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Bear in mind the laws in Leviticus, were as have been stated, specifically the laws for Israel - part of Israels bargain in the God-Man covenant. Israel did frequently ignore these and turn away from God, so he would abandon them. When they repented and agreed to the conditions he would again bestow favour.
Bear in mind also, that Christianity is centred around Jesus Grace and other thinking that I have already posted extensively on.
To blithely post Leviticus out of context like that is fruitless. Were I living in ancient Israel, I would have been put to death. But were I living in a culture where what I did had the death penalty, I would not have done what it was that demanded the death penalty.
Though I have felt like dying a thousand times since.
Additionally you have to be aware of the nations and cultures that surrounded Israel at the time.
They were matriarchal cultures, with sex rites, temple prostitution and rampant immorality. To seperate Israel from the cultures surrounding it, the requirements involving a Patriarchal society, harsher penalties for immorality, Hebrew-Hebrew marriages and the like were decreed.
You cannot take the Bible out of context. To do so is to miss so much of the wisdom, and open yourself up to complete misinterpretation into legalistic narrow minded repressionism, instead of the Grace filled liberation that is knowing Christ Jesus.
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