The Day of Atonement

[meltzerboy]

The animal sacrafices only covered sins, the New and better Covenant forgive sins because Yeshua appeased the wrath of YHWH when He atoned for the elect.

Heb 8:6 But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.
Heb 8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.
Heb 8:8 For he finds fault with them when he says: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,
Heb 8:9 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Heb 8:11 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.
Heb 8:12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”
Heb 8:13 In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

Not according to the Hebrew Bible. The blood sacrifices of animals were only for unintentional sins, not intentional sins. And even here, blood sacrifices were not necessary: poor people submitted flour sacrifices. Further, in the Book of Isaiah, the prophet states, after chastising the Jewish people for their evil behavior, that by doing justice and healing the oppressed, their sins of scarlet can be turned into snow-white, meaning their sins are erased, not merely covered over. The “new covenant” in Hebrews refers to the renewed covenant, which at the end of days during the Messianic era will be revitalized in the form of studying and practicing the Law.

 

[Augustine3]

Not according to the Hebrew Bible. The blood sacrifices of animals were only for unintentional sins, not intentional sins. And even here, blood sacrifices were not necessary: poor people submitted flour sacrifices. Further, in the Book of Isaiah, the prophet states, after chastising the Jewish people for their evil behavior, that by doing justice and healing the oppressed, their sins of scarlet can be turned into snow-white, meaning their sins are erased, not merely covered over. The “new covenant” in Hebrews refers to the renewed covenant, which at the end of days during the Messianic era will be revitalized in the form of studying and practicing the Law.

Now I’m confused – was Yom Kippur for unintentional sins only or for all sins?

 

[meltzerboy]

Now I’m confused – was Yom Kippur for unintentional sins only or for all sins?

Yom Kippur is for all sins committed directly against G-d, but to atone for sins against one’s fellow humans, one must seek forgiveness from them before the Holy Day. The blood offerings, however, were only for unintentional sins, while prayer sufficed for intentional sins. Even for unintentional sins, prayer would have to accompany or precede the offerings.

 

[believerdoc]

Since I’m not Jewish, I can’t speak to that. But my understanding of God’s relationship to us and our sin, is as a banker to his debtors. Since God is infinite, and we are bankrupt, anything we offer is unable to pay the debt, or even a portion of it. But we can make interest payments on our sin/debt, if we are truly contrite. And if we sincerely ask forgiveness, our debts can be forgiven.

There is a saying about Jesus which states, “He came to pay a price He didn’t owe because we owed a debt we couldn’t pay”.

 

[Augustine3]

Yom Kippur is for all sins committed directly against G-d, but to atone for sins against one’s fellow humans, one must seek forgiveness from them before the Holy Day. The blood offerings, however, were only for unintentional sins, while prayer sufficed for intentional sins. Even for unintentional sins, prayer would have to accompany or precede the offerings.

I see; thanks.

I have another question – it’s in regards to the Red Heifer in the book of Numbers chapter 19. Verse 9 clearly states it’s a sin offering. The thing I’m unclear about is that the lustral water is applied only to persons who are ritually unclean after touching a corpse. I understand to be ritually unclean is not the same as to sin. If that is the case how is the Red Heifer a sin offering if it’s only applied to the ritually unclean?

 

[Robert_Joseph60]

Not according to the Hebrew Bible. The blood sacrifices of animals were only for unintentional sins, not intentional sins. And even here, blood sacrifices were not necessary: poor people submitted flour sacrifices. Further, in the Book of Isaiah, the prophet states, after chastising the Jewish people for their evil behavior, that by doing justice and healing the oppressed, their sins of scarlet can be turned into snow-white, meaning their sins are erased, not merely covered over. The “new covenant” in Hebrews refers to the renewed covenant, which at the end of days during the Messianic era will be revitalized in the form of studying and practicing the Law.

Heb 10:1 For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.
Heb 10:2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?
Heb 10:3 But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.
Heb 10:4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Heb 10:5 Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me;
Heb 10:6 in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.
Heb 10:7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”
Heb 10:8 When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law),
Heb 10:9 then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second.
Heb 10:10 And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Heb 10:11 And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
Heb 10:12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,
Heb 10:13 waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet.
Heb 10:14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
Heb 10:15 And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,
Heb 10:16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,”
Heb 10:17 then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
Heb 10:18 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
Heb 10:19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,
Heb 10:20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,
Heb 10:21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
Heb 10:22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Heb 10:23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
Heb 10:24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
Heb 10:25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Heb 10:26 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
Heb 10:27 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.
Heb 10:28 Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
Heb 10:29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?
Heb 10:30 For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.”
Heb 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Heb 10:32 But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,
Heb 10:33 sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.
Heb 10:34 For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.
Heb 10:35 Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
Heb 10:36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
Heb 10:37 For, “Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay;
Heb 10:38 but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
Heb 10:39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.