The Failure of Good Intentions (Exodus 32-33) | Do we get worship God however we want to?

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Exodus vol 1 'Currid' https://amzn.to/3MzPX3K
'The Unseen Realm' https://amzn.to/3KKoNWY
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Israel's Exodus https://amzn.to/3kRhYbz
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In this episode we are interrupted from a conversation between Moses and God due to the people of Israel coming up with their own system of worship that actually flies directly in the face of what YHWH has clearly expressed he wants from his people. God gets mad, Moses gets mad, there's some shouting and some crying and God ultimately threatens to abandon Israel. Is God playing reverse psychology or did he really mean it?