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Physics and Definition of Sin, Repentance and Forgiveness – Part 6: Physics of Sin, Repentance and Forgiveness: Physics of Repentance and Forgiveness

Sin is a broad subject with a lot to talk about.  I don’t want to talk about sin without talking about repentance.  I don’t want to talk about repentance without talking about forgiveness.  The few things I want to cover are:

If you do not understand something I’m saying, please ask.  The concept may be hard to grasp at first but it will change how you see yourself and your life when you do.

Physics of Sin, Repentance and Forgiveness

Physics of Forgiveness

We are often told that the Law of Moses is divided into moral, civil and ceremonial commandments.  There is no such division.  It has only been within the last 100 years that science has begun to be able to explain the physics of things God has known all along.  To start, let’s look at a verse most of us are probably familiar with.

Gen 4:10
10 And He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.”

God sounds like he is being poetic.  Remember the first dimension, that the word of God is literal?  This is no exception.  All of us use a computer.  Computers store information on a hard drive.  A hard drive is a metal disk where a frequencial code is written.  We are able to retrieve this code and translate it into something we can relate to with our senses.

Scientists have found that sound frequency is recorded on an atomic level.  The more dense the material, the better able it is to record sound.  Our blood is full of metals; it is the second densest tissue in our body after our bones.  They have been working on extracting and decoding these frequencies and last I heard, have been able to take someone’s blood and play back the sound from last ten minutes of that person’s life.

Now God, being the creator of all these things, all ready knows the code and knows how to play it back.  Do you realize the possibilities of unlocking this code?  This means that we could go to Mount Sinai, take a rock, and play back the spoken words of God when he declared the Ten Commandments.

Kippur – כפר

The Hebrew word kippur (כפר) pictographically means to ‘put a hand on the head and confess’.  It is commonly translated as atonement, pardon, purge, cleansed, forgiven and cover.  It is where we get the English word ‘cap’ from and why we wear it on our head or put it on the top of a container.  Whenever the sin and trespass offering was performed, part of the procedure was to place a hand on the head of the animal and confess the sin.

1 Tim 5:22
22 Do not lay hands on anyone hastily, nor share in other people’s sins; keep yourself pure.

Our hands are transmitters and our head, where 20% of our blood is at any given moment, is a receiver.  When we place our hands on somebody and speak, a frequency is generated and transmitted.  When a priest or the person who sinned put his hand on the head of an animal and confessed his sin, that sin, or corruption, is literally transferred to that animal.  That animal is then killed and his blood, which receives the corruption, is emptied upon the earth.  The rest of the animal is consumed with fire (Lev 4:1-12).

The last state of entropy is heat.  When the animal is consumed, it is transformed into heat energy and dissipates into the atmosphere.  This is an aspect of nasa forgiveness in the form of ‘lifting up of smoke’.  Our sin is literally removed from us and consumed.  Though this word is not used when talking about the sin and trespass offering, it is implied by the action.  God takes no delight in the slaughtering of innocent animals; he desires mercy over sacrifices and obedience over repentance (Hos 6:6).  Yet he knows the physics of the universe and how what he created works.    This is why the earth will one day be consumed in fire.  All the corruption will one day be consumed and removed leaving behind a world free from corruption; Eden before sin.

The God we serve, the Creator of heaven, earth and all that is therein does not require, ask or even want people to engage in vain, meaningless, empty, mindless rituals.  Everything he asks us to do and not to do, every form of worship and praise, every act of love has a practical purpose, which leads me into my next point.

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Physics and Definition of Sin, Repentance and Forgiveness – Part 4: Types of Forgiveness and their Definitions: Nasa

Sin is a broad subject with a lot to talk about.  I don’t want to talk about sin without talking about repentance.  I don’t want to talk about repentance without talking about forgiveness.  The few things I want to cover are:

If you do not understand something I’m saying, please ask.  The concept may be hard to grasp at first but it will change how you see yourself and your life when you do.

Types of Forgiveness and their Definitions

Nasa – נשא

You could say that this is what our space program is named after though most likely unintentionally.  Nasa literally means to ‘lift’ in a variety of applications.  It can be to carry or lift a burden, a cloud or lifting of smoke, lifting up of a person such as a leader, a lifting of a standard or flag wherein one can find refuge or safety.  The context of the verse determines whether it means forgive, guilty or other; it depends on who is bearing the burden.

This is where the concept of sin ‘weighing you down’ comes from.  When we do not repent, we bear or carry our sin.

