In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. (...)
The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (Joh 1:1-5;9-14)

Only recently we read how someone lamented the "boredom" produced by the usual Sunday school material, expounding on the virtue of bible comics and other visual material to help make "bible stories" more palatable for people. The argument claimed that we were all "visual learners" to a large degree because everybody was used to and liked visualization, and besides, a picture says more than an thousands words anyway, right ?

Well, it might be part of folk wisdom that a picture says more than a thousand words, and people are certainly much more used to visualization nowadays than they were, say, during Shakespeare's (and King James') times. It is no secret that now, even very small children are put down in front of the television on a regular basis, and Christian parents are only too happy to let their little ones watch veggie tales or other "wholesome" Christian programs to keep their toddlers happy and help the busy parents educate their children in the Word as Scripture requires (Deu 6:6-7, Pro 22:6).

Hang on... Wait a second here. Parents use visualization, the television, to help them "educate their children in the Word as Scripture requires" ? Sunday school material should be spiced up by using more images, even comic books, to teach people Yahweh's Word ? Yes, they do, and yes, it should, according to modern Christian ideas, but the contradiction should be obvious: Scripture is Yahweh's Word, not Yahweh's image, television series, comic book or cartoon. In fact, Yahweh is adamant about His Word being His Word rather than an image, so much so that idolatry is among the first things mentioned in the Ten Commandments (Exo 20:4; Deu 5:8). If you read your Old Testament "stories" properly, you will probably remember that idolatry was the #1 sin amongst ancient Israel (the phrase "other gods" alone is found 62 times in the OT in the ESV). Then Jesus, Himself the Word made flesh (Joh 1:1-14), still has to warn people against serving two masters, even if they should have learned by then (Mat 6:24), and calls the people a "sinful and adulterous generation". Given the context, "adulterous" is most probably being used in a figurative sense rather than literally here, so He is speaking of apostasy, in other words, idolatry (Mat 12:39/Mat 16:4, Mar 8:38). And finally, Paul of course picks it up yet again in 1Co 10:14, Gal 5:20 (among the fruits of the flesh) and Col 3:5, for example.

Has anything changed at all ? Has anyone progressed in any form or fashion in terms of understanding and obeying Yahweh's Law Word ? Other than the remnant that has always obeyed Yahweh's voice, it doesn't seem like it.