idol that can neither speak nor save. They think they’re improving the gospel, but what they’re actually doing is forging a golden calf in the furnace of unbelief. This is the real tragedy of apostasy: we try to improve the gospel, only in the end to find we’ve abandoned it for an idol made by human hands. Why, then, we may wonder, does anyone commit apostasy? Why do people forsake the Christian faith? Why would anyone in their right mind turn from grace to no grace