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I think everyone will find it's a very more thorough course in being able to go through it.

I mean, it really is almost verse by verse that I go through it.

Yeah, because my correct answer is supposed to be, if I'm going to be...

If I'm going to be properly orthodox, I shall say, the correct answer is the Gospel of John.

So there are certain hierarchies in historical biblical criticism, and John is at the top, right?

But no, that wasn't my answer.

My answer was the Exodus.

I think Exodus is the most important book in Scripture because all of the New Testament is meditating on the Exodus.

If Exodus is...

From slavery to freedom, we ask, well, slavery to what freedom?

Slavery to what freedom from?

What is that slavery?

it can be, it can very easily be a slavery to sin, disobedience.

I have no problem with that.

I think that's about right.

I think that's why God has to exercise his patience so much throughout the entire book.

But if you were to push me and say, okay, so from slavery to freedom, what's that really about?

My answer is pretty simple.

It is a freedom from death.

I take that as our existential curse.