Leviticus 14:33–57
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to a passage that causes many modern Christians to quietly shuffle their feet. This seems, to our sophisticated minds, to be a matter for a contractor with a spray bottle of bleach, not for the high priest of Israel. We are comfortable with a God who deals in salvation and damnation, in the lofty principles of justice and mercy. But a God who has strong opinions about the state of your plaster? A God who legislates about greenish streaks in the mortar? This can feel a bit mundane, a bit earthy, a bit strange. The great error of the modern world, an error that has seeped into the church like damp rot, is Gnosticism. It is about the insidious, pervasive, and corrupting nature of sin. It does not just infect a soul; it works its way into the very structures of our lives.