Russ Adcox on the Law of Silence which is always used to promote the use of instrumental music. The Law of Silence is owned by the Disciples/Christian churches. They also use "traditionalism" and historical church decisions to determine authority. The use of T.B.Larimore is such an attempt to trump the clear word of God and history by appealing to those who choose not to "express an opinion" when the Word of God was never silent. It is correct to say that most of those doing worship wars do not know what Christ in Spirit taught by associating instruments with Lucifer called the singing and harp playing prostitute in the Garden of Eden, religious frenzy producers, warriors threatening molestation for those who did not flee, prostitutes and Sodomintes. There is no other recorded history of religious music which always connectes it to deceivers and the lower classes who could not appreciate the reading of the Word.
For follow up proof that the Bible and all historic scholars and founders of denominations always defended the Bible as the sole source for faith and practice. You are free to discuss it.
Russ Adcox: Here's What I'm Talking About
T.B. Larimore (1843-1929) was a preacher in our heritage around the time of the split over instrumental music. He refused to make it an issue (i.e. was silent where the Bible is silent). Throughout his ministry he continued preaching in both instrumental and non-instrumental churches. Naturally, he was criticized sharply. In 1897 someone wrote an article in the Christian Standard demanding that Larimore take a side in the debate. Here's part of Larimore's response:
First, we take issue with the usual HERITAGE word: When God condemns instruments from Genesis to Revelation, and all church fathers and founders of denominations warned about the violation of commands and instrucing a destructive practice and all denominations repudiated instruments, the fact that groups known as The Church of Christ never used instruments in the face of God, the "heritage" word is a RACA word to claim that the Church of Christ just invented NOT using instruments. Not beginning to do something they had never done is claimed by these people as deliberately sowing discord. Not using "machines for doing hard work" and which would be nit witty in a school of the Bible is not a vile disease caught from our ignorant ancestors.
Secondly, Alexander Campbell mocked the idea that a few handshakes ever "unioned" what became the Disciples / Christian church and what becamethe Church of Christ. See our confession from William Nottingham in our review of Restoration Roots.
The Disciples fell for the prophecies of William Miller (aka Seventh Day Adventists) that Jesus would return in 1843. Because they believed in a literal reign of Christ in what He called "Sodom" they formed a society. It was required of them to SAVE all of the Jews in Israel to make it POSSIBLE for Jesus to return. That was the motive of the ecumenical lust of Jubilee etal believing that Y2K must see us all in one big lump to enable Jesus to return and give THEM a high office in dispensing rewards and judgement.Russ Adcox: Never, publicly or privately, have I expressed opinion or preference relative to any of these "matters"...over which brethren are wrangling and disputing and dividing the church of Christ--NEVER. Rather, I am for Christ and I believe I can do for him, his cause and humanity without meddling in these "matters"; hence I let them alone, and just simply "preach the Word," "the gospel of Christ," the power of God unto salvation."
The term Millenniel Harbinger was used to expose ALL of the millenniel theories and repudiate them all. While the Church of Christ was never "unioned" Nottingham sees this folly as what split the Christian church from the Disciples from 1927-1971 when they began "unity" efforts meaning that everyone has to endorse instruments. They took it for granted that Alexander Campbell agreed with them just as Richard Hughes and C. Leonard Allen and their disciples failed to do their homework before setting out to sow discord.
Good for him: Alexander Campbell would preach anywhere but not until the organ and organist had been shut down. Resting the case FOR instruments on T.B. Larimore does not prove that he would fellowship an instrumental church meaning to attend, support, defend and promote the use of instruments. Preaching for or visiting does not mean "fellowship" in the sense that the changelings demand that we cease teaching what the Bible teaches. Larimore
“I am for Christ,” he said, “and I believe I can do more for him, his cause and humanity without meddling with these ‘matters’; hence I let them alone, and just simply ‘preach the Word,’ ‘the gospel of Christ’, the power of God unto salvation.”
If you just preached the gospel of Christ then by definition you would be radically opposed to the Scribes and Pharisees He called hypocrites by pointing to speakers, singers and instrument players.
It was prophesied and fulfilled that Judas would try to Triumph Over or alarm Jesus Christ: This is the "vocal or instrumental rejoicing" Christ outlawed for the synagogue or church in the wilderness.
But, the real Jesus cast out the musical minstrels using a term "like dung." He consigned the pipers, singers and dancers to the other polluted practices of the marketplace.
