I Would Have Been Dead Before My Time

I recently finished reading through the book of Leviticus, and though I can write a lot in response to what I’ve read, for now I will just say that had I been an Israelite back in the time of Moses, I would surely have been killed before my time. I don’t have a mind for procedural details, and I would certainly have rendered myself unclean by being someplace or touching something unclean and then I would have went on to a holy place or enacted a sacred ritual in my unclean state, and in response the fire of God would have reached out from the Tent of Meeting and consumed me.

4 Responses to “I Would Have Been Dead Before My Time”

  1. K.L.B  

    “I don’t have a mind for procedural details, I would certainly have rendered myself unclean by being someplace or touching something unclean and then I would have went on to a holy place or enacted a sacred ritual in my unclean state…”

    Do you wash your hands after toileting? What about after going shopping?

    Please (for the sake of reassuring us all) respond truthfully, and affirmatively.

    Handwashing REMAINS the solitary greatest preventive action one can take for the promotion of public and private health.

    Then, of course, there are seminal emissions (nocturnal and otherwise), coitus during mentruation, nose-picking, etc.

    Yeah… we’d prolly ALL be dead.

    Ain’t mercy great?!

  2. Anthony Velez  

    What is this thing, “Handwashing” that you refer to. It sounds strange to me.

  3. Kevin Benson  

    R.I.P.

  4. Roger Green  

    Oh, I totally agree with your point in the piece, Anthony.