Christ Covenant Church

Giving birth, certain animals, leprous diseases and decay as well as death and bodily discharges all possess the physical pollution of sin that continues to “defile” both body and spirit (i.e. they make us “unclean”, 11:44) and therefore must also be atoned for (5:6, 10, 13 w/11:1-47; 12:1-7 w/8; 13:1-14:32 w/14:18-19; 14:33-57 w/14:53; 15:1-33 w/15:15, 30) IF: 1) we are to approach God and not die (15:31), 2) we want to remain in covenant w/God (IOW: being unclean and out of covenant are NOT THE SAME THING).“The unclean are those who in some way have the aura of death about them in that they manifest less than physical wholeness” – G.J. Wenham“Many of the discharges of bodily fluids (such as blood or semen), along with the womb shortly after childbirth, may be correlated with the loss of life…Uncleanness is not flatly or immediately equated with particular sinful acts, it is nevertheless treated as being generally or ultimately the result of sin: uncleanness represents the pollution of sin…Pollution if not e