Child Sacrifice in the Old Testament

[Mudhammam]

Perhaps in the cosmic soap opera when the Creator of the universe looked down on you, Drich, and realized how vitally important and special you are, he decided he would impart to you the principle distinction between the morality expressed in child sacrifice and that expressed in the sentiment that "sins" are "cleansed" by "innocent blood." Unfortunately, some of us more "ignorant" folk don't see it.

It's not a hard distinction to make. In that the only innocent blood that was needed was from his only Son. God made the standard then He provided us with the elements needed to find forgiveness.

Okay. Totally missed the point. But despite responding with appeal to an incoherent conception of a singular nature that consists of three distinct and separate identities, you still have no rationalization for the general concept that "innocent blood" "cleanses" "sin," which was taken quite literally by biblical authors, or for the idea that killing livestock due to their "moral innocence" could somehow balance out bad behavior. Again, I ask, what's more innocent than a child? If one has a really "big" sin to account for, what could possibly be better than offering one's own child as a "four-fold payment"? GC has already demonstrated that this is the logic Yahweh operates on in his admission that David "paid" for his sins by the death of his newborn, Jesus "paid" for our sins by shedding his human blood, and yet--oh no, child sacrifice is far too abhorrent to even consider the possibility that Yahweh could accept such a thing! Please, come back with a bit of sense, will ya?