Therefore having hot dogs and cokes for the Lord's Supper is acceptable because nothing in the bible explicitly forbides these elements?
Sure - after you drive your CAR to church.
Do you pray to "Mother Mary" as the Catholics do, after all, nothing in the bible explicitly forbids it.
Nope, I don't.
What if you took your car to a mechanic and told him to change the oil and oil filter. You come back later to get your car and the mechanic hands you a bill for $4000.00. The itemized bill shows that he changed the oil and oil filter, but he also put on new tires, new brakes, new water pump, new plugs, etc, etc. You say, but I told you to change the oil and oil filter. The mechanic replies, yes, but you did not explicitly forbid me to do all these other things.
Wrong.
If I told him - specifically - do change the oil and filter, and he put in a new engine, he's not going to get paid.
The New Testament says NOTHING about congregational singing. Therefore, you are prohibited - by your own reasoning - from singing at all as a congregation.
You hire a new employee for your business and tell him to report in the morning by 8 am. He shows up at 4 pm in the afternoon. After all, you did not explicitly forbid him showing up at 4pm.
Wrong again.
Non sequitur.
If he was explicitly told to come to work at 8:00 AM, that's specific instruction. No silence involved.
You tell you child to clean his room. An hour later you check on him and instead of cleaning his room he is playing video games. You say didn't I tell you to clean your room? The child replies, yes daddy, but you didn't say not to play the video games.
100% wrong again.
He was told to clean his room.
IF he had cleaned his room, and was playing video games after cleaning his room, that would be fine.
Non sequitur.
One could not live their life this way. One would have to go thru virtually endless "not to" lists in order to eliminate everything but the thing they wanted. No one would live their life this way or have their words treated as such.
YOU live YOUR life EXACTLY this way EVERY DAY.
God said to "sing" but many argue that nowhere did God explicitly forbid instruments.
God specifically spoke of "psalms" - which are songs accompanied by a stringed instrument.
Perhaps YOU should consider Ephesians 5:19, where God is NOT silent about what should be done!
Yet people treat God's words in a way they would not want their own words treated.
And YOU read into God's Word all manner of things that absolutely are NOT there.
We operate around the law of inclusion and exclusion. When God said to "sing" then that includes singing and excludes everything else.
When Ephesians 5:19 says to sing to each other in Psalms - which, by definition, are songs accompanied by a stringed instrument, you SIMPLY IGNORE THAT SCRIPTURE.
God does not have to explicitly forbid instruments, hand clapping, whistling, humming etc., until He elimnates everything but singing, He just simply has to say 'sing', that excludes everything else.
So now HUMMING is forbidden? CLAPPING is forbidden?
Is STANDING also forbidden? How about SITTING? Is that forbidden, because we're not told to sit while singing?
