What is the meaning
of Leviticus 22-30?

by Howard
(Hampton VA)

Rick Brentlinger Answers

Leviticus was written to the children of Israel as they prepared to enter the promised land. Thirteen times God and Moses say that Leviticus is for the children of Israel.

Leviticus contains the Holiness Code, which gives specific instructions which the children of Israel had to obey but which Christians do not have to obey.

According to Acts 21:20-25, Jews did try to keep the law, v. 20 but Gentiles did not have to keep the law, v. 25.

The Bible links the pagan practices of false religions with the prohibitions of the Holiness Code. These pagan practices included using sex to worship the fertility goddess. That is what God and Moses intended to prohibit in Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13.

Neither God nor Moses was prohibiting two men or two women who love each other from partnering in committed, faithful, non-cultic relationship. That is not the context of Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 and is not what those verses address.

Scripture cannot mean now
what it did not mean then.

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