(September 23, 2012 at 11:38 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: You're ignoring the context. The very next sentence talks about "giving" animals. It's clearly sacrifice.Ah, no.
Not all animals "Given to God" were put to death. Otherwise where did the preists get their milk, eggs, wool and the like from?
Quote:Nope the context supports my argument. The chapter is talking about the early Israelites and the way God dealt with them. And even in the KJV translation that you quoted (serious Christians shouldn't be using that shoddy translation) it's still plainly talking about child sacrifice. The "fire" was a method of human sacrifice back then.too tired to argue will have to come back tomorrow on this one.