The Alpha and Omega warned about the end time when the Babylon mother of harlots would use "lusted after fruits" (same as in Amos) as speakers, singers and instrument players. John called them sorcerers (Rev 17-18) and so all Greek musical terms and names of instruments point to the effeminate who were always the sorceresses even if in the message of Paul, they had to get emasculated and even gender-reassigned. There is no history which does not connect males doing religious singing and playing other than being "drunk, perverted or just having fun."
THE FALSE CLAIM THAT NOT USING INSTRUMENTS FOR 2,000 YEARS IS BASED ON A LAW OF SILENCE
First, let's dispense with the usual falsehoods spread in encyclopedic levels.
See Richard L. Hamm and the Disciples of Christ Creed
H. Leo Boles on Unity
The other alternative that many took, and still advocate, is to place the organ in the "area of silence" or in the field of expediency. But if there is no stronger reason for using the instrument than the opinions and judgments of men, it is sinful to force the use of the instrument in worshiping upon God's people. If it is placed in the field of opinion and judgment of men, not only may it be abandoned, but should be, for it invades the realm of divine revelation.
God's children, to be loyal to his word, must oppose the use of the instrument in the worship. Those who use the organ in worship make it "a test of fellowship"; they sustain the attitude that if you do not submit to the use of the instrument in worship, then you can have no fellowship with us.
A
denial of making it "a test of fellowship" does not
change the
logic of the situation;
neither
does the charge that those who oppose
the use of the instrument in worship
are
disturbers of the peace and
unity of God's people make it true; the charge is not a proof of the
fact.
Those who oppose the use of the instrument in worship are walking by faith in opposing it,
but those who introduce it are making it "the test of fellowship."
"Areas of silence," "liberty of opinion," and "the realm of expediency" are trite phrases used by leaders in the "Christian Church" and have been coined and put on a par with the teachings of the New Testament. It is just another way of saying that the opinions of men may guide the people of God, and that some of the people of God should submit to the opinions of men. There was unity with God's people so long as they respected the slogan, "Where the scriptures speak, we speak; and where the scriptures are silent, we are silent"; but when brethren began to claim the authority to speak where the New Testament is silent, and impose their opinions upon other brethren, division and separation were the inevitable results.
W.R. Walker, in Christian Standard, May 27, 1939, said: "There are two areas in our religious living in which the authority of Christ must be recognized. The first embraces all his teaching and that of his inspired followers, the `vocal area' ; but there is another area, the `area of silence."' He further said:"I am persuaded that Christ has authority in the `areas of silence.'Here are the two standards or rules recognized by many in the "Christian Church," namely, that of "walking by faith," and that of "walking by opinion." W.R. Walker calls the opinions of man in the "areas of silence" "the authority of Christ." This is tantamount to saying that man's opinions in the "areas of silence" are of equal force with the word of God.
Christ, by his silence, in every situation concerning which he has left no direct teaching,
has bestowed on me this authority to act for myself."
I join issue with him on this point. There can be no unity in the "area of silence," as there can be no unity on opinions when each man claims the authority to do what is right in his own eyes. This would violate every scripture that God has given instructing his people to be "of the same mind, the same judgment of one accord."
THE BIBLE DEFINES ITS OWN LEVEL OF AUTHORITY
See that God took the Right to Command, Example and Infer from the very beginning. That is because He is God and we are not. Those intending to hurt those who will not submit to their assumption of rights over YOUR opinion and conscience love to claim that the ANTI-instrumental legalists just invented this concept because they were naturally evil.
THE USE OF ISOLATED HUMAN AUTHORITIES TO SUPPORT THE DELIBERATE SOWING OF DISCORD.
No one promoting instrumental music fails to prove that tolerance trumps truth by using T.B.Larrimore. As a roving preacher Larrimore did not want to offend either side of a church already split by the instrumental sectarians. This was the beginning of freezing out the evangelists by practicing located evangelism by exchanging pulpits.
Published Monthly by T. R. Burnett"The city churches know very well how to settle the pastor question, and stop the division over that issue. Just send the hired preacher out to preach the gospel, which is his scriptural duty, and restore the elders to their Bible functions. But will they do it? Prof. T. B. Larimore once held a meeting that continued five months.The "law of silence" about the use of that which was always denounced is building upon the false foundation of preachers which have no office and no funding. If the preachers had not bee prowling like wolves the instrument sect would never have reared its ugly head. A better way to solve ALL fellowship division would be to organize a true ekklesia or synagogue commanded, exampled, inferenced by Christ and practiced for almost 400 years. That was about the time preachers swarmed in from paganism to get paid and singing as an ACT was added in the year 373.
