Financed by Disciples of Christ: not the Churches of Christ

The Babylonia Mother of Harlots (Revelation 17) defines the end-time WORLD religion. She is the literal Babylon Mother of Harlots who causes destruction in Genesis Chater.  Theologians for hire have no reason to be Clay Tablet Literate and do not grasp Moses' leaving a history after the Instrumental-Trinitarian-Perverted beyond-redemption at Mount Sinai.

Scripture and the Campbells called church A School of Christ. The magnamous urge to certify others as "approved" and the mysterious urge to be affirmed gives rise to "unity" forums sowing more discord.   
 

1. The battle is over what we perform as CHURCH worship services but the assembled members of the ekklesia are called a SYNAGOGUE.
   
2. The synagogue is defined inclusively and exclusively in the wilderness, the prophets, EXPLAINED and practiced and commanded by Paul.
   
3. No one redefined SPEAK (opposite of ODE) as simple chanting until the year 373 after Constantine gave the clergy a wage for the first time in history.
   
4. No one needed authority for imposing musical and theatrical performance to fill the coffers until the Disciples in the year 1875. Psallo has no musical content and has the same root meaning as SOP.
   
5. Job one is to silence the cunning craftsmen or sophists: speakers for hire, singers, instrument players.
   
6. Then it is possible to speak the truth or word one to another.
   
7. Jesus has Paul exclude the sophists or hypocrites because THEY ARE LYING IN WAIT TO DECEIVE.
   
8. The synagogue is dissolved, the elected or "electors" return home with a passage of Scripture in their heads. 
9. They then speak to themselves all week and are not contacted by any staff until the next appointed hour next REST day.
   
10. By the denial of Scripture to define faith and practices it is possible that men invite alien "spirits" in: for instance, the Latin SPIRITUS points to a personified spirit and is applied almost totally to Apollo (Abaddon, Apollon) who when unleashed is the king or Musical Worship leader since the LOCUSTS are defined as the MUSES in history.
    

Arnobius Book IV.12. But let them be true, as you maintain, yet will you have us also believe that Mellonia, for example, introduces herself into the entrails, or Limentinus, and that they set themselves to make known  what you seek to learn? Did you ever see their face their deportment, their countenance? or can even these be seen in lungs or livers?

May it not happen, may it not come to pass, although you craftily conceal it, that the one should take the other's place, deluding, mocking, deceiving, and presenting the appearance of the deity invoked?

If the magi, who are so much akin to  soothsayers, relate that, in their incantations, pretended gods  steal in frequently instead of those invoked;  that some of these, moreover, are spirits of grosser substance,  who pretend that they are gods, and delude the ignorant by their lies and deceit,- why should we not similarly believe that here, too, others substitute themselves for those who are not, that they may both strengthen your superstitious beliefs, and rejoice that victims are slain in sacrifice to them under names not their own? N

Not by that which the "Magi assert, that they have intercessory prayers, won over by which some powers make the way easy to those who are striving to mount to heaven; not by that which Etruria holds out in the Acherontic books that souls become, and are freed from the law of death, if the blood of certain animals is offered to certain deities.

These are empty delusions, and excite vain desires. None but the Almighty God can preserve souls; nor is there any one besides who can give them length of days, and grant to them also a spirit which shall never die."

(Footnote: Magi are 'certain fortune-telling vagrant seers, who persuade the rich that they have power with the gods, by means of charms and sacrifices... on familiar terms with evil powers, and thus able to accomplish whatever is within these spirit's power.) (Arnibious, Ante-Nicene, VI, p. 457

Miriam and the Levites "prophesied" with instruments meaning that they were soothsayers or sorcerers. 

This shows up when people with advanced degrees declare that God does not define worship nor any commands for the church: this leaves them free to invent their own and impose them on others--for a price, always for a price.

Douglas A. Foster: Early leaders rejected the Protestant invisible church idea of an existing spiritual unity because they believed it justified continued division between denominations.

MARK OF FOSTER'S  WORLD for whom Jesus nor we should even pray.
2 Co.1:12 For our rejoicing is this,
        the testimony of our conscience,
        that in simplicity and godly sincerity,
        not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God,
        we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to youward.

2 Co.1:12 For our rejoicing is this,
        the testimony of our conscience,
        that in simplicity and godly sincerity,
        not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God,
        we have had our conversation in the WORLD, and more abundantly to youward.

FLESHLY WISDOM: Sophia , A.cleverness or skill in handicraft and art, of the Telchines [Simon father of Judas] , Pi.O.7.53; hē entekhnos s., of Hephaestus and Athena; in music and singing, tekhnē kai s. h.Merc.483, cf. 511; in poetry ,

MARK OF FOSTER'S WORLD

2Cor. 2:17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the WORD of God:
        but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

kapēl-euō ,
A. to be a retail-dealer, drive a petty trade, Hdt.1.155, 2.35, Isoc.2.1, Nymphod.21, IG11(2).161 A16 (Delos, iii B. C.), BGU1024 vii 23 (iv A. D.); di' apsukhou boras sitois kapēleu' drive a trade, chaffer with your vegetable food, E.Hipp.953.
II. c. acc., sell by retail, “ton herpin” Hippon.51.
2. metaph., k. ta prēgmata, of Darius, Hdt.3.89; k. ta mathēmata sell learning by retail, hawk it about, Pl. Prt.313d; “k. ton logon tou theou” 2 Ep.Cor.2.17; so eoiken ou kapēleusein makhēn will not peddle in war, i. e. fight half-heartedly, A.Th. 545; “k. tē Khariti tēn amoibēn” Epicur.Sent.Vat.39; k. tēn politeian traffic in grants of citizenship, D.C.60.17; k. tēs hōras anthos or tēn hōran, of prostitutes, Ph.2.394,576; eirēnēn pros Rhōmaious Khrusiou k. Hdn.6.7.9; tukhē kapēleuousa . . ton bion playing tricks with life, corrupting it, AP9.180 (Pall.).


2Cor. 6:5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
2Cor. 6:6 By pureness,
        by knowledge,
        by longsuffering,
        by kindness,
        by the Holy SPIRIT, by love unfeigned,
2Cor. 6:7 By the WORD of truth,
        by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

Logos  computation, reckoning 2. statement of a theory, argument, ouk emeu alla tou l. akousantas prob. in Heraclit.50; logon ēde noēma amphis alētheiēs discourse and reflection on reality,
IV. inward debate of the soul, reflection, deliberation
Regulative and formative forces, derived from the intelligible and operative in the sensible universe,

Opposite to epithumia
 A. desire, yearning, longing after a thing, desire of or for it, Theaomai :--gaze at, behold, mostly with a sense of wonder, 3. view as spectators
Opposite Pathos  A. that which happens to a person or thing, incident, accident,  Moralizing Rhetoric
Opposite Poiein to excite passion, Arist.Rh.1418a12; V. Rhet., emotional style or treatment,
Opposite Enthousi-astikos , ē, on, A. inspired, “phusis” Pl.Ti.71e; esp. by music,
Prose,  OPPOSITE -poiêsis, Id.R.390a;
OPPOSITE -poiêtikê, D.H.Comp.6; OPPOSITE poiêmata, onomatopoeic word
OPPOSITE  emmetra Modus   2. The measure of tones, measure, rhythm, melody, harmony, time; in poetry, measure, metre, mode: Mūsĭcus a, um, adj., = mousikos.
X. the Word or Wisdom of God, personified as his agent in creation and world-government,

Theologians are doomed to call God a liar or INCOMPETENT.  If God had wanted any kind of music in the tuneful sense He was INTELLIGIBLE But denied by C. Leonard Allen.

mousikos kai melōn poētēs” 2. generally, votary of the Muses,  The Muses were the LOCUSTS unleashed with Apollon their "musical worship leaders." The Greek and Latin literature identifies them as dirty adulteresses

http://www.piney.com/DocHesTheog.html
[25] the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis: “Shepherds of the wilderness,
        wretched things of shame, mere bellies,
        we know how to speak many false things as though they were true;
        but we know, when we will, to utter true things.”
            ...and they bade me sing of the race of the blessed gods that are eternally,
                but ever to sing of themselves both first and last.
pharma^kon 3. enchanted potion, philtre: hence, charm, spell, Od.4.220 sq., Ar.Pl.302, [Circe, Church, Corinth mother of harlots]  Theoc.2.15

2Cor. 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers:
        for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?
        and what communion hath light with darkness?

PAUL SEPARATED THE DISCIPLES: THOSE WHO CONTINUE IN THE WORD OR REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE.

Douglas A. Foster: THEY SEE a group that is independent from other groups,
        so they assume it is merely another of the groups in the denominational system.

False. in spite of Foster's and others efforts Churches of Christ defined in the Wilderness, each synagogue or ekklesia consisted of people in isolated places who were permitted to Rest, Read and Rehearse the Word. Churches of Christ are no larger than independent congregations. There is no headquarters, address, tax number, president, or staff.

Douglas A. Foster: It is true, of course, that the church of Christ is a separate people;
        but the church of Christ is not a division of the body of Christ. It is the body of Christ.

Col. 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness,
        and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

Matt. 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,
        do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Matt. 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate:
        for wide is the gate, and broad is the way,
        that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Matt. 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life,
        and few there be that find it.

SIZE of the Little Flock
mikros , petty, trivial, slight, of persons, of small account,  Arist.Ph.197a30; but to para mikros sōzesthai to be only just saved, Id.Rh.1371b11,

Opposite megas 2. generally, vast, high, ouranos, oros, purgos (theōn b. ho m., of Zeus [Father or KAIROS, demon son], Pi.O. 7.34) 3. of sounds, great, loud, Opposite. “oligos  opp. mikros  Mētēr m., of Cybele, “Mētēr theōn m.
mega eipein  to speak big, and so provoke divine wrath,

Polus  Number, many, Intensity, much, mighty,  p. humenaios a loud song, if she flow with full stream, the many, i.e. the greater number

cithari-zo , a-re, v n., = kitharizô, to play on or strike the cithara, Nep. Epam. 2, 1; Vulg. Apoc. 14, 2.

Alalētos alalē  II.a loud noise, aulōn  Alala (halal) war cry, make dumb

Pind. O. 7 That man is prosperous, who is encompassed by good reports. Grace, which causes life to flourish, looks with favor now on one man, now on another, with both the sweet-singing lyre and the full-voiced notes of flutes. And now, with the music of flute and lyre alike I have come to land with Diagoras, singing the sea-child of Aphrodite and bride of Helios

The triple-godesses as "trinity" included the three Graces: they were blue-eyed blond prostitute singers.

THAT WAY
HODOS 3 .  method, system,  “hodō” methodically, systematically ,Pl.R.533b, Stoic.2.39, etc. ; so “kath' hodon” Pl.R.435a ; “tēn dia tou stoikheiou ho. ekhōn egraphen” Id.Tht.208b (cf. “diexodon” 208a). 4.  of the Christian Faith and its followers, Act.Ap.9.2, 22.4, 24.14.

Douglas A. Foster: Those who are uninformed may not understand this, and are in need of teaching and study. Those holding this view refuse to acknowledge the true Christian identity of any but those in Churches of Christ.

DOUGLAS FOSTER IS NOT A DISCIPLE OF CHRIST AND THEREFORE NOT A CHRISTIAN. Everyone had the right to associate with anyone and REJECT when Foster etal try to intimidate people..

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.
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.

Among pagans, words were not for information but for controlling the forces of the universe. If you had "charisma" which according to H.B. Parkes, possessed irrational, emotional or sexual abnormalities.

FREEDOM NOT TO BE CONTROLLED BY SORCERERS:

-Plato Laws 10 [885d] that before threatening us harshly, you should first try to convince and teach us, by producing adequate proofs, that gods exist, and that they are too good to be wheedled by gifts and turned aside from justice. For as it is, this and such as this is the account of them we hear from those who are reputed the best of poets -[poiētōn], orators[rhētorōn], seers -[manteōn], oida], priests [hiereōn], and thousands upon thousands of others; and consequently most of us,
        instead of seeking to avoid wrong-doing,
        do the wrong and then try to make it good.

-manti^s pl. mantides Suid.s.v. Sibulla:— diviner, seer, prophet,. of Apollo and Cassandra, Id.Ag.1275; of the Pythian priestess, II. a kind of grasshopper, the praying mantis, Mantis religiosa

-10.[909a] shall hold intercourse with them, save only those who take part in the nocturnal assembly, and they shall company with them to minister to their souls' salvation by admonition; and when the period of their incarceration has expired, if any of them seems to be reformed, he shall dwell with those who are reformed, but if not, and if he be convicted again on a like charge, he shall be punished by death. But as to all those who have become like ravening beasts, and who, besides holding that the gods are negligent

[909b]  or open to bribes, despise men, charming the souls of many of the living, and claiming that they charm the souls of the dead, and promising to persuade the gods by bewitching them, as it were, with sacrifices, prayers and incantations,1 and who try thus to wreck utterly not only individuals, but whole families [Oikia household] and States for the sake of money

WHY DOUGLAS FOSTER IS NOT A DISCIPLE OR CHRISTIAN OR HE WOULD NOT SELL LEARNING AT RETAIL WHICH IIS PROSTITITION

PROOF ONE: WHY DOUGLAS FOSTER AND THE POST-BIBLICAL THEOLOGIANS CANNOT BE CHRISTIANS.

John 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him,
        IF ye continue in my WORD, then are ye my disciples indeed;

The Word or Logos is not and cannot be a God: God's Word has the same meaning as HIS light or life.  LOGOS is god's regulative principle which heaps BURNING on all who are ANTI-LOGOS.

The Word or Logos is used to REPUDIATE Hermes who was the Pagan gender-conflicted god of merchants, thieves and liars.  He is KAIROS used as a pattern for new PLANTS.  He was the messenger or intercessor of all Cults which go beyong the Ekklesia or a School of Christ.

