Exodus 21:20–21
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
There are certain passages in Holy Scripture that function as a kind of spiritual gag reflex for modern man. Our therapeutic, sentimentalist, and egalitarian age reads a text like this one and immediately recoils. We do not merely disagree with it; we are offended by it. And in this visceral reaction, we reveal far more about ourselves than we do about the text. We reveal that our ultimate standard of justice is not the character of the holy God who spoke the world into existence, but rather our own autonomous and ever shifting feelings. But God does not submit His law for our approval. Our task is not to tame the text, or apologize for it, or explain it away. Our task is to understand it, and in understanding it, to see the profound and perfect justice of God.