At the last sermon there were five confessions, and he said the meeting closed "too soon." He wants to hold a meeting (before he dies) that shall continue one year. He is only seventy-two. Burnett's Budget
"The bishops to feed the flock, the deacons to serve in secular affairs, and the evangelists to carry the good news to the world. That is God's system. You can not beat it, unless you are wiser than God.
PAUL OUTLAWED DOUBTFUL DISPUTATIONS OR DIVERSE OPINIONS
To not judge people on the basis of where they bought their food is used by the instrumentalists to insist on the RIGHT to impose instruments on YOU and you have no right to object.
“Disputing” implies a questioning mind and suggests an arrogant attitude by those who assume they’re always right. Arguing with others in the body of Christ is disruptive. That’s why Paul spent the first part of chapter 2 on humility.
To dwell above, with saints we love, that will be grace and glory
But to live below with saints we know, now that’s a different story!Dialogismos is used 14 times in the NAS (Matthew; Mark; Luke 6x; Romans 2x; 1 Corinthians; Philippians; 1 Timothy; James) and is translated as: argument, 1; disputing, 1; dissension, 1; doubts, 1; motives, 1; opinions, 1; reasonings, 2; speculations, 1; thoughts, 3; what...were thinking, 2
NIDNTT notes that...
In the NT dialogizomai (related verb) and dialogismos are always used with a slightly depreciatory connotation. The thoughts of the human heart do not necessarily lead, as the Greeks thought, to a knowledge of the truth (cf. 1 Cor. 1:21-25), but are evil (Mk. 7:21; Matt. 15:19), full of doubt and suspicion (Mk. 2:6, 8; Lk. 5:22; 6:8), moved by the passing moment (Lk. 3:15), full of greed (Lk. 12:17; 20:14), always concerned with the superficial (Mk. 8:16f.; Matt. 16:7f.) and full of sly calculation (Matt. 11:25; Mk. 11:31).
That is to enable what Paul called "synagogue" in Romans 15. Paul outlawed SELF pleasure which points to the "creating of mental excitement" always attributed to the hypocritic arts of rhetoric, singing or playing instruments. The command was to use one mouth to tead "that which is written" or Scribture.
PAUL COMMANDED THE WORD SPEAK WHICH IS THE OPPOSITE OF POETRY OR MUSIC
Rom 14:19 Let us therefore follow after the things
Psallo is DEFACTO a WARFARE WORD. Other than the pagan singers SHOOTING OUT HYMNS or even "Love Arrows" the word had NO musical content. They DO call it the WORSHIP WARS because warriors decided to make war on God and His people.
which make for peace, and
things wherewith one may edify another. [educate]
Tertullian,understood the destructive effect of spectacle on the human body. For instance we discuss the creation of endorphins in the body by music or any visual-audible perfORMANCE
"and not to vex Him with rage, ill-nature, anger, or grief. Well, how shall this be made to accord with the shows?
- For the show always leads to spiritual agitation,
- since where there is pleasure,
- there is keenness of feeling giving pleasure its zest;
- and where there is keenness of feeling,
- there is rivalry giving in turn its zest to that.
- Then, too, where you have rivalry,
- you have rage, bitterness, wrath and grief."
- (Tertullian, de Spectaculis, Ante-Nicene, III, p. 8
Romans 15 defines the EDIFICATION or EDUCATION ASSEMBLY. The synagogue or ekklesia "had no praise service." For the synagogue or church in the wilderness it was OUTLAWED.
Psallo speaks of Cantus and Psallere as jucunde.
Canto , III. In the lang. of religion, to use enchantments, charms, incantations, to enchant, to charm: John used the word SORCERY. Jucunde pointing to the self-pleasure and the word HEDONE orvŏluptŭōsus which includes charizô 3. in erotic sense, grant favours to a man,which is what Paul outlawed.
Rom 15:1 WE then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Music HURTS or causes PANIC which the vipers sell as the SPIRIT inside. That is why you don't ABUSE or mollest people who do not hear "churchy" (voodoo derived) singing as pleasant but as ABRADING which is the very rood meaning of PSALLO "to grind into a fine powder."
