Jesus said in Matthew 5:17:18
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Jesus did not come to destroy the law. In fact, until heaven and earth are destroyed not one word of the law shall pass away. Some Christians like to say, but, but, but, this verse says that Jesus came to fulfill the law. Yes, it does, but notice what else it says……..that the law will not pass until ALL BE FULFILLED.
Has everything been fulfilled? Of course not. Jesus is coming back. Judgment is coming. God plans to make a new heaven and earth. So, no , everything has NOT been fulfilled.
Christians are obligated to keep the law. It is God’s law, Yes? Many Christians are quite schizophrenic when it comes to God’s law. They pick and choose what they want to obey. Oh they have all kinds of explanations for why they do or don’t keep this or that law. Rarely do they mention Matthew 5:17,18.
A good Christian is a keeper of God’s law. What follows are 76 laws from the Book of Leviticus that every Christian should be obeying. In this list are laws most every Christians obeys. Why obey only some of them? Are some of the laws more God’s laws than others? Did God only really, really, really mean some of them but not others? Surely, the Christian must know they look quite hypocritical if they don’t obey ALL of God’s laws.
Banned by the Bible has put together a list of 76 laws from the Book of Leviticus:
Here’s chapter and verse on a more-or-less comprehensive list of things banned in the Leviticus book of the bible. A decent number of them are punishable by death.
Unless you’ve never done any of them (and 54 to 56 are particularly tricky), perhaps it’s time to lay off quoting 18:22 for a while?
- Burning any yeast or honey in offerings to God (2:11)
- Failing to include salt in offerings to God (2:13)
- Eating fat (3:17)
- Eating blood (3:17)
- Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve witnessed (5:1)
- Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve been told about (5:1)
- Touching an unclean animal (5:2)
- Carelessly making an oath (5:4)
- Deceiving a neighbour about something trusted to them (6:2)
- Finding lost property and lying about it (6:3)
- Bringing unauthorized fire before God (10:1)
- Letting your hair become unkempt (10:6)
- Tearing your clothes (10:6)
- Drinking alcohol in holy places (bit of a problem for Catholics, this ‘un) (10:9)
- Eating an animal which doesn’t both chew cud and has a divided hoof (cf: camel, rabbit, pig) (11:4-7)
- Touching the carcass of any of the above (problems here for rugby) (11:8)
- Eating – or touching the carcass of – any seafood without fins or scales (11:10-12)
- Eating – or touching the carcass of–eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, the red kite, any kind of black kite, any kind of raven, the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat. (11:13-19)
- Eating – or touching the carcass of – flying insects with four legs, unless those legs are jointed (11:20-22)
- Eating any animal which walks on all four and has paws (good news for cats) (11:27)
- Eating – or touching the carcass of – the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, the gecko, the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink and the chameleon (11:29)
- Eating – or touching the carcass of – any creature which crawls on many legs, or its belly (11:41-42)
- Going to church within 33 days after giving birth to a boy (12:4)
- Going to church within 66 days after giving birth to a girl (12:5)
- Having sex with your mother (18:7)
- Having sex with your father’s wife (18:8)
- Having sex with your sister (18:9)
- Having sex with your granddaughter (18:10)
- Having sex with your half-sister (18:11)
- Having sex with your biological aunt (18:12-13)
- Having sex with your uncle’s wife (18:14)
- Having sex with your daughter-in-law (18:15)
- Having sex with your sister-in-law (18:16)
- Having sex with a woman and also having sex with her daughter or granddaughter (18:17)
- Marrying your wife’s sister while your wife still lives (18:18)
- Having sex with a woman during her period (18:19)
- Having sex with your neighbour’s wife (18:20)
- Giving your children to be sacrificed to Molek (18:21)
- Having sex with a man “as one does with a woman” (18:22)
- Having sex with an animal (18:23)
- Making idols or “metal gods” (19:4)
- Reaping to the very edges of a field (19:9)
- Picking up grapes that have fallen in your vineyard (19:10)
- Stealing (19:11)
- Lying (19:11)
- Swearing falsely on God’s name (19:12)
- Defrauding your neighbour (19:13)
- Holding back the wages of an employee overnight (not well observed these days) (19:13)
- Cursing the deaf or abusing the blind (19:14)
- Perverting justice, showing partiality to either the poor or the rich (19:15)
- Spreading slander (19:16)
- Doing anything to endanger a neighbour’s life (19:16)
- Seeking revenge or bearing a grudge (19:18)
- Mixing fabrics in clothing (19:19)
- Cross-breeding animals (19:19)
- Planting different seeds in the same field (19:19)
- Sleeping with another man’s slave (19:20)
- Eating fruit from a tree within four years of planting it (19:23)
- Practicing divination or seeking omens (tut, tut astrology) (19:26)
- Trimming your beard (19:27)
- Cutting your hair at the sides (19:27)
- Getting tattoos (19:28)
- Making your daughter prostitute herself (19:29)
- Turning to mediums or spiritualists (19:31)
- Not standing in the presence of the elderly (19:32)
- Mistreating foreigners – “the foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born” (19:33-34)
- Using dishonest weights and scales (19:35-36)
- Cursing your father or mother (punishable by death) (20:9)
- Marrying a prostitute, divorcee or widow if you are a priest (21:7,13)
- Entering a place where there’s a dead body as a priest (21:11)
- Slaughtering a cow/sheep and its young on the same day (22:28)
- Working on the Sabbath (23:3)
- Blasphemy (punishable by stoning to death) (24:14)
- Inflicting an injury; killing someone else’s animal; killing a person must be punished in kind (24:17-22
- Selling land permanently (25:23)
- Selling an Israelite as a slave (foreigners are fine) (25:42)