When an instrument is intended, the instrument is named.[/quote[
Proof?
Paul was inspired to name the heart in eph 5:19. Our singing is to be accompanied by melody made with the heart.
And this excludes an instrument...how?
But a mechanical instrument is not implied by "psallo". If "psallo" included the instrument, then all would need to both sing and play an instrument in order to obey Eph 5:19.
See the previous post. It is possible for one person to worship, just as one person can teach a group.
It would be wrong to sing spiritual songs without an instrument and Paul and Silias were out of line to sing in prison unless they had mechanical instruments.
If you could only imagine the kind of freedom you are given as a child of God, it would really revolutionize your life. How do we know they didn't beat their chains together to provide a beat? If they were singing the way the Psalms were sung, they very well might have.
The Greek word Psallo is applied among the Greeks of modern times exclusively to sacred music, which in the Eastern Church has never been any other than vocal, instrumental music being unknown in that church, as it was in the primitive church.
You plagarize a lot, you know that? Your use of mechanical instruments was one clue, as it shifted from instrumental music. A quick search shows that the rest of your argument was taken mostly from
http://members.cox.net/hpcoc/tracts/job117u.htm
Do a better job at referencing - otherwise you are stealing another person's words, which is, I believe, a sin, right?
Some through the years have attempted to alter the argument that Psallo includes the instrument by saying thatit does not preclude the instrument.
Since the Psalms were sung using instruments, I do not see why this is invalid.
Neither word includes or precludes the other.
So since you would agree that it is neither included nor precluded, how in the world can you say to a person who is being led by God to play a piano offertory, "You sinner you! How dare you profane the name of God by playing that instrument (mechanical instrument - depending on your "source".) " You cannot.
We must have divine authority for all that we do in worship. Jn 4:24.
And my singing in church with a praise team on Sunday morning is done in Spirit and Truth. It is a ministry that I have been divinely called to do.
We do not have 1 single example of instruments being used in NT worship. In all of the verses Mat 26:30, Acts 16:25, Rom 15:9, Eph 5:19, Col 3:16 Heb 2:2, Js 5:13 a mechanical instrument is not named.
Sure we do. Read the book of Revelation! Instruments all over the place.
The rest of your argument is stripped from the website. Many of the people you quoted also believed in infant baptism, so does that mean you espouse that idea? I had hoped that the "argument from authority" fallacy would be avoided this time. Guess not.