Leviticus 4:27–31
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in a sentimental age, an age that prizes sincerity over truth and good intentions over righteous actions. Our culture has convinced itself that the primary standard for morality is located somewhere in the murky region of our own feelings. If your heart was in the right place, then it does not much matter where your feet went. Consequently, the modern conception of sin is almost entirely subjective. For a modern to feel guilty, he must first believe he has done something wrong, and since his own feelings are the ultimate arbiter of what is wrong, this creates a very convenient, self-justifying little loop. Into this soupy subjectivism, the book of Leviticus crashes with the force of a freight train. The Mosaic law operates on a different principle entirely. It teaches us that sin is an objective reality.