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<blockquote data-quote="jaigner" data-source="post: 54486680" data-attributes="member: 260646"><p>"But, just because a song is "an old hymn", does not mean that it is automatically scripturally correct."</p><p></p><p>You are very right. But, there are a few factors that make (older) hymns a bit more trustworthy.</p><p></p><p>1) They are mostly from a time when all of Christianity was more theologically trained/literate. </p><p></p><p>2) They tend to be less experiential in nature, with the exception of the gospel hymnody genre that employs the experiential a bit more (i.e. "you ask me how I know He lives, He lives within my heart.") This is not necessarily wrong, but opens up to more theological error and subjectivity.</p><p></p><p>3) The theologically poor older hymns have been filtered out to a large degree.</p><p></p><p>4) Christian music during that period (1600-1900) was not commercial and consumer-driven. CCM recording/marketing practices are, at times, frightening.</p><p></p><p>Blessings.</p><p> </p><p>Again, you are correct that an old text is not necessarily a sound text. There are also a number of good new texts being written. Check out the work of Stuart Townend and Keith Getty, for instance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jaigner, post: 54486680, member: 260646"] "But, just because a song is "an old hymn", does not mean that it is automatically scripturally correct." You are very right. But, there are a few factors that make (older) hymns a bit more trustworthy. 1) They are mostly from a time when all of Christianity was more theologically trained/literate. 2) They tend to be less experiential in nature, with the exception of the gospel hymnody genre that employs the experiential a bit more (i.e. "you ask me how I know He lives, He lives within my heart.") This is not necessarily wrong, but opens up to more theological error and subjectivity. 3) The theologically poor older hymns have been filtered out to a large degree. 4) Christian music during that period (1600-1900) was not commercial and consumer-driven. CCM recording/marketing practices are, at times, frightening. Blessings. Again, you are correct that an old text is not necessarily a sound text. There are also a number of good new texts being written. Check out the work of Stuart Townend and Keith Getty, for instance. [/QUOTE]
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