God's WORD or LOGOS  consists of inclusive and exclusive things connected with how God puts His WORD into the MOUTH of Jesus for the last time without the help of A Holy Spirit person.

http://pineycom.com/RSLogos.html

John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth,
        and the truth shall make you free.
John 8:33 They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed,
        and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
John 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
        Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
John 8:35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever:
        but the Son abideth ever.
John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free,
        ye shall be free indeed.
John 8:37 I know that ye are Abraham’s seed;
        but ye seek to kill me, because my WORD hath no place in you.
John 8:38  I SPEAK that which I have seen with my Father:
         and ye DO that which ye have seen with your father.

A Christian-Disciple-Student Do Pattern

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 [Recorded Paraclete]
        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.

The Sons of the Devil Boast about using music to seduce your children. They lie, cheat and gleefully steal the churhes of Widows andhonest workers.

John 7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory:
        but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
John 8:38  I SPEAK that which I have seen with my Father:
        and ye DO that which ye have seen with your father.

Devil Do: poiētai 4. after Hom., of Poets, compose, write, p. dithurambon, epea, Hdt.1.23, 4.14; “p. theogoniēn 

Epos  joined with muthos,     1. song or lay accompanied by music, 8.91,17.519.
2. fiction (opp. logos, historic truth),  THE REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE

Hdt. 1.23 Periander, who disclosed the oracle's answer to Thrasybulus, was the son of Cypselus, and sovereign of Corinth. The Corinthians say (and the Lesbians agree) that the most marvellous thing [Lying Wonders] that happened to him in his life was the landing on Taenarus of Arion of Methymna, brought there by a dolphin. This Arion was a lyre-player second to none in that age; he was the first man whom we know to compose and name the dithyramb¹ which he afterwards taught at Corinth.

1 The dithyramb was a kind of dance-music particularly associated with the cult of Dionysus.

Devil Do: LATIN:   făcĭo ,  to make in all senses, to do, perform, accomplish, prepare, produce, bring to pass, cause, effect, create, commit, perpetrate, form, fashion,  operor Lying Wonder,  “poëma,” to compose, id. Pis. 29, 70: “carmina,” Juv. 7, 28: “versus,” id. 7, 38: “sermonem,” Cic. Fam. 9, 8, 1; cf. “litteram,” id. Ac. 2, 2, 6: ludos, to celebrate, exhibit, admirationem alicujus rei alicui,” to excite [the Laded Burden],

Devil Do: carmen
 I.a tune, song; poem, verse; an oracular response, a prophecy; a form of incantation (cf.: cano, cantus, and canto). note, sound, both vocal and instrumental “also versus, numeri, modi): carmen tuba ista peregit ( = sonus),” Enn. Ann. 508 Vahl.: “carmine vocali clarus citharāque Philammon,” Ov. M. 11, 317; cf. “vocum,” id. ib. 12, 157: “per me (sc. Apollinem) concordant carmina nervis

“barbaricum,” id. M. 11, 163.—With allusion to playing on the cithara: The Moher o Harlots in John 17 “Carminibus Circe socios mutavit Ulixi,

Devil Do:   Commercium sermonis,”   7  In mercant. lang., to practise, exercise, follow any trade or profession:  8. In relig. lang., like the Gr. rhezein, to perform or celebrate a religious rite; to offer sacrifice, make an offering, to sacrifice:

Devil Do: Mousa   II. mousa, as Appellat., music, song, “m. stugera” A.Eu.308 (anap.); “euphamos” Id.Supp.695 
“Kanakhan .Clanging Brass
 Theias  as many as made them hope by divinations, Madness caused by Ritual
        worship as divine, “Puthagoran  [Of the Cosmos, the Ecumenical, Kingdom of the Devil."
Antiluron mousas” S.Tr.643 (lyr.);  PLAYING THE LYRE
“Aiakō moisan pherein”I. bear or carry a load,  A Laded Burden

PROOF TWO:  WHY DOUGLAS FOSTERCANNOT BE ONE OF THE FEW LOST SPIRITS.

God  didn't command the King, Kingdom, Priests, Levites, Animal Slaughter, singers, instrument players: God abandoned them to this because of their Instrumental-Trinitarian-Perverted Idolatry at Mount Sinai for which there was no redemption. God saved David from execution:

Acts.17.25.God.Not.Worshipped.Mens.Hands.html

Acts 7:46 Who found favour before God,
        and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
Acts 7:47 But Solomon built him an house.
Acts 7:48 Howbeit the most High
        dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
Acts 7:49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool:
        what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
Acts 7:50 Hath not my hand made all these things?
Acts 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears,
        ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

Church or ekklesia consists of all who have been "washed with water into the Word or into the School of Christ." It's true: disciples go to Bible classes and not "worship services" defined as IMpure religion.  That does not mean that all who attend a "worship services" are citizens of the kingdom of God which does not come with observation meaning religious observations beyond being A School of the Word which needs no clergy to obey the command to PREACH the Word by READING the Word for comfort and doctrine.  A student does no invent dogma which defines replacing SPEAK sith SING.

When a group as as small as ten families (Exodus) assembles themselves it is called a SYNAGOGUE.

The Direct Command, Old Testament practice, the Biblical example and early history RESTRICTS this to ONCE A WEEK when the workers and vocational elders get rest FROM the pagan religions including the sacrificial system which God did not command but imposed.

The old and new Covenant was made with the laity and not priests and levites defined as heretics and parasites.

The Little Flock goes about its life during the week and there is no STAFF to bind them with programs or tithes and offerings.

A Citizen of the Ekklesia is in UNITY with every mortal who wants to be friendly. He does not  give the Baptist citizen-brother a wage. He does not tell everyone that he agrees with his making a girl out of himself as a worship leader. Nor does he approve of his role as PARASITE or instrument player.  People making a living preaching unity but demanding that everyone go instrumental are the ONLY people in recorded history which sows discord among the citizenry  LIBERATED from those who corrupt the Word or sell learning at retail which Paul and the Greeks defined as prostitution

When A goes to assembly or SYNAGOGUE He is in THE SYNAGOGUE ordained by Christ in the wilderness onward.  If B goes to an assembly down the street which teaches that which is written for our learning then B is in SYNAGOGUE.  A cannot "fellership" B at the same time he is teaching the Olden Bible Text in synagogue A.  Unity is a fabrication of clergy which disqualifies your assembly from being a Synagogue of Christ.

If C thinks that church is worship as that IMPURE Threskia and "makes the lambs dumb" with music and has a Pulpit Person speak out of his/her head then C is not attending SYNAGOGUE but "Theater for holy entertainment" as the Purpose Driven Cult sponsors.

THE UNITY IMPULSE INTENDS TO JUSTIFY THOSE GOD GAVE NO ROLE AND NO DOLE.

The earliest recorded history of MOVEMENTS was written on clay tablets.  The Evil Lamech family which gave rise to Jubal, Jabal, Tubal-Cain and Naamah used witchcraft or the arts and crafts to take control of the free animal, collect them and sell them back to the poor.  This was SERFDOM: all religions depend on a landed nobility and the serfs: Hitler called them "human material."  The postmodern Stone-Campbell Movement is a Cabal and it will lose

The History of the Qahal, Synagogue, Ekklesia or Church of Christ (the Rock) began in the wilderness AFTER Israel fell into the musical idolatry of the Egyptian Trinity.  The Jacob-cursed and God-abandoned Levites were turned over to worship the starry host.  To quarantine the godly people the Qahal met on all rest days to READ and REHEARSE or "speak and meditate" on the Word handed down to sub-elders of groups as small as ten families. The synagogue never changed, vocal or instrumental rejoicing was outlawed, and Jesus endorsed the Word of God Only assembly. His PATTERN was to stand up to read the systematically read text and then quite decently sat down ready for questions or discussion.

Thou has Turned My Mourning into Dancing. Perhaps by God's design, they didn't read enough to understand that this is the GENDER mark well documented by Christ in Isaiah 3.

FINAL WARNING FOR DISCIPLES WHO WILL--BY DEFINITION--ATTEND SCHOOL OF THE WORD AND NOT OBSCENE THEATRICS The Romans, at their own request, obtain from them skilled performers-the proper seasons-the name too, for it is said they are called Ludi, from Lydi. And though Varro derives the name of Ludi from Ludus, that is, from play, as they called the Luperci also Ludii, because they ran about making sport; still that sporting of young men belongs, (playful or ludicrous) in his view, to festal days and temples, and objects of religious veneration. Matthew 27:29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand:         and they bowed the knee before him,         and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! Matthew 27:31 And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him,         and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him. illūdo (inl- I  Neutr., to play at or with any thing, to sport with, amuse one's self with (syn. colludo; cf. ludificor). 1. To scoff or mock at, to make a laughing-stock of, to ridicule (so most freq.): “satis superbe illuditis me, “feminarum illustrium capitibus,”  : illusa pictae vestis inania, rhetorum), How to use PSALLO to turn captives into WOMEN Grant, then, forgiveness to the Lydians, and to make sure of their never rebelling against thee, or alarming thee more, send and forbid them to keep any weapons of war, command them to wear tunics under their cloaks, and to put buskins upon their legs, ..........and make them bring up their sons to cithern-playing (Kitharizein), singing (psallein), ..........and shop-keeping (Hucksterism).  So wilt thou soon see them become women instead of men, and there will be no more fear of their revolting from thee." -[4] Ludoisi de sungnômên echôn tade autoisi epitaxon, hôs mête aposteôsi mête deinoi toi eôsi: apeipe men sphi pempsas hopla arêia mê ektêsthai, keleue de spheas kithônas -[khiton  David's garment] te hupodunein toisi heimasi kai kothornous hupodeesthai, proeipe d' autoisi -kitharizein te kai psallein kai kapêleuein [prostitutes, petty trade, playing tricks, corrupting] paideuein tous paidas. kai tacheôs spheas ô basileu gunaikas ant' andrôn opseai gegonotas, hôste ouden deinoi toi esontai mê aposteôsi." The word kitharizo means to PLAY THE CITHARA and does not include singing. -Kitharizô 1 [kitharis] to play the cithara, phormingi [Apollo] kitharize Il., Hes.; lurêi eraton kitharizôn Hhymn. (so that there can have been no great difference between the kithara, lura, and phorminx ); kitharizein ouk epistatai, of an uneducated person, -Kithar-isis , eôs, hê, playing on the cithara, Pl.Prt.325e; k. psilê, i.e. without the voice, Id.Lg.669e, cf. Pae.Delph.15; aulêsis kai k. Phld.Mus.p.23 K. -Arassô ,of any violent impact, with collat. notion of rattling, clanging, as of horses, hoplais, pound in a mortar, strike with a shower of stones. a). kitharēn strike the lyre, Orph.A.382; humnon, melos, etc., Nonn.D.1.15,440, etc. 2. c. dat. modi, arassein tina oneidesi, kakois, assail with reproaches or threats, II. Pass., to be dashed against, dash one against the other Pound in a mortar, “holmō a.” Nic. Th.508 When they MOCKED Jesus the prophecy used the word Alarm or Triumph which is to play loud wind instruments and make a loud rejoicing sound. G1702 empaizō emp-aheed'-zo From G1722 and G3815 ; to jeer at, that is, deride: Empaizō , fut. A.“-xomai” LXXHb.1.10: pf. empepaikha ib.Nu.22.29:— mock at, mock, “tini” Hdt.4.134; 3. Pass., to be deluded, Ev.Matt.2.16, AP10.56.2 (Pall.), Vett.Val.16.14; to be defrauded, of the revenues, Cod.Just.1.34.2. II. sport in or on, “hōs nebros khloerais e. leimakos hēdonais” E.Ba. 866 (lyr.); tois khoroisin e. to sport in the dance, Ar.Th.975; “tō gumnasiō” Luc.Lex.5.  E.Ba. 866 Euripides, Bacchae ........OnLine Text   Chorus Shall I move my white foot in the night-long dance, aroused to a frenzy, [865] throwing my head to the dewy air, like a fawn sporting in the green pleasures of the meadow, when it has escaped a fearful chase beyond the watchers [870] over the well-woven nets, and the hunter hastens his dogs [Catamites] on their course with his call, while she, with great exertion and a storm-swift running, rushes along the plain by the river, rejoicing [875] in the solitude apart from men and in the thickets of the shady-foliaged woods. What is wisdom? Or what greater honor do the gods give to mortals than to hold one's hand [880] in strength over the head of enemies? What is good is always dear. Empaiktês , ou, ho,A. mocker, deceiver, LXXIs.3.4, 2 Ep.Pet.3.3, Ep.Jud. 18. 2 Peter 2:13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; Entrupo (g1792) en-troo-fah'-o; from 1722 and 5171; to revel in: - sporting selves. Truphaô , ( [truphê] 2. part. truphōn as Adj., effeminate, luxurious, Ar.Nu.48, etc.; “t. kai amelēs” Pl.Lg.901a; “to truphōn” effeminacy, Ar.V.1455 (lyr.); also of things, dainty, delicate,  “paison, II. to be licentious, run riot, wax wanton, Ar.Lys.405, etc.; to be extravagant Paison paizô [pais] 2. esp. dance, “paisate” Od.8.251; “dōma peristenakhizeto possin andrōn paizontōn” 23.147, cf. Hes.Sc.277; “p. te kai khoreuein” alla pepaistai metriōs hēmin, of the chorus, 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. 5. play amorously,

Stone Campbell Hermeneutics John Mark Hicks

Greek and Latin total evidence on the word PSALLO which is a pretty ugly word explaining why any making melody or meditating should be IN the heart or spirit which is a PLACE.  People are quite happy to deliberately sow discord based on a very simple lexicon. This paper separates all WAYS IN WHICH THE WORD IS USED together with Greek and Latin literature. There is no translation of Psallo other than to SING which does not point to making war or used by male and female prostitutes to seduce a young person.

See the Stone-Campbell Hermeneutics by John Mark Hicks

The ANTI-conservative church of Christ "hermeneuts" only know that hermeneutics means something like 'interpretation.' They don't know that the Prophecies by the Spirit OF Christ and the prophecies made more certain by Jesus and left for our MEMORY by the apostles is THAT resource upon which A Church of Christ is built or EDUCATED.  Being neo-trinitarians (not aware of the historic view) they do not grasp that HERMES is the pagan THESIS connected with Apollo, Abaddon or Apollyon.  As a radical and perfectly clear ANTITHESIS the always-pagan triads of father, spirit (mother) and eternally mewling infant is that Jesus reveals the ONE GOD the father but not as triplets.

