Now let's go back to this "substance" thing. If a sound is a vibration and it is, then what is a vibration? Yeah, I know, but we've just got one more trip to make. It is of the utmost importance for us to grasp this concept, this truth, and this reality. This is God and His Word we are talking about. Understanding how all this is put together will give us great insight into how true communication takes place through the formation of sounds to make words to create a language.

He did say in His word, to seek and keep on seeking, well, brethren, that is what I have done, am doing, and will continue to do. I would sincerely desire all, who would, to come with me on this journey; I do believe the trip we are making is worth the effort. I believe we will come back with a whole new light on God, a whole new light on His Word, and a whole new light on our relationship with Him, through His Word.

That is where I am ever going, ever searching, to know Him in every true way I can, this is where I have been led, and this is where I am leading others. This is where God is, the real God, the One true God of our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus did say in Matthew 7:14 - "strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads to life, and few there be that find it."

Sound is a vibration. Then what is a vibration? As I stated earlier, it has to be a substance, I mean, just because you don't see something doesn't mean it's not there. A substance that you don't see or hear can move other things. The only thing that can move something else is something of substance. Regardless of whether we can see it or not. We don't "see" sound but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. We hear it so it has to be made of something, right? Sound is made of substance.

In the same way and as an example consider the wind. We don't see it, but we see its effects. The same with sound, we don't see it, but we can experience the effects. We can hear sound.

So what is it we hear? Vibration. If that is true, then vibration has got to be something, right? It has to be made of something in order to cause an effect. Right? It has to have some type of substance to it which we can't see. What is vibration? Or better yet, in singular form, to vibrate?

Noun

To move back and forth or to and fro, especially rhythmically and rapidly.

To produce a sound; resonate.

Verb

To cause to tremble or quiver.

To cause to move back and forth rapidly.

To produce (sound) by vibration.

Well, looks like a dead end. Not really, just looks that way. How can something move back and forth, without an action upon it? What is the action upon it other than the vibration itself? You see what I'm saying? We have reduced a language to this point. Language -> Word -> Morpheme -> Sound -> Vibration.

Now we are told vibration is "to move back and forth". Where did the movement come from? What caused the movement? What action caused this reaction? Look at the "Verb"..."to cause" "to cause" "to produce". What I am saying is that in order for there to be movement there has to be a "cause" creating the movement.

We understand from the law of physics that "no inanimate thing can react upon itself to move". There has to be an underlying factor to "cause" movement. Inanimate things cannot move on there own without "cause".

1. not animate:

a) not endowed with life or spirit

b) lacking consciousness or power of motion

So we see that "inanimate" things are dead, not having life or spirit. These things have no "power of motion". From this we understand that in order for something to move, to animate, or vibrate, it has to have an action upon it, unless it is alive; right? No "inanimate" thing in and of itself moves on its own. No "inanimate" object just up and moves on its own. No, it has to have an action placed upon it, unless it is alive or "endowed with life or spirit". There has to be something behind it, in it, making it move. Do you understand this?

If you set a ball on flat ground it's not going to just start rolling. It has to have some action placed upon it in order for it to move. The same is true for any inanimate object. It has no life of its own; "not endowed with life or spirit", and, as such, requires something of substance to make it move; to make it react.

A sound is a vibration. What creates the vibration? The vibration cannot be an inanimate thing because it is in and of itself moving. It has to be a substance which causes a sound. Without vibration there is no sound. So how can we hear ourselves think? How do we hear our own thoughts? Something has to be moving, vibrating within us in order to produce the sound which creates that word we hear.