Many skeptics are eager to point out some harsh penalty in
Leviticus to the sinner. Some harsh penalties do exist.
But there are the offerings for expiation, for atonement, for reconciliation to God and God's people.
The first example sets the principle of being expiated for because of a Substitute.
"If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall present it, a male without blemish ..."
That is because you need a perfect sacrifice. The sinner is full of blemishes before God.
" ... a male without blemish; he shall present it at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting ..."
The result of the expiation of the sinner is with a view of bring man into the structure of God, the house of God (at this point a traveling Tent - the tabernacle).
The forgiveness of the sinner is for the building of the dwelling place of God where God lives in man corporately on the earth.
" ... he shall present it at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Jehovah.
Only in Christ can man be accepted into the eternal dwelling place of God which He is building on the planet.
"And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him, to make expiation for him." (See Lev. 1:2-4)
While reviewing about the rebel, the fornicator, the homosexual, the adulterer, the blasphemer, the thief, the idolater, etc. we should remember that expiatory sacrifice was available to make the offender acceptable in God's salvation.
I would ask that this be remembered as various harsh penalties cause the modern mind to reel at the judgments conveyed in
Leviticus.