Agalma , atos, to/, acc. to Hsch. pan eph' tis agalletai,
A. glory, delight, honour, Il.4.144, etc.; kephalaisin andrōn agalmata (sc. lophoi) Alc.15; khōras a., of an ode, Pi.N.3.13, cf. 8.16;
2. pleasing gift, esp. for the gods, “a. theōnOd.8.509, of a bull adorned for sacrifice, ib.3.438; of a tripod, Hdt.5.60, al.; generally, = anathēma, IG1.37312a, etc.; “Kharēs eimi . . a. tou ApollōnosGDI5507 (Miletus); “anthēken a.Simon.155; so, Hekatēs a . . . kuōn, because sacred to her, E.Fr.968, = Ar.Fr.594a; a. Aida, of a tombstone, Pi.N.10.67.
Hekatēs a . . . kuōn, because sacred to her, E.Fr.968, = Ar.Fr.594a; a. Aida, of a tombstone, Pi.N.10.67.
-Molp-ē , h(, (melpō)
A. dance or rhythmic movement with song, Od. 6.101, Il.18.606.
2. more freq. song, 1.472; “molpēs te glukerēs kai amumonos orkhēthmoio13.637; “molpē t' orkhēstus teOd.1.152, cf. Hes.Th.69, Sapph.Supp.25.5, Pi.O.10.84,6.97 (pl.), A.Ag.106 (lyr.), etc.: Com. in lyr., “molpa klaggaMnesim.4.57 (anap.): metaph., ou m. suriggos ekhōn the note, S.Ph.212 (lyr.): also in late Prose, as Luc.Salt.23.

Apollo
in Revelation is Abaddon or Apollyon and the muses are the Locusts in John's coded message.

-Hom. Od. 1.125 Heralds poured water over their hands, and maid-servants heaped by them bread in baskets, and youths filled the bowls brim full of drink; and they put forth their hands to the good cheer lying ready before them. [150] Now after the wooers had put from them the desire of food and drink, their hearts turned to other things, to song and to dance; for these things are the crown of a feast. And a herald put the beautiful lyre in the hands of Phemius, who sang perforce among the wooers; [155] and he struck the chords in prelude2 to his sweet lay. But Telemachus spoke to flashing-eyed Athena, holding his head close, that the others might not hear: “Dear stranger, wilt thou be wroth with me for the word that I shall say? These men care for things like these, the lyre and song, [160] full easily, seeing that without atonement they devour the livelihood of another, of a man whose white bones, it may be, rot in the rain as they lie upon the mainland, or the wave rolls them in the sea. 

-Hom. Od. 21.401
A Levite musician who entered into a holy place would be sacrificed: modern musicians claim that they are dedicated to the Lord. There are several Biblical examples which prove that they will be cast alive into the lake of fire.
3. of a slave in a temple, a. poleōs devoted to this service by the city, E.Ion310.—Cf. anathema.

Any object so sacrificed or devoted to the Lord could not be redeemed (Num. 18:14; Lev. 27:28, 29); and hence the idea of exterminating was connected with the word. The Hebrew verb (haram) is frequently used of the extermination of idolatrous nations. It had a wide range of application. The anathema or herem was a person or thing irrevocably devoted to God (Lev. 27:21, 28); and "none devoted shall be ransomed. He shall surely be put to death" (27:29). The Hebrew word therefore carried the idea of devoted to destruction (Num. 21:2, 3; Josh. 6:17); and hence a majority of scholars have treated the word anathema similarly, generally as meaning a thing accursed. For example, in Deut. 7:26 an idol is called a herem = anathema, understood to mean a thing accursed

Sorry bout that but you will not be able to believe it: Time is short and that is why the Church of Christ thread tries to silence just quoting the Bible: music means to silence the voice of the victim.

Hebrews 12:25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh.
        For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth,
        much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
Hebrews 12:26 Whose voice then shook the earth: (the trumpet sound)
        but now he hath promised, saying,
        Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

Hebrews 12:27 And this word, Yet once more,
        signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, t
        hat those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Hebrews 12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved,
       let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.

