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00:01 - Reading, it's something that you and I
00:02 kind of take for granted 00:03 because we're well, just so used to it. 00:06 And because it's such a common everyday basic skill 00:09 it can be easy to forget how crippling it would be 00:12 If you couldn't read, 00:13 we just kinda take it for granted. 00:16 But the printed word is nothing short of revolutionary. 00:20 So here's what I wanna look at today. 00:22 Literacy is such an important part 00:24 of what it means to live in a authentic human life 00:26 that I'm convinced that you and I, 00:28 well, we were actually designed to read and write. 00:32 Stick around I'll show you what I mean. 00:34 [upbeat music] 00:55 In the pages of the New Testament. 00:57 We have copies of these ancient letters 01:00 and some of them are written to entire church groups, 01:03 others were written to specific individuals. 01:07 And in one of the two letters that we have 01:09 from Paul to Timothy. 01:11 There's one brief statement that has always made me 01:15 well, pretty happy. 01:17 It's almost a throwaway, a sidebar, 01:19 something that doesn't even add to the core subject 01:22 of Paul's letter. 01:24 And it's this it's found in 2 Timothy chapter four, 01:27 and this was written while Paul was in prison 01:30 waiting for the end of his life. 01:31 Here's what it says beginning in verse 11. 01:35 Only Luke is with me, 01:37 so we can see Paul is by himself. 01:39 Get Mark and bring him with you 01:41 for he is useful to me for ministry. 01:44 And Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus. 01:48 So we can see that even though Paul was a prisoner 01:50 and his life is almost over 01:52 he's still completely occupied with his work as an apostle. 01:56 Verse 13, bring the cloak 01:59 that I left with Carpus at Troas when you come, 02:03 probably getting cold. 02:04 Now here comes the part that I really love. 02:06 He says, and the books, especially the parchments. 02:12 Now I don't know about you, but that really rings my bell. 02:18 That there have been these times when I've been overseas 02:20 in a country where I don't really speak the language. 02:23 And after a few weeks, I run out of stuff to read. 02:28 And of course, I'm going back in history here. 02:29 And I'm talking about a time before eBooks and Kindles. 02:33 When you couldn't bring a thousand titles along 02:35 in your pocket. 02:37 Those last few weeks of having nothing to read. 02:41 Well it drives me nuts. 02:43 Reading is my life. 02:45 So I can identify with Paul 02:48 a man who loves to study and 02:50 wishes he had some of his favorite books. 02:53 And the fact that his life is about to end is 02:56 really really interesting to me because. 03:01 Why in the world would you bother enriching your mind 03:05 and learning stuff? 03:07 When it's just about lights out, it doesn't make sense 03:11 unless you happen to believe there's more to human existence 03:15 than the few short years we get from cradle to grave. 03:21 So here's what I want you to think about today. 03:24 Why is it that we have a love for things like reading 03:28 and learning where in the world did that impulse come from? 03:32 I mean, if we choose to believe the story 03:35 of human origins that we were taught in school. 03:39 This drive to learn doesn't really make a lot of sense. 03:43 I mean, they say that way back when we didn't have tools 03:47 and we had to discover them. 03:49 As if one day some primates suddenly realized 03:52 you can pry open a clam shell twice as fast 03:55 if you use a stick. 03:57 And then another primate 03:58 hundreds of thousands of years later suddenly discovers. 04:01 You can kill another monkey much faster. 04:04 If you use a rock instead of your fist. 04:07 They also say that once upon a time 04:10 we didn't have any real language ability. 04:13 And we had to communicate like animals, by grunting, 04:16 shoving, and pushing. 04:19 Maybe eventually by using clicks and whistles 04:21 and assembling a crude vocabulary 04:23 of just a couple of hundred sounds. 04:27 But what if that's not true? 04:30 What if the human race came into existence 04:33 already bearing all the marks of intelligence? 04:36 I mean, as far as you can call human beings 04:39 intelligent that is. 04:40 Now I know that what I'm gonna say 04:43 isn't what you learned in your high school biology book. 04:45 But I want you to think about this for a moment. 04:48 And if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. 