"Please self" is a concept which includes the "laded burden" Jesus died to remove meaning "creation of spiritual anxiety through religious rituals." It inclu In Romans 15:1
G700 aresky ar-es'-ko Probably from G142 (through the idea of exciting emotion); to be agreeable (or by implication to seek to be so):please.
G142 airo ah'ee-ro A primary verb; to lift; by implication to take up or away; figuratively to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind); specifically to sail away (that is, weigh anchor); by Hebraism (compare [ H5375 ]) to expiate sin: away with, bear (up), carry, lift up, loose, make to doubt, put away, remove, take (away, up).
Rom. 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning,Aedificatio, III. Figurative, building up, instructing, edification. Absolute: loquitur ad Aedificationem Ecclesiae, Vulg. 1 Cor. 14, 12 ; ib. Eph. 4, 12.
that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
Rom. 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
Rom. 15:6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.The phrase loquitur ad Aedificationem Ecclesiae defines THE meaning of the ekklesia or church and the same METHOD excludes music of any kind. Singing would be the ODE which defines "Hebrew cantillation" which means SPEAK as in the word SPEAK.
DOGMATICS NEED "AIDS" WHEN THEY REJECT THE READING AND DISCUSSION OF THE WORD.Loquor a. [Sanscr. lap-, to talk, whisper; Gr. lak-, elakon, laskô], to speak, talk, say (in the language of common life, in the tone of conversation;
B. Act. 1. To speak out, to say, tell, talk about, mention, utter, name, declare, show, indicate or express clearly
logik-os , ę, on, ( [logos] )
A. of or for speaking or speech, merę l. the organs of speech, Plu.Cor.38: logikę, hę, speech, opposite to mousikę, D.H. Comp. 11; l. phantasia expressed in speech, Stoic.2.61 .
Mousikos II. of persons, skilled in music, musical, III. of things, elegant, delicate, brômata Diox.1 ; professional musicians, mousikos kai melôn poętęs, hędion ouden, oude -ôteron Philem.23 ; harmonious [in tune], fitting, trophę
Presuming to add AIDS to assist God and His Word is called DOGMA. Those who use dogma are called dogmatic.
Preaching was added because people rejected the direct commands of Christ in Spirit in Isaiah 58 which outlawed seeking your own pleasure or even speaking your own words. The alternative to keep from burning was to spend that money on the poor.Dogma is the Greek Autonomia or Self made laws: 3. dogmatism it includes POETRY poi-ętikos or poetic license. Dogma would be "sermons" as opposed to "teaching" or "songs" which are SELF composed and imposed on the church as LAW.
Dogma is: Poi-ętikos A.capable of making, creative, productive Opposite to praktikos or useful. Strong, vigorous. with mousikoi II. of persons, skilled in music, musical, melody, used to speak before a mob, elegant, delicate, effeminate. Hedone
Dogma is: Hedone A. enjoyment, pleasure, first in Simon.71, S.l.c., Hdt.1.24, al.; prop. of sensual pleasures, desires after pleasure, pleasant lusts, X.Mem.1.2.23, Ep.Tit.3.3, al.
Dogma is: Charizo: In erotic sense, grant favors, to a man, comedy, gratify or indulge a humar of passion. Give up as a favor by dropping a law aimed at him,
Dogmatic is Theorematikos or interpreted as SEEN or the Greek Oneiros as seen in a dreem, similes or metaphors or anything unreal or fleeting
Oneiros you are telling me what I know already, oneiron hupokrinesthai 2. as pr. n. dream personified, 3. in similes or metaphors, of anything unreal or fleeting, skia,
hupokrinô 2.expound, interpret, explain, II. Att., speak in dialogue, hence play a part on the stage, the part played, an actor, tragoidias, komoidian, play, drama, 2.deliver a speech, declaim, of orators and rhetoricians, represent dramatically, ape, mimic histrionic arts, play a part, feign, pretend. Latin Canto I.Neutr., to produce melodious sounds (by the voice or an instrument), to sound, sing, play, sing and play while the actor accompanies the song with gestures or dancing, C.Transf., of instruments, to sound, resound
3. in similes or metaphors, of anything unreal or fleeting, dreams of wealth,
Skia A shadow, 3.shade of one dead, phantom, proverbs of man's mortal estate, Evil spirit, uninvited guest
If anyone, while acting as ambassador or herald, conveys false messages from his State to another State, or fails to deliver the actual message he was sent to deliver, or is proved to have brought back, as ambassador or herald, either from a friendly or hostile nation, their reply in a false form,--against all such there shall be laid an indictment for breaking the law by sinning against the sacred messages and injunctions of Hermes and Zeus, and an assessment shall be made of the penalty they shall suffer or pay,
Son, and herald, of Zeus, and a master of speech (and of lies).
