What interpretive tool do we use when we look at the Old Testament laws through the grace of the New<br>Covenant? My cousin asked me a question today, probably to trap me, but I want to find an honest<br>answer for him.<br><br>If I say that Leviticus 18 (rules on not committing incest, adultery, beastiality) as well as the Ten<br>Commandments are still in effect, then how can we say that the no hair cutting rules, slavery rules, etc are<br>not in effect? I know that the Kosher laws are not binding because of Peter's vision.<br><br>I was going to tell him that the slavery in the Old Testament was more of an indentured servant kind of<br>thing, but he would probably say something like "So if a daughter is disobedient then she can be made an<br>indentured servant?" By the way, he claims that the Bible says a parent can sell troublesome children into<br>slavery. Where is that at?<br>

True godliness is a sincere feeling which loves God as Father as much as it fears and reverences Him as Lord, embraces His righteousness, and dreads offending Him worse than death~ Calvin