04:51 But if you and I are just animals 04:53 and we happen to evolve by accident, 04:55 then why in the world would we ever 04:58 develop things like intellectual curiosity? 05:02 I mean, it makes perfect sense that we might develop 05:04 key survival skills like hunting, farming, 05:08 or simple shelter building. 05:10 But why would we develop things like 05:13 aesthetically pleasing architecture, 05:15 or the symphonies of Gustav Mahler 05:17 or a curiosity about why we're here, why we exist? 05:24 Why do you and I have a love for thinking, 05:26 why do we find technical manuals kind of boring? 05:30 But at the same time 05:31 we relish the words of a really great writer, 05:35 a person who has the ability 05:37 to paint mental pictures, using the sounds of language. 05:44 Why did things like poetry and drama matter so much 05:46 to the ancient classical civilizations? 05:50 What sense does it make 05:52 to develop a love for beautiful things? 05:56 Would that really be an accident of biology 06:00 or is it possible that the human race was designed 06:02 on purpose with a much higher calling 06:06 than basic animal existence? 06:09 Did somebody make us this way. 06:14 Now in the interest of full disclosure 06:16 just so you know what my personal preferences 06:19 and biases are. 06:21 I happen to love books. 06:23 And over the last few decades 06:24 I've quite literally collected thousands of them. 06:27 Just ask my wife. 06:28 They are scattered all over the house 06:31 and to make things worse. 06:32 My wife has the same affliction. 06:34 There's probably not a single room in our house anymore. 06:37 That doesn't have stacks of books scattered all over it. 06:40 Including well, that little room 06:42 where you only read for a few minutes at a time 06:43 if you get my drift. 06:45 We have books everywhere. 06:48 So I'm coming at this subject 06:50 for my own little book, permeated bubble. 06:53 That's my bias. 06:54 And it occurs to me that there must be a reason 06:58 I love all those books. 07:00 There must be a reason that you love them too. 07:03 I mean, where did you get that impulse? 07:07 Now, I know that some people might explain this 07:11 as a product of your childhood environment. 07:14 I mean, this is something that my parents engraved 07:16 in my heart and mind, and I've got to admit 07:19 that's a big part of what's going on in my life. 07:21 I really did grow up in a house full of books. 07:24 And if you were born in the Western world, 07:26 I'm pretty sure that you were encouraged to read too. 07:29 Because, well that's what most parents want for their kids. 07:33 It almost starts the day that you're born. 07:37 You get alphabet books, and books that feature, 07:40 one single letter per page like this, Dr. Seuss's classic 07:44 about the alphabet. 07:46 Maybe you had this book as a kid. 07:48 I know I, I did. 07:51 And then you watch TV shows like Sesame Street, 07:53 where the letters come to life 07:55 with the support of Kermit and Grover 07:57 and they help you pronounce the sounds 07:59 that letters make, 08:00 and help you slowly put 08:02 two parts of a word together until they become one word. 08:05 You remember this one at hat c, at, cat. 08:08 You remember this. 08:11 Most of us are completely immersed in the world of reading 08:14 and writing from about the time we draw our first breath. 08:20 So yes, it's possible 08:22 that the drive to read is a learned habit 08:24 but I still suspect there's something more to this. 08:26 That reading and writing 08:27 weren't just evolutionary accidents, 08:29 but a key part of what it means 08:31 to be an authentic human being. 08:34 If you just hang in there for a moment 08:36 while we take a break and share some great stuff 08:38 from the good people at the Voice of Prophecy, 08:40 I'll come right back to tell you why. 08:44 - [First Narrator] Here at the voice of prophecy 08:46 we're committed to creating top quality programming 08:48 for the whole family. 08:50 Like our audio adventure series Discovery Mountain. 08:53 Discovery Mountain is a Bible based program 08:55 for kids of all ages and backgrounds. 08:57 Your family will enjoy the faith building stories 09:00 from this small mountain summer camp and town. 09:03 With 24 seasonal episodes every year 09:06 and fresh content every week. 09:08 There's always a new adventure just on the horizon. 09:16 - [Second Narrator] Are you searching for answers 09:17 to life's toughest questions? 09:18 Like where is God when we suffer? 09:21 Can I find real happiness? 09:22 Or is there any hope for our 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preserve that knowledge. 10:30 Well, I can't stop thinking about this. 10:32 Where in the world did we get this impulse? 10:36 Now I know there were still some non-literate cultures 10:38 in this world who resort to an oral tradition. 10:41 And I don't wanna discount that 10:43 because while people immersed in oral traditions 10:45 frankly have better memories than we do. 10:48 Because while they have to, they pass down their stories 10:51 and knowledge, usually the same thing. 10:54 They pass them down from generation to generation 10:56 by memorizing them. 10:58 Some scholars believe that an oral culture 11:01 keeps your brain a little healthier. 11:02 Because you can't rely on some exterior implement 11:05 to help you remember things. 11:07 You and I aren't that good at memorizing anymore. 11:10 Especially now that we can just go 11:12 and Google anything we need to know. 11:14 We don't memorize. 11:16 Let's get back to literate cultures 11:18 which have dominated the world now for thousands of years. 11:22 In the beginning was the word. 11:24 The gospel of John tells us 11:25 in one of the most breathtaking passages in the Bible. 11:28 And the word was with God. 11:30 And the word was God. 11:32 Now to be honest, our English version of that sentence 11:35 is probably a bad translation of the original Greek, 11:39 where the word for word is logos. 11:43 And it might be a better translation to say 11:45 in the beginning was the wisdom, 11:47 or in the beginning was the principle that holds 11:50 the universe together or something like that. 11:54 The idea behind this passage 11:56 is a recognition that the universe we inhabit 11:58 is a logical organized place. 12:01 Somebody made this universe on purpose and it has order, 12:04 and logic, and a huge degree of predictability. 12:08 In fact, this Greek word logos 12:10 is where we get our English word logic. 12:14 Now, the reason it says word in the English translation 12:18 is because back in the fourth century 12:20 a church father by the name of Jerome 12:22 decided to translate the Bible from Greek and Hebrew 12:26 which are the original biblical languages, 12:29 into Latin the official language of the Roman church. 12:33 And when he translated this word logos 12:35 in the gospel of John, he used the Latin verbum, 12:39 where you and I get words like verbal and verbose. 12:43 It simply means word. 12:45 But by choosing this Latin word verbum 12:48 Jerome kind of strip the original Greek 12:50 of a lot of impact, which is unfortunate 12:52 because logos has many layers of meaning. 12:57 Now, apart from that 12:58 this is still a pretty good translation. 13:00 So let me read it again. 13:02 This time in context, 13:04 this is John chapter one starting in verse one. 13:08 "In the beginning was the Word, 13:10 "and the Word was with God, 13:12 "and the Word was God. 13:13 "He was in the beginning with God. 13:16 "All things were made through Him 13:17 "and without Him nothing was made that was made. 13:20 "In him was life, 13:22 "and the life was the light of men." 13:25 Now, we could probably spend a couple of hours 13:27 unpacking what we just read 13:29 because there's a lot of information there 13:31 but let me just point out a couple of important ideas. 13:34 First of all, this is obviously talking about 13:37 the act of creation 13:38 because it mentions a person who made everything. 13:41 And it says that person is also God. 13:44 And there is nothing in existence that God didn't make. 13:49 Then secondly, I want you to notice 13:52 that this opening passage in John's gospel 13:55 clearly echoes one of the most famous passages in the Bible 13:57 which comes from Genesis chapter one. 14:00 So now let's go back and read that 14:02 for the sake of comparison, because I have little doubt 14:05 that John was deliberately steering us here. 14:09 So here we go now. 14:10 Genesis chapter one, 14:11 and I really want you to pay attention to the parallels 14:13 verse one. 14:15 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 14:19 "The earth was without form and void; 14:21 "and darkness was on the face of the deep. 14:23 "And the spirit of God was hovering 14:25 "over the face of the waters. 14:26 "Then God said, 'let there be light' 14:30 "and there was light." 14:32 So we have the same event. 14:34 The creation of the world recorded in two different places. 14:37 And in one of those places 14:39 it tells us that the word the logos created the universe. 14:43 In the other place it tells us 14:44 God spoke the universe into existence. 