
Defenders: Doctrine of Christ (Part 9): The Work of Christ (2) - Propitiatory Sacrifices
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The Meaning of the Yom Kippur Sacrifice
In the Yom Kippur sacrifice you have a double hand laying ceremony where both hands are laid on the scapegoat by the high priest. There it explicitly says that the sins are laid upon the goat, and then he's driven out into the wilderness. It could well be that it involved the transfer of the sin of the worshiper to the animal to be slain. But because that's not entirely clear, I defended a more modest claim. And so in order not to overstate my case, what I said is that minimally I think the hand-leaning ceremony indicates the identification of the worshipers with the animal that he's about to slay. Yes, couldn't the individual ones
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