As a thought experiment, suppose that the Spirit had inspired one of the Scripture writers to write the following in one of the books of the Bible:
“Beware of wangula music.” (I made up this word; it does not refer to anything that I know of that exists anywhere or has ever existed.)
Suppose also that in His perfect wisdom, that was all the information that the Spirit chose to provide.
What would be done in treating such (hypothetical) inspired revelation?
No doubt something along the line of all the following would be set forth at some point by different people in discussing that (hypothetical) Scripture passage:
1. What is wangula music?
2. Why should we beware of it?
3. What instruments were used to play it and how specifically was it played?
4. How can we beware of it when we do not know what it sounds like?
5. Being beware of wangula music was merely something for particular people in a particular context.
6. Music changes and “evolves.” Even if we knew what wangula music was back then, that would not mean that our playing our wangula music would be a problem.
7. Just because some wangula music back then was a problem, that does not prove that all wangula music was a problem even back then or is now a problem.
8. God likes wangula music. He invented it.
9. Wangula music is itself amoral, neutral, or inherently good.
10. The warning wasn’t actually about the wangula music itself; it was about the hearts of the people back then who were misusing it.
11. Please, please give us an example of wangula music so that we can hear it.
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