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In the early 1900s, Richard Munslow died in a small England town, and he took his profession with him to the grave … Munslow is the last recorded example we have of a sin-eater. 

If a priest could not make it in time to perform the last rites for an individual, some families would place food by the deceased individual, and have a sin-eater eat the small meal, which was said to carry the sins from the deceased person onto the sin-eater himself, thus absolving the other individual of his/her sins.

In 1 Peter (2:24), we are told that [Jesus] Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed.

We have no need to call upon a sin-eater, because we worship the sin-eater, the one and only true Savior, the perfect sacrifice for the atonement of our sins. Jesus took our sins upon Himself once and for all because of God’s love for us.  

And the greatest part of Jesus’s story? That the tomb was empty and that He rose from the grave, victorious over sin, and He calls us to be a part of His story as well.

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