NACC 2013 Victorius Review  The NACC was founded in 1927 repudiate the denominational structure of the Disciples of Christ to which they still belonged until removed from their count in 1971 after a radical restructure. 

Truth is revealed in Scripture in the two eternal groups:

The Civil-Military-Clergy had been abandoned at Mount Sinai because they refused to hear the word and seduced the masses with the Musical Idolatry of the Egyptian (etal) trinity. God gave them The Book of The Law and "kings in His anger" who would make the godly people into serfs. Contrary to God's grace they told the people that they had to TITHE and support the nobility in the always-pagan sacrificial. That is why religious priesthoods were known to be parasites.

Christ the ROCK ordained the Qahal, synagogue, ekklesia or Church of Christ in the Wilderness.
This was INCLUSIVE of REST (from the religionists), READING and REHEARSING the Word of God delivered by sub elders over groups as small as ten families.

It was EXCLUSIVE of vocal or instrumental rejoicing including the so-called "ministers of God" who were not permitted to travel. This was left as a MARK to identify those who tried to triumph-over or alarm to try to take captive the godly people God had set free. This was the mark of JUDAS (Psalm 41) who would try to triumph-over Jesus.

The Spirit OF Christ spoke only through the Prophets: Jesus made the prophecies more certain and Peter outlawed private interpretation or further expounding. Paul outlawed corrupting the Word which means "selling their learning at wholesale" which also defines spiritual adultery.

Christ in Isaiah defines His future REST day both inclusively and exclusively.  His church would be an "umbrella" or SAFE HOUSE from the winds and rains of the many (in Paul's Words) trying to sell their own songs and sermons.

The concept of the Stone-Campbell Movement attempts to TAKE CAPTIVE the Church of Christ by defining its practices as a produce of the STONE wing or the CAMPBELL wing.  "Theology" as opposed to the "TEXT" (re John Mark Hicks) REdefines these writings insinuating that men like Campbell followed some nitty-witty system of HERMENEUTICS.

So beware: Jesus invites us to rest FROM the laded burdens (arousal songs and sermons) and the Burden-Laders.  These Scribes and Pharisees are called hypocrites and the Ezekiel 33 version by Christ names names: self-preachers, singers, instrument players and all of the pleasue-seeking audience they can seduce.

The POWER PLAY is to force people to choose between Stone or Campbell and their groupies (groapies) and defacto ignore the Text which is commanded to be PREACHED by being READ. When you do that you freeze out the traffickers and their dogmas.

Dare to be a disciple of Christ who commanded that we teach and observe what HE commanded to be taught. That is the meaning of CENI.

10.11.12 Roger R. Chambers The Plea of History and the History of the Plea. Chambers also wrote on The Sissification of the Church.

There it is: True restorationism is the willingness to fraternize across denominational lines. The idea is becoming as common as toothpaste, and it was around long before Garrett sat down to write.

But The Stone-Campbell Movement will give it weight and momentum, which is why I sit down to write. The history-tells-us argument (for anything) has an overpowering effect on the popular mind. It has an academic feel to it; it seems to prove things by calling up absolute truth from the unchangeable past.

I don't like Dr. Garrett's book because it is so good; by that I mean it is winsomely written. It is an anecdotal history, which makes it even more readable. Make no mistake, The Stone-Campbell Movement
        is not thin on scholarship and substance; lots of good stuff in it.
        It is a good book, but it is not good history.
Throughout the book Dr. Garrett makes his ecumenical interpretation of the Declaration and Address the touchstone; he selects against materials that describe the radical character of the movement as it took shape.

I am struck by the surpassingly strange way he interprets the break between the Reformers and the Baptists. After 1825 it became clear to the Baptist associations that the Reformers were getting too far from the kingdom.

They expelled the heretical "Campbellites" and anathematized them for good measure. The issues? The source and character of faith, the purpose and necessity of baptism, the agency of conversion, regeneration, the will of man, the character of Scripture, the authority of the New Covenant.

THE GREAT APOSTASY AT MOUNT SINAI (the missing Link in scholars data base)

God had given Moses The Book of The Covenant of Grace: that is the only spiritual covenant made by God in Christ with Abraham.

Ex. 18:19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee:
        Be thou for the people to Godward,
        that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:
Ex. 18:20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws,
        and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk,
        and the work that they must do.

Ex. 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness;
        and place such over them, to be
        rulers of thousands,
        and rulers of hundreds,
        rulers of fifties, and 
        rulers of tens:
Ex. 18:24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law,
        and did all that he had said.
Ex. 18:25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel,
        and made them heads over the people,
        rulers of thousands,
        rulers of hundreds,
        rulers of fifties, and
        rulers of tens.

The Qahal, synagogue, ekklesia or Church of Christ in the wilderness was held in local groups and continued to organize with ten adult males. The Holy Convocation came to be held each REST day (not Saturday).

Musical Idolatry at Mount Sinai was beyond redemption
The Spirit OF (preposition) Christ affirms in all of the prophets

A Church of Christ was and should be built upon the Prophets and Apostles: The Spirit of Christ defined the future REST both inclusively and exclusively including the fatal folly of rejecting baptism.  Jesus whom God made to be both Lord and Christ made them more certain.  Peter said that this is NOT subject to private interpretation of further expounding.  This is to MARK and AVOID those elders who do not teach that which has been taught.

Paul said that he did not CORRUPT the Word: that means seling learning at retail and also means adultery.

The evangelist, Timothy and others is commanded to give attendance to the public reading of the Word, to comfort and to Doctrine.

The command from the wilderness onward was to PREACH the Word (only) by READING the Word.  Jesus identified theologians (Scribes and Pharisees) as hypocrites. In the Ezekiel pattern Christ identifies speakers, singers and instrument players

When the Israelites fell into musical idolatry of the Egyptian (etal) trinity under the image of Apis the golden calf, the ten commandments related to the Covenant were broken and never restated. God turned them over to worship the starry host (Acts 7) and sentenced to to beyond Babylon for captivity and death. God gave them kings in His anger and took them away in His anger as they helped lead the people into captivity.

MISSED THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST IN THE PROPHETS Isaiah.58.html

CRY aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Isaiah 58: 1

Yet they seek [as a Necromancer]  me daily, and delight to know my ways [Seek like a necromancer], as (if they were) a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. Isaiah 58: 2

"Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Isaiah 58: 4

Is it such a fast that I have chosen?

No. God defines the fast which He has not called by asking

"Is it: a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord? Isaiah 58: 5

Heb. 12:27 And this word, Yet once more,
        signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made,
        that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Heb. 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:
Heb. 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness,
        to undo the heavy burdens,
        and to let the oppressed go free,
         and that ye break every yoke? Isaiah 58: 6

And the Lord shall guide thee continually,
        and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones:
        and thou shalt be like a watered garden,
        and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. Isa 58:11

Nachah (h5148) naw-khaw'; a prim. root; to guide; by impl. to transport (into exile, or as colonists): - bestow, bring, govern, guide, lead (forth), put, straiten.

Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. Ps.27:11

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places:
        thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations;
        and thou shalt be called,
                The repairer of the breach,
                The restorer of paths to dwell in. Isa 58:12

Sabbath does not mean Saturday but: intermission

A primitive root; to repose, that is, desist from exertion; used in many implied relations (causatively, figuratively or specifically): (cause to, let, make to) cease, celebrate, cause (make) to fail, keep (sabbath), suffer to be lacking, leave, put away (down), (make to) rest, rid, still, take away.

The Rest Jesus died for us is the Greek PAUO: stop the speaking, singing, playing, acting.

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him,

not doing thine own ways,
        nor finding thine own pleasure,
        nor speaking thine own words: Isa 58:13

Jer 23:18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord,
        and hath perceived and heard his word?
        who hath marked his word, and heard it?
Jer 23:19 Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord is gone forth in fury,
        even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
Jer 23:20 The anger of the Lord shall not return,
        until he have executed,
        and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart:
        in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
Jer 23:21 I have not sent these prophets,
        yet they ran:
        I have not spoken to them,
        yet they prophesied.
Jer 23:22 But if they had stood in my counsel,
        and had caused my people to hear my words,
        then they should have turned them from their evil way,
        and from the evil of their doings.

SABBATH never meant WORSHIP: It meant REST from the pagan religions including the worship of the starry host at the Jerusalem temple.

Douglas A. Foster: MISSED WORLD-WIDE HISTORY OF THE RESTORATION MOVEMENT

The Necessity of Reforming the Church (1543) John Calvin 1

1. The Stoneites wanted "union" under one grand organization; the doctrine (the teachings of Christ) could just be ignored in the interest of organization.
2. The Campbells understood the goal and ways to RESTORE the church: Just stop doing what is not commanded and make church A School (only) of Christ (only).
   

Calvin's Proposal for the Restoration of The Church of Christ

Congregational singing began after the Reformation when the Psalms were recomposed to meter.  Instruments were removed primarily because they were most often used for secular purposes and not playing an "accompanying" role under the Catholics.

At the request of Bucer Calvin utilized the occasion of the fourth Diet of Speyer assembled by Charles V in February, 1544, to address to the Emperor a "Supplicatory Remonstrance" in reference to a General Council of the Church after the manner of the Early Church. It was also a powerful justification of the Reformation, and it met with considerable success in its impact upon the Diet and in confirming the Emperor in his tolerance toward the movement for reform.

THE NECESSITY OF REFORMING THE CHURCH.

TO THE MOST INVINCIBLE EMPEROR CHARLES V., AND THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCES AND OTHER ORDERS, NOW HOLDING A DIET OF THE EMPIRE AT SPIRES,

A HUMBLE EXHORTATION SERIOUSLY TO UNDERTAKE THE TASK OF RESTORING THE CHURCH.PRESENTED IN THE NAME OF ALL THOSE WHO WISH CHRIST TO REIGN.AUGUST EMPEROR,

For where can I exert myself to better purpose or more honestly, where, too, in a matter at this time more necessary, than in attempting, according to my ability, to aid the Church of Christ, whose claims it is unlawful in any instance to deny, and which is now in grievous distress, and in extreme danger?

But there is no occasion for a long preface concerning myself. Receive what I say as you would do if it were pronounced by the united voice

of all those who either have already taken care to restore the Church,
or are desirous that it should be restored to true order.

I come now to ceremonies, which, while they ought to be grave attestations of divine worship, are rather a mere mockery of God.
        A new Judaism, as a substitute for that which God had distinctly abrogated,
        has again been reared up by means of numerous puerile extravagancies,
        collected from different quarters; and with these have been mixed up certain impious rites, partly borrowed from the heathen, and more adapted to some theatrical show than to the dignity of our religion.

The first evil here is, that an immense number of ceremonies, which God had by his authority abrogated, once for all have been again revived.

The next evil is, that while ceremonies ought to be living exercises of piety, men are vainly occupied with numbers of them that are both frivolous and useless.

But by far the most deadly evil of all is, that after men have thus mocked God with ceremonies of one kind or other, they think they have fulfilled their duty as admirably as if these ceremonies included in them the whole essence of piety and divine worship.

Having observed that the Word of God is the test which discriminates between his true worship and that which is false and vitiated, we thence readily infer that the whole form of divine worship in general use in the present day is nothing but mere corruption.

For men pay no regard to what God has commanded, or to what he approved, in order that they may serve him in a becoming manner,

but assume to themselves a licence of devising modes of worship,
and afterwards obtruding them upon him as a substitute for obedience.

By this self-abasement we are trained to obedience and devotedness to his will, so that his fear reigns in our hearts, and regulates all the actions of our lives. That in these things consists the true and sincere worship which alone God approves, and in which alone He delights,

is both taught by the Holy Spirit throughout the Scriptures, and is also, antecedent to discussion, the obvious dictate of piety.

Nor from the beginning was there any other method of worshipping God, the only difference being, that this spiritual truth, which with us is naked and simple, was under the former dispensation wrapt up in figures.

This had NOTHING to do with Barton W. Stone

10.10.12  Campbell REPUDIATED any ecumenical "union" and taught only that unbelievers should be allowed to attend churches of Christ, Sing, Stand during prayer and partake of the Lord's Supper. Never proposed unity with any of the sects which he was tasked to destroy.  On its face hyphenating Stone - Campbell is a lie. People love to lie about the Lunenburg Correspondence

"While, then, I have no wish to dogmatize, and feel no obligation to contend for the opinion itself, I judge myself in duty bound to attempt--

1st. To defend myself from the charge of inconsistency.
2nd. To defend the opinion from the sectarian application of it.
3rd. To offer some reasons for delivering such an opinion at this time.

I. With all despatch, then, I hasten to show that I have neither conceded nor surrendered any thing for which I ever contended; but that on the contrary, the opinion now expressed, whether true or false, is one that I have always avowed.

(And publically stated: Footnote in original reads: It is with us as old as baptism for the remission of sins, and this is at least as old as the "Christian Baptist." Read the first two numbers of that work.)

1. Let me ask, in the first place, what could mean all that we have written upon the union of Christians on apostolic grounds, had we taught that all Christians in the world were already united in our own community?

2. And in the second place, why should we so often have quoted and applied to apostate Christendom what the Spirit saith to saints in Babylon--"Come out of her, my people, that you partake not of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues"--had we imagined that the Lord had no people beyond the pale of our communion!

3. But let him that yet doubts, read the following passages from the Christian Baptist, April, 1825:--

"I have no idea of seeing, nor wish to see, the sects unite in one grand army. This would be dangerous to our liberties and laws. For this the Saviour did not pray.

It is only the disciples dispersed among them that reason and benevolence would call out of them, "&c. &c. This looks very like our present opinion of Christians among the sects!!! 2d ed. Bethany, p. 85.

And that spoke directly of what became the Disciples of Christ--Christian church.

