Exodus 32-33 Losing faith

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As time went by and seeing no sight of Moses, the people of Israel lost faith and patience to wait for him to return. Then, they requested a golden calf as a substitute of God. They easily forgot about what God told them to do. Similar thing had happened before when Abraham and Sarah were waiting for having a child of their own. They tried to do it in their own way. But it turned out that God's way was way better.

Imagine one's child has a rock or metal as the substitute of their parent. How would that parent have felt about that? It is understandable the frustration and anger God must have felt toward the people of Israel. But I still don't believe that God actually ordered the Levites to have the others killed. I look at that event as a metaphor meaning to eradicate things that are of less significance in our lives.

In the Old Testament, God was distant and a majestic presence. Even God himself told Moses that no one could see Him and live. People could only glimpse His glory. I have yet to understand why God seems like two different persons in the Old Testament and New Testament. I can only presume that it was how people in the past perceived who God was. The Old Testament was a record of how people of Israel saw God.

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