Two of the main and clear biblical prohibitions of homosexuality occur in the Old Testament. But this raises the question, "Is the OT law binding on Christians today?"Audio

Related ReadingHow Does the Old Testament Law Apply to Christians Today?Are the Sabbath laws binding on Christians today?TranscriptIs the Old Testament law binding on Christians today? If not, what do we make of Old Testament prohibitions against homosexuality? Stay tuned and find out on Unapologetic.Matthew Vines is the leader of the Reformation Project. This is a group of homosexuals and LGBT persons who claim to be Christians, who are trying to lobby for legitimacy of homosexuality in the church. Now, generally, this is couched in terms of long-term monogamist, loving homosexual relationships. In general, they are just also trying to get homosexuality be accepted. Now, Matthew Vines has written a book God and the Gay Christian and he's also put out a short promo video for this book a year or so ago. He goes through the six Bible passages that are traditionally used to talk about homosexuality. He even is forthright in saying that the Bible doesn't seem to portray homosexuality in a good light. He goes through each of these passages and shows how they've been misinterpreted.One of the passages is from the Levitical Law — the Old Testament law. Now, there were 613 laws in the Torah, which is in the first five books of the Old Testament, and the Jews were supposed obey all of them. Here are two such laws. “You must not have sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman. It is a detestable act.” This is in Leviticus 18:22. In Leviticus 20:13, “it says if a man has sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with the woman, the two have committed an abomination. They must be put to death. Their blood guilt is on themselves.”Here's another law from Leviticus. “You must not allow two different kinds of your animals to breed. You must not sow your field with two different kinds of seed and you must wear a garment made of different kinds of fabric.” I think, my shirt's made of cotton and polyester. I'll be right back… No. Here's the problem is that we want to say that, no, we can wear shirts that are made out of different kinds of fabric and I can plant two crops from different types of seed in the same field and all of that. But, No, that homosexuality thing, that's wrong. People view this as a contradiction, as an inconsistency in the Christian position.We're left with the question as Christians, how do we answer this? How do we deal with this claim of inconsistency? “You want to claim that Levitical Law code is right when it comes to homosexuality being a wrong but the Levitical law code no longer applies when it comes to tattoos or when it comes to shirts and multiple clothing or eating shellfish or eating pork.” How do we deal with that as Christians? This might take some of you aback but the answer is that the Levitical Law code doesn't apply to the New Testament Christian at all. The Levitical Law code was with Israel. It was a covenant made with Israel. We are not Israel, therefore, we are not under that covenant that was made with the Jew, the nation of Israel.Deuteronomy was the second time the law was given, actually. It was first given in Exodus when Moses was at Mt. Sinai, and then the Jews wandered in the desert. One of the last things that Moses does is give the law again as he's handing off the reins, handing over leadership. It's important to understand, this was a covenant made with the nation of Israel, and we are not Israel as New Testament Christians. Now, does this mean everything in the law no longer is wrong if it was said to be wrong? No, that's not true. Things can be wrong, but not because th…