(January 22, 2014 at 12:57 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Funny, nothing in there even attempts to repudiate the mere fact that these men even contemplated the act;nothing besides chapter 8.
Oh, and you are aware that a group of men are not doing the talking in verses 6&7 right? Micah is illerating the position man has created in the religious expressions of that time. To which God answers all religion is wrong, all one must do is follow the two greatest commands.
Quote:neither of them seem particularly repulsed by it either. And why should Yahweh's sanctioning of child sacrifice surprise you? Didn't he kill David and Bathsheba's child because of their sexual primiscuities?Is that your understanding of what a sacrifice is?
Quote: The whole point of the Abraham and Isaac myth is to express to the Hebrews that killing their children was no longer required.ah, no. The 'whole understanding' of Abraham and Isaac's trip is explained in detail in Hebrews 11.
Quote:To quote the work of Hector Avalos, prominent biblical scholar "Jon D. Levenson states that "only at a particular stage rather late in the history of Israel was child sacrifice branded as counter to the will of YHWH and thus ipso facto idolatrous." The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993), p. 5. Susan Niditch, in War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993) says, “While there is considerable controversy about the matter, the consensus over the last decade concludes that child sacrifice was a part of ancient Israelite religion to large segments of Israelite communities of various periods.” p. 47. S. Ackerman argues that within the ancient Israelite community, “the cult of child sacrifice was felt in some circles to be a legitimate expression of Yawistic faith.”A quote, of a quote from a guy who apparently never read numbers 3. But it does reference a whole laundry list of unrelated material. Which apparently is good enough for you.
... Verses the bible explaining itself right down to the very letter of what your questioning... Seems to me (and I am not of Yale or Oxford press whatever that is) when a book from the Pentateuch that explains a passage from another book of the Pentateuch (meaning it was written and explained by the guy who wrote the passage inquestion) holds a heck of a lot more weight that some anti god hater who quotes another anti god guy who ties his work to several sources that have nothing to do with the bible, but is designed to entice other god want to be haters.
Look I know you've told your self all theist are stoopid and don't know nuffin, so it is hard for you to admit when your wrong. or when what you believe to be iron clad source material is wrong. especially when said source material seems to come from a place with the right pedigree.
Just remember this. God says He chooses the simple, and foolish things to confound the knowledgeable and wise of this world.. You can't get much simpler than me, but at the same time you nor your boys are not really going up against me are you?
