THE PICTURE AND THE WORD.

THE PICTURE AND THE WORD.

You cannot describe something well that you have not seen.  So the Picture and the Word must go together in order to produce a good description of something.  If for example you are describing a person with only words, the impression you can create in the hearer would not be clear, definite and complete.  But if you present together with the description his picture, you create a better impression and understanding in your hearers, just as you may use diagrams, charts, pictures and graphs to give a pictorial illustration of a "paper".  Infact you cannot even describe the person if you have not seen him or his picture before.  The picture is not the same as the actual living person himself.  When it is impossible for you to see the living person because of the barrier of distance, the picture and the word of description are the best approximations for bringing the nature of the living person to your understanding.  The best you can know of the person can only be brought through these coarse, scaled down and rigid representations, and not the actual living person.

Through the Word, the Picture and your experiencing of Creation you can continuously expand your knowledge of Creation.  It is not for nothing they say, “a picture paints a thousand words”, and “experience is the best teacher”.  These are to underscore the importance of these elements in the acquisition of knowledge of the Will of God in Creation.