Thursday, September 03, 2009

God and words

"I sometimes marvel that God chose to risk his revelation in the ambiguities of language. If he had wanted to make sure that the truth was absolutely clear, without any possibility of misunderstanding, he should have revealed his truth by means of mathematics. Mathematics is the most precise, unambiguous language that we have. But then, of course, you can't say “I love you” in algebra."

--Eugene Peterson, in "Eat This Book", excerpts found (there's more!) here

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