4. Again, speaking of purity of speech in order to the union of Christians, we say,

"None of you [Christians] have ever yet attempted to show how Christians can be united on your principles.

You have often showed how they may be divided, and how each party may hold its own, but while you pray for the visible unity of the disciples, and advocate their visible disunity, we cannot understand you." March, 1827, vol. 4.

5. Various essays and letters on "Christian union" from our correspondents, are given to our readers with our approbation; from one of which we quote these words:--

"I suppose all agree that among Christians of every name there are disciples of Jesus Christ, accepted of God in him, real members of his body, branches in the true vine, and therefore all one in Christ." October, 1826, vol. 4, p. 53.

GENTILE BAPTISM BY ARCHIPPUS

When no less than fourteen questions are asked, (see pages 157, 158, of this volume) to indicate the differences between the state of the Jews and Gentiles, with a reference, too, to the proposition--
        "That God justifies the GENTILES by faith alone;" and
         "that baptism has no more to do in procuring remission of sins,
         than any other work of faith has"--
"but," adds he, "you perceive that I limit my observations on the subject of baptism to the Gentiles." Yet it is an act of injustice in us to "perceive" this, or that the question of Jew or Gentile has any thing to do in this matter of remission!!!

Campbell quoting Stone on 'union'  seemingly  mixing up "fellowship" and "communion" in the context of a denominational union:

We rejected all names, but Christian--they acknowledge it most proper, but seem to prefer another. We acknowledge a difference of opinion from them on some points.
        We do not object to their opinions as terms of fellowship between us.
      But they seriously and honestly object to some of ours as reasons why they cannot unite.
        These we shall name, and let all duly consider their weight.

Objection 1st: That we have fellowship, and commune with unimmersed persons. They contend, (so we understand them) that according to the New Institution, none but the immersed have their sins remitted; and therefore they cannot commune with the unimmersed. 
        On this point we cannot agree with them, and the reason of our disagreement, is,
        that this sentiment, in our view, will exclude millions of the fairest characters,
        for many centuries back, from heaven.

This fellowship had nothing to do with uniting in a denominational sense but of those who refuse to let non-member participate even as visitors. 

Campbell NEVER objected to letting anyone stand during prayer. sing hymns or partake of the Lord's Supper: He would not UNION in Stone's denominational (sectarian) sense which would be to endorse their (Stone's) false teaching.  Campbell responded that it was Stone who had the "exclusion" problem.

"But of the following sentence we complain:--

"We cannot, with our present views, unite on the opinion that unimmersed persons cannot receive the remission of sins."

For Churches of Christ to UNION in a sectarian sense with the Stoneites would be to ENDORSE those who continued to deny the Prophecy of Christ (Isaiah and Malachi), the exampled PATTERN of Jesus Christ, the teachings of the apostles and of the historic church..

10.03.12 Theologians as doctors of the law are ordained to "take away the key to knowledge."  Jesus called the Scribes  and Pharisees (self- writers speaker), hypocrites and in Ezekiel 33 named rhetoricians, singers and instrument players.  John in Revelation 17-18 called them sorcerers and consigned them to be cast alive into the Lake of Fire.

Leroy Garrett’s 1981 history of the movement is titled The Stone-Campbell Movement.  In that work, Garrett claimed that his work was the first to use the Stone-Campbell nomenclature.  Even so, his book’s subtitle is “The Story of the American Restoration Movement.”  Garrett explained that his wish was to be impartial between those who considered the goal of the movement unity and those who considered its goal to be restoration (Garrett, 7).

“Stone-Campbell Movement” has come into widespread usage since Garrett’s book was published thirty years ago.  We should recognize (as Garrett did) that many in the historical movement today do not share the goal of restoring a New Testament ideal or pattern for the church. 
        For them, using the name of 19th century leaders avoids the “baggage” of restorationism and anchors the movement in the 19th and 20th centuries, rather than the first century.  John Gaine

At the same time, Leroy Garrett aligns with being ecumenical (conformable ), rejects the epistles as truth, rejects baptism FOR the remission of sins, refutes and pronounces anathema on those who will not cease teaching against instruments in the Campbell and Christ's School of the Word.

See the Stone Campbell "unity" movement debunked as POOR HISTORY.
See Leroy Garrett on Baptism: Saved by Faith Only

A World-Historian gives away the Purpose Driven Stone Campbell Movement.

Patterns Legalism and Grace Alexander Campbell John Mark Hicks
John Mark Hicks: In this post and in a subsequent one, I will illustrate how this point has functioned in the thinking of two significant leaders in the Stone-Campbell Movement: Alexander Campbell and J. D. Thomas. Both were patternists (to differing degrees), but did not permit their patternism to trump the fundamental truth of the gospel: we are saved by grace through faith and not by works.

In the 1825 Christian Baptist Alexander Campbell inaugurated his famous series “A Restoration of the Ancient Order of Things.” He thereby introduced “restoration” as a key term in the self-understanding of the Stone-Campbell Movement.  A patternism of some sort inheres in the idea of “restoration” as Campbell used it.

Ephesians 2 is the anchor stone of the concept of "faith only."
Believers who are then baptized receive A holy spirit, are added to His church by Christ, have their spirits translated into the heavenly kingdom and are washed with water INTO the Word or into the School of Christ..  NONE of this happens by faith only.

The ending part of Ephesians 2 has a beginning part. We WALK by faith which means that whatever we do in word or deed we do all in the name or authority of the Lord.  Salvation by grace through faith specificially shows how to be saved FROM what the Stone-Campbell wants to impose.

OUR UNSAVED STATE:

RELIGIONISTS OUTSIDE OF GOD'S GRACE

Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this WORLD,
        according to the prince of the power of the air,
        the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Kosmos ,  II. ornament, decoration, esp. of women; “hieros k.”metaph., of ornaments of speech, such as epithets to sing sweet songs of praise,
            Christ in Ezekiel 33 calls the hypocrites slick speakers,
            singers and instrument players.
 4.  men in general, “phanerōson [FAMOUS] seauton tō k.” Ev.Jo.7.4, cf. 12.19; esp. of the world as estranged from God by sin, ib.16.20, 17.9, al., 1 Ep.Cor. 1.21, etc.

JESUS DOES NOT EVEN PRAY  FOR THE WORLD TO WHICH THE STONE-CAMPBELL MOVEMENT WANTS TO  MOVE EVERYONE.

THIS IS WHAT SATAN HAD THE RIGHT TO OFFER JESUS

Hēdu^-melēs , A. sweet-singing, “khelidoi” Anacr.67, cf. Sapph.122（Comp.), Pi.N.2.25; sweet-sounding, “xoana” S.Fr.238, etc.: poet. fem., “hēdumeleia surigx” Nonn.D.29.287.

Surigx , iggos, hē, A. shepherd's pipe, Panspipe,  2. cat-call, whistle, hiss, as in theatres, Id.Lg.700c; cf. “surizō” 11.2, surigmos:—the last part of the nomos Puthikos was called surigges, prob. because it imitated the dying hisses of the serpent Pytho, Str.9.3.10. 3. mouthpiece of the aulos, 

It was EVE who fell for that folly:

The serpent was a Musical Enchanter or enchantress.

Nachash (h5172) naw-khash'; a prim. root; prop. to hiss, i. e. whisper a (magic) spell; gen. to prognosticate: - * certainly, divine, enchanter, (use) * enchantment, learn by experience, * indeed, diligently observe.

Nachash "snake, serpent" with nshk "bite" provides a link between two verses in Amos speaking of the impossibility of escape Amos 5:19 and 9:3 - nachash often either carries overtones of the serpent in Eden (Gen 3) or of the mythology of Canaanite cultures (Is 27:1).

"The spirits were thought to speak in murmurings or piping sounds (Isa 8:19), which could be imitated by the medium (witch or ventriloquist)...Most spiritual and popular was the interpretation of dreams.

It also was the case that mediums intentionally would convert themselves into a semi-waking trance. In this way the suitable mediums attained to a certain kind of clarvoyance, found among various peoples.

This approaches the condition of an ecstatically aroused pseudo-prophet.. In Greece, too, oracles were pronounced by the Phythian prophetess who by vapors and the like was aroused to a practice of the mantic art. (Int Std Bible Ency, p. 2466)

THERE THIS PRESENT PERFECT TENSE IS WHAT GRACE AND FAITH SAVES US FROM.

THIS LEVEL OF SALVATION IS "FROM THAT CROOKED RACE" OF VIPERS. They WANT to be baptized with WIND (spirit) and FIRE because they are denied water baptism by John.

Sōzō sōs  in Pass. to come safe, escape to a place,
 2.  to carry off safe, rescue from danger, ek polemou Il.; ek thanatoio Od.; apo strateias gen., ekhthrōn sōsai khthona to rescue the land from enemies, Soph.; Pass., sōthēnai kakōn Eur.

kakē a^, hē, (kakos) A. wickedness, vice, 2. baseness of spirit, cowardice, sloth,

HOW ARE WE SAVED FROM THAT CROOKED RACE?

Pistos (B), ē, on, (peithō):
2. obedient, loyal, “tēn tōn Athēnaiōn khōran oikeian kai p. poiēsasthai” X.HG2.4.30.
3. faithful, believing, Act.Ap.16.1, IG3.3435.

C. Adv. pistōs with good faith, “mē p. katamarturētheis” Antipho 2.4.7 ; loyally, D.3.26 : Comp. -oterōs Aen.Tact.22.17.

IF WE UNIT WITH WHAT PAUL IDENTIFIES AS THE WORLD OR CROOKED RACE AT ANY TIME WE ARE NOT UNDER GRACE AND WE ARE NOT SAFE BECAUSE WE DO NOT WALK BY FAITH.

"Patternism" is one of those RACA words invented by those claiming THEIR right to impose their own PARADIGM to replace the old PATTERNS.  Restoration intended to follow the direct commands beginning for the Ekklesia or Church of the Rock in the wilderness.  It had only a ONE PIECE PATTERN to be included

Included: Rest, Reading and Rehearsing the Word
Excluded: vocal or instrumental rejoicing including elevated forms of rhetoric.

Theologian, Pastor, Musical  Worship Minister simply do not fit in the simple command to PREACH the Word by READING The Word.

Irenaeus Holy Spirit and Apostolic Preaching: 3. Now, that we may not suffer ought of this kind, we must needs hold the rule of the faith without deviation, and do the commandments of God, believing in God and fearing Him as Lord and loving Him as Father. Now this doing is produced |72 by faith: for Isaiah says: If ye believe not, neither shall ye understand. [10. Isa. vii. 9 ]
            And faith is produced by the truth; for faith rests on things that truly are.
For in things that are, as they are, we believe; and believing in things that are, as they ever are, we keep firm our confidence in them.

Since then faith is the perpetuation of our salvation, we must needs bestow much pains on the maintenance thereof, in order that we may have a true comprehension of the things that are. Now faith occasions this for us; even as the Elders, the disciples of the Apostles, have handed down to us.

First of all it bids us bear in mind that we have received baptism for the remission of sins, in the name of God the Father, and in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was incarnate and died and rose again, and in the Holy Spirit of God.
        And that this baptism is the seal of eternal life,
        and is the new birth and is over all things that are made,
        and all things are put under Him |73 and all the things that are put under Him are made His own;
for God is not ruler and Lord over the things of another, but over His own; and all things are God's; and therefore God is Almighty, and all things are of God. unto God, that we should no longer be the sons of mortal men, but of the eternal and perpetual God; and that what is everlasting and continuing is made God;

See the Stone Campbell Movement as new SECTARIANS.
Leroy Garrett claims the Restoration Movement began with the witchcraft at Caneridge

John Mark Hicks follows the Stone-Campbell Fallacy

The Holy Spirit: The Presence of the Coming Age John Mark Hicks
Trinity as “Necessary” Fact in Alexander Campbell’s “Christian System of Facts"

Alexander Campbell repudiated any conversation about a "trinity." Jesus identified Himself in his post glorified state as the "another Comforter." John says that the Comforter's name is "Jesus Christ the Righteous."

Irenaeus Holy Spirit and Apostolic Preaching: 3
The expression "the prophetic Spirit," occurs frequently both in the First Apology and in the Dialogue with Trypho the Jew. Sometimes Justin says "the holy prophetic Spirit," and once "the divine holy prophetic Spirit." Now "the prophetic Spirit,"
        means the Spirit of the prophets.

So Athenagoras, who follows Justin, interpreting and sometimes correcting him, says that it is the Spirit "which works in those who make prophetic utterances," and he adds that it is "an effluence of God," as the ray is of the sun.' 

The prophets in question are the Jewish prophets and Justin's insistence on "the prophetic Spirit" is understood when we remember the attempt that was then being made to distinguish the God of the Old Testament ("the just God") from the God of the New Testament (" the Good God "). 

This was to cut off Christianity from the past, and to destroy its historical background and its function as the fulfillment of the age-long purpose of God. There was, however, a further reason for emphasizing "the prophetic Spirit," a reason of even greater importance from the standpoint of Christian evidence. 

The correspondence between the Gospel facts and the prophetic utterances proved two things: namely, 
        that the claim of Jesus to be the Christ was valid, 
        and that the Spirit of the prophets was of God.

"Him, and the Son who came from Him and taught us these things, and the host of the other good angels that attend Him and are made like unto Him,
        and the prophetic Spirit, we worship and adore, Honoring them with reason and with truth

THEREFORE THIS HISTORY HAS NO CONNECTION TO CHURCHES OF CHRIST.

John agrees that rejecting the ONE GOD in heaven and Jesus of Nazareth Whom God made to be both Lord and Christ is an ANTICHRIST.

While revealing the ANTI view of the World History Sectarians, it points the student to the fact that Campbell and most of the then-Baptists preachers ever JOINED with the Stoneites.

A Restoration of the Ancient Order of Things--No. III. by Alexander Campbell, 

No. III I have no idea of seeing, nor one wish to see,
        the sects unite in one grand army.
This would be dangerous to our liberties and laws.
For this the Saviour did not pray.
        It is only the disciples of Christ dispersed among them,
        that reason and benevolence would call out of them.
Let them unite who love the Lord, and
then we shall soon see the hireling priesthood
and their worldly establishments prostrate in the dust.

