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===Basic moral laws===

===Basic moral laws===

This category deals with basic moral actions and attitudes, based upon foundation moral laws and principals, and their moral separation. (Gn. 4:8-16). Such laws are never abrogated, yet the exact penalties may be culture dependent. Though the institution of many or most of these laws may have been occasioned by contemporary pagan idolatry, the proscribed practices in this section were a direct expression of idolatry by nature, not simply a mere accompaniment, and both the practices and their prohibitions are universal, and literally applicable to all cultures. Idolatry is the worship of any false god in any culture, fathers and mothers are to be overall honored (and act honorably), murder is murder, and the injunctions against sex with an illicit partner are universal and transcendent from the time of their enactment. Laws against such things as child sacrifice are not simply restricted to the deity of the culture that occasioned it, but apply to any false god. A thorough examination of laws in Lev. 18 yields only v. 19 (laying with one's wife during menstruation) as the only law that might belong outside purely moral laws.

This category deals with basic moral actions and attitudes, such as against basic idolatry, murder, adultery, etc., and are based upon foundation moral principals, and establish moral separation. Idolatry is mother of all deliberate sin, and though the formal institution of many of these laws may have been occasioned by formal contemporary pagan idolatry, such proscribed practices in this section are a direct expression of idolatry by nature, not simply a mere accompaniment, and both the practices and their prohibitions are literally applicable to all cultures. Yet the exact penalties for violations of such may be culture dependent. Laws against such things as child sacrifice to Molech are not simply restricted to the deity of the culture that occasioned it, but apply to any false god. Fathers and mothers are to be overall honored (and act honorably), murder is murder, and the injunctions against sex with an illicit partner are universal and transcendent from the time of their enactment. A thorough examination of laws in Lev. 18 yields only v. 19 (laying with one's wife during menstruation) as the only law that might belong outside purely moral laws.

Adam Clarke comments,  

Adam Clarke comments,