WHAT IS A CHURCH
For honorable people you can settle the Law of Silence claimed to be invented to impose musical instruments by understanding: WHAT IS THE CHURCH.
Jesus' promise uses the word ekklesia which defined a roughly-weekly assembly of mature citizens. This was held up on the Pnyx in Athens quite removed from the Agora or marketplace. As Jesus consigned the pipers, singers and dancers to the marketplace, the decent citizens consigned them to the Agora where they sold songs, sermons, various foods for all diets, bodies of boys and the place of many pagan temples.
The Levi tribe had been turned over to worship the starry host because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. There was still no rationale for instrumental noise until "God gave them kings in His anger and took them away in His anger." They kings were selected to carry out the captivity and death sentence for most of the nations.
- The church #1577 ekklesia - assembly, called out ones, set apart ones, congregation; in Hebrew this word is #6951 qahal (kahal) - a "synagogue" (E. W. Bullinger, Commentary on Revelation, p. 165-166), an assemblage, congregation, company from the root #6950 qahal meaning specifically a coming together, an assembling, a convocation, congregation; this word is used mostly for religious purposes (see William Wilson's Old Testament Word Studies, p. 92)
The LXX uses the word ekklesia to translate the Hebrew qahal. Qahal means to call, to assemble, and the noun form means a congregation or assembly. Solomon is called koheleth the Preacher, translated by the LXX ekklesiastes. The earliest known occurrence of the word is found in Job 30:28, ‘I cried in the congregation’. In the books of the law, qahal is rendered by the Greek word sunagoge, showing that the synagogue is the beginning of the New Testament church. Stephen in his speech which ended in his martyrdom referred to the history of Israel, and dwells for considerable length upon the one great leader Moses, saying in Acts 7:38:
The people's assembly was only called to hear the reading and rehearsing of the Word of God. The day was REST or sabbath which never meant saturday or worship but REST. The rest would be FROM the pagan idolaters who worshipped on the Sabbath.‘This is he, that was in the CHURCH in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sinai’. The people of Israel, looked upon as ‘a called-out assembly’ were ‘the Church’ of that period.
The Holy Convocation was INCLUSIVE of Rest, Reading and Rehearsing the Word of God.
It was EXCLUSIVE of vocal or instrumental rejoicing: aweful Aaron was too bright to make noises when the Words of God were being taught. The Holy Convocation is h 4744 Miqra. ALL of the prophets defined the teaching assembly and repudiated the Civil-Military-Clergy class as robbers and parasites: that is what was prophed by God through Samuel. Christ defined the Spiritual people only through the writing prophets.
Neh. 8:5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:
Neh. 8:6 And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground.
Neh. 8:7 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.
Neh. 8:8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that PREACH him, being READ in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Because it was ordained by Christ in Spirit, the Church of Christ began as it continued and quarantined the people from the curse of the sacrificial system, and because those direct commands were never changed, Christ continued to attend the synagogue and therefore did not need to OUTLAW that which He had outlawed from the beginning.
THOSE WHO THINK THAT EKKLESIA OR SYNAGOGUE IS A WORSHIP CENTER WHERE YOU CAN SOW DISCORD SHOULD RESIGN.
See the history of the Synagogue to see that "there was never a praise service in the synagogue" by direct command and minimal common sense.
See John Calvin's comments on Numbers 10.
The Church of Christ in the Wilderness outlaws specificiall the musical mocking Judas would use to try to panic Jesus.
Would that Russ Adcox followe Larimore rather than contribute to the deliberate sowing of discord over instruments.
Others had their opinion of T.B.Larimore so we won't use him to trump the Words of Christ.
B. LARIMORE: THE MAN WHO WOULD NOT FIGHT Bro. T. B. Larimore was one of the great evangelists of the church from 1870-1925. He was loved and respected by all who knew him for his pleasant temperament and peaceable spirit. All change agents cite the example of Bro. T. B. Larimore as they seek to persuade conservative brethren to sit silently while they work to change the church and capture congregations, church buildings and schools.
