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IN THE NEW TESTAMENTTHE SECULAR WORLD

Luke 15:25 Now his elder son was in the field:
        and as he came and drew nigh to the house,
        he heard musick and dancing

Sumphonia the only time MUSIC is used in the New Testament
unison of sound, “tēn en tē ōdē harmonian, ē dē s. kaleitai” 
2. of two sounds only, musical concord, accord, such as the fourth, fifth, and octave
3. harmonious union of many voices or sounds, concert, hoi tōn s. logoi,
      "speak "that which is written" using one mind and one mouth (glossa, not a flute) Rom 15
the Pythag. doctrine of the music of the spheres, (Jesus doesn't pray for the KOSMOS or world)

II. metaph., harmony, agreement, Pl.Lg.689d, Arist.Pol.1334b10; “s. tis kai isotēs” Thphr.Fr.89.8; “s. tō logō” Pl.R.401d; “s. tēs psukhēs heautē” Id.Ti.47d; meixas panta kata sumphōnian, of a cook, Damox.2.54; unanimily, “s. tōn historēsantōn” Gal.15.134; OPPOSITE DISCORD diaphōnia, ib. 440; concordance, of theory with observed fact, ekhein tois phainomenois ; also hē pros ta pathē s. Polystr.p.15 W.: in concrete sense, hē s., = to sumpephōnēmenon (cf. “sumphōneō” 11.2), the amount agreed upon, Ostr.364 (i A.D.).

sumphōn-eō ,  hold or express the same opinions,A.sound together, be in harmony or unison

harmonia , 2. generally, music, “autō de tō rhuthmō mimountai khōris ha.” Id.Po.1447a26.
4. harmonian logōn labōn a due arrangement of words, fit to be set to music, Pl.Tht.175e.

Plat. Laws 689a Athenian
That which we see in the man who hates,
        instead of loving, what he judges to be noble and good,
        while he loves and cherishes what he judges to be evil and unjust.
That want of accord, on the part of the feelings of pain and pleasure, with the rational judgment is,
        I maintain, the extreme form of ignorance, a
        and also the “greatest” because it belongs to the main mass of the soul,

Plat. Laws 691a Athenian
Is it not plain that what those kings strove for first was to get the better of the established laws,
        and that they were not in accord with one another about the pledge
        which they had approved both by word and by oath;
        and this discord—reputed to be wisdom, but really, as we affirm, the height of ignorance,
        owing to its grating dissonance and lack of harmony, brought the whole Greek world to ruin?


Dan. 3:5 That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut,
        psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick,
        ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:

And "musician" is exclusively applied to the MUSES or the 9 Sister Singers wo worked for Apollo who is Abaddon or Apollyon or Lucifer or Zoe or Satan. Apollo had his SEEKER CENTER at Delphi and he is the father of "musical harmony, twanging bowstrings to send a singing arrow into your heart, thieves and liars.

If you are going to repudiate the Bible and 2,000 years of scholarship you had better be prepared with some proof. If you are willing to DELIBERATELY SOW DISCORD AMONG BRETHEREN AND OFFEND MANY then you had better be able to flash credentials from someone beyond a "christian" college:

ANTITHESIS for the Assembly: On the other hand, From Christ in the church in the wilderness the command for disciples who attend the School of Christ to be taught what HE commanded to be taught:

Rom. 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation
        grant you to be likeminded one toward another
        according to Christ Jesus:

phron-eō  a. . tini tina to have certain thoughts for or towards any one, to be so and so minded towards him, patri phila phroneōn kindly minded towards him
c. of those who agree in opinion, ta tinos phronein to be of another's mind, be on his side or of his party, c. [select] of those who agree in opinion, ta tinos phronein to be of another's mind, be on his side or of his party,
Opposite amphis   II. apart, asunder, “gaian kai ouranon a. ekhein” Od.1.54; a. eergein to keep apart, Il.13.706; a. agēnai snap in twain, think separately, each for himself, i.e. to be divided,

Jesus Christ commanded that everyone teach and observe what He commanded.  The prophets had defined the church both inclusively and exclusively.  Jesus made those prophecies more certain proven by signs and wonders.  Peter warned against private interpretation or further expounding which would despise God's Spirit.

