God commands child sacrifice (not Isaac story)
September 23, 2012 at 10:53 pm
(This post was last modified: September 23, 2012 at 11:20 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(8:18 pm. PST) edit: This is not about the story of the sacrifice of Isaac!
You almost never hear this but God in the OT actually explicitly commanded child sacrifice and then later changed his mind.
The command from God for child sacrifice. Exodus 22:29-30,
God later changed his mind. Ezekiel 20:25-26
You almost never hear this but God in the OT actually explicitly commanded child sacrifice and then later changed his mind.
The command from God for child sacrifice. Exodus 22:29-30,
Quote:29 "You shall not delay to offer from the fulness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. "The first-born of your sons you shall give to me. 30 You shall do likewise with your oxen and with your sheep: seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.
God later changed his mind. Ezekiel 20:25-26
Quote:25 Moreover I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not have life; 26 and I defiled them through their very gifts in making them offer by fire all their first-born, that I might horrify them; I did it that they might know that I am the LORD.
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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).
