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To: Mad Dawg
"I have yet to see ANY SCRIPTURE that says we may do so.

So what? I have yet to see any tradition which unequivocally gives us permission to use musical instruments in Church.

I didn't say "tradition" to bow and pray to an idol, I said scripture. I don't CARE about tradition in any church.

If He says to not bow and pray to IDOLS, then you don't do it.

Again, back to scripture, where does He state we cannot play an instrument in church along with our hymns.

3,830 posted on 01/16/2010 2:19:29 PM PST by NoGrayZone
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To: NoGrayZone; Mad Dawg

The Hebrews used a plethora of musical instruments in church. A plethora. They had everything, harps, drums, wind instruments, stringed instruments, maybe even castanets made from camel hooves, who knows


3,862 posted on 01/16/2010 4:16:25 PM PST by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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To: NoGrayZone
"I don't CARE about tradition in any church."

One common source.....Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture, then, are bound closely together, and communicate one with the other. For both of them, flowing out from the same divine well-spring, come together in some fashion to form one thing, and move towards the same goal." Each of them makes present and fruitful in the Church the mystery of Christ, who promised to remain with his own "always, to the close of the age".

. . . two distinct modes of transmission

81 "Sacred Scripture is the speech of God as it is put down in writing under the breath of the Holy Spirit."

"And [Holy] Tradition transmits in its entirety the Word of God which has been entrusted to the apostles by Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit. It transmits it to the successors of the apostles so that, enlightened by the Spirit of truth, they may faithfully preserve, expound and spread it abroad by their preaching."

As a result the Church, to whom the transmission and interpretation of Revelation is entrusted, "does not derive her certainty about all revealed truths from the holy Scriptures alone. Both Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honored with equal sentiments of devotion and reverence."

3,934 posted on 01/16/2010 9:55:58 PM PST by Natural Law
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