The "Fellowship" Problem: as Justin notes that the Lord's Supper and the Psalms were in a separate room from the collective masses, some were saying that those who were not baptized beievers should be allowed to STAND or partake of the Bread and Juice.

This is the "fellowship" which the "progressives" lust to thrust upon people to shame them for being separatists and sectarians.  Alexander Campbell in A Restoration of the Ancient Order of Things makes it PERFECTLY CLEAR.  In discussing the differences with the English Churches.

The Stone-Campbell tries to make a dead man lie:

No. 5.2d. We are not quite sure whether we understand you, when you say,
        "Having no fellowship in sacred things
        with those who confess and obey not the faith."

We have no idea of a believer having fellowship in worship with an unbeliever. "How shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?"

But we have known persons who entertain ideas on this subject which we judge to be unscriptural. Not only do they maintain that the church should sit together, (which we approve and practise,)
        but they entertain a dread of others seeming to join with them,
        of which we cannot perceive a trace in the word of God.
Under the influence of this apprehension, some intimate to those who are present that they are not to stand up when the church prays or praises; others do not read the hymns lest any but the church should sing.

There is not a shadow of any such thing in the apostolic history. We find prayer employed by the apostles in order to bring men to the knowledge of the truth, Acts xxvii. 35. xxviii. 8. and no apprehensions are ever expressed of unbelievers appearing to join in worship by putting themselves in the same posture with believers.

Besides, where any number attend there generally are some disciples of Christ not connected with the church, and who consequently can, and do join in prayer and praise; and we know no reason why any man should forbid them.
        We know it has been said we might as well admit unbelievers to the Lord's supper
        as suffer them to stand up along with the church in prayer or praise.

But by receiving them to break bread, we acknowledge them to be disciples, members of the body of Christ; whereas their placing themselves in the same posture with the church, implies no acknowledgment of them, on our part, as believers.
        On the whole, we think any attempt to prevent the hearers from assuming the same posture as the church, in any part of their worship, is unscriptural. It gives a false view of the encouragement given by Jesus to sinners, and while it has a show of faithfulness, it is calculated to foster a temper towards those who are without very different from what Christ has enjoined on his people. We do not know that your sentiments, beloved, differ from our own on this subject. If they do, we trust you will take our observations in good part, as we have known much evil result from the practice to which we have referred

NO CHURCH OF CHRIST HAS EVER "PATTERNED" WITH MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS USED TO SOW DISCORD

To keep from being sucked into the new Stone-Campbell sect, you should understand that musical idolatry caused the fall from grace at Mount Sinai. God then ordained the Levites (the Disciple's pattern) to stand in ranks to execute any godly person who came NEAR or INTO any holy thing or place.

The "history" of the STONE-O'KELLY MOVEMENT for the first time in history in 1878 used the PSALLO (just pluck) word to justify their existence always-separated organically from Churches of Christ. No one should be deceived by trying to hyphenate Churches of Christ which did NOT fracture off the Disciples.

The Stone Campbell Movement is deceptive in many ways.  For instance, the deliberate sowing of discord among most of the religious groups around the mid 1800's was over the use of Instruments to aid the so-called "worship" and the ANTIs trying to defeat the NON use of instruments was based on the word "psallo" in, according to Lipscomb, in 1878.  All scholars knew that the word PSALLO with the same root meaning as SOP has absolutely no musical content. If means to pluck or smite with the FINGERS but never with a PLECTRUM.  It would be dishonorable to use the psallo word to claim that it authorizes (O.E.Payne) or COMMANDS the use of instruments.

SINCE THE ATTEMPT TO BOND CHURCHES OF CHRIST TO THE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST HAS ALWAYS BEEN BASED ON THE PSALLO WORD, THIS ACCUSES THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, JESUS AND PAUL OF BEING TOTALLY IGNORANT OF HOW TO EVEN HINT THE USE OF AN INSTRUMENT.

THE TRUE MELODY WORD--MELOS-- IS DEFINED AS THE OPPOSITE OF SPEAK.  Therefore, the false teachings about the never-musical passages means that they think that Paul was confused by COMMANDING speaking "that which is written for our learning" and REALLY meant to SING human compositions with instrumental accompaniment.

In the prophets Christ also warns about the lying pen of the Scribes [theology fodder] who kept records for the NOT-commanded king, kingdom, temple, animal sacrifices or the "music" (in the words of the doctors) is called soothsaying with instruments.

And God HID Himself from the wise or Sophists: rhetoricians, singers, instrumentalists.  And Jesus does not even pray for the WORLD. The Stone-Campbell Movement is a human institution made up of theologians for which there is no reason to exist.  It is fitting that the Stone Campbell theologians speak and write for the Stone Campbell theologians.

The founder and disciples of the Stone-Campbell Movement are decidedly hostile to the ANTI-intrument churches of Christ.  They deny that the epistles are Scripture (Garrett). They promote and apparently presume the Direct Operation of a Holy Spirit person 'who' produces UNITY without respect to the doctrine of Christ.  They promote the H. Leo Boles version of the "trinity" defining this godhead as "three centers of consciousness able to hold communion." John calls this the mark of anti-Christ.

The Purpose Driving this review is to prove that Churches of Christ were never part of the Stone-Campbell Movement which probably was hatched in the 1970's.   Only individual congregations were united by Christ and His command---

Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
        baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matthew 28:20 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.

---Until men decided that doctrine (that which Jesus spoke) should never stand in the way of "unity" even when they intentionally manufacture massive discord.  They introduced anti-Scriptural practices such as trying to worship a Spirit God in the human spirit by using "machines for doing hard work."  This "unity" never extended beyond individual congregations fully occupied with their own work.

Those who agreed with (not necessarily taught by) the Campbells never believed in the "trinity," their major thesis was to stop division by teaching what the Bible taught, never believed in or practiced the use of "instrumental" worship at any time in history and clearly agreed with Calvin who called those who heard the Spirit outside of the Word were fanatics. Worship agreed with the church in the wilderness onward: the qahal, synagogue or ekklesia was for reading and understanding the Word of God.  No one in the Bible ever assembled for congregational "worship" to engage in singing with or without instruments.

As I have looked at events and dates where division was intentionally caused,  I have added lots of Scripture revealed in distinct "words" and "thought patterns" because nothing which occurred in the Stone-Campbell Movement's claims should ever be allowed to stand between the individual and Jesus Christ and His Word.

I have devoted decades to researching the literature which illustrates what a word would mean to the people of Scripture's first audience.   Whatever the mind-set of individual Bible writers, their allusion to pagan religions marks any modern revisionist as intending to trump all known literature and church history.

Peter defined as "building" or "educating" value the prophets led by the Spirit OF Christ and these prophecies made more certain by Jesus of Nazareth and left "for our memory." Thus, a Church of Christ is built upon the Prophets and Apostles with Jesus Christ (sent back as The Holy Spirit). Peter also outlaws private interpretations or further expounding of these prophecies which define Messiah's REST both inclusively and exclusively. Paul outlaws Corrupting the Word or "selling it at retail:

MARK OF THE WORLD
2 Co.1:12 For our rejoicing is this,
        the testimony of our conscience,
        that in simplicity and godly sincerity,
        not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God,
        we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to youward.

Grace, like Word or Logos (opposite poetry or music) is another title for Jesus of Nazareth whom God made to be both Lord and Christ.

Titus 2:11 For the [1] grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,	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.
Titus 2:12 [2] Teaching us that,	Acts 2:14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
[3] denying ungodliness and worldly lusts,	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.
[4] we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;	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?
Titus 2:14 [5] Who gave himself for us,	Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them Repent,
[6] that he might redeem us from all iniquity, [Lawlesness]       Lutron redeem, Luo lavo , cleanse or wash, bathe,       lave. louô, purify, tina ek tôn hamartiôn   Col. 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood,	and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins,   Redemption or Remission happens ONLY after BAPTISM even the forgiveness of sins:
[7] and purify unto himself a peculiar people,                 zealous of good works.	and ye shall receive the gift of A holy spirit

2 Cor 1:12 Hē gar kaukhēsis hēmōn hautē estin, to marturion tēs suneidēseōs hēmōn, hoti en hagiotēti kai eilikrinia tou theou, kai ouk en sophia sarkikē all' en khariti theou, anestraphēmen en tō kosmō, perissoterōs de pros humas:

Sophia , A.cleverness or skill in handicraft and art, of the Telchines [Simon father of Judas] , Pi.O.7.53; hē entekhnos s., of Hephaestus and Athena; in music and singing, tekhnē kai s. h.Merc.483, cf. 511; in poetry, Sol.13.52, Pi.O.1.117, Ar.Ra.882, X.An.1.2.8,  in divination, S.OT 502 (lyr.); “dusthanatōn hupo sophias eis gēras aphiketo” Pl.R.406b; s. dēmēgorikē, dikanikē, ib.365d; hē peri Homērou s. Id.Ion 542a; “ou sophia alla phusei poiein” Id.Ap.22b; “sēmainontes tēn s . . ., hoti aretē tekhnēs estin” Arist.EN1141a12: rare in pl., Pi.O.9.107, Ar.Ra.676 (IG12.522 (vase, v B.C.).

MARK OF THE WORLD
2Cor. 2:17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God:
        but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

17 ou gar esmen hōs hoi polloi kapēleuontes ton logon tou theou, all' hōs ex eilikrinias, all' hōs ek theou katenanti theou en Khristō laloumen.

kapēl-euō ,
A. to be a retail-dealer, drive a petty trade, Hdt.1.155, 2.35, Isoc.2.1, Nymphod.21, IG11(2).161 A16 (Delos, iii B. C.), BGU1024 vii 23 (iv A. D.); di' apsukhou boras sitois kapēleu' drive a trade, chaffer with your vegetable food, E.Hipp.953.
II. c. acc., sell by retail, “ton herpin” Hippon.51.

2. metaph., k. ta prēgmata, of Darius, Hdt.3.89; k. ta mathēmata sell learning by retail, hawk it about, Pl. Prt.313d; “k. ton logon tou theou” 2 Ep.Cor.2.17; so eoiken ou kapēleusein makhēn will not peddle in war, i. e. fight half-heartedly, A.Th. 545; “k. tē Khariti tēn amoibēn” Epicur.Sent.Vat.39; k. tēn politeian traffic in grants of citizenship, D.C.60.17; k. tēs hōras anthos or tēn hōran, of prostitutes, Ph.2.394,576; eirēnēn pros Rhōmaious Khrusiou k. Hdn.6.7.9; tukhē kapēleuousa . . ton bion playing tricks with life, corrupting it, AP9.180

Another way to CORRUPT the Written Logos of the Living Logos:

"Historians" -- especially clergy -- are infamous for putting their own dogma into the words of famous people.  In Athenian Law and others it was not lawful for philosophers, rhetoricians, poets or musicians to write "true history."

It is pretty easy to get in "goose step" with anything "scholars" write and fail to return to teaching "that which has been taught."

Christ in Jeremiah etal defines the CENI

Jer 23:18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord,
        and hath perceived and heard his word?
        who hath marked his word, and heard it?

Men of the Stone-Campbell Movement, that's who, since the do not go back to the unpolluted spring.

Jer 23:19 Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord is gone forth in fury,
        even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

Jer 23:20 The anger of the Lord shall not return,
        until he have executed,
        and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart:
        in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.

Jer 23:21 I have not sent these prophets,
        yet they ran:
        I have not spoken to them,
        yet they prophesied.

Jer 23:22 But if they had stood in my counsel,
        and had caused my people to hear my words,
        then they should have turned them from their evil way,
        and from the evil of their doings.

I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying,
        I have dreamed, I have dreamed. Jeremiah 23: 25
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies?
        yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart; Jeremiah 23: 26

Prŏphēta and prŏphētes, a foreteller, soothsayer sacerdotes Aegyptiorum, quos prophetas vocant,” Macr. S. 7, 13, 9: “Aegyptius, propheta primarius,” [this soothsaying extended to sorcery]

prīmārĭus  I. one of the first, of the first rank, chief, principal, excellent, remarkable (class.): “primarius parasitus, the first speaker, he who has a right to be heard

Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams,
        which they tell every man to his neighbour,
        as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal . Jeremiah 23: 27

OF ALL DIVERSIONARY MOVEMENTS: The "nut" will never be under EITHER of the shells.

Here are some revisionists:

Discovering Our Roots: Richard T. Hughes and C. Leonard Allen
See: John Mark Hicks Our Triune God-The Wonder of the Story
John Mark Hicks Trinity as "Necessary" Fact in Alexander Campbell
John Mark Hicks "recovery" of the gospel from Alexander Campbell

A Gathered People: Revisioning the Assembly as Transforming Encounter

John Mark Hicks Stone Campbell Unity by the Holy Spirit  Hicks replaces his "Holy Spirit Person" in the roles Jesus Died to fulfil. In His post-changed form Jesus returned to be the King of His kingdom, Head of His Church, Master Teacher and only Mediator between God and man.   If you believe the "three people trinity" of the postmoderns (smile) delusions, John calls you an ANTI-Christ. The NACC may not want this form of "movement."  There is no "holy spirit people" in the salutations because Jesus Christ as Holy Spirit had guided the apostles into all truth.

Contrary to the claims of "Holy Spirit" guidance, both Stone and Campbell ridiculed the notion that there is a "holy spirit" person who guides beyond the sacred pages.  Both agreed with John Calvin and most literate writers that the Apostolic Church demands that it be built upon the writings of the Prophets (by Christ) and the prophecies made more certain by Jesus of Nazareth.  All such claims to supernatural guidance and even having a holy spirit person, replaces Jesus Christ as the "one mediator between God and man."  Never mind that of the "another" Comforter, Jesus said "I" will come to you.

