Child Sacrifice in the Old Testament

[Mudhammam]

Circumcision, read the whole of the Bible before making yourself look foolish.

GC

Oh, so only the firstborn Hebrews were to be circumcised? That's a new one. And if you read the rebukes in Jeremiah relating to child sacrifice, it makes clear that the Israelites were guilty of slaughtering their sons and daughters...to Baal. That seems to be the real crime. It also makes sense of the myth of Abraham and Issac, which was a later Hebrew tradition intended to portray the abolishment of child sacrifice.

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And let's not forget the climax and crux of the Christian narrative, God literally offering his son as a blood sacrifice--as the author of Hebrews notes--"In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness" (Hebrews 9:22).