And just what needs are "taken care of" whenever any "offering" is made?
Atonement for sin? At least, I thought that was the main reason for them, in OT times. There were different kinds of offering, but this one was specifically called a sin offering.
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Nah. She's just kidding. I told her to say that.
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Leviticus 12:7 helps us with this a little bit: "... and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood."
It's not the birth of the child that is a "sin," but the issuance of blood is considered "unclean" for purposes associated with the ritual at the Tabernacle/Temple.
A typical human birth will involve the shedding of blood. Since "the life of the flesh is in the blood," this shedding or issuance of blood is dealt with as being "unclean." Leviticus 15 deals with menstruation and also with men who suffer an "issue of blood."
The use of the term "sin offering" also may be something of a short hand and not intended to identify the condition of those involved as being "sinful." If the question arose, "What do we do about an issue of blood?" Then the answer would be to give a "token offering" such as a "sin offering" as described in the preceding chapters of Leviticus.
It's the spilt blood that must be atoned for, not the birth of the child.
If the shedding of blood, whether it was technically "sin" or not, needed atoning via offerings, would an offering be necessary if one cut one's finger?
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I'm wondering if there is anyone on this forum that has access to the JP forum that can take this question to them and bring back their answers?
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There weren't very many answers given, did you not notice???
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There weren't very many answers given, did you not notice???
Yeah, but I thought the few answers were pretty good. (Mine was best! )
OK, my answer didn't look much like an answer, did it? But the gist of my posts was this: it does seem that God considered childbirth (or at least the bleeding that normally accompanies it) to be sin. Just because that seems strange doesn't mean that's not what the Bible actually means. Right? God also thought it was evil to build cisterns that don't hold water. (Jeremiah 2:13) I don't know how many times I've been told "God's ways are not our ways"!
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Yeah, but I thought the few answers were pretty good. (Mine was best! )
OK, my answer didn't look much like an answer, did it? But the gist of my posts was this: it does seem that God considered childbirth (or at least the bleeding that normally accompanies it) to be sin. Just because that seems strange doesn't mean that's not what the Bible actually means. Right? God also thought it was evil to build cisterns that don't hold water. (Jeremiah 2:13) I don't know how many times I've been told "God's ways are not our ways"!
Amen!
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