14:47 So in other words, the creator is somebody who speaks 14:51 I know that seems self-evident, but this is important. 14:54 What you have throughout the story of the Bible 14:57 is not some abstract, impersonal deity 15:00 a cosmic energy field like the force out of Star Wars. 15:04 What you have is it distinctive God 15:07 with a detectable personality 15:09 and he speaks his creation into existence. 15:12 And then he goes on speaking to his creation. 15:16 To borrow the words of the late Francis Schaffer. 15:18 God is there and he is not silent. 15:23 So what we have in this book is a God who communicates. 15:29 And then in Genesis one, verse 26, it says this 15:32 "Then God said, let us make man in our image 15:35 "according to our likeness, 15:37 "let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, 15:39 "over the birds of the air 15:40 "and over the cattle, over all the earth 15:42 "and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 15:46 "So God created man in his own image, 15:48 "in the image of God he created him, male and female. 15:51 "He created them." 15:53 So according to this account, 15:55 you and I were made in the image of God 15:57 and people have been wrestling with what that means 16:00 being made in the image of God for thousands of years. 16:03 It might in part 16:04 be pointing to our love for creativity. 16:07 Or more likely it might be pointing to the fact 16:10 that you and I have been given things 16:12 like moral choice and freedom of thought 16:15 which is a reflection of what God is like. 16:18 Today though I'm gonna add one more thought 16:20 to the realm of possibility. 16:22 One more way that you and I are made in God's image. 16:26 If God is somebody who loves to communicate, 16:29 who loves to speak, then it's probably we not an accident 16:32 that human beings love to communicate too. 16:35 Because we were made in his image. 16:36 We are not God, but we are like Him. 16:40 And I realized that I'm opening a big can of worms here 16:43 and there's not a chance I can unpack 16:46 what I'm gonna talk about in the time we have left. 16:48 But one of the points of this program is frankly 16:50 to leave you with something to think about and explore. 16:53 So maybe that's all I'm gonna get done today. 16:57 Let me show you something really interesting 16:59 in the opening pages of the Bible. 17:01 Again from the book of Genesis, 17:03 which is the Bible's book of origins. 17:05 So it's a pretty foundational part of the scriptures. 17:09 In Genesis chapter four, we have Cain and Abel, 17:12 the children of Adam and Eve. 17:13 And it tells us Cain was a vegetable farmer 17:15 and Abel raised sheep. 17:17 So we have a record of the beginnings of agriculture 17:21 and animal husbandry. 17:22 I can see why we continue to live the way we do today. 17:26 Then after that we have an account of urbanization. 17:30 You have cain building a city in Genesis chapter four, 17:33 and then Nimrod. 17:34 I know it's a funny name, but 17:35 Nimrod who is the biblical Gilgamesh. 17:38 He goes out and builds a whole bunch of cities 17:40 in the land of Shinar. 17:42 Which is roughly where modern day Iraq is. 17:45 And among those early cities 17:47 we have a few well-known centers of influence like babel 17:49 which becomes Babylon and Nineveh 17:52 which becomes the capital of the Assyrian empire. 17:54 And interestingly enough, 17:56 there's another city mentioned here called [indistinct] 17:59 which is probably where the name 18:01 for modern day Iraq comes from. 18:03 So what we have is the beginning of urbanization. 18:06 Then in the second half of Genesis chapter four, 18:10 we get the story of Cain's descendants 18:12 and it tells us about some of their accomplishments. 18:14 So here it is beginning in Genesis four and verse 16, 18:18 and we'll read quite a bit of this verse 16. 18:22 "Then Cain went out from the presence of the Lord 18:24 "and dwelt in the land of Nod on the East of Eden." 18:28 Now we should probably come back 18:29 and look at that again someday 18:30 because there's some really profound information there 18:32 but let's just go on verse 17. 18:35 "And Cain knew his wife and she conceived and bore Enoch 18:38 "and he built a city." 18:40 So we have the first mention of a city 18:41 and it's not a good thing, not according to this. 18:44 "And called the name of the city 18:46 "after the name of his son Enoch" 18:48 Then we get a bunch of genealogy. 18:50 So let's just jump down to verse 20. 18:51 Not that the genealogy is not important, it is 18:54 but let's get on to verse 20. 