As we consider God’s provisions for sins through ignorance,
we may also consider the false teaching and or belief that the blood offering as
an atonement for sin only applied to sins committed by way of error. I repeat here that such views are not
biblical; for it clearly stated that the offerings, especially the burnt
offering was offered as an atonement for the sin of the offeror; for if there
is no sin there is no need to cover it. That was not the law in the OT and it
is not the law in the NT; for indeed it is the law that, “Almost all things are
by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood there is no
remission.”
So now
having gotten that out of the way, let us now look at what the law says about
sins committed in error or through ignorance.
The Lord
told Moses to inform the children of Israel and tell them; “ if a soul sin
through ignorance, against any of the commandments of the Lord concerning
things which art not to be done, and shall do against any of them; or if the
priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people, then let him
bring for his sin a young bullock without spot or blemish unto the Lord for a
sin offering.
The
procedure for offering the bull was not exactly the same as for the regular
burnt offering, the sweet-savor offering; the priest or offeror had to lay his
hand upon its head, kill it and sprinkle the blood on and around the altar and
the horns of the altar, and remove all the fat from the inwards, the inners and
its two kidneys and burnt on the altar as a non-sweet savor offering. But the
skin of the bullock, its head and all its flesh and its inners and its dung,
had to be taken to a place set aside outside the camp for that purpose and
burnt, and the ashes sprinkled there.
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