Dei Verbum paragraph 13
One of my university classes (before seminary) was a class
in which we were told we would learn how to communicate with anybody in the
world. That sounds intriguing does it
not? Although some of the class was
extremely interesting, one of the first days when we were learning how to ask
people around the globe where the bathroom was by placing our hands in the
afflicted area and crouching with a pained expression on our faces, and the
standing up with our arms out, palms up, indicating, “Where?” I remember
thinking, “If my father ever found out how much money I paid to learn this he
would go through the roof.”
But communication is important and how does one communicate
with one who does not speak the same language?
What if you are God and want to speak to men? What if you want them to write something
down? Yet God finds ways to get His
message to us. His words become human
words in the Scriptures just as His Son took on flesh and became man. They are, in every way, His words but they
are in our language just as the Son is in every way THE Son from all eternity,
but He took on a human nature and entered our world physically so that we could
see Him, talk with Him, hear Him, relate to Him, be healed by Him, and know
Him.
1 comment:
My son recently was in charge of training a man from China, who works at his company's affiliate in that country. A similar situation ensued, where the gentleman could not speak English well enough to communicate His "need" and so resorted to such gestures.
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