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Editor's Note: This post is the first installment in a series entitled "The Word and The Image." Brian serves as an advisory board member at Stage & Story.
FOOTNOTES
[1] See also Deut 6:22; Dan 4:1-3; Acts 14:3; 2 Cor 12:12.
[2] It is important to note that while God used miracles as signs or verification, he did not intend them to be absolute or ultimate in terms of proof. Faith is the biblical ultimate: Jn 4:48; Lk 16:31; 2 Cor 5:7.
[3] See also Isaiah 1:1 and 13:1 to the same effect.
[4] See also Nahum 1:1. The Hebrew for “oracle” means “utterance.”
[5] One exception to this rule is Dan 5:5, where God’s hand does in fact engage in writing judgment on a wall in Aramaic.
[6] It is important to note, of course, that God’s visions, dreams, signs and wonders are almost always accompanied by (if not explained through) words. This should be a cautionary note to postmoderns who attempt to elevate image above word. But this mutual embeddedness of word and image does not suggest the superiority of either word or image, but rather their mutual dependency and equality of ultimacy in God’s usage of language.
Brian Godawa is an award-winning Hollywood screenwriter (To End All Wars), a controversial movie and culture blogger (www.Godawa.com), an internationally known teacher on faith, worldviews and storytelling (Hollywood Worldviews), an Amazon best-selling author of Biblical fiction (Chronicles of the Nephilim), and provocative theology (God Against the gods). His obsession with God, movies and worldviews, results in theological storytelling that blows your mind while inspiring your soul. And he’s not exaggerating.
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