Tag: Music
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Gavin Ortlund has a thought-provoking video here wherein he argues for music as an abductive argument for the existence of God. He is right. Listen here to Hans Zimmer’s Chevaliers De Sangreal and you sense some kind of ultimate beautiful, transcendent, eternal realitu that exists beyond space and time.
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Music has significant power in worship influencing emotions and spiritual experience. In 1 Samuel 16:23, it is recorded that when David played the lyre, the harmful spirit that tormented Saul departed, illustrating music’s ability to bring peace and healing. Music has the power to expose us to something that is…
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This is transcendent power of music. This extraordinary music was composed for the apocalyptic movie “28 Years Later.” There is a powerful death scene in that movie where a mother is dying peacefully of cancer helped by a kind doctor who gives her morphine to relieve the pain. Virtually everyone…
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I realize the popular conception is that beauty is subjective, “in the eye of the beholder.” However, I affirm with many theologians and philosophers that beauty of objective because it originates and is grounded in the very nature of God (God is beautiful – Psalm 27:4). To quote Australian apologist…
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Music is transcendent (existing outside space and time) with the power to move people like nothing else. (I will eventually produce on the blog my Argument from Music for the existence of God.) Watch these videos of contemporary music afficionados listening to “Nights In White Satin” by the Moody Blues…
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That we are capable of such great beauty as this . . .
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