Is music morally neutral?

Is the Christian Artist Free?

Posted on August 1, 2012

I believe that a Christian composer has the freedom to use any style, any materials. No style should be considered off limits in expressing the Gospel.

I contend along with Harold Best, author of Music Through the Eyes of Faith, that music without words is morally neutral.  By that I mean that sound by itself cannot express truth—communicate belief, or propositional truth. Music style is neutral, ethically and morally.

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