why use a phonetic alphabet?
Why use an alphabet using only consonants, no vowels? Was it flush right, ragged left? Justified? Why did he choose the Hebrew culture? What language did Adam and Eve speak? Like Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain, I was also intrigued by the story of Bezalel. Francis Schaeffer was an influence in my thinking about the Church and its relationship to the arts. He and Hans Rookmaaker wrote of the divide between God’s attitude toward the arts, evident in the elaborate instructions on the building and furnishing of the Mosaic tabernacle and later the temple of Solomon, in contrast with the decline of the arts in Christian culture. It seemed to me that the Church was in a situation similar to that of the exiled Jews in ancient Babylon. Finding ourselves in a culture that tended to be hostile to living life in harmony with our Creator, like Nehemiah, we were faced with the choice of being assimilated or of rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. For the Church, I saw this as clearly delineating the differ
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