OK, after being distracted by the financial news and some doomsaying, back to the lectionary
1Therefore, brothers and sisters, holy partners in a heavenly calling, consider that Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses also “was faithful in all God’s house.” 3Yet Jesus is worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. 4(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) 5Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken later. 6Christ, however, was faiithful over God’s house as a son, and we are his house if we hold firm the confidence and the pride that belong to hope.
We are back to fatherhood and heirarchies. Christ is seen as obedient — and Moses is seen as obedient to Christ (who is the builder of the temple and the law). And our hope is in Christ being God’s son.
Which forces us to deal with God as father. And this sticks in many people’s throats. But if we parse out the justification within the law for our salvation, we are left with this.
No changing language gets around this. Nor can we justify any position where God has to change because of our feelings. Our salvation is quite simple, but parsing this out is quite complicated.