If music relaxes us, helps us feel calm and expectant as we ponder God's goodness and loving presence, then that is a blessing.īinaural beats are simply a discovery that has enhanced the ability of musicians to create sounds which affect the brain more specifically and/or predictably than many other usual methods. If it's evil to use music to help us in worship or contemplation of the Lord, then the psalmists were in trouble! To say nothing of the musicians who walked ahead of the army in the OT.Īnd what about almost every single Spirit-filled church? Don't tell me the music isn't chosen and performed precisely to affect the emotional state and receptivity of the minds of those present. It is neither and it is, IMHO, superstition to suggest it is anything other than something that effects our physical man. I see nothing wrong with this, and trying to condemn it for religious reasons is just as bad as trying to promote it as some sort of spiritual enhancer. It does relax me and what better thing to relax to than the name of Jesus! It is certainly better than reading a spy novel or watching Conan. I just meditate on Jesus, pray, sing along, and doze off to sleep. ![]() It is very easy to go to sleep with this. Hey." This is repeated over and over for about 72 minutes. I have one particular recording that is nothing more than the letters of the name Yeshuah (Hebrew for Jesus) spelled out over and over in song "Jod. All the music does for me is to calm my mind. In no way shape or manner do these things bring us closer to God or change our spirit or change our relationship with God. Soothing music is just one more thing we do to our body (brain). We do all sorts of things to our bodies to be healthy including diet, exercise, topical applications, cleansing habits, etc etc. IMHO the brain is nothing but an interface to the soul. I have used similar techneques simply to relax my mind. Please be very careful in this, for if any of us should cause a new believer to fall, it would be better for us if we had died instead (Mt 18:6, Mk 9:42, Lk 17:2). ![]() They could most certainly be genuine believers, but not as mature yet as they should strive to be and we need to be careful not to place any manmade stumbling blocks in their path. That's not to say these beople are in themselves wicked, it is just a wicked pursuit. So if it makes a person 'feel' closer to God, but they are actually not any closer at all, then that would make the music a form of a deception, and those engaging in it to be more apt to seek other feelings or experiences or signs of God, and quite honestly, Jesus said those who seek such things are acting in wickedness (Mt 16:4, Lk 11:29). They are not actually any closer to God during the music than they were before the music. What it does do is make a person 'feel' closer to God, which is just simply that, a feeling. There is nothing we can do to enhance that access. The Bible teaches that we already have his ear and can come boldly before His Throne through faith.
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