I am not trying to make the point that our churches should look like a Pentecostal/punk rock concert. Your veiw of this Psalm is tainted by the culture you live in. You automatically put cymbals and dancing into the "no go" section because that is considered wild, and disorganized in our society. Every culture has different instruments, and in the Israelite culture, cymbals and dancing was their form of paino, guitar, etc...

But regardless, please look past the instruments and look at the instructions the psalmist is making...

God is pleased by us using instruments to praise Him. He enjoys the sounds of musical skills being used to glorify Him. What better time to please Him than when we are gathered together to worship!...

1 Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.

2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.

3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.

4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.

5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.

6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.

God apparently enjoys his people using the giftings of instrument playing to praise Him. The use of instruments is all throughout the old testament...

Absolutely correct...

I try to think of the horror of it by using the past. Imagine a little boy going through this back in 1950. That would mean he would be a 70 year old man to today! A man that never had the chance to develop through puberty, never had the chance to father kids, and instead lives the rest of his life confused, frustrated, and underformed. All for the wickedness of long gone generations, he would continue to live a life of misery...

What will the generations 100 years from now think about us...

You can cut off, add on, and act however you want, but you can't get rid of yourself. Someone who wants to "switch genders" is suffering from an issue much deeper than discontentment. They have a heart issue that can only be solved by the blood of Jesus Christ...

Now in order to follow the Bible, we have to get rid of anything that could be used as a weapon, AND becomes plant eaters...

Your better off than me...

Yesterday on Oppossombook I pinned a tweet of me at the Roadkill festival eating a coonsteak. I am only supposed to eat oppossom-nuggets according to my healthcare insurance provider (Kinfolk-Care®).

Cause I was never put in...

Whenever you want to change a whole culture for evil, you have to make sure the next generation are all taught the same thing. And the only way to do that is to treat them like cattle. Teach them as a mass of brains and flesh, and not like the individuals they are...

One big reason our country was so much better before the public school era, was because no one was taught the same. We had generations of free thinkers, and young people who learned in the one room school house, and the church. They grew under the close watch of their parents and preachers. And even the many who wanted to be "free" (which just means a freedom to sin) from cultural morality were carried along with Godly principles put down by our spiritual forefathers (Pilgrims, Puritans, etc)...

The real truth is, he never was...

All of these could (and have) been used as instruments of self defense. The only reason that guns is the "big one" right now is because they are the most advanced weapon available to the average guy (or girl)...

Say, me and bdf play fiddle and gitar. We'll bring em along...

I know what your thinking...

Your worst idea about theze here states are from down in Mississippi...

Everybody around you says how the "wild west" is scary, but your thinking about the "Wild South"...

Yes for sure...

The problem is, that even though the government's are legalizing crime, the natural punishments that come from them aren't going anywhere...