Christ in Isaiah 30 says that hell is prepared for God to drive His enemies into: the MARKS are wind, string and percussion instruments.
The WILL of Jesus Christ was the will of Father, Son and Spirit.  If you deny the need for OBEDIENCE then you deny that God HAS a will.  That allows only self-will

REMISSION OF SINS DELIVERS US FROM THIS EVIL WORLD.


No one's sins are remitted or washed away who has not OBEYED the direct command to be baptized.

Salvation by Grace (which teaches) through faith is to deliver us from THIS EVIL WORLD and not to drive people into UNITING with evil.  Secondly, we are delivered by the WILL of  Jesus Christ who is our God and Father.

This is the LADED BURDEN Jesus died to remove: a burden is a repeating type song as "sorcery." it is the creation of spiritual anxiety through religious rituals which makes you ignorant of the word and pan an EXTRA TAX not in warfare or food for your children.  The burden is Phortion. from Phortos vulgar, rubbish, balderdash, mass of detail: and poetry: manufacturing songs and sermons which produce an erotic influence, singing, playing instruments.  Peter called it corrupting the word: selling knowledge at retail.
THE GOSPEL: Matthew 11:[28]  "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. [29]  Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am humble and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. [30]  For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
4190.  poneros, pon-ay-ros´; from a derivative of 4192; hurtful, SORRY JESTS, i.e. evil (properly, in effect or influence, and thus differing from 2556, which refers rather to essential character, as well as from 4550, which indicates degeneracy from original virtue); figuratively, calamitous; also (passively) ill, i.e. diseased; but especially (morally) culpable, i.e. derelict, vicious, facinorous; neuter (singular) mischief, malice, or (plural) guilt; masculine (singular) the devil, or (plural) sinners: --  bad, evil, grievous, harm, lewd, malicious, wicked(-ness). See also 4191.
The Graces were three browned-eyed Greek prostitutes.  The Grace of God [as WORD] HATH APPEARED teaching us to DENY the present evil world.  Paul spoke on two levels which people deny:
Acts 2:37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart,
        and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles

        Men and brethren, what shall we do?
Peter would be ANTI-Christ if he repudiated obedience to the command He received from Jesus Christ:
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them,
        Repent
, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ
        for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost

Acts 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

For or EIS means "in order that your sins be remitted." I can never be used to say "be baptized BECAUSE your sins are remitted."
SECONDLY salvation was to save ourselves from those of restored ceremonial legalism.
Acts 2:40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, 
        saying, Save yourselves from this crooked generation.
The Crooked Race of vipers who would be baptized with a threshing WIND (spirit) and FIRE because they could not repent and be baptized in water.
4646 skolios skol-ee-os' From the base of G4628; warped, that is, winding; figuratively perverse:crooked, froward, untoward. -Skolios 1 curved, winding, twisted, tangled, Lat. obliquus, Hdt., Eur., etc.:-- bent sideways, douleiê kephalê skoliê (Hor. stat capite obstipo) Theogn.: metaph. crooked, i. e. unjust, unrighteous , Il., Hes., etc.; skolia prattein, eipein Plat.:--so adv. skoliôs, Hes.

Prattein, -Prassô II. experience certain fortunes, achieved bondage, i.e. brought it on himself, grant power of song, get something, plot, 3. of sexual intercourse, b. esp. of secret practices and intrigues

The merchandise Grace means:
Charis for his pleasure, for his sake, glôssês charin for one's tongue's pleasure, hy pleasure or sake, s for the sake of my flesh, for the pleasure of devouring it,  prassein, 4. love-charm, philtre, charizesthai (1.2), indulge, humour, orgêi,
Charizomai
charizô , fut. chariô 3. in erotic sense, grant favours to a man,

Skolion 1 [neut. of skolios] [sub. melos] a song which went round at banquets, sung to the lyre by the guests, Ar.; so called from its zigzag course-- each guest who sung holding a myrtle-branch murrinê, which he passed across the table to any one he chose.

