Check out this verse from Deuteronomy:
“And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this whole law that I am about to share with you today?” Dt. 4:8
This is a fairly loaded statement about culture in a small space. We often read the Old Testament, the Torah no less, and are amazed by the laws listed.
There are all kinds of penalties that seem rather harsh to us. Some rules seem oppressive. But in its day, the Mosaic Law was radical. It revealed a merciful and just God.
Obedience to this law taught the nations around Israel about the God of these alien people who appeared out of the desert.
God is always revealing himself in a particular time and place because that is how we are made. He meets us, in many ways, on our own terms so that we can truly get to know him.
