Leviticus 12:1–8
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to a chapter in Leviticus that makes modern sensibilities twitch. To our egalitarian, sterilized, and theologically shallow age, these laws about childbirth seem bizarre at best and misogynistic at worst. What on earth are we to make of this? We must not approach these texts with a red pen, ready to apologize for them or explain them away. God is not the one on trial here; we are. The modern mind, which thinks nothing of the industrial slaughter of the unborn, has no moral high ground from which to critique the God who knits children together in the womb. Our problem is not that these laws are strange, but that we have become strange. We have forgotten the grammar of creation, the reality of the fall, and the logic of redemption that these ceremonial laws are designed to teach.