There can be little doubt that theologians have decided that The Holy Spirit OF (preposition) Christ is a person or people and that Jesus has been replaced and they are directed by this spirit person.  When people think that their thoughts are God's thoughts then they have slipped into the promised Strong Delusions that they believe  their own lie.  Lying wonders is defined in the literature as the vocal and instrumental performance music which is a primary agenda of inventing the Stone Campbell Movement.  Jesus said that the Kingdom of God does not come with Observation: that means religious observations.

UNFOLDING HISTORY

The Organ And Society Sect

No. V.Order of Worship. But to proceed: Another society meets for worship, and they sing all day; another shouts all day; another runs as in a race all day; another lies prostrate on the ground all day; another reads all day; another hears one man speak all day; another sits silent all day; another waves palm branches all day;
        another cries in the forenoon and listens to the organ in the afternoon;
        and it is all equally right, lawful, orderly, and acceptable;
        for there is no divinely authorized order of Christian worship.

We are then, on the principles of reason, constrained to abandon this side of the dilemma,  and give up the hypothesis that there is no divinely authorized order of Christian worship

2Th. 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th. 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness
        in them that perish;
        because they received not the love of the truth,
        that they might be saved.
2Th. 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,
        that they should believe a lie:

What is the MARK of that time?

ŏpĕrātĭo , ōnis, f. operor,

I. a working, work, labor, operation (not in Cic. or Cæs.).

I. In gen.: insidiantur aquantibus (apibus) ranae, quae maxima earum est operatio, cum sobolem faciunt, Plin. 11, 18, 19, § 61; 11, 24, 28, § 80; Vitr. 2, 9.—

II. In partic.

        A.  A religious performance, service, or solemnity, a bringing of offerings: operationes denicales,
         offerings, Fest. s. v. privatae feriae,
mendācĭum a fable, fiction (Opposite. historic truth): “poëtarum,” Curt. 3, 1, 4.—

All Poets and Song writers were known to be liars:
pŏēta , maker, producer “oratores et poëtae, “pictoribus atque poëtis, minimoque poëtā, poëtā,
poëtam in scenā

scaenĭcus , theatrical (class.).

I. [select] Lit.: “poëtae,” dramatic poets, Varr. L. L. 9, § 17 Müll.: “artifices,” players, actors,
“fabula,” a drama, Amm. 28, 1, 4: “organa, [musical instruments]” “gestus,” “modulatio,” Quint. 11, 3, 57:

2Th. 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Lying wonders Teras in colloqual language

Thaumazo (g2296) thou-mad'-zo; from 2295; to wonder; by impl. to admire: - admire, have in admiration, marvel, wonder.
Teratourg-eô , A. WORK wonders, pseudôsti Sch.Pi.I.7(6).13.

Pindar Isthmian 7 Odes: [1] In which of the local glories of the past, divinely blessed Thebe, did you most delight your spirit? Was it when you raised to eminence the one seated beside Demeter of the clashing bronze cymbals, flowing-haired [5] Dionysus? Or when you received, as a snow-shower of gold in the middle of the night, the greatest of the gods[20] then begin the victory [Nike: TRIUMPH OVER] procession with a sweet-singing hymn for Strepsiades; for he is the victor in the pancratium at the Isthmus, both awesome in his strength and handsome to look at; and he treats excellence as no worse a possession than beauty. [23] He is made radiant by the violet-haired Muses, and he has given a share in his flowering garland to his uncle and namesake

The-ama , Ion. theêma , atos, to, ( [theaomai] )
A. sight, spectacle, Semon.7.67, A.Pr.306, E.Supp.783, Ar.Av.1716, etc.; ei tis orchoit' eu, theam' ên Pl.Com.130 ; Opposite mathêma, Th.2.39; freq. of a sight which gives pleasure, theamata kai akroamata hêdista parecheis X.Smp.2.2 , cf. 7.5; orchêseis kai theamata Phld.Mus.p.26 K.; emplêsthête tou kalou th. Pl. R.440a; but also th. dustheaton A.Pr.69 , cf. S.Aj.992; hepta th. the seven wonders of the world, Str.14.2.5, Plu.2.983e: sg., of a marvellously engraved ring, Gal.UP17.1.

ONE OF THE DELUSIONS OF POST MODERN THEOLOGIANS

John Calvin on continuing Revelation

1.The fanatics wrongly appeal to the Holy Spirit Those who, rejecting Scripture, imagine that they have some peculiar way of penetrating to God, are to be deemed not so much under the influence of error as madness. For certain giddy men have lately appeared, who, while they make a great display of the superiority of the Spirit,

reject all reading of the Scriptures themselves, and deride the simplicity of those who only delight in what they call the dead and deadly letter.

But I wish they would tell me what spirit it is whose inspiration raises them to such a sublime height that they dare despise the doctrine of Scripture as mean and childish.   

The Stone-Campbell movement appeals to Cane Ridge as America's Pentecost: elsewhere they call it witchcraft.

Based on reviews of the scholarship of those presuming to write a "World History" it is clear that the PATTERN is not based upon the Word of God and "history" counts for nothing.

1John 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth	that Jesus is the Christ?	John 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?
Which is the same as:		Which is the same as:
He is ANTICHRIST Jesus made to be both Lord and Christ and The only Holy Spirit after His change to pour out what ye see and hear.	that denieth the    Father [one God]    and    the Son. [one Lord]	he thathath seen me hath seen the Father; [Christ, who is the image of God 2 Cor 4:4] and HOW sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
1 John 2:23 Whosoever denieth the Son hethat acknowledgeth the Son	the same hath not the Father: hath the Father also	John 14:10 Believest thou not that I am IN the Father, and the Father IN me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth IN me, he doeth the works.

Funding for this project has been provided principally by Disciples of Christ Historical Society and Chalice Press.

A World History of the Stone-Campbell Movement
Scott D. Seay, Managing Editor Chalice Press (Wine Cup?)
Fourteen historians are collaborating to produce the new history of the Stone-Campbell Movement." Doug Foster, Newell Williams, and Paul Blowers; Lawrence Burnley, Loretta Long Hunnicutt, and Carmelo Alvarez; Scott Seay, Tim Lee, John Mark Hicks, Edward Robinson, Stan Granberg, Mark Toulouse, David Thompson, and Glenn Zuber.

Disciples History Student Responds: Not entirely true

Ken, you stated above "The Church of Christ scholars do NOT understand that the Church of Christ was never part of the Disciples Denomination -- including the later secting of the Christian Church -- when they refused to be COUNTED in the 1906 census."

Truth of the matter is the Church of Christ and Disciples of Christ and Independent Christian Churches were all originally part of the Stone-Campbell movement that began in 1832. While you are close to being correct some of the Church of Christ did not want to be counted in the census after 1907. The actual event that began the split was not music. It was in 1895 at the Texas State Convention in Gainesville, Tx where the Missionary Society threw a black tie party and the some of the southern churches were upset at the lack of support and funds to their churches and how the missionary society could throw extravagant parties.

There are many history books out on this subject and you are completely misinformed. I am not here to argue theology or ideologies with you, but it would help if you knew actual history if you are going to use it in your arguments.

I am not writing this to make you upset or look bad, I just want to help inform you.
Remember: in Essentials unity, in non-essentials, liberty and in all things charity!

Blessings,
Church HIstorian in Training [Disciple]

No offense, "Historian in Training." There was no Stone-Campbell movement in 1895! This pirate flag was intended and is used as an attack against what they call the ANTI-instrumental churches of Christ. If you continue to RESIST those imposing (the meaning of a heretic) then you are fair game for games fair and foul. Their foundation is the Jacob-cursed Levites who performed as SOOTHSAYERS or EXORCISTS.

Because none of the denominations used instruments (machines for doing hard work) at the time and specificially opposed their use, and most preaching would be of a Biblical basis, there would be no reason for any one to not mix and mingle with any of the groups.  At the time the instrument was IMPOSED most of those who became Disciples of Christ / Christian churches rejected instruments as they had for those 1850 years.  The Disciples of Christ / Chrisian churches were highly organized and therefore the "head" could make decisions.  Those who became Churches of Christ (minus their stolen property) were never organized beyond the local congregation.  Attending mass assemblies did not change that fact.  Therefore, "fraternal" joint meetings worked before the instrument was imposed.  Even then, this was never as a Campbell Movement with any denonimational organization.  The major secting occurred between the Christian Church organization, NACC, and the Disciples of Christ. That was not complete until after the Restructure in 1968 and the DIScounting the NACC in 1971.

THE PURPOSE DRIVEN GOAL OF THE STONE-CAMPBELL MOVEMENT IS TO DENIGRATE WHAT THEY CALL ANTI-INSTRUMENTAL CHURCHES OF CHRIST AND INFILTRATE AND IMPOSE INSTRUMENTAL PRAISE.  The recent incarnation seems bent on trying to go beyond the NACC and merge with the Disciples of Christ.  If the NACC wants "unity" they should return to the Disciples from they sected out.

The Stone-Campbell Movement--the Lipscomb Limb--intends to build without the Bible as authority.

Reclaiming the Imagination: The Exodus as Paradigmatic Narrative for Preaching This conference proposes that WE allow the worlds imagined         in the essential biblical narratives         to dramatically shape our preaching and lives. We believe that preaching reconstitutes biblical paradigms when it engages Scripture’s vision by REpresenting what is absent and making present what is inaccessible to the end that followers of God will live into a God-shaped reality. Notes from God about ungodly imagination. We identify biblical paradigms [Patterns] through the emphases Israel and the church gave them or by the claims made by the texts themselves. What Paul calls “of first importance” and Jesus describes as “weightier” suggest a hierarchy of values--that some parts of Scripture have greater claim than others. These pivotal texts which echo through Scripture should craft the Christian experience as well.   See note of first. With a vision deeply rooted in biblical studies and a homiletic that seeks to live in the world Scripture envisions, this year we ask:     What claims on our lives does the Exodus narrative imagine? Join us as we move into this world with the desire that our preaching, our lives, and the congregations we serve might better engage the essential realities. Don't miss the terminal fall from grace when the Imagineers fell into the musical idolatry of the Egyptian (etal) trinity. ---------+-------- Lipscomb University lists the experts they do not give the denominational background. They defacto agree with the false doctrine of those teachers. When a group turns to music, drama, visions and imagination it is a frantic effort to restore Mother Goddess Worship. [Rev 17]. That is why rhetoric is defined as effeminate along with singing and music. Gen. 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Romans 14 outlaws doubtful disputations which do not edify or educate with "that which is written for our learning" (rom 15).  That outlaws private opinions about everything.  For those still attached to the masculine WORD of God John warns us of the mother of harlots (Revelation 17) who uses the lusted after "fruits" as rhetoricians, singers and instrument players. John calls them sorcerers who HAD deceived the whole world.  The musicians or Muses are the dirty adulteress "musical worship team" working for Apollo, Abaddon or Apollyon. THE RISE OF MOTHER GODDESS WORSHIP In warning against women and the outbreak of wrath or orgy, Paul markes the priests of Cybele who were emasculated and even had a sex reassignment before jethey could qualify.  Therefore, the quest for the VISIONS and IMAGINATION is the clear MARK of a total taking capture of a church or once Christian university. Lynn Anderson and Rubel Shelly have followed the feminists and Lesbian Methodists in their revisioning or reimaging of the church: they claim that they have new SPETACLES. Karen Armstrong, in A History of God, shows how the pagan clergy attempted to neutralize the One God Who was spoken of as male: "God lay beyond 'gender' but, as in the Enuma Elish, each pair of emanations consisted of a male and female--a scheme which attempted to neutralize the masculine tenor of more conventional monotheism. Each pair of emanations grew weaker and more attenuated, since they were getting even further from their divine Source." (p. 95) Speaking of the mystics, Armstrong showed how the new, gender-neutral gods are to be worshipped: "This God is to be approached through the imagination and can be seen as a kind of art form, akin to the other great artistic symbols that have expressed the ineffable mystery, beauty and the value of life.   Mystics have used music, dancing, poetry, fiction, stories, painting, sculpture and architecture to express this Reality which goes beyond concepts." (P. 396) Lynn Anderson: The mind-set of the times threatens to strip our faith of symbols, rituals, dramas, mystery, poetry, and story,         which say about life and God what logic and reason [LOGOS] and rationalism can never say.  His foundation, Huxley, calls these performances Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process. From Source Guided Imagery:  [spiritual formation at LU] David Hunt, in his two books, The Seduction of Christianity (1985) and Beyond Seduction (1987), first chronicled the influence of Carl Jung's ideas in the modern church. He wrote of Agnes Sanford      whose visualization techniques are founded in      shamanistic practices of the occult and      who expressed pantheistic beliefs similar to those held by Carl Jung. The Vineyard Christian Fellowships, headed by John Wimber, are heavily involved in the use of imagination, visualization, and inner healing. There has been criticism that to a large extent allowing God to "guide the imagination" has been placed on a level equal to the authority of the Bible, which has created a great deal of confusion. David Hunt, (p. 174 Seduction of Christianity [Wimber-music=climax, too, was bewitched at Fulller]