Skolobolos  Epithet of Chronos.

Hes.Op.7; Hesoid Works and Days: (ll. 1-10) Muses of Pieria who give glory through song, come hither, tell of Zeus your father and chant his praise. Throug him mortal men are famed or un-famed, sung or unsung alike, as great Zeus wills. For easily he makes strong, and easily he brings the strong man low; easily he humbles the proud and raises the obscure, and easily he straightens the crooked and blasts the proud, -- Zeus who thunders aloft and has his dwelling most high.

Attend thou with eye and ear, and make judgements straight with righteousness. And I, Perses, would tell of true things.

(ll. 11-24) So, after all, there was not one kind of Strife alone, but all over the earth there are two. As for the one, a man would praise her when he came to understand her; but the other is blameworthy: and they are wholly different in nature.

For one fosters evil war and battle, being cruel: her no man loves; but perforce, through the will of the deathless gods, men pay harsh Strife her honour due. But the other is the elder daughter of dark Night, and the son of Cronos who sits above and dwells in the aether, set her in the roots of the earth: and she is far kinder to men. She stirs up even the shiftless to toil; for a man grows eager to work when he considers his neighbour, a rich man who hastens to plough and plant and put his house in good order; and neighbour vies with is neighbour as he hurries after wealth.

This Strife is wholesome for men. And potter is angry with potter, and craftsman with craftsman, and beggar is jealous of beggar, and minstrel of minstrel.

Transmission of Archaic Greek Sympotic Songs: from Lesbos to Alexandria  by Gregory Nagy

A striking example is the reference in Aristophanes F 235 Kassel/Austin to the singing of a sympotic song of Alcaeus, called a skolion : 'sing me some skolion, taking it from Alcaeus or Anacreon'. 48 This correlation of Alcaeus with Anacreon as masters of sympotic songmaking is particularly valuable in light of the explicit identification of Anacreon with the institution of the symposium: in Herodotus 3.121, this poet is pictured as actually participating in a symposium attended by his patron, the tyrant Polycrates, at Samos ("and he found Polycrates reclining in the men's quarters, in the company of Anacreon of Teos"). 49

48. The word skolion , as used in the time of Aristophanes, is a distinctly sympotic term. It was an appropriate general designation for the performance, self-accompanied on the lyre, of compositions by the great lyric masters; see A. E. Harvey, 1955. "The Classification of Greek Lyric Poetry," Classical Quarterly 5 (1955): 162-63, following R. Reitzenstein, Epigramm und Skolion: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der alexandrinischen Dichtung (Giessen, 1893); see also Nagy, Pindar's Homer, pp. 106-7. To engage in these performances was an old-fashioned convention at symposia, as we can see from such references as Aristophanes Clouds 1355-1356, the scholia to Aristophanes Wasps 1222, and Eupolis F 139 Kock (by way of Athenaeus 638e). According to "Plutarch" On Music 1140f, Pindar attributed the "invention" of the skolion to Terpander, who is also the traditional "inventor" of the system of melodies used in kitharôidia ( On Music 1132d). I should add that Aristotle refers to Alcaeus F 348, which he also cites, as a skolion ; see Aristotle, Politics 1285a35 and following).
49. See commentary by E. Urios-Aparisi, "Anacreon: Love and Poetry (on 358 PMG, 13 Gentili)," Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 44 (1993): 54 on the explicitly sympotic features of the description given by Herodotus.

REMISSION OF SINS AT BAPTISM DELIVERS US FROM THE SOPHISTS /  MUSICIANS

John called the sophists, singers and instrument players SORCERERS who had deceived the whole world: why would anyone be paid to DRAG you back beyond the cross.

