Without Excuse: Apologetics Blog

  There is some confusion on how Levitical or Mosiac law relates to Christians. They are often used to accuse Christians of cherry picking the Bible, however such accusations are made out of ignorance. There are 613 Levitical laws that fell into one of three categories: civil, ceremonial, and moral. Civil related to the affairs of government. Ceremonial related to the affairs of the priest, sacrificial laws, dietary laws, cleansing, etc. Moral laws related to sexual sins, stealing, murder, the ten commandments, and so on. The civil and ceremonial laws were specifically intended for Israel at that time, under the Old Covenant. Some may wonder here why God cared about what His people ate or why sanitation was important. However, these laws did have practical applications. The ceremonial laws taught proper hygiene. In fact, during the middle ages as the black plague was sweeping across Europe, Jews were often less affected specially because their religious faith promoted better ...

Psa 137:8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us. Psa 137:9 Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks. Does Psalm 137:9 support infanticide? Not hardly, context is everything. First a little back story. Psalm 137 takes place during the Jewish exile in Babylon (modern day Iraq). The Babylonians had come against Judah and besieged Jerusalem for eighteen months. The account is detailed in the Book of Lamentations. The siege was so serve that the people were starving to death. Children and infants were dying in the streets (lam 2:11-12, 19, 4:4), and mothers were boiling their babies for food (Lam 2:20, 4:10). The city eventually fell and the Jews were taken captive to Babylon. Psalm 137 opens with the Jews lamenting what had happened in Jerusalem. They remembered what the Babylonians did to them and their children and wanted vengeance. They also remembered what the prophet Isaiah...