I do not like the God of Numbers.
In this chapter God tells Moses the sacrifices that must be when the community sins. God breaks these sins into 2 categories, the unintentional sins and those done in defiance.
If you were caught being defiant, you were to be cut off from the people... sent away to live alone.
Then they catch a man collecting wood on the sabbath, and God tells Moses to stone him, so they do. What happened to being cast away? They go straight to stoning? For collecting wood? Maybe his family was cold or he liked to whittle.
If the only God we knew was the God of Numbers, then I would be doing something else right now.
But Numbers isn't the only peek we have behind the curtain. We have the gospels, which gives a whole different view of God.
Which makes me ask the question, did Moses misunderstand?
I sure hope so.
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