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| NEW LIGHT ON THE OLD TESTAMENT |
| The advantages of living now. |
| For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. 8:7 |
| To understand the difference between an original and a copy, consider trying to photograph the largest animal, a whale. Roy Chapman Andrews describes it: "Once in Alaska, we raised a humpback's spout and ran up close before the animal submerged. Ten minutes later, without warning, the floor of the ocean seemed to rise and a mountainous black body, dripping with foam, heaved upward, almost over our heads. It paused an instant, then fell sideways to be swallowed up by a vortex of green water. With the camera ready in my hands I stared at the thing. The whale had dropped back scarcely twenty feet away; if it had fallen the other way, the vessel would have been crushed beneath its forty tons." How can you adequately communicate the impact of something that immense? Photographers have recorded humpback whales bursting from the water, or "lobtailing" (standing on their heads and waving their mighty flukes high in the air). But no photograph can capture the sheer bigness of such an animal. A baby blue whale gains a ton of weight a month. An adult blue whale's heart weighs 1,000 pounds. How can any two-dimentional photograph convey such gargantuan size? Comparing the Copy to the Original Even the best photograph is just a copy, a representation of its subject's reality. No 8x10 rectangle can contain a whale. No photo sequence of the Grand Canyon is as grand as the canyon itself. The photograph preserves a mere two-dimentional copy of reality. Hebrews uses that word copy to describe the images and |