2006-06-05 16:26:22 · 7 answers · asked by Messenger 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
cookouts are just our way of saving on electricity in the summer . BBQ sauce just adds the flavor. I wouldn't read so much into it. Go on, enjoy that steak! It's ok with God if you do, He knows you want to keep the kitchen a little cooler this time of year!
2006-06-05 16:37:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My friend, you are thinking way to deeply into this whole thing! No, we do not have burnt offerings. When we have a Saturday-night cookout, we are not sacrificing something to the Lord! In the Old Testament, there was an orderly process as to what could be sacrificed, where it could be sacrificed, and when it could be sacrificed. When we have a barbeque with a couple of friends, we do not begin to attempt going through this process! We are simply eating out and having a good time! In OT times, people needed to sacrifice on a regular basis so as to atone for their sins. You see, at that time, people were only temporarily forgiven. The only way that people could be permanently forgiven was through God Himself. Hence, the New Testament. Jesus is God in the flesh, and as such, only He could die for us. He was exposed to the sins of the world, tested by the devil, etc. but He never once gave in to temptation. Because He was utterly sinless, only He could take on the weight of our sin. In order for the people to be eternally forgiven, Jesus needed to die, decend into hell for three days (the penalty for sin is death, in other words, hell), and rise again on the third day. This is symbolic for our death to the old life and resurrection into the new one that centers around the Lord. Because of Jesus, we are eternally forgiven so long as we ask for it! No more sacrifices needed, Jesus was the human sacrifice! God bless!
2006-06-08 15:32:35 · answer #2 · answered by Jesus Rules! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No bar-be-ques are a ritual of intaking food so that a body can function.
I think the government has out-lawed burnt offerings. But you can burn a candle for someone or to worship your gods or goddesses, incense, something like that. it has been replaced with less smelly burning objects.
Unless of course you live in an undiscovered, untechnological, unhampered aboriginal tribe somewhere...oh yeah, but you wouldn't be on Yahoo Answers then would you?!
2006-06-05 16:35:04 · answer #3 · answered by oman396 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hos 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
2006-06-05 16:29:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you are being blasphemous. Burnt offering were offerings to God.
Exodus 20:24 -
"'Make an altar of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats and your cattle. Wherever I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you."
2006-06-05 16:35:58 · answer #5 · answered by MesquiteGal 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The blood isn't the BBQ sauce--it's the ketchup.
2006-06-10 17:47:37 · answer #6 · answered by ikwya 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You think too much.
2006-06-05 16:29:07 · answer #7 · answered by sweetie_baby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