krissy

You had to take one of your best animals, completely w/o flaw. So for many, that could cost them a lot. It was a sacrifice not only of the animal, but you could be sacrificing a meal, or whatever it could've been traded for. Made them think twice, maybe, about committing that sin again, because it did, in fact, cost them. Holiness - Taught them that sinning was not holy. That to be unholy you had to pay a price. God is a loving and forgiving power. That He expects His children to be as much like him as humanly possible and confess to any sins. That although you have sinned, you have also repented, and therefore are once again one of his faithful flock.

Although these were the requirements to atone for a sin, it's realized that the killing of an animal doesn't actually excuse the sin itself. So God ALLOWS for these sacrifices to atone for the sin. The true sacrifice was Jesus.

Confession of the sin Bring an animal to be sacrificed Slay the animal by cutting its throat Blood is collected by a priest, put on the horns of the altar, and poured out at the base of the altar Remove the fat portions, which are given to the priest and burned on the altar The meat is eaten by the priests in the case of a sin offering Today, you should still confess your sins and there is a sort of atonement in how you may repent. I am a Catholic who is seeking on my spiritual journey. For me, I would need to confess my sins to a priest, and then repent how I'm told. You're always asked to think about what you've done and take steps in the future to not make the same sins again.

At the very idea of killing an animal. The everyday person will eat meat, but doesn't necessarily think of what had to happen to the animal in which that meat came from. It's not the way we acquire food as they had to back them, nor are we accustomed to that of a herdsman or farmer, as suggested in the Exposition. Cityfolk don't buthcher their animals, drain their blood, and cut up the meat. We buy the meat already processed, sometimes even already cooked, such as a restaurant or deli counter, grocery store, etc.. I guess we as humans, in this day and age, don't even think twice that there was a sacrifice for us to eat that type of food. If given a choice to eat a steak or something from the land - how many of us would hesitate to turn down that steak?

To me, when someone sins against me, it makes me sad, then it makes me angry. Then it takes a piece of my spirit - makes me untrusting, or unsure of entering into a situation that can make me feel those bad feelings again. When I sin, I feel mad at myself. I know it's wrong, so why did I do it? Why did I succumb? Am I not a good person? Am I unGodly? If someone hurts you, and you purposely hurt them back, knowing that what you're doing is wrong, it's calculated. And that makes you just as wrong, if not worse. I don't know where the saying comes from, but I was always raised to think, "Two wrongs don't make a right". And it's true. I believe that God will take care of people's wrongs, I'm not in a position to do that on my own. But, if you witness a man trying to rape a woman and you step in and hurt that person in order to stop them, and turn them into the police, that would be acted upon anger that was for a good cause.

Jesus was God's son. He was sent to sacrifice himself for us and our sins. At the time John the Baptist was baptising the believers, but he also asked Jesus, the Great One, to baptize him. He was the healer, to those who believed. There were so many who didn't believe Jesus was who he said he was until they witnessed the unordinary and special things he was able to do. To a country of Jews, who did not believe that he was capable of the things he was preaching to them, who thought he was a fake, it was radical of Jesus to continue to try to get people to believe he was who he said he was. The people weren't believing him, they were shunning him even more.