Malachi and sin

“At two points, the book [of Malachi] confronts inappropriate moral patterns, the first among the priests who are showing partiality by favoring the powerful in their torah rulings at the temple (2:1–9) and the second among the people who are divorcing their wives for foreign women (2:10–16). By relaxing the strict torah rules over appropriate animals for sacrifice and by divorcing Jewish wives in favor of women from the foreign elite, priests and people alike were compromising principles of the Law for the purpose of gaining social status.”—A Severe Mercy, pages 342

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Looks like he's gone from preachin' to meddlin'... "compromising principles of the Law for the purpose of gaining social status." That could easily describe much/most of the church in the US today...
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