"Don’t role words likewise large for the subject. Don’t tell 'infinitely' when you lot hateful 'very'; otherwise you’ll conduct keep no give-and-take left when you lot desire to verbalise almost something actually infinite." C.S. Lewis
Lewis understood a mutual writing in addition to speaking mistake: using large words when uncomplicated ones volition create in addition to using God-descriptive superlatives likewise liberally.
Awesome is mayhap the most misused. We role it for a delicious hamburger, for a loved one, for a opor-garai in addition to for God.
Are nosotros crazy? God in addition to hamburgers?
The Definition of awesome: extremely impressive or daunting; inspiring bang-up admiration, apprehension, or fear. Synonyms: breathtaking, awe-inspiring, staggering...
I don't intend anyone or anything is genuinely awesome except God.
Wonderful, yes. Awesome, no.
Maybe it's non important, simply I encounter our Christian civilization growing to a greater extent than in awe of ourselves in addition to less inward awe of God. And I wonder if we've grown to believe that "awesome" applies to things it doesn't.
Sometimes wording matters. What create you lot think?