When a similar change movement swept through our brotherhood, following the Civil War, Bro. Larimore chose to devote himself to evangelism rather than taking a strong stand against those who were abandoning the restoration plea and corrupting the faith. He steadfastly refused to condemn their innovations or to break fellowship with those who were introducing instrumental music and missionary societies into the churches.
Modern promoters of change usually fail to mention that he did have sufficient conviction to pitch his tent with the conservative brethren of the churches of Christ rather than with the progressives of the Disciples of Christ. Bro. Larimore faced questions such as, "How should we worship in order to please God? Or are we allowed to tamper with the structure of Christ's sacred church?"
Douglas Foster comments, "To Larimore those issues were not worth dividing the body of Christ" (Will the Cycle Be Unbroken? p. 157). This of course is what Bro. Foster wants his readers to conclude about the innovations of the change movement. He does not consider the possibility that Bro. Larimore was naive about what was actually happening to the church of his day...just as many are naive today. Perhaps Larimore's personality was such that he could not bring himself to confront those who were walking away from the ancient gospel standard. It is reasonable to ask if Bro. Larimore's actions reflected a proper spirit for a Christian soldier in the face of hostile enemies (I Tim.6:12)?
God does command us to "Contend earnestly for the faith" (Jude 3). Like Paul we are to be set for the defense of gospel (Phil.1:16). We must ask, if every member of the conservative churches had responded as did Larimore, what would have been the result? Would we even exist today? Would all have been swept into apostasy? Do our modern change agents think such would have been the preferable course? Is that what they want for today?
Bro. Foster naively asserts, "if everyone had had T. B. Larimore's attitude, the problems would never have been blown up into divisive issues in the first place" (Ibid. p. 158). Either he doesn't know or chooses not to mention that the progressive brethren did not have that sweet, passive spirit. They were determined to have instruments in our churches and involve all in their missionary societies. They pushed their agenda and even resorted to stealth to gain control of congregations. If all had passively stood by, all would have been swept away. The same is true today.
During the controversy, Bro. Larimore held a lengthy gospel meeting for the church in Sherman, Texas. Dr. Foster mentions
that the progressives of the church in Sherman were meeting at separate times from the conservatives
so they could worship with their instruments (Ibid. p.152).This is similar to the "alternative services" modern change agents use to get a foot hold in a conservative church. A year later he notes that the "pro-instrument faction withdrew to form what they called the First Christian Church" (Ibid.). If our change folks cannot take the property, you can expect them to leave in order to worship as they wish.
In time of war, every patriotic citizen does his part to help his nation through the conflict. Some produce food, others produce war materials. Some are warriors, some are medics. Some drive supply trucks, others fly bombers that rain death on the enemy. Some plan strategies, others process the paperwork. But all who faithfully do their part are good citizens who together serve their nation. So it is in the church. While we do not fault Bro. Larimore's passive stand, but neither should we fault Tolbert Fanning, David Lipscomb, Jacob Creath, Jr., Benjamin Franklin or the other noble men who fought valiantly to save a remnant from the apostasy that confronted them. We are much indebted to them for the survival of the church and our existence today. JHW
Another false charge by Hughes:
Yet where instrumental music was introduced, those who opposed it could not continue worshiping there. Errett counseled that if a congregation chose to use instrumental music, there might have to be a separation. But this should not result in hatred and excommunication of each other. They should continue to do everything together they could without violating their consciences. In reality, that was a very hard proposition--yet there were a few who showed it could be done. J. W. McGarvey opposed instruments, and when they were added to his Lexington, Kentucky church he quietly moved to another congregation. But he always maintained fellowship with those who used instruments and never condemned them as lost. T. B. Larimore opposed both the missionary society and instrumental music. But he expressed his attitude toward the issues as matters of fellowship in no uncertain terms.
See that J.W.McGarvey blames those who sow discord and we know that God HATES those who sow discord.
SEE RUSS ADCOX ON GALATIANS and the MARKS (sights and sounds) of ANOTHER GOSPEL
People want Paul to preach something differently than the obedience gospel of the other apostles. This then permits "salvation by faith only" without emphasizing baptism. However, Paul preached the same gospel and demanded that only after obedience in baptism were they "then free from sin." This series has as its objective more tolerance for instrumental music.
9.12.09