Is music alone evidence of God?

Question

"If I should die, let this be my epitaph: His only proof for the existence of God, was music."
-Kurt Vonnegut (from YA user Ashley)

It's a rather abstract question. Answer it however you feel like it should be answered.

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Answer 1

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Beethoven's 9th symphony 4th movement.

The closet they thing they will ever have of proof to gods existence.

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Answer 2

No, but it is evidence of evolution.

Or rather the enjoyment of it and chemicals it triggers in the brain are.

Answer 3

For me music is the higher power.

Answer 4

Well, Davey Havok is God, so logically the answer is yes.

Answer 5

Nope, just human creativity.

Answer 6

No.

I am a musician. But music is evidence of sound waves.

Music theory is a product of acoustic physics and mathematics.

Answer 7

It is not proof of god. Because it is not evident of anything supernatural. Music is evidence of applied mathematics [timing, pitch, etc], but we already knew mathematics was real.

Answer 8

Music is evidence in favor of something special we're yet to figure out.

Call it God, Santa, Fairy, Monster... it all equates the same.

Answer 9

There is NO evidence of God.

Answer 10

"Is music alone evidence of God?"
Of course not.
Music is steeped in the rhythm and sounds of nature.

Of course those who are able to reproduce it are often seen as 'gods'.
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Answer 11

No, it isn't.

Answer 12

I think it falls into the category of a subset of the larger argument for God's existence based on "beauty." So, objectively yes... And for me personally, yes.

Answer 13

Music reaches people on a deeper and more satisfactory level than pure language does. I think music suggests a higher power, yes. It's full of mystery.

Answer 14

I would pay good money to hear Tim's music.

Answer 15

RAP is not music. God should have said RAP Music will be a sign of the end times. But he didn't, did he?

Answer 16

Look in the mirror and can you honestly believe you started from a big bang some where?
You are an example of what God can do.
HE IS. HE EXISTS. you are only trying to make yourself he does not exist. I notice it is not working very well for you.
How come you cannot just accept His love for you? why do you have to throw a wrench into the mix? Can you just stand up to your peers and say Look I love God deal with it.

Stand up for yourself. Be for YOU!

Answer 17

Someone felt that obviously. Seeing as to how Lucifer was the angel of music that is not true. Music only applies to the way it is used or perceived. It speaks differently to different people. So no it is not.

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Christian here

Answer 18

People what have you done:
locked Him in His golden cage.
Made Him bend to your religion
Him resurrected from the grave
from the grave.
He is the god of nothing
if that's all that you can see.
You are the god of everything
He's inside you and me.

So lean upon Him gently
and don't call on Him to save you
from your social graces
and the sins you used to waive.
The bloody Church of England
in chains of history
requests your earthly presence at
the vicarage for tea.

And the graven image you-know-who
with His plastic crucifix
he's got him fixed
confuses me as to who and where and why
as to how he gets his kicks.
Confessing to the endless sin
the endless whining sounds.
You'll be praying till next Thursday to
all the gods that you can count.

Answer 19

No certainly not but music in the first non denominational church I attended brought me closer to God than I ever thought possible, after attending other Churches that were not Spirit filled for years. I finally found a real relationship with God.The music was music I had never heard and it ushered in the Holy Spirit and I can't tell you what a difference it made.Of course one must study the word as well.

Answer 20

I left this quote in response to your music as a religion question. I thought u would like to know other people view music as spiritually invigorating as well..

To the people who say "no" and then begin talkin about Jesus.. Why does everything always have to be so God da*n literal with u people?? Read the bible. There are thousands of metaphors in there...

Answer 21

It is hard to believe that Vonnegut took pleasure in anything. I would think his empathy should be Hazardous Waste.

Beauty is something we bring ourselves, something we give to the universe by looking on, and listening to, it.