The tendency in our modern churches is to strip the Bible of mystery and reduce it to abstractable principles. The tendency is to read something like Exodus 32 and think, Wow, Moses and God really had something special there, and then continue to lob halfhearted prayers up to Aristotle’s god, as if Moses was some sort of superstar with different access to God than we have. In fact, Jesus said the opposite: “Whoever is least in my kingdom is greater than those who came before me.”19 To put the sentiment bluntly, “You are greater in God’s eyes than Moses because you carry Jesus’ authority when
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