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Matthew Henry Explains this passage with the following in his Commentary: Some make the slain bird to typify Christ dying for our sins, and the living bird Christ rising again for our justification. The dipping of the living bird in the blood of the slain bird intimated that the merit of Christ's death was that which made his resurrection effectual for ...

The typical reformed answer on this is that the Old Covenant is fulfilled in the the Death and Resurrection of Jesus and that we are now living under the New Covenant. Lets look at this specifically point by point. Leviticus 11:7-8 and Leviticus 11:11-12 have been fulfilled by by Acts 11:6-9 6I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, ...

The point was to give a concrete definition of "holiness" - namely that God was "set apart," i.e. holy, and God wanted his people to be "set apart" from the other nations. These vestigal practices mainly were a symbol of a greater concept - that as God's chosen people, they were to be different / separate from everyone else. The opposite of holiness is ...

Some Christians divide the Mosaic law into three components: Moral, Ceremonial, and Civil. Moral laws apply to all believers at all times: the Ten Commandments, the Shema, etc. Civil laws were for the governing of the nation of Israel. They may be valid today but the punishments listed with them might not apply to us. Ceremonial laws were for the worship ...

My understanding of cleanliness vs uncleanliness had to do with ability to participate in Jewish religious ceremonies. They were things which were not sinful, however when made unclean, would make one ineligible to participate in Holy ceremonies. The level of purification needed also scaled with the closeness to God, with a very large amount of ...

From the other references to the same action (see here), it would appear that part of one (or more) of the sacrifices was to be held high and displayed before the gathered and before God that the offering was being made. If you read further in the Leviticus passage, you get to this: but the breast shall belong to Aaron and his sons As the breast was ...

How did the old ceremonial sacrifices made atonement? They didn't. Old Testament sacrifice was only able to atone for someone who followed the Mosaic law perfectly... a feat which is beyond any of us, especially as most of us are not Jews, and even if we were the Altar and priests are gone. The whole point of Jesus' sacrifice is that the former ...

Ok here is my stab at this rather important question which goes deep into the Christian faith. Let me start with these verses: Romans 6:23 New King James Version (NKJV) For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 5:12 New King James Version (NKJV) Therefore, just as through one man sin ...

As has been stated in answer to other such questions, God made covenants with Noah, Abraham, Israel, etc. The Mosaic Law is a specific covenant between God and the Jewish people. This covenant included many things, including the prohibition of wearing clothing with mixed fibers. This covenant was enacted about 3500 years ago, I think. Isaiah spoke of a ...

The laws in Leviticus are not separate, individual commands, but rather the whole of the Moses' Law is a unit, "which if a man do, he shall live in them" (Leviticus 8:5). This includes the laws of the temple and the sacrifices. You can't keep some or most. This answer is the entire basis of the Christian's faith in Jesus. In answering this question, I will ...

To understand how to contextualize the meaning of various rules of eating food, or Priesthood medical inspections under the Mosaic we need to understand the overall purpose. In a nutshell the reason why these laws were added was to bring about an awareness of sin. This was achieved partly through symbols (non sinful things represented symbolically as sin) ...