Rom. 15:6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God,
        even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

stoma , 2. esp. the MOUTH as the ORGAN of speech, “deka men glōssai, deka de stomat'”
Moisan kapuron s. their mouthpiece, organ, Theoc.7.37, cf. Mosch.3.72; Pieridōn to sophon s.,

Mousa   A.“Olumpiades M., Dios aigiokhoio thugateres
II. mousa, as Appellat., music, song, “m. stugera” A.Eu.308 (anap.); “euphamos” Id.Supp.695 (lyr.); “kanakhan . . theias antiluron mousas” S.Tr.643 (l

pherō
I. bear or carry a load, “en talaroisi pheron meliēdea karpon”
pherein ti, bear a thing impatiently, take it ill or amiss,

Hom. Il. 2.459 Tell me now, ye Muses that have dwellings on Olympus— [485] for ye are goddesses and are at hand and know all things, whereas we hear but a rumour and know not anything—who were the captains of the Danaans and their lords. But the common folk I could not tell nor name, nay, not though ten tongues were mine and ten mouths [490] and a voice unwearying, and though the heart within me were of bronze, did not the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus that beareth the aegis, call to my mind all them that came beneath Ilios

Rom. 15:7 Wherefore receive ye one another,
        as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

6 hina homothumadon en heni stomati doxazēte ton theon kai patera tou kuriou hēmōnIēsou Khristou.

They all Speak the Word together:

Homothu_m-a^don , Adv.

A. with one accord, “pantes ho.” Pl.Lg.805a, etc. ; “ho. ek mias gnōmēs” D.10.59 ; “ho. hapasin humin antilēpteon” Ar.Pax484, cf. Av.1015, X.HG2.4.17, LXXEx.19.8, Plb.1.45.4, , Act.Ap.15.25.

They all take part:

Anti-lēpteon, A. one must take part in a matter III. Adj. anti-lēpteos , a, on“, ho logos”

Logos is opposite to Ergon  III. Pass., that which is wrought or made, work

Opposite: rhetoric, poetry, music, Pathos or personal experiences (real or fabricated)

Mēkha^n-ē II. any artificial means or contrivance for doing a thing
3. theatrical machine by which gods, etc., were made to appear in the air
Soph-isma , atos, to, A. acquired skill, method II. clever device, ingenious contrivance, stage-trick, claptrap,

        Ekhn-ē , hē, (tektōn)  A. art, skill, cunning of hand, soothsayer (Levites)
        2. craft, cunning,
        II. an art or craft, i.e. a set of rules, system or method of making or doing,
        whether of the useful arts, or of the fine art Art of Rhetoric,

Pind. O. 13 But the fame for every work is due to its inventor. Whence did the graces of Dionysus first come to light, with the ox-driving dithyramb?

Plek-ō , Pi.O. 6.86,
II. metaph., devise, contrive, mostly of tortuous mean
2. of Poets, p. humnon, rhēmata, Pi.O.6.86, N.4.94; “ōdas” Critias Fr.1 D.; “p. logous” E.Rh.834, Pl.Hp.Mi.369b; form the plot of a tragedy, opp. luein, Arist.Po.1456a9:—hence in Pass., muthoi peplegmenoi complex,

Pind. O. 6 [85] who bore horse-driving Thebe, whose delicious water I drink, while I weave my embroidered song for heroic spearmen. Now rouse your companions, Aeneas, first to shout the praises of Hera Parthenia, and then to know whether we have truly escaped the ancient reproach [90] of men's speech, “Boeotian pig.” For you are a faithful herald, a message-stick of the lovely-haired Muses, a sweet mixing-bowl of loud-sounding songs.

Rom. 14:19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace,
        and things wherewith one may edify [educate] another.