18:57 "And Adah bore Jabal. 18:59 "He was the father of those who dwell in tents 19:01 "and have livestock. 19:02 So we have the first nomads. 19:04 You can still find their descendants today. 19:06 Well, the Bedouins in the middle East verse 21. 19:09 "His brother's name was Jubal. 19:12 "He was the father of all those 19:13 "who play the harp and flute." 19:15 Birth of music verse 22. 19:17 "And as for Zillah, she also bore Tubal-Cain 19:21 an instructor of every craftsmen in bronze and iron. 19:24 Now we get metalworking and then it finishes by saying this. 19:27 "And the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah." 19:31 Traditionally, according to legend, 19:32 Naamah is Noah's wife. 19:36 Here we have the birth of cities, 19:38 and the birth of agriculture, and keeping livestock, 19:40 and the birth of the arts, and the birth of metalworking. 19:43 And all of these are obviously important stepping stones 19:46 in the development of human civilization. 19:50 But notice what's missing. 19:53 It's the birth of writing now is such a profound develop. 19:56 You think somebody would take the time 19:59 to explain how we got it, but it's not in here. 20:02 We don't get the name of the first person to write 20:05 or the person who invented the alphabet. 20:07 It's not in here. 20:09 And I've got to wonder why? 20:14 It's almost like the ability to read and write 20:16 to communicate with organized languages is just assumed. 20:21 Now, when you and I look back over history 20:23 we can see the obvious development of the art of writing, 20:25 from the pictographs of the cave dwellers, 20:28 to the hieroglyphs of Egypt and the pictographs of China 20:32 and the early Phoenicians and the Greeks and the Hebrews. 20:36 There's a definite progression 20:37 to how people learn to preserve their important ideas, 20:41 clay, stone, paper. 20:45 But the Bible doesn't mention. 20:47 So why is that important? 20:49 We'll I'll be right back to tell you. 20:53 - [Third Narrator] Life can throw a lot at us. 20:55 Sometimes we don't have all the answers. 20:59 But that's where the Bible comes in. 21:01 It's our guide to a more fulfilling life. 21:04 Here at the Voice of Prophecy, 21:06 we've created the Discover Bible guides 21:08 to be your guide to the Bible. 21:10 They're designed to be simple, 21:11 easy to use, 21:13 and provide answers to many of life's toughest questions, 21:15 and they're absolutely free. 21:17 So jump online now 21:19 or give us a call and start your journey of discovery. 21:23 - A world without writing would be a tough place to live 21:25 because we wouldn't be able to transmit our ideas 21:28 across time and space. 21:31 Writing is easily one of the most important developments 21:34 we've ever had. 21:35 And yet this book of origins 21:37 doesn't explain where it comes from. 21:39 In fact, in the very opening scenes 21:41 you have God just talking to Adam 21:43 apparently without any need for education. 21:46 And you have Adam naming animals, 21:48 a task that requires, considerable linguistic ability. 21:52 You've got the story of the tower of Babel 21:54 which provides an explanation for the diversity of language. 21:58 But even then everybody's already 22:00 speaking a perfectly formed language. 22:02 The Bible just assumes that language has always been there. 22:07 So what if that's true? 22:09 That's not to say that language doesn't change. 22:11 It obviously does. 22:12 And the minute a language stops changing 22:14 it dies like Latin. 22:18 Historically, we can see how a language changes or grows 22:21 but try to explain where it started and the trail runs cold. 22:26 And of course, 22:27 if you're trying to tell the story of how we communicate 22:29 and you go back to a time before we started writing, 22:31 well, that trail runs cold. 22:33 It would be a tough job anyway. 22:36 Look, I don't wanna be too dogmatic about this 22:38 because I only ever took rudimentary linguistic classes. 22:41 And I know there are people who have devoted their lives 22:44 to explaining language from a naturalistic point of view. 22:47 And some of you who did that are cringing 22:49 and probably busy writing me letters 22:51 which is kind of ironic. 22:54 The idea that language 22:56 the way people use it as an accident of evolution. 22:59 I find that unsatisfactorily because 23:02 you and I obviously use language in ways that 23:05 now have very little to do with survival of the fittest. 23:08 I'm not convinced that language just evolved. 