What We Think of as Problem Passages Are Often Solution Passages

“More than one Israelite man went to worship the golden calf because there was a good prospect there for getting laid. It sort of gave the ‘golden calf theology’ that little extra appeal. God struck twenty-three thousand of them down because of it. We should be well acquainted with God’s treatment of them, along with His destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, His judgment in the Flood, and so forth. These things were written for us as examples, and apparently God thinks them to be effective examples. We must know them and meditate on them” (Fidelity, p. 35).