THE ONE-PIECE PATTERN FROM THE WILDERNESS ONWARD.

Acts 13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their RULERS,
        because they knew him not,
        nor yet the voices of the PROPHETS
        which are READ every sabbath day,
        they have fulfilled them in condemning him

Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that PREACH him,
        being read in the synagogues every sabbath day

If you SPEAK the same things you cannot SING IN DIVERSITY

Rom. 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation
        grant you to be LIKEMINDED one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

John 8:38  I [SPEAK] that which I have seen with my Father:
        and ye DO
        that which ye have seen with your father.

POIEO    Anything you make. works of art  create, bring into existence, compose, write, describe in verse, a professon, sacrifices, assemblies, ekklēsian” Epos
        Epos 'hymn', cf. eipon):  1. song or lay accompanied by music, 8.91,17.519.

John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.
        He was a murderer from the beginning,
        and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
        When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

No Spirit Person involved. Spirit is a parable word to show that WE do our own BREATHING (spirit) and articulate our own words.

John 12:49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me,
        HE gave me a commandment, what I should SAY, and what I should SPEAK.

God didn't delivery any LYRIC material to be performed with a LYRE.

God the Father puts His Word into the Mouth of Prophets and Jesus only.  

1Cor. 2:6 Howbeit we SPEAK wisdom among them that are perfect:
        yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
1Cor. 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom,
        which God ordained before the world [g165 Messianic age] unto our glory:
1Cor. 2:8 Which none of the princes of this world knew:
        for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

ONE MIND WOULD OUTLAW A CLERGY VERSUS LAITY AND DEMAND UNISON.

g3661 homothumadon, hom-oth-oo-mad-on´; adverb from a compound of the base of 3674 and 2372;
        unanimously: — with one accord (mind).
g2372 homoios at the same place or time: — together.

EUSEBIUS

"Of old at the time those of the circumcision were worshipping with symbols and types it was not inappropriate to send up hymns to God with the psalterion and cithara and to do this on Sabbath days... We render our hymn with a living psalterion and a living cithara with spiritual songs. The unison voices of Christians would be more acceptable to God than any musical instrument. 

Accordingly in all the churches of God, united in soul and attitude, with one mind and in agreement of faith and piety we send up a unison melody in the words of the Psalms." (commentary on Psalms 91:2-3)

Hilary (A.D.. 355) says:

"In the songs of Zion, both old and young, men and women, bore a part; their psalmody was the joint act of the whole assembly in unison." Chrysostom says: "It was the ancient custom, as it is still the custom with us, for all to come together and unitedly join in singing. The young and old, rich and poor, male and female bond and free all join in the song." Jerome says: "Go where you will, the plowman at his plow sings his joyful hallelujahs, the busy mower regales himself with his psalms, and the vinedresser is singing one of the psalms of David."

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Our Identity

Let’s begin with why this discussion is so difficult to have.
        It is difficult because singing Acapella is a major part of our identity as a Church of Christ.
        It has become a marker of what a Church of Christ is.
        Acapella [ah kuh-pel-uh] simply means without instrumental accompaniment,
        and the secondary meaning is in the style of church or chapel music.

A CAPPELLA MEANS HOLDING MASS IN THE SISTINE CHAPEL: The Castratoes replace the Falsetto choir and originally the whole group sing in unison or the same, single note melody.   MELODY or the Greek MELOS does not permit harmony or meter.  We know that this is not SCRIPTURAL because we know when the practices were change

This harmonizing technique, called organum, is the first true example of harmony. The first instances were extremely simple, consisting of adding a voice that exactly paralleled the original melody at the interval of a fourth or fifth (parallel organum).

Notre-Dame school,  during the late 12th and early 13th centuries, an important group of composers and singers working under the patronage of the great Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. The Notre-Dame school is important to the history of music because it produced the earliest repertory of polyphonic (multipart) music to gain international prestige and circulation.

