Ignorance Is No Excuse

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

The Lord spoke To Moses, saying: Speak to the Israelite people thus: When a person unwittingly incurs guilt in regard to any of the Lord’s commandments about things not to be done and does one of them–  Leviticus 4:1-2 JPS Unwittingly incurs guilt – “But I didn’t know!”  We’d like to believe that this justification…

The “Do-over”

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying ‘If a person sins unintentionally in any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, and commits any of them, . . .”  Leviticus 4:1-2 NASB Unintentionally – The book of Leviticus provides atonement for unintentional sins. …