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“Going back to Egypt” becomes a metaphor for doubting and turning away from God.
Tara-Leigh Cobble • The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible
For a wise articulation of this point, see Michael Horton, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014).
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Sometimes doubting your doubts is the beginning of wisdom.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
In other words, in much popular modern Christian thought we have made a three-layered mistake. We have Platonized our eschatology (substituting “souls going to heaven” for the promised new creation) and have therefore moralized our anthropology (substituting a qualifying examination of moral performance for the biblical notion of the human vocation
... See moreN. T. Wright • The Day the Revolution Began
