The Golden Calf in all of its modern and secular manifestations still dances and prances among us

Jewish World Review ^ | 3/13/'09 | Rabbi Berel Wein

[Zionist Conspirator]

The obvious problem arising out of the Golden Calf is how could the Jewish people, fresh from the miracles of Egypt, Sea of Reeds, manna and the revelation at Sinai revert to paganism and to the worship of a man-made deity. What possessed them to be so blind as to their own recent experiences and to their stated destiny?

Of course, this incident is the ultimate proof of the allowance for free will in human affairs, even for the most destructive form of free will. And, yet, it is most troubling to realize how seriously error prone the Jewish people can be.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Ping.

[Tax-chick]

I don’t recall reading that the original golden calf danced or pranced. It makes more sense that a golden figurine would just sit there.

[geologist]

How susceptible people are to the prince of this world ...Satan/Dragon/Devil/worldliness.

Again and again people “are enticed by their own desires.”

James 1:14.ASB
“14. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.”

[NorCoGOP]

The absence of inspiring religious leadership, the inability to formulate a positive vision for the people, the influences of a secular world that has turned all basic human values on its face, the revival of pagan ideas and lifestyles of the ancient world in the guise of new liberal ideas and permissive values, all combine in our time to allow the Golden Calf to still exist within us.

The failures of assimilation, secularism, and Westernization at all costs, are all visible to all of us. Yet, we are all reluctant to abandon the allure of the shine of the Golden Calf.

Only when we will have our fill of these false hopes and retrograde ideas will we be free to accept Moses' dramatic act of destroying the Golden Calf to dust and powder. Perhaps then will our bill for the original Golden Calf be finally stamped as being paid in full.

Yikes...nails it.

Explains voting behaviors as well.

I've wondered how Jews vote so loyally democratic, only to find their elected officials anti-Israel, if not anti-Semitic, only to keep voting the same way...

[sr4402]

Of course, this incident is the ultimate proof of the allowance for free will in human affairs, even for the most destructive form of free will

Let's see "There is none that does Good"... "There is none that seeks for God". If that is the default state of man, where exactly does free will then exist? It exists between the state of sin and the state of iniquity.

[Zionist Conspirator]

I don’t recall reading that the original golden calf danced or pranced. It makes more sense that a golden figurine would just sit there.

Well, thomeone wath pranthing, Thunshine!

[Tax-chick]

LOL - thanks, that’ll help me get through the afternoon!

[sevenbak]

Again and again people “are enticed by their own desires.”

James 1:14.ASB
“14. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.”

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Well said Geo.

I would add Proverbs 23:7 to that.

“As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

[smokingfrog]

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