Lev 5:17
17 And if a person sins, and commits any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD, though he does not know it, yet he is guilty and shall bear (נשא) his iniquity.

When we repent, someone else bears our sin hence our sin and the burden thereof is removed.  This type of forgiveness was done on the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur.

Lev 16:21-22
21 Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, concerning all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a suitable man.
22 The goat shall bear (נשא) upon itself all their iniquities to an uninhabited land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness.

Ιn this way avon – iniquity sin and p’sha – rebellious sin are forgiven.  Note that even though this process removed sin, it did not pay the debt for these two types of sin.  This was done by the Messiah who came later.

John 1:29
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away (αιρω, נשא) the sin of the world!

John was a priest after the lineage of Aaron.  Jesus, like the scapegoat, took our sin upon himself, was led into the wilderness, and died.  But unlike the scapegoat, he also paid our debt to sin because he is God and he said he would.

Ex 34:5-9
6 And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth,
7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving (נשא) iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
8 And Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
9 And he said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people; and pardon (סלח) our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”
(Happened right after the golden calf.  Moses reminded God of this statement later in Numbers.)

Moses petitions God to forgive the sins of Israel.  This is very important.  It establishes that our debt to sin is and always has been paid by petition.  The purpose of the sin and trespass offerings is to physically remove that sin.  We will look at this a little more in depth in a moment.  First, lets tie this up as to why Jesus’ death both removed and paid the debt for our sin.

Matt 26:28
28 For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission (סלח) of sins.

Jer 31:31-34
31 “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah–
32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD.
33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive (סלח) their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

This is the covenant Jesus initiated.  We have yet to enter into verse 34 which will happen upon Jesus’ return.  Our debt will be paid and we will be set free not simply from sin, but from our sinful nature which is what the blood of animals doesn’t have the ability to do.  Also notice, p’sha sin is not mentioned in these verses meaning the (unrepented) rebellious will not be part of his eternal kingdom.

This word is typically translated as bear, lift up, forgive, laded and carry.

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Physics and Definition of Sin, Repentance and Forgiveness – Part 3: Types of Forgiveness and their Definitions: Salach

Sin is a broad subject with a lot to talk about.  I don’t want to talk about sin without talking about repentance.  I don’t want to talk about repentance without talking about forgiveness.  The few things I want to cover are:

If you do not understand something I’m saying, please ask.  The concept may be hard to grasp at first but it will change how you see yourself and your life when you do.

Types of Forgiveness and their Definitions

Salach – סלח

Pictographically, salach is to ‘take hold of the leader for protection’.  The simech (ס) is a thorn which is to ‘take hold’, the lamed (ל) is a shepherd’s staff whish is ‘leader’ and the chet (ח) is a wall which is ‘protection’.  When we take hold of God, we become his servants and are inside his wall of protection.  If we do not take hold of God, we are not his servants and outside his wall of protection where the workers of iniquity, murders, and idolaters are (Luke 13:27, Rev 22:15).

This can be seen in the parable of the man whose debt was forgiven but did not forgive another’s debt to him.

Matt 18:22-35
22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.
23 Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.
24 And when he had begun to settle accounts, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.
25 But as he was not able to pay, his master commanded that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and that payment be made.
26 The servant therefore fell down before him, saying, ‘Master, have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’
27 Then the master of that servant was moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.
28 “But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and he laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’
29 So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’
30 And he would not, but went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt.
31 So when his fellow servants saw what had been done, they were very grieved, and came and told their master all that had been done.
32 Then his master, after he had called him, said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.
33 Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?’
34 And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him.
35 “So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.”

The literal meaning of this word is to ‘lift out of debt’.  Conceptually, it is as the parable portrays: a petitioning of the one in debt to the one he is in debt to or one greater for mercy.  If mercy is shown, deserved judgment is withheld.  If mercy is not shown, the debt must be paid or a just punishment rendered.

When we sin, we become in debt or servants to sin.  We cannot deliver ourselves from sin because we are not able to repay the debt.  Because sin, like the wicked servant, will not forgive us our debt, we must petition to one greater, God, who is able to and has delivered us from our debt to sin hence making us free.

Rom 6:20-23
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

In regards to the sin and trespass offerings, only chatah – accidental sin is salach – forgiven (Lev 4:20, 26, 31, 35, 5:10, 13, 16, 18, 6:7).

This word is typically translated as forgive and pardon.