HERE IS MORE GOSPEL

Col. 2:6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord [Jehovah--Saves]], so walk ye in him:
Col. 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, 
        and stablished in the faith,
        as ye have been taught,
        abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Col. 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you
        through philosophy and vain deceit,
        after the tradition of men,
        after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Sophos , skilled in any handicraft or art, clever; but in this sense mostly of poets and musicians, Pi.O.1.9, P.1.42, 3.113; en kitharai s. E.IT1238 (lyr.), cf. Ar.Ra.896 (lyr.), etc.; tên technên -ôteros ib.766; peri ti Pl.Lg.696c ; glôssêi s. S.Fr.88.10; sophos ho polla eidôs phuai, mathontes de labroi Pi.O.2.86 .

Sophis-tês 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, sophistês . . parapaiôn chelun

Col. 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Salvation by THE FAITH of Jesus Christ happens when we are baptized INTO Christ.
Col. 2:10 And ye are complete IN him,
        which is the head of all principality and power:
Only when you are baptized INTO Christ are you spiritually circumcised.
Col. 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands,
        in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
Col. 2:12 Buried with him in baptism,
        wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God,
        who hath raised him from the dead.
Salvation must ALWAYS first be saved FROM this Crooked or Perverted or Race of Vipers.  You cannot be OF the world and be saved. John refused to let these people be baptized.

Gal. 1:5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Gal. 1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him
        that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE MEANING OF IS IS

The Galatians would be like those sowing discord by imposing musical worship. By using Hezekiah's plague stopping ritual they say that even the curse of the law is OUR COMMAND to "use instrumental praise."

Most false teaching about faith as a "one step plan of salvation" does not know the SUBJECT under discussion.  The Jews believed that one was justified or made ceremonially pure based on circumcision and obeying the law.

That was what made them hinder the Gentiles from OBEYING Jesus Christ and being baptized.
All people and even pigs are no longer UNCLEAN based on THE FAITH of Jesus Christ: their personal faith is NOT THAT POWERFUL.

Being Justified does no mean that one is saved: justification by faith gives one the RIGHT to be baptized for the remission of sins.

Gal. 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by
        THE
works of THE law,
        but by THE FAITH of Jesus Christ,
even we have believed in Jesus Christ,
        that we might be justified by THE FAITH of Christ,
        and not by the works of THE LAW :
        for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
The only spiritual covenant was made with Christ to Abraham: Abraham was justified (not saved) because :
Gen. 26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
Justified does not mean saved, remission of sins or added to the Church by Christ.

Bible 101a: obeing THE FAITH of Jesus Christ is not obeying THE LAW OF MOSES.

Baptism was a promise in Isaiah and Malachi by the Spirit of Christ.  Receive a promise is not works of any kind. However, refusing to obey the conditions of that free gift is FATAL ingratitude.
Gal. 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God:
        for if righteousness come by THE LAW, then Christ is dead in vain.
Gal. 3:1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you,
        that ye should not obey THE TRUTH, before whose eyes Jesus Christ
        hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
The way to OBEY the Death, Burial and Resurection of Christ is to obey that FORM of doctrine and only after you have OBEYED in baptism are you then free from sin.

Jesus didn't die just so others can refuse to obey His New Covenant.  Jesus died to put down the sacrificial system which in may ways is imposed in modern isntitutes.

THIS IS NOT REMOTELY CONNECTED TO THE LAW OF MOSES
Careless students deny that we should obey the truth because THAT would be keeping THE LAW and that would be another gospel.

Rom. 6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin,
        but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Rom. 6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
That FORM of doctrine is the work which Jesus Christ accomplished for us.  A form is "a pattern capable of being imitated" or "instead of." We are baptized INSTEAD of dying on the cross. Without this OBEDIENCE people are still the servants of Satan.

Gal. 1:7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you,
        and would pervert the gospel of Christ.


THE GOSPEL IS THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM

The Gospel of Jesus Christ demanded that disciples be made by BAPTIZING and teaching WHAT JESUS commanded to be taught.  The Gospel of the Kingdom defines TERMS OF INTRANCE into the kingdom. That was and is
1Pet. 3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
1Pet. 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is,
        eight souls were saved by water.
1Pet. 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us
        (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh,
        but the answer of [request for] a good conscience toward God,)
        by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
Only those who were SAVED at baptism and were given A holy spirit or A good conscience were added to the Church of Christ and their spirits were translated into a HEAVENLY kingdom.

