Not the Destination
The food laws plainly changed — plants in Eden, every creature after the flood, clean and unclean at Sinai. If God never changes, what do we make of that? It turns out none of the stages was the destination.
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He Kept Reaching
The leper wasn’t the only one. Again and again Jesus crossed the line the law drew around the unclean — the leper, the bleeding woman, the dead — and every time, it was the uncleanness that gave way, not him.
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What He Was Willing to Touch
A leper begs to be made clean — and instead of healing him from a safe distance, Jesus reaches out and touches the untouchable. That one choice quietly overturns a word most of us were sure we understood.
