With regards to those that teach and preach against the Torah “unintentionally” there are three levels to sin - 1. Sin / “chatta-ah” Missing the mark or any wayward action due to carelessness, ignorance or error. We do not know any better, or know the right thing to do but when we lose focus, follow old habits.” 2. Iniquity / “avon” Crookedness or departure from right conduct by conscious departing from doing / obeying a divine command of YHVH. We know how to obey and say to do or not, but make a conscious decision to not obey. 3. Transgression / “pesha” The deliberate / rebellious persistence of iniquity. We know exactly what to do but refuse to do it, and commit this error over and over in blatant refusal to obey. Ignorance is not accepted to excuse sin. Errors of ignorance and not intentional has a Scriptural classification (chattah) as well as many sacrifices prescribed in the temple system to bring sin offerings for it. An entire chapter is dedicated just to the different kinds of sacrifices for sins of ignorance and unintentional sins. But just to be sure we understand that we can never get away with ignorance as an excuse, there is this scripture; Lev 5:17 “And when any being sins, and has done what is not to be done, against any of the commands of יהוה, though he knew it not, yet he shall be guilty and shall bear his crookedness. Our gracious King forgives all levels of trespassing - sin, iniquity and transgression. It is above our pay grade to judge any person, but we need to understand that no sin shall ever be left unpunished. Exo 34:6-7 And יהוה passed before him and proclaimed, “יהוה ,יהוה, an Ěl compassionate and showing favour, patient, and great in loving-commitment and truth, watching over loving-commitment for thousands, forgiving crookedness and transgression and sin, but by no means leaving unpunished, visiting the crookedness of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
With regards to those that teach and preach against the Torah “unintentionally” there are three levels to sin -
1. Sin / “chatta-ah”
Missing the mark or any wayward action due to carelessness, ignorance or error. We do not know any better, or know the right thing to do but when we lose focus, follow old habits.”
2. Iniquity / “avon”
Crookedness or departure from right conduct by conscious departing from doing / obeying a divine command of YHVH. We know how to obey and say to do or not, but make a conscious decision to not obey.
3. Transgression / “pesha”
The deliberate / rebellious persistence of iniquity. We know exactly what to do but refuse to do it, and commit this error over and over in blatant refusal to obey.
Ignorance is not accepted to excuse sin. Errors of ignorance and not intentional has a Scriptural classification (chattah) as well as many sacrifices prescribed in the temple system to bring sin offerings for it.
An entire chapter is dedicated just to the different kinds of sacrifices for sins of ignorance and unintentional sins.
But just to be sure we understand that we can never get away with ignorance as an excuse, there is this scripture;
Lev 5:17
“And when any being sins, and has done what is not to be done, against any of the commands of יהוה, though he knew it not, yet he shall be guilty and shall bear his crookedness.
Our gracious King forgives all levels of trespassing - sin, iniquity and transgression. It is above our pay grade to judge any person, but we need to understand that no sin shall ever be left unpunished.
Exo 34:6-7
And יהוה passed before him and proclaimed,
“יהוה ,יהוה, an Ěl compassionate and showing favour, patient, and great in loving-commitment and truth, watching over loving-commitment for thousands, forgiving crookedness and transgression and sin, but by no means leaving unpunished, visiting the crookedness of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”