Exodus 22:31
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that prides itself on its pragmatism. But this is to read the Bible with secular glasses. It is to assume that God thinks like a 21st-century bureaucrat. Every statute, from the grandest moral command to the most peculiar dietary restriction, was designed to shape a worldview. God was teaching His people a new way to see everything, from their neighbors' ox to the meat on their table. He was training them to think His thoughts after Him. This was a totalizing vision for life, one that stood in stark, glaring contrast to the paganism of Egypt behind them and the paganism of Canaan before them. The pagan world was a world of chaos, where life and death, sacred and profane, clean and unclean, all bled into one another in a confusing, violent, and bloody mess.