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To: SoothingDave
What is the sin?

Leviticus distinguishes between "sin offerings" and "guilt offerings". I don't think you can read "sin", here, in the ordinary sense.

47,786 posted on 04/21/2003 12:19:49 PM PDT by malakhi (fundamentalist unitarian)
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To: malakhi
Leviticus distinguishes between "sin offerings" and "guilt offerings". I don't think you can read "sin", here, in the ordinary sense.

I can see how, during a moment like a new child, that a token offering for "venial" sin woudl be made, along with a thanksgiving offering for the child. It makes perfect sense to me.

I don't think it means that the mother or family committed some sin necessarily.

It's a catch-22 of sorts. If Mary is without sin, then she doesn't need the sin offering. But if she does not make the sin offering, then she has broken the Law, a sin in itself.

SD

47,792 posted on 04/21/2003 12:24:08 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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