New Feature

I think I saw this term as far as blogging goes over at gogh gurls blog, and I liked and also do try new things here from time to time, the weekly riddle being the most recent one I can bring to mind. So, I thought one of my new features would be what God taught me today.

I ain't B.O.B as I proclaim time and time again, and its not done in false modesty, its done with the knowledge that B.O.B (Brain of Britain) I ain't nor never will be. And yet, God doesn't want folks with big brains to show them what He needs them to know. I have phases where learning of and from Him is easier than others, and sometimes cos of congitive dysfunction increasing it seems nigh impossible. But this will be my new feature as able, and also, I plan to write and publish some of this stuff on a website at some point, so if I forget to note-take, I can come back here and maybe find what I need to.

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Recently, in the last two weeks, a friend from my church visited. She's a very good loving Christian and serves as well as anyone I know here, both people and the church itself. And while she was here, I was talking to her of how I believe the singing of hymns is not what we are to do at worship. And she said about the references in Scripture to Eph:5:19 and Col 3:16
To "Psalms, hymns and Spiritual songs" and apart from all three terms being used in in the book of Psalms at the time couldn't think of what else to say about this, as thinking on my feet in real time is not easy. But also knowng after I resigned at my church and having to discuss soon some of the reasons for doing so, I would need to be able to say clearly and so restudied some stuff I had done before but which my brain had not held onto.

The ancient Jews had a habit of using triadic expression. Other references to point to this would be Ex 34:7 Deut 5:31 Matt 22:37 to cite just a few, which is the exact same mode of expression used in Col 3:16 and Eph 5:19 with the term of " Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual songs" I challenge anyone to disprove this.

The other thing which reguarly comes up in these types of conversations is, about Miraim and Moses in the OT when they sang songs of Praise and yet they were outside of the book of Psalms. But the whole point was that each one who sang one of these songs was a Prophet or Prophetess, which is what one needed to be to write a song. Given by divine inspiration by God to His prophets. Asaph is called a seer which as anyone knows is a synomyn for Prophet, and every song in the Book of Psalms is written by a prophet. He even put His own praise book within the canon of scripture. So, unless anyone is going to argue against the sufficiency of Scripture, then I think its pretty plain to see, that what God does not command us to do, we don't assume He wants or desires us to do it. As how can we know the mind of God enough to know what He would want, besides what He has explicitly told us, through the pages of His sacred word? Is 55:9
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