Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wrote that his primary concern is the "sexual sin" of Harvard students...
...imagine the sexual sin party is as strong at Harvard today as it was 35 years ago," Wishnatsky wrote. "Only today it is spiced with a heavy dose of gender confusion as well. You know what I mean...
...thing. Astoundingly, God backs down. Moses returns to camp and, seeing the calf himself for the first time, smashes the tablets and has 3,000 of the idolatrous revelers killed. He then returns to God and shows an immense and compassionate courage: "Now, if you will forgive their sin [well and good]; but if not, erase me from the record which you have written...
...join against" their now 119-year-old leader. As before, God advises Moses, telling him to gather the people with his staff and "order the rock to yield its water." As he has done previously, Moses strikes the rock with his rod and out flows the water. His sin, as best as anyone can determine, is that he struck rather than spoke...
...seems the most hairsplitting of technicalities. In Moses: A Life, Kirsch writes, "Against the blow of a wooden staff upon a dry rock, a lifetime of struggle, hardship and faithful service counted for nothing." Some analysts think biblical editors expunged Moses' real sin, whatever it was. Others say his only sin is failure, his inability to ennoble the slave generation. Not so fast, argues Friedman: Moses has been edging toward usurping God's prerogatives for some time, "and now he steps over the line. He changes a miracle. Nobody had ever done that before...