The author explores the result of endless choice. It is not only overload, but a profound loss of unity, solidity, and coherence in life.

For while we may debate our freedom to choose, there is no doubt that we are not free not to choose.

This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right. Biblical ethics means standing in ultimate decisions for or against God.

He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.

See, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse—

The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven

Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book.

I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

Assemble before me all the elders of your tribes and all your officers so that I may speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

Afterward, Joshua read aloud all the words of the law—the blessings and the curses—according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.

“Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’”

Then Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him. But if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people did not answer a word.