Judges 17:5 - Forerunner Commentary

Judges 17:5

3 So when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, “I had wholly dedicated the silver from my hand to the Lord for my son, to ^amake a carved image and a molded image; now therefore, I will return it to you.”

4 Thus he returned the silver to his mother. Then his mother ^atook two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to the silversmith, and he made it into a carved image and a molded image; and they were in the house of Micah.

5 The man Micah had a ^ashrine, and made an ^bephod and ^chousehold idols; and he consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

6 ^aIn those days there was no king in Israel; ^beveryone did what was right in his own eyes.

7 Now there was a young man from ^aBethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah; he was a Levite, and ^bwas staying there.

8 The man departed from the city of Bethlehem in Judah to stay wherever he could find a place. Then he came to the mountains of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

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Judges 17:5-6

The Protestant principle of permitting individualistic private interpretation was set loose in the context of the freedom, democracy, and equality of North America. From this came the present attitude in mainstream Christianity that every man's opinion is as good as everyone else's, resulting in non-biblical cultural Christianity today. This principle does not apply in physics or medicine, and it is not universally applicable in law or theology.

And that seems to be the push that we have had for quite a few years now, until recently anyway, but it still goes on because it is in the hearts of men to do what is right in their own eyes. God sees this attitude as a product of pride.

Excerpted from We are Called to Liberty

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