David Lipscomb Still speaks for the OWNERS: All service in his kingdom not ordained by him, all organizations not builded by him, not commanded in his word, are without the seals of his blood, are unsanctified and defile the temple of God. The letter to the Hebrews x: 28, further declares, "He who despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses. Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite to the Spirit of grace." [45] To despise Moses' law was to turn from the law given by Moses and sealed by the typical blood, to service not so given. He who turns from the appointments given by the Son of God, sealed by his blood, revealed and confirmed by the Spirit of God,  or places upon equality with them as service to God the acts and institutions of man's wisdom, tramples under foot the authority of Jesus Christ, and makes it nothing.  For if man's wisdom can guide into the service of God, it is as good as the wisdom of God. So to make services based on the opinions of man, not sealed by the blood of Christ, a part of the worship of God, is to place them upon equality with the blood-sealed appointments of Jesus Christ and the wisdom and authority of man on equality with the wisdom and authority of God. To do this is to count the blood of Christ which seals the covenant, unholy--that is, without sanctifying efficacy. If service in the ways based on man's opinions, unsealed by the blood of Christ, is acceptable to God, it is equal to that service rendered through the blood-sealed appointments, hence the blood is of no avail, it is unholy, and does not consecrate or sanctify the service sealed by it. To serve God in ways based on the opinions of man, is to turn from the Spirit, is to refuse to be led by the Spirit, and is to place his teachings on a level with the teachings of God. Hence the seal of the blood and the teachings of the Spirit are of no value. To introduce or observe a service based on the opinions or wisdom of man, is to trample under foot the Son of God, despise his authority, count the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, and do "despite unto the Spirit of Grace." Those who thus treat the law of him who speaks from heaven, will receive a punishment much sorer than those who rejected the law of Moses.    David Lipscomb continues: "As an example, the Spirit of God said, "Christians [46] must speak to themselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord." Here is Divine requirement for singing. ........This comes to us as the direction of the Spirit [the Word] ........sealed with the blood of Christ. ........Man's opinion introduces an organ. When an organ is introduced into the worship ........it is placed on equality with the singing. ........It is really placed above it, ........and over-rides and supersedes it. But say it is there as a part of the service of God. It stands on equality with the appointments of God. The authority of the Spirit and the blood of Christ go for nothing--they are not needed to render the service acceptable, since the organ without the authority of God and the blood of Christ, is acceptable. If any service not authorized by the word of God, not sealed by the blood of Christ, is acceptable to God---then that authority and blood are not needed to render any service acceptable, ........ and to introduce those not authorized and sealed ........ is to declare the sanction of the Spirit and the seal of the blood ...... ..are not needed--not holy--do not sanctify. It is equally true of institutions in which we serve God. ........The churches of Christ, local and distinct, ........are ordained by God--sealed by the blood of Jesus, ........and given us by the Spirit of God, for the purpose ........of saving and elevating men and honoring God. To accept these and work in them, is to honor their author and ........ to show an appreciation of the blood that seals them, ........ and it is to follow the Spirit of God. To organize other institutions upon the opinion or judgment of man, through which to work,is to declare man's judgment equal to the wisdom of God, ........it is to declare the sanctifying power of the blood, not needed, ........or it is to ignore that there is sanctifying power in the blood ........and to set at naught the teachings of the Spirit.   This is to trample under foot the Son of God, to count the blood of the covenant unholy--without sanctifying power, and thus [47] to set at naught or do despite to the Spirit of Grace. This is true of all service based on the authority of man's opinions or judgment. The pastor distinct from the eldership, is added as a matter of opinion. This opinion of man becomes equivalent to or above the order of God, ........which ordains the elders as the teachers. ........The pastorate becomes more important than the eldership. ........It degrades the authority that ordains the eldership for the church.  Again, the Lord ordained that his church should be carried forward by free gifts, honestly gained, cheerfully given by his children. This has the sanction of the Spirit, and is sealed by the blood of Christ. Men on their opinions hold festivals, fairs and frolics, to entice men, for fleshly gratification, to give their money, and this is brought into the temple of God, on an equal footing with that contributed according to the direction of God. This is to trample under foot the Lord Jesus Christ, to count the blood of the covenant unholy, of no value, and it is to do despite to the Spirit of Grace. These things are properly defined "fads, fancies, preferences, based on opinion and nothing but opinion." To introduce them into the worship or church of God, is to make man's opinion a basis and rule of action for the church, and a fad or fancy or human opinion, equal to a blood-sealed ordinance of God. This is to place man's opinion on an equality with the word of God. This is to degrade the authority of God, to trample under foot the Lord Jesus and his authority, to count the blood of the covenant unholy, of no value, and to reject the teachings of the Holy Spirit. See Volkism

John was literate and understood Hesiod and we understand the meaning of the LOCUSTS as the Muses of Revelation. [25] the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis: "Shepherds of the wilderness, wretched things of shame, mere bellies, we know how to speak many false things as though they were true; but we know, when we will, to utter true things." Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

SEE Isaiah 8:18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.     Isaiah 8:19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?         -cantus , ūs, m. id., 2. With instruments, a playing,         music: “in nervorum vocumque cantibus,” Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Because Israel rejected The Book of The Covenant of Grace and IMAGED the musical idolatry of Egypt, God truned them over to worship the starry host (Acts 7 etal).  The Book of The Law regulated the Lawless and the Monarch, Monarchy, Sacrifices, Exorcising "music" and Temple was NOT for God but for a GOYIM or pagan worship to which God abandoned them. Ex. 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:  When you GRAVE the image of your own heart on sermons and songs you have fallen into idolatry of your own mind. You have also violated direct commands to "speak that which is written" and of the elders to "teach that which has been taught." There was no imagination allowed in connection with the Word of God.

Before posting some REAL links to REAL history you should grasp that Christ in the prophets attributes the use of wind, string and percussion instruments to Lucifer whom He calls "the singing and harp playing prostitute" who was cast as profane (the Halal, Chalal) word.  Both the King of Tyre and Babylon are "patterns" of the Lucifer (Zoe) principle. She rises again in the end times as the Babylon Mother of Harlots: she uses lusted after fruits (same as in Amos) as Rhetoricians, singers, instrument players, Craftsmen (tekne), Grinders (concubines) and Brides-Bridegrooms as Hieros Gamos or sacred sex in Revelation 18.  John calls them sorcerers and consigns them to be cast alive into the lake of fire.  Christ in Isaiah 30 promisedd that the marks in sight and sound of God driving His enemies (Assyria, Babylon, Jerusalem) into "hell" with these sounds.

TIME IS RIPE: TRUST IN JESUS AND HIS WORD RATHER THAN THE "HOLY SPIRIT" PEOPLE HALLUCINATE AS DOING ALL THAT JESUS IS SAID TO HAVE DONE.

There is nothing about the Stone-Campbell that justifies replacing the Word. Unfortunately, the fans of the Stone-Campbell Forums are left with the impression that proof-texts from other histories is the authority to pass judgment and in the process spawn a dozen or more new sects.

2 Timothy Chapter 4

2Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season,
        out of season; reprove, rebuke,
        exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

Believers in Jesus Christ assume the right to challenge anyone who has a "beyond the Word" agenda under the Unity Fetish.

Greek:
Elegkhō , Od.21.424, disgrace, put to shame, muthon e. treat a speech with contempt, Il.9.522; e. tina put one to shame, Od. 21.424.—
II. cross-examine, question, Hdt.2.115, Pl.Ap.18d, c. acc. et inf., accuse one of doing, E.Alc.1058:—Pass., to be convicted, Hdt.1.24,117; “
2. test, bring to the proof, “andrōn aretan pagkratēs elegkhei alatheia”
4. refute, confute, tina or ti, Pl.Grg.470c, al., D.28.2, Luc.Nigr.4:—Pass., Pl.Tht.162a; khrusos klēidas elegkhei proves that they avail not,
        b. put right, correct, prove by a reductio ad impossibile,

5. get the better of, stratian ōkutati e. Pi.P.11.49, cf. D.P.750, Him.Or.1.16.

6. expose, “tina lērounta” Pl.Tht.171d, cf. X.Mem.1.7.2, M.Ant.1.17; betray a weakness, Democr.222.

7. decide a dispute, “ana meson tōn duo” LXX Ge. 31.37.

Latin:
in-crĕpo

II.  transf.

A. To exclaim loudly against a person, to blame or upbraid loudly, to chide, rebuke, reprove.
C. With an abstract object, to reprove, censure, inveigh against any reprehensible quality or act of a person: “illis versibus increpant eorum arrogantiam,

TO PROTECT AGAINST THE PAGAN ANTITHESIS

2Timothy 4:3 For [I mean that]  the time will come
        when they will not endure sound doctrine;
         but after their own lusts

Hugiano  2. to be sound of mind, teachings
3.  of soundness in political or religious matters, esp. in part., “to hugiainon tēs Hellados” Id.7.15; hoi hugiainontes,
Opposite. turbulent agitators, Plb.28.17.12;
Opposite Kamno work
“hopē anthrōpos ekame” Berl.Sitzb. 1927.158 (Cyrene).--The pf. is always intr. (Cf. Skt. śamnīte 'work hard', 'serve zealously', śamitár- 'sacrificing priest', Gr. eiro-komos, komeō, komizō.)

2Timothy 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth,
        and shall be turned unto fables.

FABLES TO FOOL: Fābŭla , ae, f. fari,
B.  Of particular kinds of poetry.
1.  Most freq., a dramatic poem, drama, play (syn.: “ludus, cantus, actio, etc.): in full, fabula scaenica,” Amm. 28, 1, 4; “or, theatralis,” id. 14, 6, 20: “fabula ad actum scenarum composita,”fabulam, quae versatur in tragoediis atque carminibus non a veritate modo

FABLES TO FOOL:  Cantus , ūs, m. id., I. the production of melodious sound, a musical utterance or expression, either with voice or instrument; hence, song, singing, playing,
1. With the voice, a singing, song; in full, cantus vocum, Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 134: “fit etiam saepe vocum gravitate et cantibus ut pellantur animi, etc.,
2. With instruments, a playing, music: “citharae,” “horribili stridebat tibia cantu,” Cat. 64, 264: “querulae tibiae,  “lyrae,” Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 72: “tibicine
canto ,  Neutr., to produce melodious sounds (by the voice or an instrument), to sound, sing, play (class. in prose and poetry; rare in Cic.).
III. In the language of religion, as v. n. or a., to use enchantments, charms, incantations, to enchant, to charm, Cato, R. R. 160, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 27: “frigidus in pratis cantando rumpitur anguis,” Verg. E. 8, 71: “cantata Luna,” exorcised by magic, Prop. 4 (5), 5, 13. “falx,” Ov. H. 6, 84: “herbae,” id. M. 7, 98: “ignis,” Sil. 1, 430: “tum quoque cantato densetur carmine caelum,” an incantation, Ov. M. 14, 369.—
B.To call forth, produce by charms: “et chelydris [fetid serpent] cantare soporem,” Sil. 8, 498: “cantata umbra,” Luc. 6, 767.

FABLES TO FOOL:   Scaenĭcus (scen- ), a, um, adj., = skēnikos, I. of or belonging to the stage, scenic, dramatic, theatrical
stage-plays, theatrical representations, “fabula,” a drama, Amm. 28, 1, 4: “organa,” Suet. Ner. 44: “coronae,” id. ib. 53: “habitus,” id. ib. 38: “gestus,” Cic. de Or. 3, 59, 220: “modulatio,” Quint. 11, 3, 57:
1. scaē-nĭcus , i, m., a player, actor, Cic. Off. 1, 31, 114: “orator plurimum aberit a scaenico 2. scaenĭca , ae, f., a female player, an actress,

THE MOST POWERFUL WEAPON TO FOOL:

Orgănum , i, n., = organon,Of musical instruments, a pipe, Quint. 11, 3, 20; 9, 4, 10; Juv. 6, 3, 80; Vulg. Gen. 4, 21; id. 2 Par. 34, 12 et saep. an organ, water-organ: “organa hydraulica,” Suet. Ner. 41: aquatica, Mythogr. Lat. 3, 12.—Of a church-organ, Cass. Expos. in Psa. 150; Aug. Enarr. in Psa. 150, n. 7.—  B. Transf.: organum oris, the tongue of a man, Prud. steph

2Timothy 4:5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions,
        do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

"The Stone-Campbell Movement" is history no older than Leroy Garrett: it is the obverse side of Daniel Sommer.  Restoration movements happened all over the world long before either man.  At the time of the fraternal agreement on the Bible as Sole authority, there was not a single additional fundamental of Stone that Campbell accepted. It was and is used as psychological violence to try to paint churches of Christ as sectarian sowers of discord when they refused to affirm, attend and support churches having stolen the church houses of widows as Scribes and Pharisees whom Jesus marked as Hypocrites and Christ named as slick preachers, singers and instrument players (Ezekiel 33)

No one should ever be led into accepting human teachers for their foundation.

Leroy Garretts false teaching against baptism defended by the so-called Stone-Campbell Movement.

Leroy Garrett's giddy history of the Restoration Movement.

Churches named Church of Christ have existed from the Church in the Wilderness ordained by Christ the ROCK and have have known that "vocal or instrumental rejoicing including rhetoric or elevated speaking" was outlawed when the whole assembly was GATHERED or synagogued for Instructions from God only.  That never changed as the Church was quarantined from the Jacob-Cursed and God-burdened sacrificial system when the evil group fell into musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. God separated the groups and the demand for a king was the final straw: God gave them kings in His anger and took them away in His anger. They got their demand and the Bible and history knows that their religion was Sabazianism.

Died C. 110 Ignatius to the Ephesians

And if those that corrupt mere human families are condemned to death, how much more shall those suffer everlasting punishment who endeavour to corrupt the Church of Christ, for which the Lord Jesus, the only-begotten Son of God, endured the cross, and submitted to death! Whosoever, "being waxen fat," and "become gross," sets at nought His doctrine, shall go into hell.

In like manner, every one that has received from God the power of distinguishing, and yet follows an unskilful shepherd, and receives a false opinion for the truth, shall be punished.

"What communion hath light with darkness? or Christ with Belial? Or what portion hath he that believeth with an infidel? or the temple of God with idols? " And in like manner say I, what communion hath truth with falsehood? or righteousness with unrighteousness? or true doctrine with that which is false?

Justin Martyr defined the role of baptism, weekly worship, taking the Lord's Supper, sending the deacons with the supper to "shut-ins," and SPEAKING the Word of God. Logical, since singing as an act was not added until the year 373.

He was born and was baptized by John, that He might ratify the institution committed to that prophet.

Therefore in your concord and harmonious love, Jesus Christ is sung.
And do ye, man by man, become a choir, that being harmonious in love,
and taking up the song of God in unison,
ye may with one voice sing to the Father through Jesus Christ,

so that He may both hear you, and perceive by your works that ye are indeed the members of His Son. It is profitable, therefore, that you should live in an unblameable unity, that thus ye may always enjoy communion with God.

Churches Named Church of Christ without exception defended that only Christ speaks through commands, examples and inferences to those wishing to do the will of Christ.

