Leviticus 11:46–47
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
Our culture is laboring with all its might to erase every line God ever drew. They want to blur the line between male and female, good and evil, beautiful and grotesque, sacred and profane. It is into this kind of confusion that a chapter like Leviticus 11 speaks with a bracing and scandalous clarity. To the modern mind, these dietary laws are baffling at best and offensive at worst. Why would God care if an Israelite ate a lobster? What is the great spiritual crime in eating a ham sandwich? Is this not the kind of arbitrary, ritualistic fussiness that Jesus came to do away with? If we think this way, we have missed the point entirely. We are like a student in a chemistry lab complaining that he has to distinguish between hydrochloric acid and water because, after all, they are both clear liquids.