Ezekiel 23:1-21 – I can’t help but be surprised by the somewhat graphic language used here. Nothing X rated, more R or PG-13, but certainly language that I would have never heard ‘good respectable Christians’ use.
\nSome Christians get criticised for using graphic, shocking language to make their point. They’re called sensational and their words are criticised as sinful. Had one of these men written a story like this to illustrate a point, they’d have been taken to the woodshed, so to speak. Yet here is God, deliberately using graphic, shocking terms to make His point. I’m not saying folks should let their words run free, certainly the book of James has something to say about that. I am saying we shouldn’t toss out a man’s words because we think the language chosen is inappropriate. I think many evangelicals would have brushed Ezekiel aside as irrelevant because of the words (from God) he used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"