tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732450981122480802.post2696543788930495337..comments2023-09-24T16:32:58.837+01:00Comments on Richard Walker's Blog: Song - The Gift of God to the Soul of ManRichard Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01992452050525845190noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732450981122480802.post-35484150555552447372009-12-08T20:39:58.936+00:002009-12-08T20:39:58.936+00:00Thinking aloud, the significance is perhaps less p...Thinking aloud, the significance is perhaps less practical and more ontological.<br /><br />In short the point is: Be in humble awe at the status/place God has given us humans in the whole creation. <br /><br />I'll be honest, at the time of writing, I was getting a bit nauseous with the way that society at large was shoving the two hundredth anniversary of Darwin's "incredible discovery" down our throats, steam-rollering everything we know in our spirits to be true, yet suppressing it in our wickedness.<br /><br />In our denial of the truth, we raise everything beneath us in creation up to our level. (You only need to look at films like WALL-E and Madagascar to see that we have elevated created things to be little gods like us.) In so doing we have obliterated our own God-bestowed significance. We don't really ponder our God given place in the created order that much, for if we did we as a race might turn and repent.<br /><br />Song is one of the bestowed significances on the human race. Angels can speak intelligibly, but not sing. (That has already caused me to fall silent during the lines of some carols this Christmas.) But then maybe I'm just an extremist wacko with too much time on his hands! ;-)<br /><br />One of the reasons, I like to think, why angels enjoy listening in on the worship of the church is not check and point vindictive fingers at women who aren't wearing head coverings, but rather to enjoy watching the life of God, the manifold wisdom of God, being unfolded in song and in many other ways as they display the manifold wisdom of God.<br /><br />Dave, It's great to have your comments! I love being challenged and provoked (in a healthy way, of course!).<br /><br />In as much as I have gone public here, I should expect to be publicly challenged. ;-)Richard Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01992452050525845190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732450981122480802.post-2829934448172066012009-12-07T23:51:29.452+00:002009-12-07T23:51:29.452+00:00Sure its poetic. But isn't it poetic to say th...Sure its poetic. But isn't it poetic to say that it speaks or declares things too?<br /><br />I love my music. But I don't get quite what the significance of what you're trying to say is.<br /><br />BTW, have been reading your blog for a while. I like it.Dave Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07274586753770186840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732450981122480802.post-76679844573520489922009-12-07T06:23:40.694+00:002009-12-07T06:23:40.694+00:00And I am open to being proven wrong, however painf...And I am open to being proven wrong, however painful that may be! :-)Richard Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01992452050525845190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732450981122480802.post-31962594146590078412009-12-07T06:21:42.431+00:002009-12-07T06:21:42.431+00:00My "shoot from the hip" response would b...My "shoot from the hip" response would be to say that it is poetic, not literal.<br /><br />Creation praises for sure, but it is not in the comprehensible mix of words and melody that make up human song. <br /><br />Trees clap their hands not in the sense that they actually have hands that clap, but in the sense that when the wind passes through them it sounds like applause.<br /><br />Same with the sound of rushing waters.<br /><br />To be a squirming lawyer for a second, the words translated song/sing in those passages can be translated other ways and there is more to praise (Ps 148) than just singing.<br /><br />By the way thank you for raising it. Please do pick more holes! It helps me grow and learn! ;-)Richard Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01992452050525845190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732450981122480802.post-51230622499828982172009-12-06T22:56:09.504+00:002009-12-06T22:56:09.504+00:00Not to pick holes, but don't Psalm 148, Psalm ...Not to pick holes, but don't Psalm 148, Psalm 96 and Isaiah 55:12 (from a quick search) suggest creation does sing?Dave Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07274586753770186840noreply@blogger.com