Christ in Spirit defined the future REST both inclusively and exclusively.

Is. 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: (Spirit of Christ 1 Pet 1:11; Rev 19:10)
         if they speak not according to this word,
         it is because there is no light in them.

In Isaiah 50 He warned about the musical PLUCKERS
Isaiah 55 clearly defines both inclusively and exclusively of His Words which provide spirit and life.  Peter uses many of the same concepts to dare anyone to teach beyond the written memory of the Apostles who were eye and ear witnesses. This is a quick study for today. If that was not enough authority He defines the true Rest for the future church to exclude personal pleasure or even speaking your own words.  "Teach that which has been taught" should be warning enough.
Isaiah 58 has Christ urging a restoration and, as in the church in the wilderness, and Paul for the assembly forbidding seeking our own pleasure or even speaking our own words.

2 Peter 1 2Pet. 1:16  For we have not followed cunningly [sophizo]  devised fables,                   

Fables are myths from MUO [to shut the mouth: music forces the lambs to be silent before the slaughter]

Muthos   2. fiction (Opposite. logos, historic truth) Pindar Olympian 1 Pind. N. 7 [20]
2. public speech, “m. andressi melēsei” Od.1.358; “muthoisin skoliois” [The Crooked Race] Hes.Op.194

Pindar Olympian 1 From there glorious song enfolds the wisdom of poets, so that they loudly sing [10] the son of Cronus, when they arrive at the rich and blessed hearth of Hieron, who wields the scepter of law in Sicily of many flocks, reaping every excellence at its peak, and is glorified [15] by the choicest music,
Yes, there are many marvels, and yet I suppose the speech of mortals beyond the true account can be deceptive, stories adorned with embroidered lies; [30] and Grace, who fashions all gentle things for men, confers esteem and often contrives to make believable the unbelievable. But the days to come are the wisest witnesses.

Poikilos 2. of Art, p. humnos a song of changeful strain or full of diverse art, Pi.O.6.87; “poikilon kitharizōn”
Id.N.4.14; “dedaidalmenoi pseudesi poikilois muthoi” Id.O.1.29; of style, “lexis poiētikōtera kai p.” Isoc.15.47 (Comp.); “skhēmatismoi” D.H.Is.3.

Pind. N. 7 [20] And I expect that the story of Odysseus came to exceed his experiences, through the sweet songs of Homer, since there is a certain solemnity in his lies and winged artfulness, and poetic skill deceives, seducing us with stories, and the heart of the mass of men is blind.

The Logos Versus Mythos, Word Versus Music, Masculine Versus the Effeminate.

canto ,  Neutr., to produce melodious sounds (by the voice or an instrument), to sound, sing, play (class. in prose and poetry; rare in Cic.).
III. In the language of religion, as v. n. or a., to use enchantments, charms, incantations, to enchant, to charm, Cato, R. R. 160, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 27: “frigidus in pratis cantando rumpitur anguis,” Verg. E. 8, 71: “cantata Luna,” exorcised by magic, Prop. 4 (5), 5, 13. “falx,” Ov. H. 6, 84: “herbae,” id. M. 7, 98: “ignis,” Sil. 1, 430: “tum quoque cantato densetur carmine caelum,” an incantation, Ov. M. 14, 369.—

B.To call forth, produce by charms: “et chelydris [fetid serpent] cantare soporem,” Sil. 8, 498: “cantata umbra,” Luc. 6, 767.

The use of Instruments are always connected with God's impending judgment as by Christ in Isaiah 30 where the wind, string and percussion instruments are the MARKS in sight and sound of God driving His enemies into "hell."

In Revelation no one PLAYS instruments: they Apprehend or hold the Word of God. When you hear the SOUNDS LIKE filling the air in your congregation it is a WARNING of mortal danger. The other angel theologians never not commands thost STILL LIVING to Preach the Gospel. There is not a command, example or inference that God's righteous people ever assembled for congregational singing with or without instruments.  The Church of England which was a defacto Catholic church voted both to reject the high-church source of self-will and the use of the organ (only) in the very few large churches.  Queen Elizabeth vetoed the removal as Head of the church because she needed the pomp during STATE religious rituals.  This was exactly based on the not-commanded temple where everyone but Civil-Military-Clergy was not a worshiping communiity.

The Stoneites: Disciples and Christian Churches do not need to read that Biblical source which was taught by all of the historic Fathers and all of the founders of denominations.

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THE MARKS OF HERETICS OR SECTARIANS WHO IMPOSE AND DIVIDE.

The Anglican-Catholic rooted Disciples and Christians [Okelly] imposed instruments knowing that they would sow discord and by lying and cheating planning to steal the church houses of widows.  Anyone working to build promote both instrumental and non-iinstrumental Christian churches knows for a fact that they are flying a pirate's flag. They even use David as their foundation:

Psalms 150:1 Halal ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
Psalms 150:2 Halal him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
Psalms 150:3 Halal him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
Psalms 150:4 Halal him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
Psalms 150:5 Halal him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
Psalms 150:6 Let every thing that hath breath Halal the LORD. Halal ye the LORD.

When God turned the Civil-Military-Clergy complex over to WORSHIP THE STARRY HOST this is the mark of their PRAISE. It is also an end-time mark. Sorry your preacher missed Acts 7 etal.  Most if not all historical scholars understood the Psalms and INSTRUMENTS were under the KING and COMMANDERS OF THE ARMY and the MARK of their abandonment by God (see Acts 7 etal)

Canto ,  Neutr., to produce melodious sounds (by the voice or an instrument), to sound, sing, play (class. in prose and poetry; rare in Cic.).
III. In the language of religion, as v. n. or a., to use enchantments, charms, incantations, to enchant, to charm, Cato, R. R. 160, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 27: “frigidus in pratis cantando rumpitur anguis,” Verg. E. 8, 71: “cantata Luna,” exorcised by magic, Prop. 4 (5), 5, 13. “falx,” Ov. H. 6, 84: “herbae,” id. M. 7, 98: “ignis,” Sil. 1, 430: “tum quoque cantato densetur carmine caelum,” an incantation, Ov. M. 14, 369.—

B.To call forth, produce by charms: “et chelydris [fetid serpent] cantare soporem,” Sil. 8, 498: “cantata umbra,” Luc. 6, 767.

Anyone who can say "The Stone-Campbell Movement" is lying to further the agenda of hate against those who never used instruments at any time in recorded history, and REFUSED to begin doing what they had never done. The purpose is to claim that Churches of Christ sected out of the Disciples / Christian churches just becuse they were legalistic sectarians. This is purpose driven psychologial violence which has been pretty effective among the preacher guilds trained in preachercraft for which there is no role and no dole in ceremonial legalism or "theology" which ranks with phrenology as an art..  Of course, there are many differences between the present day Christian Church and Churches of Christ.  And why would Christian Churches want "unity" with the Disciples from whom they fled from from 1927 to 1971 at which time the Stone-Campbell began their well-funded attack on churches of Christ.

Again since within the Disciples of Christ ministers almost totally rejection of instruments; gradualism works wonders.
When a few liberals IMPOSED the organ (only) by force at Midway Ky.  By definition they became herects or a SECT within the disciples because they added something NOT REQUIRED against the views held "en toto" before their usurpation.

John Locke was born in 1632 proves that the Disciples who use "imagination" and "tradition" as two of the ways to find inspiration are NOT the same group as those who take the Bible to define faith and practices. The Papists and Lutherans, though both of them profess faith in Christ and are therefore called Christians, yet are not both of the same religion, because these acknowledge nothing but the Holy Scriptures to be the rule and foundation of their religion, those take in also traditions and the decrees of Popes and of these together make the rule of their religion;  and thus the Christians of St. John (as they are called) and the Christians of Geneva are of different religions, because  these also take only the Scriptures, and those I know not what traditions, for the rule of their religion. This being settled, it follows, first, that heresy is a separation made in ecclesiastical communion between men of the same religion for some opinions no way contained in the rule itself; and, secondly, that amongst those who acknowledge nothing but the Holy Scriptures to be their rule of faith, heresy is a separation made in their Christian communion for opinions not contained in the express words of Scripture. [there is no command, example or remote inference that God's people ever assembled for congregational singing with an instrument] 1. When the greater part, or by the magistrate's patronage the stronger part, of the Church separates itself from others by excluding them out of her communion because they will not profess their belief of certain opinions which are not the express words of the Scripture. The instrumentalists then and now said "get with it or get out" even to J.W.McGarvey For it is not the paucity of those that are separated, nor the authority of the magistrate, that can make any man guilty of heresy, but he only is a heretic who divides the Church into parts, introduces names and marks of distinction, and voluntarily makes a separation because of such opinions. Nor does it signify anything for them to say that their confessions and symbols are agreeable to Scripture and to the analogy of faith;for if they be conceived in the express words of Scripture, there can be no question about them, because those things are acknowledged by all Christians to be of divine inspiration and therefore fundamental.

Even on the edges of the heresy (defection from the general views) Alexander Campbell refused to preach in any church until they sat down the organ and organist.  You need to read many of the attacks against instruments from the time they were introduced.

It would just as logical for the Baptist to mount a hostile attack against churches of Christ because during the Pseudo-Unity period Alexander Campbell was a Reformed Baptist.

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FIRST, THE CHURCH OF CHRIST HAD IT'S ORIGIN IN THE WILDERNESS: it Received its power when God made Jesus of Nazareth to be both Lord and Christ to shut down the "wholly erroneous or SKIA covenant with death" and empowered the only spiritual Covenant God in Christ made with Abraham--a Gentile.

Christ, the Rock ordained the Church in the Wilderness: Stephen calls it the ekklesia so we might suggest that it was the Church of Christ.  The role of the Church of Christ has nothing to do with any Restoration Movement.  The Bible exclusion is proven by the fact that no one dared to introduce singing as an ACT until Constantine began paying pagans.

HISTORY: the inclusive and exclusive pattern is to teach the word of God. There can be no unity with people who use machines to confuse the rational or spiritual (Logos) mind of the Disciples.

HISTORY: The Command to teach The Book of The Law (Abrahamic).  While real scholars believe that the synagogue always existed where God had His own opinion to teach, the first pattern was given by Jethro BEFORE the people fell into musical idolatry of the Egyptian trinity which was beyond redemption.

Ex. 18:19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee:
        Be thou for the people to Godward,
        that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:
Ex. 18:20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, [The Book of The Covenant of Grace]
        and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk,
        and the work that they must do.

Caerĭmōnĭa

A. Objectively, sacredness, sanctity (in this sense rare, and only in sing.): sanctitas regum, et caerimonia deorum. Caes. ap. Suet. Caes. 6: legationis. Cic. Rosc. Am. 39, 113; Tac. A. 4, 64 fin.: 3, 61: loci. id. ib. 14, 22 fin.—

B.  Subjectively, a holy dread, awe, reverence, veneration of the Deity 

Ostendo , A, In gen., to show, disclose, exhibit, manifest: ille dies cum gloriā maximā sese nobis ostendat,
2.  ransf.: “vocem,” to make heard, Phaedr. 1, 13, 9.—
1. To show, express, indicate by speech or signs; to give to understand, to declare, say, tell, make known, etc. (syn.: indico, declaro, significo).—With acc.: “illud ostendit,” Cic. Att. 1, 1, 4.—With obj.- or rel.-clause: “ostendit se cum rege colloqui velle,” Nep. Con. 3, 2: conversation with a praecepter  or teacher. Verbum  a. Orally, by word of mouth. D. In eccl. Lat. as a translation of logos  which is opposite of poetry or music.

When these sacred assemblies were called they were to blow a horn as a signal.  However, they were not to alarm or try to triumph over the people with "vocal or instrumental rejoicing or elevated forms of speech."  Disciples know not to make music when Christ comes to teach.

Ex. 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide
        out of all the people able men, [Apt to teach that which has been taught]
        such as fear God,
        men of truth, [Thy Word is truth: scholars cannot produce this]
        hating covetousness; [Don't use your bread money to pay for the free Word Isaiah 55]
and place such over them, to be
        rulers of thousands,
        and rulers of hundreds,
        rulers of fifties, and 
        rulers of tens:

Synagogues were organized in a local area where the people were restricted to travel and WORK outlawed "sending out ministers of God."
Jesus invited the twos and threes to come OUTSIDE of the masses to rest and learn of ME. That means CENI.

HISTORY: AFTER THE FALL FROM GRACE BECAUSE OF MUSICAL IDOLATRY THE SYNAGOGUE WAS ORGANIZED.

See why no one should be seduced into an instrumental church: the Mount Sinai Event missed in universities. Sorry if you missed Acts 7 and the rest of the prophets.

Christ in the Prophets affirmed that it was Musical Idolatry which invited God to abandon them to the worship of the starry host and to be carried beyond Babylon.  God gave them kings in His anger to carry out this sentence.

The Jacob-Cursed tribe of Levi was given the burden of their own sins and the burden of the Tabernacle and later Temple. They were not commanded to be Musical Worship Ministers (the Pattern of the Stone-Campbell Movement).  Because they had executed 3000 of the brethren because of musical idolatry God commanded that they STAND IN RANKS and make a loud noise to warn any godly civilian that if they came near or into any holy place they would be executed.  If you missed that you cannot be a historian.

HISTORY: THE QAHAL, SYNAGOGUE OR CHURCH OF CHRIST IN THE WILDERNESS

The inclusive and exclusive pattern for the only assembly God ever called for the godly people. The Synagogue



Those out of Presbyterian roots continued to do what they had always done or NOT done.  For the Stone Campbell scholars who missed it, John Calvin defined the synagogue in Numbers 10.  The Latin is more direct in its definition.

John Calvin Numbers 10 the Synagogue.

The best literature against instruments are from the Reformed groups contemporaneous with Thomas and Alexander Campbell.  None of the denominations used instruments although the Black Free Methodists found it to be a good fund raiser.  Therefore, what you define as the Instrumental Disciples or Christian Churches did not exist until THEIR congregations were confiscated to introduce instruments.  This was in response to the huge debt from the building wars which were no longer funded from Carpet Baggs.