Leviticus 4:13–21
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that has developed a severe allergy to the very concept of guilt. The modern mind, particularly the Western mind, is built on the sandy foundation of expressive individualism. On this view, the only real sin is the failure to be true to yourself. Responsibility is a private affair, and guilt, if it is acknowledged at all, is a personal feeling to be managed, not an objective state to be dealt with. The idea of corporate guilt, the notion that a whole people could be culpable before a holy God, strikes the modern ear as something not just foreign, but fundamentally unjust. And so, when we come to a passage like this one in Leviticus, we are not simply reading ancient history. We are confronting a worldview that is utterly at odds with our own.