Special Study: How Do the Laws of Leviticus (and the rest of the Torah) Apply Today?  

Some of the Laws of the Torah seem easy to apply. For example, love your neighbor as yourself is found in Leviticus 19:18. Others feel foreign. The very next verse tells us not to wear a garment woven of two kinds of fabric (Leviticus 19:19). There are plenty of laws that seem strange or even impossible to keep in modern culture. So how do such laws apply today?

In this special study we show why one common approach–breaking the laws into civil, ceremonial, and moral– isn’t the best way to approach such laws.

Instead we recommend treating the laws as part of God’s covenant with Israel and thus no longer our covenant in Christ. We are not under the Law. But at the same time, the Law is still Scripture for us and instructive to us as Paul says in 2 Timothy 3:16-17.

We end by recommending an approach for applying the values and wisdom of the laws to our life and world today.