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Is a religion based on human sacrifice moral and ethical?
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RE: Is a religion based on human sacrifice moral and ethical?
(January 5, 2012 at 10:25 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:Fr0d0 is correct, no human was or has ever been sacrificed to God.


Oh, wrong again, G-C. A pattern is developing here!

Quote:30 And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD: “If you give the Ammonites into my hands, 31 whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the LORD’s, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.”

32 Then Jephthah went over to fight the Ammonites, and the LORD gave them into his hands. 33 He devastated twenty towns from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel Keramim. Thus Israel subdued Ammon.

34 When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the sound of timbrels! She was an only child. Except for her he had neither son nor daughter. 35 When he saw her, he tore his clothes and cried, “Oh no, my daughter! You have brought me down and I am devastated. I have made a vow to the LORD that I cannot break.”

36 “My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me just as you promised, now that the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites. 37 But grant me this one request,” she said. “Give me two months to roam the hills and weep with my friends, because I will never marry.”

38 “You may go,” he said. And he let her go for two months. She and her friends went into the hills and wept because she would never marry. 39 After the two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she was a virgin.


Unless, of course, you are willing to admit that this part of your "bible" is bullshit.

I'm really surprised by how little you know.

You should study more. You're letting the side down.

God did not ask for Japhthat to sacrifice his own daughter, that was of Japhthat's own doing. This is a discussion we recently had at church, though it was tied into Christ birth instead of his sacrifice.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: Is a religion based on human sacrifice moral and ethical? - by Godschild - January 6, 2012 at 3:15 am

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