JohnV
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
Ian:
[quote:ecdef815bc]John,
You are saying that the burden of proof is on the EPers without providing an argument that this is so. You are stating your conclusion in other words. I maintain that the burden of proof is on non-EPers to prove that uninspired songs are sanctioned acts of worship. I have my explicit command in the scriptures, whereas the non-EPer does not.
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Who said anything about uninspired songs? Not me.
If you have your expicit command then why not show that explicit command to the rest of us? The burden of proof is always on the tenet to be necessarily proven from Scripture, to show that it is a directive from God. That has not been done. If it is not explicit it has to be necessarily implicit, not just implicit.
There is mucy more to this than meets the eye. Just as we use analogy in the use of the OT laws, rather than just implementing all OT case laws, so we need to use analogy, not selectively but with proper judgment. Opposition to EP is not tacit licence for rock bands, nor even for uninspired songs. But again, even here, we need to apply ourselves not to make the fallacy of equivocation on the term 'uninspired'.
I am not against the RPW; I am not against the liberal use of the Psalms in worship; I am not in favour of a careless use of hymns; and I do not stand opposed to those who wish to impose an EP in their worship. All I am saying is that it goes against fundamental principles in the WCF to impose something that is not of necessity imposed by Scripture.
That word 'necessity' is so important. It cannot just be that we can derive an EP from Scripture; it cannot just be that some people are convinced of it from Scripture; it has to be that it is the only conclusion that we can come to from Scripture, and that it is can be no other way.
So we have to establish the OT formality of worship, in distinction from informal worship, for the NT church; we have to establish that the use of Psalms in formal worship was strictly from the 150 Psalms; we have to explain the use of songs in worship of God which are not from the Psalter, recorded in the NT; we have to be very proficient understanding of music itself, not just of the cultually oriented methodology we're used to; we have to..., well we have a lot of ground to cover.
If we take Girardeau as an example, then we can see how there are more questions made than answered. And in the end, EP still has not been edstablished by necessity. Until that 'necessity' is satisfied, the burden remains on EP.
[quote:ecdef815bc]John,
You are saying that the burden of proof is on the EPers without providing an argument that this is so. You are stating your conclusion in other words. I maintain that the burden of proof is on non-EPers to prove that uninspired songs are sanctioned acts of worship. I have my explicit command in the scriptures, whereas the non-EPer does not.
[/quote:ecdef815bc]
Who said anything about uninspired songs? Not me.
If you have your expicit command then why not show that explicit command to the rest of us? The burden of proof is always on the tenet to be necessarily proven from Scripture, to show that it is a directive from God. That has not been done. If it is not explicit it has to be necessarily implicit, not just implicit.
There is mucy more to this than meets the eye. Just as we use analogy in the use of the OT laws, rather than just implementing all OT case laws, so we need to use analogy, not selectively but with proper judgment. Opposition to EP is not tacit licence for rock bands, nor even for uninspired songs. But again, even here, we need to apply ourselves not to make the fallacy of equivocation on the term 'uninspired'.
I am not against the RPW; I am not against the liberal use of the Psalms in worship; I am not in favour of a careless use of hymns; and I do not stand opposed to those who wish to impose an EP in their worship. All I am saying is that it goes against fundamental principles in the WCF to impose something that is not of necessity imposed by Scripture.
That word 'necessity' is so important. It cannot just be that we can derive an EP from Scripture; it cannot just be that some people are convinced of it from Scripture; it has to be that it is the only conclusion that we can come to from Scripture, and that it is can be no other way.
So we have to establish the OT formality of worship, in distinction from informal worship, for the NT church; we have to establish that the use of Psalms in formal worship was strictly from the 150 Psalms; we have to explain the use of songs in worship of God which are not from the Psalter, recorded in the NT; we have to be very proficient understanding of music itself, not just of the cultually oriented methodology we're used to; we have to..., well we have a lot of ground to cover.
If we take Girardeau as an example, then we can see how there are more questions made than answered. And in the end, EP still has not been edstablished by necessity. Until that 'necessity' is satisfied, the burden remains on EP.