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God’s Unfaithful Wife: A Biblical Theology of Spiritual Adultery is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Biblical theme of spiritual adultery stands in all its bluntness for a deeply offensive sin—the unfaithfulness of God’s covenant people in departing from Yahweh, their husband, and going after false gods. Raymond C. Ortlund Jr. shows how the Genesis vision of human marriage provides the logic and coherent network of meanings for the story of Israel’s relationship with Yahweh. He traces the...

The harlotry of Israel and the jealousy of Yahweh exploded in crisis in the eighth century BC. During the northern kingdom’s autumn of prosperity and then their final spasms of self-destruction, the prophet Hosea was called to alert the people to the true reason for their national decline. It was not ultimately a failure of political manoeuvering, military power or financial resources. The explanation lay deep within the covenanted people themselves. Israel
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