Insidious Adaptation

If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be like an orchestra in which all the instruments played the same note. - C.S. Lewis, The problem of Pain The Old Testament, full of grotesque stories, wretched, horrible incidents, sacrifice, killing, animal sacrifice and many, many verses dedicated to the specific way and how and where to atone for wrong against the Law set forth by God himself. The Old Testament, as I see it now, was in fact, about sacrifice. I will venture a bit further and state that the entire Bible, human existence actually, is about human sacrifice. A preacher ordained in theology can break down certain sections of the historically accurate text known as the Bible. There are many intricacies and contextual components about the time and history of the timeline laid out. There are pieces that are read and read again, only to have them make sense at one time more...

hyphen noun   [   C   ]   US   ​   / ˈhɑɪ·fən / ​ the  mark  (-) used in writing to  join  two words together, or between the  syllables  of a word when it is  divided  at the end of a  line  of  text An amateur writer with so much to learn. So many aspects of writing, of speech, that I am so enamored with that I just want to use them all the time. The hyphen (-) for instance, a continuation of the previous word or thought. To be, like something, the same as something-like.  In the words of Plato: If I put a quote and a picture, am I too considered wise?  "Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."  Too easy is it these days to simply say something for a large group of people. Too simple is the task to  present behind a keyboard and a screen, when at one time, what we said online would have had us a...