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[A nugget of wisdom appears.

The integrity of the individual may be formulated as an if…then statement.

IF the person’s mirror of the world reflects YHWH,

THEN freedom describes the potentials inherent in the person.

The individual becomes responsible and free.

IF the person’s mirror of the world does not reflect YHWH,

THEN bondage describes the potentials inherent in the person.

The individual loses responsibility (words) and becomes a slave (bondage).]

[The Old Testament prophets held incredible expectations_3a. The whole of Israel should serve YHWH.

And they failed. The whole of Israel failed, and the heart of Judah was excised and removed to Babylon.]

[In the Old Testament, the Zeitgeist was full of the erotic and lurid gods of Canaan.

Can you hear the siren calls of the temple prostitutes?

Old Testament men of God are YHWH’s servants_3b.

They chose YHWH.

Their values overflowed their desires.]

[Each member of the tribe of Israel, is expected to choose_2b YHWH, thus revealing “her” values_1b.

But the challenge does not stop there.

Every child of Abraham, upon hearing the stories in Genesis, is called to ‘something_2a’ that reveals “her” desires.

If this ‘something_2a’ is anything other than YHWH, then all hell will break loose.

The vessel of “her” values_1b will fill with delusions appearing in the Zeitgeist_3a.

The vessel_1b formed when choosing YHWH will burst, in thought_3b(2b and deed_2b(1b)), leaving the wayward child of God trapped in the words_3a(2a that “she” takes to be real_2a and in bondage_2a(1a)) to the desires_1a that they call forth in “her”.]

[Each member of the tribe of Israel, is expected to choose_2b YHWH, thus revealing “his” values_1b.

But the challenge does not stop there.

Every child of Abraham, upon hearing the stories in Genesis, is called to ‘something_2a’ that reveals “his” desires_1a.

Without this ‘something_2a’, the vessel of “his” values_2b stands empty.]

[Perhaps, the stories of Abraham were woven into a coherent narrative by the bards of Israel. They entered into the thought experiment for the tribes of Israel.

The thought experiment asks whether the children of Abraham not only value_1b (thereby choose) God, but desire_1a God as well.

YHWH is located as the something_2a that reveals the desire_1a of the tribes of Israel.]