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The Gospel of John: You Didn't Have Faith in Me, and You Did This on Purpose
The story of israel, selected out from among the nations, and the story of the torah and the prophets are all about how even when god selects a special one. Even they keep repeating the failed choices of adam and eve in every generation, leading to death. And i think where we should walk away from this story is to say, man, what we need is ha human partner for god who will do the divine will that leads to life for the many. If we don't have that mediator, even moses can't rescue us, much less ourselves. That's what i think it means to read this in light of kind of the messianic trajectory of the hebrew