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That is like what I have been taught about the liturgy. When the Divine Liturgy is sung, we are signing with the choir of heaven (imagine the organ they must have! :)

Funny thing is, on the uber conservative side, there are those who scream that the Liturgy is too "Papist" and that it was taken from Vatican II and from the Greek Orthodox.

Kind of amuses me a bit. Yes it came from the same source, which was the old liturgies and the liturgy of St. John Crysantomum, but that isn't a "bad" thing.

Funny thing is, on the uber conservative side, there are those who scream that the Liturgy is too "Papist" and that it was taken from Vatican II and from the Greek Orthodox.

Among the Reformed, there are those who insist on psalmody, the singing of psalms and nothing else. And there are a few denominations who forbid the use of any instruments at all.

Can you be so certain that the psalmodists are wrong? Perhaps the only singing approved by God is the singing of psalms in Hebrew. After all, if we want museum singing, that would be a logical point to start.

It is difficult to justify these exclusionary practices when one grasps the entirety of teachings in scripture, both O.T. and N.T., upon which those churches base their order of worship.