to embrace the scripture as a list of individual moral imperatives—biblical laws that function for the person like natural laws function for Newtonian physics.10 Treating the commandments like this is a clever way of honoring them while evading their meaning. Our response to the commandments is not merely individual. As Christians, we read the biblical story in the context of a network of faithful people that stretches forwards and backwards across all of time. From this perspective, scripture becomes “revealed reality” instead of “revealed morality.”11 The next step is arriving at a series of
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