23:12 It would mean that human consciousness 23:14 just somehow accidentally emerged 23:16 out of a bunch of dead matter in the universe. 23:19 You and I use language to inspire each other, 23:22 to generate emotions. 23:24 We use language to manipulate people, and to motivate, 23:27 and even to help us perfect the art of romance. 23:30 I mean, thank you Lord Byron for helping me land a wife. 23:35 We'd love to read books that are well-written 23:38 just for the sake of beautiful writing. 23:40 And I have a bunch of those in my library. 23:43 It suggests that language isn't about survival, 23:45 it's a gift from a God who loves to communicate. 23:49 It's a tool we were given to help us satisfy 23:51 intellectual curiosity 23:53 so that we could explore where we come from, 23:56 and think about where we're going. 23:58 And most importantly contemplate 23:59 the meaning of our existence. 24:02 It's as if somebody deliberately equipped us 24:05 for more than just survival. 24:08 Consider the fact that writing has taken many forms 24:11 across many cultures, but the most efficient ones 24:13 the ones that have been used most consistently 24:16 are rooted in the story of the Bible. 24:18 The Egyptians had pictographs 24:20 and the Chinese had masterful calligraphy. 24:22 But back in those days 24:24 literacy was the privilege of very few people 24:26 because learning to read was expensive and complicated. 24:31 Then somebody invented the alphabet 24:33 were individual letters represent sounds 24:35 instead of concepts. 24:37 And now you can actually record millions of concepts 24:40 with just a handful of symbols that anybody can learn. 24:43 We called it the alphabet. 24:45 And the alphabet was probably invented 24:47 by the same people who gave us this book because. 24:50 Well, the word Alphabet's a compound word, 24:52 it's alph and bet. 24:54 The first two letters of the Hebrew alphabet 24:56 or to be more precise, it's actually the first two letters 24:58 of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta. 25:01 But we're gonna give credit to the Hebrews 25:03 because the Greeks got it from them. 25:06 So the gift of writing 25:08 was essentially a [indistinct] invention. 25:10 An efficient system of communication 25:12 that was used by Hebrews, and Phoenicians, and Canaanites. 25:15 And they passed it down to us. 25:17 Now I got to take one last break, but don't you go anywhere. 25:22 - [Fourth Narrator] Dragons, beasts, cryptic statues. 25:27 Bible prophecy can be incredibly vivid and confusing. 25:31 If you've ever read Daniel or revelation 25:33 and come away scratching your head, you're not alone. 25:36 Our free Focus on Prophecy guides are designed 25:39 to help you unlock the mysteries of the Bible 25:42 and deepen your understanding of God's plan 25:44 for you and our world. 25:46 Study online or request them by mail 25:48 and start bringing prophecy into focus today. 25:52 when you read the Bible from cover to cover, 25:53 you quickly discover 25:55 as Rabbi Jonathan Sacks once pointed out. 25:58 It's not the story of people talking about God. 26:00 It's actually the story of people talking to God. 26:04 And at the same time 26:05 it's the story of God talking to people. 26:08 This is not just a database, a collection of information. 26:11 The authors who wrote this book said it was the word of God. 26:14 And these words represent an effort by God 26:17 to communicate with us. 26:20 Consider the fact that no pack of dogs, no herd of pigs, 26:23 no flock of sparrows, has ever done what you and I just did. 26:26 We communicated about the past, the present and the future. 26:30 We took abstract ideas and put them into words 26:33 and we transmitted those words over thousands 26:36 of miles so that you and I can understand each other. 26:41 Something has been driving us 26:43 since day one to converse with each other, 26:47 just for the sake of sharing ideas, 26:50 just for the sake of talking. 26:53 And today I submit to you 26:55 that the reason we do this is because we were put here 26:59 by a God who thinks and communicates and speaks. 27:04 And the reason God speaks 27:06 is because he's a God of relationships. 27:09 And he hardwired you and me to be just like him 27:13 made in his image. 27:16 Pick up a book, read through the words. 27:18 Think about what you're seeing 27:20 and think about the phenomenon. 27:21 Where did we pick up this desire? 27:23 Is it really an accident 27:25 that we love to think and communicate? 27:28 I'm Shawn Boonstra and this has been Authentic. 27:33 [upbeat music] |
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