The ability to think abstractly
is a gift of our language. Deaf
individuals and, I learned this morning, original Hebrew people, have a concreteness
to their language that doesn’t allow for abstract thought. As an example, community would always be
understood as “many houses.” The ability
to enjoy the scent of your wife as fundamental to your love for her or that
beauty underscores God’s love is a product of His giving us different languages
that allow us to be realized as humans in ways that, when considered well, are
worthy of worship of another concreteness, “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God,
the LORD is One.”
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