Are Biblical Sacrifices ‘Hocus Pocus’ or Unknown Science?
This question came to me from Debby, and it’s an interesting one. See what you think.
Roger:
I’m still reading your book but very often while looking up specific passages in my Bible, I get sidetracked. Case in point: After consulting Lev. 13 to see the NIV translation compared to your account of radiation burn, I ended up continuing through Lev. 14 to find the treatment for it. And though I agree that radiation burn symptoms as you describe them are similar to what’s described in the 13th chapter, the cleansing process in the 14th chapter fall back into the “hocus pocus” category for me. That’s where guilt offerings, wave offerings or sin offerings, come into play – with priests required to dip one finger into oil and then touch an earlobe, or kill one bird and let the other one fly away. These things seem irrational in my rational world and I don’t see how this procedure would cleanse anyone of anything…
