Re: [Church_of_Christ] Re: Can you guess?
Greetings Scott here Ed wrote: >The biblical concept of edification does not mean feel good or like it. Biblical edification >means to build up spiritually. Hi Ed, 1 Cor 14:26 What is it then, brethren? When ye come together, each one hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. When Christians come together should all things be done for "edification" meaning that all things should be done for building one up and strengthening of one another? 1 Cor 14:18-19 I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all: howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
Is the assembly a time for self-edification? Does the Holy Spirit through Paul make a contrast between intelligible and understandable speech, as opposed to mere sound and noise?
If the tongue speaker has no interpreter, what does he offer other than sound and noise? If the mind receives no instruction, if nothing intelligible is taught, is the assembly being edified in the manner in which God intends? When we sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, making melody in the heart, are we also to teach and admonish and speak to one another? 1 Cor 14:19 (NIV) "In the church I would rather speak 5 intelligible words to instruct others than 10,000 words in a tongue." Does music that does not teach, admonish, or speak to us, -- music that carries no intelligible, understandable message, --accomplish edification as God expects it in the assembly? 1 Cor 14:15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. Is understanding important in prayer and singing? Does edification in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs require that they also teach, admonish and speak to us in an understandable manner? Other than noise, what does a an instrument contribute to the edification of an assembly? I'm not asking if we like it or not I'm not asking if it affects our mood I'm not asking if it reminds us of something, someplace or some other time I'm asking, does the noise of the instrument offer any intelligible, understandable, word that teaches, admonishes, or uplifts the congregation?
If not, then it is not edifying in the manner that the Holy Spirit through Paul uses the word. Yours in the Great Hope, Scott P. Wiley a sinner saved by grace, Clay City, IN swileyusa@yahoo. Blog: http://scotthere. A new Decalogue has been adopted by the neo-Christians of our day, the first word of which reads,"Thou shalt not disagree"; and a new set of Beatitudes too,which begins "Blessed are they that tolerate everything, for they shall not be made accountable for anything." - A.W. Tozer |
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