Water baptism was prophesied by Christ in Isaiah and Malachi and the eunuch REQUESTED baptism when he understood that Messiah had come to establish His kingdom.  There is NO REMISSION OF SINS apart from obediend at the time and place of water baptism.

Those who DENY that baptism is Jesus Christ's ordained way to ENLISTH disciples HAS BEEN CURSED and the results--as at Mount Sinai and defined in Romans 1--will be visible and AUDIBLE.

Paul issued that warning in Romans 1, Romans 10 and 1 Corinthians 10 warning of musical idolatry or demon worship.

Click for Romans 1
Click for Musical Idolatry at Mount Sinai for which God turned the Levites over to worship the starry host.
Click for The Confirmation by the Spirit of Christ repudiating the musical idolatry in all of the prophets.

Gal. 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you,
        let him be accursed.


Another gospel denies GRACE which teaches us to OBEY:

Those who minimize baptism as OBEDIENCE to the Will of Jesus Christ ARE Anathema and the MARKS or visible and AUDIBLE.

When the sophists, singers and musicians in Revelation 18 as "lusted after fruits" under the Babylonian mother of harlots are REMOVED as sorcerers the LAMPS are removed and the faithful are removed.
331. Anathema, an-ath´-em-ah; from 394; a (religious) ban or (concretely) excommunicated (thing or person): — accused, anathema, curse, x great.

Anathêma , atos, to, ( [anatithêmi] )

A.that which is set up: hence, like [1]  agalma, votive offering set up in a temple Hdt.1.14.
2. used by Hom. only in first sense of agalma, delight, ornament, molpêt'  orchêstuste: tagart' anathêma tadaitos Od.1.152   21.430
Molpe song and dance, the orchestra, klanga, pipes,
Orchestra dance group
Gar for
Anathema
Daitos a meal
3. of a slave in a temple
The Levites made noise and never music as slaves doing "hard bondage" in the slaughter pits "making the lambs dumb before the slaughter."  In the Greek sacriricial systems (modern church) they were called PARASITES.

The meaning of "they rose up to Play" at Mount Sinai which removed Grace.

Odyssey 1. [150] Now after the wooers had put from them the desire of food and drink, their hearts turned to other things, to song and to dance; for these things are the crown [amathema] of a feast. And a herald put the beautiful lyre in the hands of Phemius, who sang perforce among the wooers;[155] and he struck the chords in prelude to his sweet lay. But Telemachus spoke to flashing-eyed Athena, holding his head close, that the others might not hear: “Dear stranger, wilt thou be wroth with me for the word that I shall say?
        These men care for things like these, the lyre and song, [160] full easily, seeing that without atonement they devour the livelihood of another, of a man whose white bones, it may be, rot in the rain as they lie upon the mainland, or the wave rolls them in the sea. Were they to see him returned to Ithaca, they would all pray to be swifter of foot, [165] rather than richer in gold and in raiment. But now he has thus perished by an evil doom, nor for us is there any comfort, no, not though any one of men upon the earth should say that he will come; gone is the day of his returning

Homer 21.430 [415] that the son of crooked-counselling [ankulometes, Skolobolos] Cronos sent him an omen, and he took up a swift arrow, which lay by him on the table, bare, but the others were stored within the hollow quiver, even those of which the Achaeans were soon to taste. This he took, and laid upon the bridge of the bow, and drew the bow-string and the notched arrow [420] even from the chair where he sat, and let fly the shaft with sure aim, and did not miss the end of the handle of one of the axes, but clean through and out at the end passed the arrow weighted with bronzeBut he spoke to Telemachus, saying: “Telemachus, the stranger [425] that sits in thy halls brings no shame upon thee, nor in any wise did I miss the mark, or labour long in stringing the bow; still is my strength unbroken--not as the wooers scornfully taunt me. But now it is time that supper too be made ready for the Achaeans, while yet there is light, and thereafter must yet other sport be made 430] with song and with the lyre; for these things are the accompaniments of a feast.
Play Hepsiaomai Molpe song and dance, the orchestra, klanga, pipes, Phorminx the harp of Apollo, Apollon  
Agalma A.glory, delight, honour ,Il.4.144, etc.; kephalaisin andrôn agalmata (sc. lophoi) Alc.15; chôras ode, Pi.N.3.13, of Bacchus, in the Agora or marketplace. Pleasing gift fo the gods, a bull adorned for sacrifice, for Apollon , Apollo, Apollona, name of a number,

