OPC'n
Puritan Board Doctor
I'm starting this post because I'm the one who hijacked Chris' post. He wants us to wait for comments until he can move the unrelated comments on his posts to this one.
This post will be two-fold:
1. How does the 2nd Commandment correlate with EP only?
2. Can you stay in a church that violates your conscience concerning the EP?
I'm not convinced of the EP only stance for reasons I'll list. I'm not against being EP only but I believe that is only because of my own personal preferences. I, therefore, cannot demand this of others.
My reasons for not being convinced on this subject are
1. that the psalms were not written during the time of Moses who wrote the commands for worship by God's authority. There are some people who believe that Moses wrote any where from 2 to 11 of the Psalms (ch. 90-100) but this cannot be proved. If God's people did not have the Psalms until much later to sing during worship, then I cannot say EP only is part of the RPW.
2. Because of #1 I don't see a correlation between EP only and the 2nd Commandment.
Moderator note: Old posts from the other thread are below; to skip to the new answers go to the repeat post of this OP here: https://www.puritanboard.com/thread...andment-and-ep-only.98658/page-2#post-1206152
This post will be two-fold:
1. How does the 2nd Commandment correlate with EP only?
2. Can you stay in a church that violates your conscience concerning the EP?
I'm not convinced of the EP only stance for reasons I'll list. I'm not against being EP only but I believe that is only because of my own personal preferences. I, therefore, cannot demand this of others.
My reasons for not being convinced on this subject are
1. that the psalms were not written during the time of Moses who wrote the commands for worship by God's authority. There are some people who believe that Moses wrote any where from 2 to 11 of the Psalms (ch. 90-100) but this cannot be proved. If God's people did not have the Psalms until much later to sing during worship, then I cannot say EP only is part of the RPW.
2. Because of #1 I don't see a correlation between EP only and the 2nd Commandment.
Moderator note: Old posts from the other thread are below; to skip to the new answers go to the repeat post of this OP here: https://www.puritanboard.com/thread...andment-and-ep-only.98658/page-2#post-1206152
If someone is going to a church where they cannot participate in the worshipping of God, then they need to find a church where they can. I believe being silent during the singing part of worship is wrong because you are not worshipping God when you are supposed to be worshipping him. I have a hard time believing he is ok with anyone doing this. Also, I believe being silent during the singing is not being subject to the authority of the teaching elder or the other elders of the church which is also a command from God. There's a lot of commands that are being broken by remaining silent. If a person's conscience prohibits the singing of hymns, I would encourage that person to promptly find a church that sings the Psalms.
As Americans, we always think of ourselves as rugged individualists which is fine for just being an American, but as Christians, we are not individualists we are apart of the body of Christ and therefore we are to be worshipping God as one body of Christ.
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