Leviticus 18:24–30
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that desperately wants to have its cake and eat it too. Our culture wants to live in a cosmos that runs according to fixed laws, a world where science is possible and where actions have predictable consequences, but it simultaneously wants to declare its complete autonomy from the God who wrote those laws. This is like a man sawing off the branch he is sitting on while simultaneously complaining about the law of gravity. It is a fool's errand, and the fall is not a matter of if, but when. The book of Leviticus, and this chapter in particular, is a frontal assault on this kind of thinking. Moderns, and even many squeamish evangelicals, want to treat the laws in Leviticus 18, particularly the prohibitions against various forms of sexual deviancy, as arbitrary rules for an ancient tribe.