You can't express anything except in words. Since we don't know what "totality" is, except as a vague concept, we can't express it at all. Don't fault language for being finite in capability. It's either language or being mute and deaf.
Music and art can inspire feelings, but feelings are not an expression in the sense of intellectual communication. There are words that can move you in ways that graphic or musical art cannot (such as the Bible). The Bible is a message in language, because it is an expression of conceptual information. Everything is limited, so to say that language is limited is only a truism and a refutation of nothing. If there were no language, there would be no Bible, and thus no Word of God. However limited the language may be, the Word of God transcends the limitations.
Who selected what books are included in the Bible? Were the Gospels not written by the disciples in the name? The Gospel is witness accounts of parts of the life of Jesus as proofs, not, per se, the infallible ultimate word of God, though he is quoted frequently and his word is preserved in the context of which it was spoken.
You can't express totality in words.
You can't express anything except in words. Since we don't know what "totality" is, except as a vague concept, we can't express it at all. Don't fault language for being finite in capability. It's either language or being mute and deaf.
There are some classical pieces that can move you in ways words can't. There are photographs, paintings, etc that really express without words.
Language is de facto limited, especially once you have to translate.
Music and art can inspire feelings, but feelings are not an expression in the sense of intellectual communication. There are words that can move you in ways that graphic or musical art cannot (such as the Bible). The Bible is a message in language, because it is an expression of conceptual information. Everything is limited, so to say that language is limited is only a truism and a refutation of nothing. If there were no language, there would be no Bible, and thus no Word of God. However limited the language may be, the Word of God transcends the limitations.
Those are very good points.
Who selected what books are included in the Bible? Were the Gospels not written by the disciples in the name? The Gospel is witness accounts of parts of the life of Jesus as proofs, not, per se, the infallible ultimate word of God, though he is quoted frequently and his word is preserved in the context of which it was spoken.