“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
Haven’t you always wanted to hear a sermon on that?
Deuteronomy 14 includes at least 20 commands. But none of them apply directly to the Christian. Jesus explicitly repeals the food laws in Acts 10, and the laws about tithing all presuppose a central sanctuary – the tabernacle – and later, the temple in Jerusalem.
So why do we still have Deuteronomy in the Bible? What does it mean to have large sections of Holy Scripture that are not supposed to be taken literally?!
I think that we often just ignore most of the Old Testament. “That was for Israel way back then.” We don’t know how to connect it to our lives today, so we just ignore it.
What we do with this?
It’s important to remember that this is God’s revelation to his people. And God’s revelation always comes in history. In Jesus, God came in the flesh as a first-century Jew. God’s revelation comes to particular people at particular times. Paul’s letters were written to particular churches facing particular problems.
Deuteronomy 14 was dealing with an ancient Israelite context. The particular details may not be directly applicable to us, but the principles are.
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