In my last post I made a statement that may have been quite surprising and shocking to some folks, especially those who grew up in sunday type Christian churches. The statement I made was that the Leviticus sacrificial system did NOT cover all sins a person could potentially commit. According to the Torah, ONLY “UN-intentional […]

There is one major principle that needs to be addressed before we even actually begin reading Leviticus. I’m talking about probably one of the BIGGEST gentile misunderstandings ever when it comes to the Levitical sacrificial system.  If you have attended a typical Christian church for any particular period of time, there is one false notion […]

Leviticus is organized in a very logical way and if a Table of Contents were created for this book, it would probably look something like the following: Chapters 1-7: The Laws on ritual sacrifice Chapters 8-10: The Ordination of the Priesthood Chapters 11-16: Ritual purity and cleanliness Chapter 17-27: Incorporating holiness into one’s daily lifestyle […]

In my last post, I pointed out that animal sacrifice and many other ancient worship practices existed well before the time of Moses. I think this fact alone gives us a trustworthy basis for accepting the authenticity of Leviticus. The reason I’m saying this is because some scholars will make the claim that Leviticus does […]

Agriculturally based religious festivals and sacrificial offerings to gods were common in the ancient world long before Israel ever came into existence. Thus, when the Lord first introduced the complex system of rituals detailed for us in Leviticus, it wouldn’t have been foreign to the Hebrews. All of these animal sacrificial rituals were just standard […]