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Question about innocent people and idolatry.
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Liability for transgressions of the Noahide Commandments is only incurred if one does the forbidden act knowingly and deliberately (with the exception of negligent homicide). Please see Part 1, Chapter 4, in "The Divine Code," Volume 1, by Rabbi Moshe Weiner, where this question is answered in detail. If a person errs in judging his own sinful actions as permissible, he is only liable if he should have learned that those actions are forbidden. In geographical areas or times in history in which a community does not know at all about non-obvious aspects of the Noahide Commandments (for example, the prohibition against idolatry), one can't say that the person should have learned them, because it wasn't yet possible, and therefore he isn't liable for them. But for the aspects that are universally logically binding according to adult human intellect, there is no exemption for not knowing/realizing that they are forbidden.
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RE: Question about innocent people and idolatry. - by Director Michael - 11-18-2009, 03:30 AM

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