(September 28, 2012 at 8:44 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote:(September 28, 2012 at 8:32 pm)Polaris Wrote: It means he let them go worship other gods. Since they wanted to worship other gods, He let them follow the statues of those religions to demonstrate what folly they actually were....it was an issue of the "grass is always greener."
If the Israelites thought they were sacrificing to other gods, then that defeats the whole point of God "horrifying" and "defiling" them in order to know he was "Lord." They would be "horrified" and "defiled" by Molech or whatever pagan god they would have been supposedly sacrificing to. Molech or whoever would be the one filling the Israelites with horror, not Yahweh.
The idea of God letting the Israelites sacrifice to other gods to make the Israelites "know he is lord" doesn't make sense.
Because they would see the consequences of turning away from him. They would do all those sacrifices and there would be no answer from those idols.
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.