WE don't have the authority to DISCUSS how WE conduct WORSHIP when A Church of Christ is a SCHOOL of Christ using His Words in the Prophets and Apostles. Jesus died to defund worship OBSERVATIONS to which the Kingdom will never com as well as WORSHIP LEADERS meaning the Jacob-cursed and god-abandoned Levites who stood in RANKS to execute any NOT-ABANDONED person who came near the HOLOCAUST of goats or Infants.

No one used instruments in the Sistime chapel CAPEL where the Pope's only official mass takes place.  Thee catholics never engaged in CONGREGATIONAL SINGING with or without INSTRUMENTS until about 1911.  The simple pipe organ set the pitch for the PRECENTER and was used to signal processions, intermissions or recessionals.

The pope imported a CASTRATED OPRA TEAM from France to replace the FALSETTO boy's choir.  A cappella means of the SISTINE CHAPEL named after a Generals GOAT SKIN CAPE.

The "boys" sing in the style of ORGANUM.. The whole team sang in unison singing the SAME NOTE and later added a second note.  No congregation violated the command to SPEAK the biblical text until after allows some PSALMS be recomposed and set to a simple meter to be SUNG IN UNISON.

EPHESIANS 5:17-20KJV	COLOSSIANS 3:16-17
Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. Eph 5:17 And be not drunk with wine, ĭn-ēbrĭo Saturate, full of talk kat-auleō , A. charm by flute-playing, methuōn kai katauloumenos drinking wine to the strains of the flute katauloumenon subdued by a flute accompaniment, metaph., to be piped down, ridiculed, “gelōmenoi kai -oumenoi” mētrōa melē” Metroos the worship of Cybele, b. Mētrōa, Mother goddess: music played in her honour, Mele Melos 3. melody of an instrument, “phormigx d' [mark of Apollo]  au phtheggoith' hieron m. ēde kai aulos” wherein is excess;  (Greek: vanity) The results of being drunk on wine luxŭrĭa Of style: “in qua (oratione), ut luxŭrĭo , wanton, revel, sport, skip, bound, frisk: Deliciis that which allures, flatters the senses], delight, pleasure, charm, allurement; deliciousness, luxuriousness, voluptuousness, curiosities of art; , to make sport paizō dance  4. play on a musical instrument, h.Ap.206: c. acc., “Pan ho kalamophthogga paizōn” Ar.Ra.230; dance and sing, Pi. O.1.16.  saltātĭo, David's naked dance. Paul always defines away all of the hypocritic arts. BUT, be filled with the Spirit; Eph 5:18 John 6:63b the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.	Colossians 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Colossians 3:5  Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:  Phĭlŏsŏphĭa,  doctores săpĭentĭa sermons, interpret, sects Cic.Off.2.2.5 Wisdom, = sophia Sophia , A. cleverness or skill in handicraft and art, in music and singing, poetry, divination interprĕtor , ātus (in tmesi interpres, to explain, expound, interpret, give expression to, translate; to understand, conclude, infer. A. To decide, determine 12, 29: “haec ex Graeco carmine interpretata recitavit,” Liv. 23, 11, 4; 45, 29, 3. Carmen, I. In gen., a tune, song, air, lay, strain, note, sound, both vocal and instrumental“barbaricum,” id. M. 11, 163.—With allusion to playing on the cithara Rom 8[13] For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. pathos emotion, to create passion, drama MY experiences Sophia cleverness or skill in handicraft and art, in music and singing, tekhnē kai s, poetry, in divination pleonexia assumption, one's own advantage. Financial gain Colossians 3:10 And have put on the new man,     which is renewed in knowledge     after the image of him that created him: Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom;
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns       and spiritual songs, [Scripture]	teaching and admonishing one another       in psalms and hymns       and spiritual songs, [Scripture]
singing and making melody       in your heart to the Lord;	singing with grace       in your hearts to the Lord.
always giving thanks      to God the Father for everything,      in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.	And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all     In the name of the Lord Jesus,     giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

BY USING THE NAME THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY RESOURCE.

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