amorphous_constellation
Well-Known Member
It seems that music has often been referred to in Abrahamic traditions , but it isn't clear if its role was standardized into well defined modes of theological utility. In other words, I don't believe that its use would specifically atone for anything in Leviticus or Deuteronomy etc., yet man seems to try to make it do something for God, or various passages seem to ascribe it as perhaps affecting God.
One wonders if one ancient intent for music was to affect deities, but perhaps it was not considered to be physical enough to impress them all that much. Otherwise, the ancient lore would call for songs instead sacrificial smoke smells, for instance. But what does harp playing do for God, or singing, as the bible declared that the voice was the 'sweetest' instrument, and a harp type instrument to be calming
Once we are in the new testament, music hardly seems to figure in at all, though there you think would. The theological rules change, so that God is said to be more impressed by 'the praises of one's lips.'
One wonders if one ancient intent for music was to affect deities, but perhaps it was not considered to be physical enough to impress them all that much. Otherwise, the ancient lore would call for songs instead sacrificial smoke smells, for instance. But what does harp playing do for God, or singing, as the bible declared that the voice was the 'sweetest' instrument, and a harp type instrument to be calming
Once we are in the new testament, music hardly seems to figure in at all, though there you think would. The theological rules change, so that God is said to be more impressed by 'the praises of one's lips.'