Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
Despite the facts cited above, many learned, skillful, and, it may be presumed, sincere men have labored diligently to prove the acceptability of mechanical instruments in the worship of Christ, usually by proving a point that has no connection with it, namely, that God authorized them under the old covenant.  What if he did?  That would not authorize them in the worship of Christ.  But a fair sample of such arguments is the following from the great scholar C. F. Kiel: