Holiness code

The Israelite law codes reflect this reality.

The Book of Leviticus contains the third major legal collection, often called the Holiness Code.

Chapter 25 stipulates rules on slavery that overlap with the ones we've already discussed, but it draws an especially sharp distinction between Israelites and foreigners, and temporary versus permanent slavery.

This chapter describes something called the Jubilee, an ideal reset that was supposed to happen every 50 years.

Leviticus 20.13. Now, Leviticus 18 is the sex chapter in Leviticus.

In a section of text from Leviticus 17 to 24 that scholars refer to as the holiness code.

And because it's largely about how morally we ought to operate in the world in a way in which we are holy.

That is, we are reserved for God's exclusive use.

I don't think that they're talking about Deuteronomy.

I think they're talking about the holiness code, but that's a different-

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Um, Josiah has another reform.

I think Josiah's reform is more, um, focused around the holiness code, uh, as opposed to the Book of Deuteronomy.

And I, here I'm, I'm just, um, developing a, an idea by Lauren Monroe.

The attitude that harbors this kind of malice toward the law, that the Bible calls good and holy, will surely turn on itself in time, and that time has arrived, as the Exodus out of the LDS Church is illustrating.

Twelve years ago, I began a series of sermons on the Holiness Code.

I covered just about every hard, challenging text, such as the one above, in this series of 38 sermons.

A lot of folks have found the series helpful, and it is still online.

You can find that in the sermon audio, if you look up the Holiness Code at Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church.

So that's what I had posted.

His response was, So you really think at one time God wanted men to beat their wives to death with stones if they were not virgins on their wedding night? And my response, fairly straightforward, it's right here.

That's this terrible stuff, isn't it? Oh, this archaic stuff.