Exodus 22:18
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in a soft age, an age that likes its Christianity domesticated. We want a Jesus who is a celestial guidance counselor, a God who is a cosmic teddy bear, and a Bible that is a collection of inspirational quotes suitable for framing on the kitchen wall. And when we come to a text like our passage this morning, the modern mind recoils. To our therapeutic sensibilities, it sounds harsh, intolerant, and frankly, primitive. The modern evangelical impulse is to do one of three things with a verse like this. The first is to ignore it, to skip over it and pretend it isn’t there, hoping no one asks. The second is to apologize for it, to treat it as a regrettable, Bronze Age relic that we have thankfully evolved beyond. But we are not called to ignore, apologize for, or neuter the Word of God.