Peter Barnes | Leviticus 18:1-30
SERMON NOTES
ISRAEL AND THE ABOMINATIONS OF CANAAN
(Leviticus 18:1-30)
1. Follow God’s Word, not the world.
– Gen.15:16; Lev.18:1-5; Rom.12:2; Lev. 18:24-30; for 18:5, Gordon Wenham translates: ‘He will enjoy life through them.’
2. No incest.
– 18:6-18. The sexual drive is like a tsunami which must be contained.
– 18:10. The Qur’an tells us Muhammad married his own daughter-in-law (Surah 33:37-38); 1 Cor.5:1-2; Amos 2:7.
3. No child sacrifice.
– 18:21; 2 Kings 23:10; Jer.32:35; one teenager: ‘It kills me that this abortion is going to be on Saturday. That means I won’t be able to go out Saturday night.’ We have become our own Molechs.
4. No homosexual acts.
– 18:22; not an identity but an act, something people do.
5. No bestiality.
– 18:23. There are Ugaritic texts which tell of the gods copulating with animals. Peter Singer says that sex with animals is morally permissible.