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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...

calling to Egypt, going to Assyria (Ho. 7:11, RSV). Flitting about like a frightened bird, panicky Israel does not turn to the one true source of strength and security: The pride of Israel witnesses against him; yet they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him, for all this (Ho. 7:10, RSV). The spiritual answers and resources offered in the covenant seemed unreal in the face of visible dangers. Deuteronomic faith seemed irrelevant, and the God of the exodus and Sinai remote. But it is not
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