Why does Leviticus 18 tell believers to have nothing to do with immorality?
God explicitly forbids these immoral practices and commands His people to have nothing to do with them. The reason given is that they must not follow the doings of Egypt, the land where they had dwelled. Israel was to reject Egypt's immoral customs rather than imitate them.
Les explains that after discussing the blood and atonement in Leviticus 17, he turns to another point: believers are not to practice fornication or immorality. He notes that he will not read the details of chapter 18 because they are graphic, but God explicitly lays down these various immoral sins that believers are to have nothing to do with. The reason is given in Leviticus 18:3: Israel was not to follow the doings of the land of Egypt where they had dwelt. God's demand for His people to abstain from these things still applies, so they are to reject Egypt's immoral ways rather than imitate them.
After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
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Do the immoral sins listed in Leviticus 18 for the Canaanites and Egyptians still apply to believers today?
Leviticus 18, beginning at verse 6, graphically lists the immoral sins of the Canaanites and the Egyptians, which believers were to have nothing to do with, and that prohibition is still applicable today.