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Exodus 20:25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. " The hero is the one who knows from top to bottom that   he is not a hero. The hero moves through his days not only aware of his moral failures, but of his dependence on the grace of God in all its manifestations. He must know, increasingly, how weak and needy he is." — R.C. Sproul Jr. R.C. Sproul Sr. in Reformed circles is the authoritative voice in the Pantheon of modern theologians. His son is actually twice as hard-core as he is. I find him him (Jr.) harsh and heavy. Maybe Solomon to Rehoboam type of thing. No one else even gets close to Sr. in his biblical knowledge and general training in philosophy. Plus. he digs Kierkegaard. I wish more Reformed people had sharp minds and soft hearts. Why is it so difficult to have both?  Yet, I agree with Jr.'s assessment above. Unlike the Nietzschean Uber-Man

John 7:37 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink." Every person in this world is in one of three places: - Egypt - Under the slavery of sin and Pharaoh. In need of deliverance. - The Desert - Grasping of the Moral Law. The beginning of deliverance. - The Promise Land - Under Grace. The completion of deliverance. The progression is not just the story of the Israelites' of Exodus. It is also our individual story. We don't take sin seriously until we experience how harsh a taskmaster it is. We labor under oppression. We discern that sin will always be more brick and less straw. When sin is an experiential reality, we see that there is a moral law that is operating in the Universe. For how can we assess anything unless there is a standard that applies to all. Post-moderns like to dismiss objective morality as culturally subjective--as if gravity is a personal choice rathe