Relevant Verses: 1 Cor. 10:1-11; Numbers 11-14

Leading Question: “Can a believer question God without being sinfully rebellious?”

In an authoritarian culture, any questioning of “authority” is already condemned as an act of rebellion. Josef Stalin, who ruled the USSR with an iron fist from 1922 to1953, bequeathed to the Russian people an entirely closed system in which even the smallest questioning of authority could lead to loss of job, to exile, or to death. Only when two brave Russians decided to step out, at great personal risk, was a modicum of freedom restored.

The novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918 -2008), winner of ...