The greater our distance from another culture, the stranger that culture seems. This may be true geographically, but we observe it most commonly when the distance is chronological. The laws and customs of ancient civilizations often strike us as bizarre or unfair. There’s no doubt that sometimes they were. But if we assume that people then, just like people now, were rational beings, we can at least suppose that each law and each custom was arrived at deliberately and was meant to serve a distinct purpose. We learn a lot about these people and nations through the remnants of culture they left behind.
As Christians, we believe that every word of the Bible was breathed out by God. This includes the laws of the ancient nation of Israel that we find recorded in the Old Testament. While we do not adhere to this law, we do still study it to see what it reveals about our God. After all, the laws will always reflect the law-giver. If you want to know about the character of Boris Johnson, Justin Trudeau, or Donald Trump, you will learn something of it by studying the laws they have advocated. And if you
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