David Taylor
Puritan Board Freshman
And that is precisely my point. You are EP because of no explicit command to sing anything other than Psalms. Yet, you hold to Infant Baptism which also has no explicit command. It is that which is the inconsistency I am talking about.Following the hermeneutic I use for Baptism I would look for an explicit command to sing songs other than Psalms in worship. My argument is that there is no command because I do not interpret the colossians verse the way you do and I don't see any other place in Scripture which either by command or precendent allows for songs of purely human composition. Thereofore, following the same hermeneutic, the conclusion drawn is that we should continue singing Psalms and only Psalms. So yes it does come down to how we interpret that verse. My argument is that at best the verse is not conclusive to establish EP but it certainly doesn't establish non-EP and beyond that verse there is nothing I see which remotely comes close to establishing the non-EP position.