Jesus rejected the musical minstrels with a word meaing "like dung."
Jesus consigned the pipers, singers and dancers to the marketplace or Agora

Pindar Odes. [1] Queenly Muse, OUR MOTHER! I entreat you, come in the sacred month of Nemea to the much-visited Dorian island of Aegina. For beside the waters of the Asopus young men are waiting, craftsmen of honey-voiced [5] victory-songs, seeking your voice. Various deeds thirst for various things; but victory in the games loves song most of all, the most auspicious attendant of garlands and of excellence. [9] Send an abundance of it, from my wisdom; [10] begin, divine daughter, an acceptable hymn to the ruler of the cloud-filled sky, and I will communicate it by the voices of those singers and by the lyre. The hymn will have a pleasant toil [Ponos, hard work, stress] to be the glory of the land where the ancient Myrmidons lived, whose marketplace, famous long ago,

Those under the Babylon Mother of Harlots (Rev 17) were "lusted after fruits" and craftsmen singing NIKE melodies as sorcerers.

Rev. 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
Rev. 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Rev. 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Gal. 1:9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. [Anathema cursed, excommunicated,

Gal. 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men?
        for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.


PAUL OUTLAWS THIS SELF PLEASURE IN ROMANS 15 TO ENABLE THE EKKLESIA OR SYNAGOGUE.

After outlawing doubtful disputations or "preferences" normally seen in the marketplaces, Paul commanded directly:
Rom. 15:2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
Rom. 15:3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but,
        as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
Rom. 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning,
        that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
Rom. 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
Rom. 15:6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Self pleasure in the marketplace where Jesus consigned the pipers, singers and dancers was not permitted in the "synagogue"

g700. aresko, ar-es´-ko; probably from 142 (through the idea of exciting emotion); to be agreeable (or by implication, to seek to be so):  please. areskô 

AreskosA. pleasing, mostly in bad sense, obsequious, cringing
II. areskos, ho, the staff borne by pornoboskoi [brothel keeper] on the stage, 

Airo (g142) ah'ee-ro; a prim. verb; to lift; by impl. to take up or away; fig. to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind); spec. to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by Heb. [comp. 5375] to expiate sin: - away with, bear (up), carry, lift up, loose, make to doubt, put away, remove, take (away, up).

This had the same meaning of EXTERNAL SINGING:

Aoidê 1. art of song, autar aoidên thespesiên, spell, incantation, thing sung, song, whether of joy or sorrow,

Aeidô sing,.hence of all kinds of vocal sounds, crow as cocks, hoot as owls, croak as frogs,; hoi tettiges chamothen aisontai, crowing too soon.

The tettiges are the LOCUSTS which are the MUSES serving Apollo, Abaddon or Apollyo

John calls the sophists, singers and instrument players SORCERERS who had deceived the whole world. The LAW WAS ADDED by these false teachers.

No one in recorded history DID NOT know that music manipulates the mind and is therfore always defined as sorcery and something only the lower classes could tolerate.

Plato In Timaeus "The phenomena of medical and of the swallowing of drink and of the projection of bodies, whether discharged in the air or bowled along the ground, are to be investigated on a similar principle;

and swift and slow sounds, which appear to be high and low,
and are sometimes discordant on account of their inequality,
and then again harmonical
on account of the equality of
the motion which they excite in us.
For when the motions of the antecedent swifter sounds begin to pause and the two are equalised,  
        the slower sounds overtake the swifter and then propel them.
        When they overtake them they do not intrude a new and discordant motion,
        but introduce the beginnings of a slower, which answers to the swifter as it dies away,
        thus producing a single mixed expression out of high and low,
        whence arises a pleasure which even the unwise feel,
            and which to the wise becomes a higher sort of delight,
            being an imitation of divine harmony in mortal motions.

