[Laissez-faire capitalist]

By “noise”, what do you mean? Beat on a trash can lid and bang rocks together?

And by “joyful” can there also be songs that are more somber in their “tone”?

[cornelis]

Look, it’s a social thing, not biblical-unbiblical. Sometimes it’s unbiblical, but mostly a social thing. If you’re the big cheese, you decide what passes. Of course, no tyrant is a ruler without willing subjects.

[Nonsense Unlimited]

>> By “noise”, what do you mean? Beat on a trash can lid and bang rocks together?

And by “joyful” can there also be songs that are more somber in their “tone”? <<

Yes. A person who is beating on a trash can lid with his heart filled with joy and lifted toward God is music to His ears. A person who has played the organ for years at a church, but finds it a mundane chore, is not.

It’s not what anyone hears, it’s what is coming from the heart, which is what everything else in the Bible points to as well.

[rabidralph]

The joy is in your heart and in your spirit because of your love for Christ. It’s not necessarily the music, but when you express that joy that flows from your heart, the music will be the outward expression of it.