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Bit of an odd one
I thought this would look nice on a coffee shop wall
Bit of an odd one
I thought this would look nice on a coffee shop wall
"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and
the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of
the deep. And the spirit of God was moving over the face of the
waters."
"It's an oral history. It was passed down, word-of-mouth, father to
son,
from Adam to Seth, from Seth to Enos, from Enos to Cainan, for 40
generations, a growing, changing, story, it was handed down,
word-of-mouth, father to son. Until Moses finally gets it down on
lambskin. But lambskins wear out, and need to be recopied. Copies of
copies of copies of copies of copies of copies of copies of an oral
history passed down through 40 generations.
From Hebrew it's translated into Arabic, from Arabic to Latin, from
Latin to Greek, from Greek to Russian, from Russian to German, from
German to an old form of English that you could not read. Through 400
years of evolution of the English language to the book we have today,
which is: a translation of a translation of a translation of a
translation of a translation of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of
a copy of a copy of a copy of an oral history passed down through 40
generations.
You can't put a grocery list through that many translations, copies,
and re-telling, and not expect to have some big changes in the dinner
menu when the kids make it back from Kroger's.
And yet people are killing each other over this written word. Here's a
tip: If you're killing someone in the name of God — you're
missing the message.
"
Nick Annis