Plato, Protagoras.
[347c] But if he does not mind, let us talk no more of poems and verses, but consider the points on which I questioned you at first, Protagoras, and on which I should be glad to reach, with your help, a conclusion.
For it seems to me that arguing about poetry is comparable
        to the wine-parties [sumposiois] of common market-folk [Agoraion].
        These people, owing to their inability to carry on a familiar conversation over their wine
        by means of their own voices and discussions--

Commentary on the Sumposiois (getting drunk on wine) and the Agoraion where Jesus consigned the pipers, singers and dancers.

[347d] such is their lack of education--put a premium on flute-girls by hiring the extraneous voice of the flute at a high price, and carry on their intercourse by means of its utterance. 
        But where the party consists of
thorough gentlemen who have had a proper education, you will see neither flute-girls nor dancing-girls nor harp-girls, but only the company contenting themselves with their own conversation, and none of these fooleries and frolics--each speaking and listening decently in his turn,

[347e] even though they may drink a great deal of wine. And so a gathering like this of ours, when it includes such men as most of us claim to be,         requires no extraneous voices, not even of the poets, whom one cannot question on the sense of what they say;    
        when they are adduced in discussion we are generally told by some that the poet
                thought so and so, and by others, something different,
                and they go on arguing about a matter which they are powerless to determine.
                No, this sort of meeting is avoided by men of culture,
Suneimi: To be joined with, Intercourse is II. to have intercourse with a person, live with hêdonê, desires after pleasure, pleasant lusts, voluptuosus,
In Romans 15 the Vulgate is much clearer about the SELF PLEASURE which is prostitution.

Romans XV. debemus autem nos firmiores inbecillitates infirmorum sustinere et non nobis placere

Rom 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit

Outlawed: Placeo to please, to be pleasing or agreeable, to be welcome, acceptable, to satisfy (class.).
1. In scenic lang., of players or pieces presented, to please, find favor, give satisfaction: scenico placenti

Outlawed: Scaenicus I. of or belonging to the stage, scenic, dramatic, theatrical

I. Lit.: poëtae, dramatic poets, ludi, stage-plays, theatrical representations, : fabula, a drama, organa, Suet. Ner. 44 : coronae, id. ib. 53 : habitus, id. ib. 38 : gestus, Cic. de Or. 3, 59, 220 : modulatio Comedy. Orator

Poi-êtês II. composer of a poem, author, p. kômôidias Pl.Lg.935e; p. kainôn dramatôn, b. composer of music, 2. author of a speech

Outlawed: Organum Vitr. 10, 1.--Of musical instruments, a pipe,. Gen. 4, 21; id. 2 Par. 34, 12 et saep.--Of hydraulic engines, an organ, water-organ: organa hydraulica,

Gen 4:21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.

H8610 manipulate, figuratively to use unwarrantably:--catch, handle, (lay, take) hold (on, over), stop, X surely, surprise, take.
H8608 taphaph to drum, that is, play (as) on the tambourine:taber, play with timbrels.
H8611 tôpheth to'-feth From the base of H8608 ; a smiting, that is, (figuratively) contempt:--tabret. MEANING HELL

Using a Musical Worship Team as a legalistic end run but it is still heresy because it claims the role of Jesus Christ as the sole Mediator.

THE MARK OF THE MUSICAL WORSHIP TEAM.
SEE MARK HAMILTON ETAL calling down God's Holy Fire and God is answering.  One definition of the BEAST is "a new style of song or drama." The definition of a Musical Worship Minister is defined as the MISTRESSES (whatever the sex) worshipping Apollo who is the Abaddon or Apollyon in Revelation.
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