How seriously do you take Leviticus?

Answer 1

I take the entire Bible seriously, including Leviticus. However, I keep in mind that certain parts of it are ceremonial in nature and are now fulfilled by Christ's death and need not be practiced anymore. That doesn't remove one single jot or tittle from the moral law sections of it, though.

Answer 2

Very serious. There are things in Leviticus that should not be practiced any longer because it would deny the sacrifice JESUS gave. Keep in mind, the book of Leviticus speaks of JESUS' sacrificial act in a symbolic form.

Read Hebrews 10.

GOD bless

Answer 3

Leviticus is like telling a two year old not to earth cookies before supper. Now that your all grown up, you know better. It had its time and place in the history of the creation of man into the image of God as did all the laws we received from our parents.

Answer 4

Jesus of course is our high priest now. His precious blood shed on the cross washed away our sins, he was the perfect lamb that took away the sins of the world, He also was the sin offering, the escape goat for sin. He is our Saviour, it gives us a glimpse of what Jesus was going to be, but I believe in the end He will be so much more there will be no imagining it at all. Praise the Lord, I know Our Redeemer Lives!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

I believe many of the sacrifices, in a highly spiritual sense, pointed to the ultimate sacrifice who was Christ. Far from my favorite read in the Bible, but when I do read it, in a spiritual way I usually am looking to how things may have allegorically or metaphorically have been a spiritual picture or type of Christ.

Answer 6

... recognize that it is NO LONGER IN EFFECT and it is pretty easy.

Jesus PREDICTED the END of the law.

…Yes, Jesus said he didn’t come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it, (Matthew 5:17) but this DOES NOT MEAN THE LAW IS STILL IN EFFECT. The result was the same, once fulfilled, the law was no longer in effect.

The very next verse, Matthew 5:18, LOOKS FORWARD to the time when the law WOULD BE SET ASIDE. "...Not even the smallest stroke of a pen will disappear from the Law UNTIL EVERYTHING IS COMPLETED." This “UNTIL” clause REINFORCES THE TEMPORARY NATURE OF THE LAW. It ONLY makes sense when we understand that the law was intended FROM THE BEGINNING to be SET ASIDE.

Of course this fits perfectly with Paul’s later teaching:

Ephesians 2:15 Through his body on the cross, Christ put an END to the LAW WITH ALL ITS COMMANDS AND RULES. He wanted to create one new group of people out of the two. He wanted to make peace between them.

Colossians 2:14, 16, &21 (excerpts) He wiped out the written Law with its rules. The Law was against us. It opposed us. He took it away and nailed it to the cross… No one can be made right with God by obeying the law.... What if a person could become right with God by obeying the law? Then Christ died for nothing!

Romans 3:20 So it can’t be said that anyone will be made right with God by obeying the law. Not at all! The law makes us more aware of our sin. 21 But now God has shown us how to become right with him. The Law and the Prophets give witness to this. It has nothing to do with obeying the law.

Galatians 5:4 Some of you are trying to be made right with God by obeying the law. You have been separated from Christ. You have fallen away from God’s grace... The ONLY verse that talks about falling from grace, and they did it by trying to follow the law!

The 10 commandments along with the rest of the law ("commands and rules" from Ephesians 2:15) were "set aside" when they were fulfilled or completed at Jesus' resurrection. We are no longer bound by that law.

BUT THIS DOES NOT MEAN THE LAW IS WORTHLESS OR MEANINGLESS !

Romans 15:4 Everything that was written in the past was written to teach us. The Scriptures give us strength to go on. They cheer us up and give us hope.

Paul's teaching is exactly in line with Jesus' own prophecy about the law. Early in Paul’s ministry, the other apostles and the elders in Jerusalem were asked about non-Jewish converts to Christianity and their relationship to the law. Here was their UNANIMOUS RESPONSE:

"The apostles and elders, your brothers, To the non-Jewish believers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia:

Greetings.

We have heard that some went out from us without our authorization and disturbed you, troubling your minds by what they said. We all agreed to choose some men and send them to you with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul— men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas to confirm by word of mouth what we are writing. It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: YOU ARE TO ABSTAIN FROM FOOD SACRIFICED TO IDOLS, FROM BLOOD, FROM THE MEAT OF STRANGLED ANIMALS AND FROM SEXUAL IMMORALITY. YOU WILL DO WELL TO AVOID THESE THINGS.

Farewell." -- Acts 15:23-29

Notice that the entire body of rules contained in the Old Testament was reduced to one sentence.

Answer 7

I take it as seriously as I take the rest of the bible.

Be more specific in your question, and you may receive a more specific answer.

Answer 8

Very !!

1Co 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Answer 9

The writers of Leviticus evidently did NOT take their fibre the day before!
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Answer 10

The same way I take the rest of the Bible,
fiction.

Modern science, ethics, and biblical scholars have pretty much exploded the Bible.