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A Second Desert
Lent 2019 The Yale Logos Lent 2019 The Yale Logos

A Second Desert

By Bryce McDonald ’21. Bryce is a philosophy concentrator in Leverett House.

Nevertheless, like the Israelites, we are a stiff-necked people. At every stage in the Old Testament, we are deceiving ourselves if we read about the evil of the Israelites and believe that we would do otherwise in that situation. We must read ourselves into the story, and usually into the worst characters, in order to accurately apply Scripture to our lives. Thus, if we could approach God only by the merit of our actions, he would have to destroy us too, before we could see him face-to-face.

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