Atoning Sacrifice

Lev 16:3-14         8/28/2017

Purification through animal sacrifice.

The life is in the blood. Blood is viewed as the medium of precious life. Like the distinction between essence and existence; this is the existence. This is the aliveness.

And that’s the nature of the sacrifice.

Blood.  Something has to die in order for its aliveness to be offered.

Something in me has to die in order for the divine to empower me to offer myself.

My imagination of who I am; my vain processes for getting pleasure and control; my lame disposition for taking more than I receive – these have to die.

This is an offering.