Many will stumble over this stone and fall, breaking themselves upon it, yet the destruction is self-inflicted through rejecting the covenant God offers—a principle that absolves God of blame for judgment while holding humans accountable. The image of stumbling over a rock suggests that the obstacle is not hidden but plainly visible; those who fall have chosen to ignore the warning. This articulates a theology of judgment in which God's sentence merely confirms the trajectory that sinful rejection has already set in motion.

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