ColdSilverMoon
Puritan Board Senior
No, that's not the point. Instruments are just that - tools used for worshipping God, but unable to worship God by themselves. Tim's point is that God gave man the ability to worship Him through inventions such as instruments.
Exodus 20:25 'And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it.
Before you dismiss this as patently unrelated to the issue under discussion, think about the reason for this command and the purpose of worship...
Well, this discussion isn't about the sacrificial system, which is what your Scripture reference concerns. Sacrifices were necessarily 100% pure (or at least symbolically so), otherwise they could not atone for sin. Worship does not require perfection. If only perfect people could worship, churches would be quite empty on Sunday morning...