Today I want to continue the discussion we began yesterday about a common challenge that faces all believers. I’m talking about a situation where in order to exercise love and compassion to another, we sometimes have to break God’s rules concerning ritual purity. To be honest, sometimes I wish God’s commands on ritual purity weren’t […]
L21-5: If a priest is ONE FLESH with his wife, why can’t he attend to her dead body if she dies?
“Adonai said to Moshe, “Speak to the cohanim, the sons of Aharon; tell them: ‘No cohen is to make himself unclean for any of his people who dies, except for his close relatives — his mother, father, son, daughter and brother; he may also make himself unclean for his virgin sister who has never married […]
L21-4: Levite priests were NOT allowed to preside over funerals
YHVH said to Moshe, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aharon; tell them: ‘No priest is to make himself unclean for any of his people who dies, except for his close relatives — his mother, father, son, daughter and brother; he may also make himself unclean for his virgin sister who has never married and […]
L21-3: When did death and decay begin in our universe?
How did death and decay begin in our universe? There are two interesting hypotheses put forward to answer this question. One argument is that sin and evil did not exist until Satan rebelled in heaven. Until Satan rebelled, the universe operated on a different principle that it does now. We’re talking about a universe that […]
L21-2: When the Bible speaks of ‘ETERNITY’, it does not mean a really LOOOONG time!
Before we jump into the text of Leviticus 21 dealing with the Levite rules for the deceased, I need to talk a little about death. I know this can be quite an uncomfortable topic but it can’t be ignored because it has everything to do with God’s plans for the human race. So the first […]
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