On the one side are those who believe that God’s command back to the Jewish people in the Book of Leviticus no longer applies to any of us in this day and age since we are now operating under a New Covenant with Jesus and we are now no longer under the law, but under grace. On...
Did God create disorder and chaos? What does it actually mean to be evil? And how do you tell your kids that in the Bible dragons are actually the “bad guys”? In this episode, Tim and Jon respond to your questions from the first half of the Chaos Drago
Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, for example, are not about “homosexuality” as we now understand it – as the caring, loving and sexual relationship between people of the same sex. These texts are about relationships that cross boundaries of purity (between clean and unclean) and ethnicity (...
Leviticus Q+R This summer we've been releasing a Q+R series we did on Youtube covering hard questions in the Old Testament. This week we are in the book of Leviticus, a very confusing, very ancient book. Tim and Jon discuss issues about being "unclean" in the Old Testament, whether ...
Christ’s statement is also similar toLeviticus 19:2: “Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy,” or, translated slightly differently, “I would that ye should be holy as I, the Lord your God am holy.”21Based on the similarities in wording between these scriptures, it ...
what was right and wrong, as well as to institute rules to help keep people clean, saying, “For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground” (Leviticus 11:44)...
Rather, it appears in a long list of rules about how we eat, something everyone does, every single day. Rabbi Billy Dreskin writes of this peculiarity: “Leviticus is not the most exciting of books in the Torah, and the laws of kashrut are less so. But Leviticus is about life’s ...
Leviticus 19:2 (NIV)“Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: ‘Be holy because I, The LORD your God, am holy.”Robin Robinson Bohlin March 1, 2023.It is time to come back to your first love, ME. Stay the course. I have so much ahead for you. Do not allow ...
Mark 3.1-19 What Are Contagious Sins? Leviticus 13: Leprosy! Leprosy! What could God possibly have for us in all this discussion of bright skin, white skin, scales, and scabs? Notice that God called this leprosy an uncleanness, not a disease. It was not the same disease we refer to ...
Leviticus 19.18, “You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.” Of course it is the second half of this verse that Jesus uses to speak of the greatest commandment. Jesus puts together...