The Bible, Worship and Music

Dan 3:5 [That] at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut,
psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image
that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:

1 Cor 14:7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they
give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
1 Cor 14:8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the
battle?

1 Cor 6:13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and
them. Now the body [is] not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

1 Cor 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is]
in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Cor 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in
your spirit, which are God's.

(Dwell on what is commonly seen as capable of destroying the soul temple: smoking,
alcohol, bad food, not taking baths, etc …and music)

Can Music destroy the soul temple? Experiments on Music

What the plants say

In a very famous experiment, a woman named Mrs Retallack put fresh plants in two
separate chambers. In one chamber, the radio was tuned to a local rock station, and in the
other the radio played a station that featured soothing "middle-of-the-road" music”
After two weeks, the plants in the soothing-music chamber were uniform in size, lush and
green, and were leaning between 15 and 20 degrees toward the radio. The plants in the
rock chamber had grown extremely tall and were drooping, the blooms had faded and the
stems were bending away from the radio.
On the sixteenth day, all but a few plants in the rock chamber were in the last stages of
dying. In the other chamber, the plants were alive and growing abundantly.
She repeated the experiment with various types of rock music and found that the plants
always bent away from the cassette player.
Dorothy Retallack, The Sound of Music and Plants, 1973

What the animals say

In one experiment, rats were allowed to freely move between two boxes that were
connected by a passageway. In each of the boxes a speaker was playing one kind of
music. Bach's classical music was played into one box and rock music into the other.
Even though the boxes were identical in all respects except for the type of music played
through the speakers, the rats spent all of their time in the "Bach box". To further verify
their results, the scientists switched the music that was playing in each box. The rats then
all migrated away from the rock music to the box where the Bach was playing.
Tame, David. The Secret Power of Music. Destiny Books, 1984. p. 141.

In another experiment, the physicist Dr. Bird from Fairleigh Dickinson University in the
US and neurobiologist Dr. Gervasia Schreckenberg from Georgian Court College also in
the US, conducted a study where they subjected one group of mice to ‘voodoo’ drum
beats (similar frequency to rock music today) and another group to Strauss’ classical
music.
Over the period of the experiment, they tested the different groups to see how well they
could run through a maze to get to their food. This was a measure of their cognitive
ability - their ability to remember the maze over time.
They found that the group that listened to the voodoo music had a very difficult time with
the maze that increased over time to the point where they were totally disoriented and
unable to complete the maze. The other groups had no problem learning the maze, with
an edge given to the mice listening to the classical music. Even when the mice were
given a break from the music for three weeks, the group that had previously listened to
the voodoo music still could not remember how to get to their food, while the others
found it quickly with no problem.
After the experiment was finished, the brains of the mice were dissected, and it was
found that the mice that had been listening to the voodoo music had abnormal structural
changes in their brain cells. The neurons in their brains were growing out wildly in all
directions without connecting to other neurons. There were also abnormal amounts of
Messenger RNA, a chemical that the brain uses for storing memories.
Lipkin, Richard. Insight Magazine, April 4, 1988. p. 58

What the doctors say

• Do not do physical exercise while listening to heavy beat music
• It has been shown that when a person wearing a walkman
headset, while listening to the rock type beat, is connected to a
heart monitor, it will register that they are experiencing serious
heart malfunction. Remove the headset (the beat that is in conflict
with the natural body rhythm), and the heart rate shifts back to
normal again. (Confirmed by the experience of 17 year old Debbie
Boyd, at the Bremerton Naval Hospital on April 14, 1992).

Music can destroy both the soul and the body

1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and [be] ready always to [give]
an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness
and fear:
1 Peter 3:16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of
evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
Phil 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest,
whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely,
whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any
praise, think on these things.