thing he does not do. And those with “less deadly sins” do not have their physical lives in jeopardy in the first place. A more helpful solution comes from the Old Testament distinction between inadvertent sins and intentional sins. In the Old Testament the temple sacrificial rituals only provided forgiveness for accidental or unconscious sins (Lev. 4:2, 13, 22, 27; 5:15–18; Num. 15:27–31; Ps. 19:13). When someone sinned intentionally and willfully, the sinner was either exiled (Num. 15:30–31) or