RE: Under the Rules of Catholicism, the Vast Majority of People Are Going to Hell
September 25, 2012 at 2:12 pm
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2012 at 2:12 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
Drich Wrote:Again, the problem with your arguement is that the Jewish religion is not set up to process human sacerfice, and in order for your interpertation of this passage to work one has to over look a 1/2 a dozen barriers in their religious practice and the orginal language in which the story was recorded to force this foolish interpretation.
You're not looking at the Bible critically. You're assuming all these stories and law codes came together in the same sequence of the events as it reads plainly in the Bible as it exists today. Sorry, that's not how it happened. The OT draws from a variety of different sources from different eras of Israel's history. You cannot simply appeal to the traditions of Israel to rule out that child sacrifice is happening here because the story could be from a much earlier period and the traditions from a later period.
To say "the text can't be possibly be implying that because of these traditions" is to assume the bible has no contradictions. The Bible was not written and recorded in the fairy tale way you believe it was.
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).