the LORD, the God of heaven.” What? There appears to be no fear of God whatsoever in this man. He had no problem with looking God in the face and saying, “I will not do what you have asked me to do.” He had no problem with taking his life into his own hands and doing the opposite of what God had called him to do. A huge gap exists between the cultural confession of this Hebrew man and the reality of how he responded to God and chose to live his life. The “fear” he is talking about is a cultural abstraction
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