Leviticus 13:24–28
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that is allergic to distinctions. Our culture has declared war on categories, on definitions, on the very idea that one thing is not another. But the God of the Bible is a God of meticulous distinctions. And nowhere is this divine precision more apparent than in the ceremonial laws of Leviticus. For the modern reader, and for many a squeamish Christian, large portions of this book are a closed door. We read about skin diseases, bodily discharges, and mildew in the walls, and our first impulse is to flip forward to the Psalms. We treat these passages like the strange medical diagrams in an old encyclopedia, interesting perhaps, but certainly not relevant. We fail to see that these laws are not about arbitrary religious fussiness. The laws concerning leprosy, or more accurately, various infectious skin diseases, are a master class in the theology of sin.