And here is the absolutely vital and life-changing take-home point for us: ancient and ambiguous laws, in order to remain relevant, needed to be adapted—which results in the diversity of the laws we see in the Old Testament. We can’t miss what this is telling us today. Circumstances change, and wisdom is needed to keep the divine–human conversation going. Wisdom always shows up at the door anytime we read the Bible. That is how it has always been—and was meant to be. Within the Bible itself we see writers both respecting the past and transposing it to the present—or better, they respect the
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