[The Cross freaks out a lot of people.]
Yes.
[It’s Salvation to those who believe, and judgment to those who don’t.]
Yes.
1 Corinthians 1:18
Evangelical Heritage Version
God’s Way of Saving People Seems Foolish to Some
18 For the message of the Cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being Saved, it is the power of God.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+1%3A18&version=EHV
(this is my favorite rendering of the passage)
But Mrs Smith wasn’t even near New Testament work. Murdoch got upset with just Exodus??? That is someone who holds progressivism pretty deeply.