Verse of the day: "He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, 'These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.'" Exodus 32: 4
Exodus a somewhat crazy book of the Bible. I mean, if you really read it as a story, these people are doing some insane things. I was reading about the whole gold calf situation that occurred when Moses went up to get the 10 commandments, and this note in my Bible jumped out at me. Apparently, archaeologists found this golden calf in Palestine in 1990. Now get this--the calf was only a few inches tall! The thing that strikes me as funny about this is that not only are these people worshipping a cow, they're worshipping a cow that's the size of a chicken nugget. And then, on top of that, they attribute the miracle of being brought out of slavery in Egypt to it! So, as I'm chuckling to myself about these ignorant people somewhere in the Middle East back in the day, it occurs to me that there has to be a reason why this story is in the Bible, and that perhaps I better stay away from pointing any fingers.
