Leviticus 26:30 “And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.”?

Question

1 Samuel 15:11-18 God repents of having made Saul king since Saul refused to carry out God’s commandments (i.e., Saul refused to murder all the innocent women and children.) At least god realizes what an immoral, murderous pig he is on this one.

I Kings 16:34 Laying the foundation for a city using your firstborn child and using your youngest son to set up the gates.

Isaiah 13:15-18 If God can find you, he will “thrust you through,” smash your children “to pieces” before your eyes, and rape your wife.

Jeremiah 11:22-23 God will kill the young men in war and starve their children to death.

Jeremiah 19:7-9 God will make parents eat their own children, and friends eat each other.

Lamentations 2:20-22 God gets angry and mercilessly torments and kills everyone, young and old. He even causes women to eat their children.

Answer 1

Wow. You are really taking Lev 26:30 out of context!!!

You're making it seem like God wants people to eat their own children.

Read the entire passage. It's talking about famine being the result of disobedience against God.

Thousands of years ago, if a famine struck, it was not uncommon for people to begin eating the flesh of those who had already died -- even their own family members.

Wow. Rarely have I seen someone so desperate to discredit and disparage religion, that they have taken a Bible verse so badly out of context.

How utterly desperate you must be to prove your point, that you would resort to such an argument "tactic."

Answer 2

Context, turkey, context! (It is Leviticus 26:29, in 30 it says "And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.") The Leviticus 26:29 passage about eating children is not an order from God for the people to become cannibals, it is a foretelling that there will be times of starvation when some among your decendants will face if they rebel against God (see Leviticus 25:1 where this passage begins, especially in verse 2 where it says "When ye come into the land which I give you").

This is the same kind of stupid stuff as the old joke about reading "and Judas went and hanged himself" but then following that reading with where Jesus said "Go and do thou likewise." Context says an awful lot and without it your passages are saying an awful lot that is simply wrong on its face.

Answer 3

Describing the desperate situation of the Jews during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem in 607 B.C.E., Jeremiah wrote: “The very hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children. They have become as bread of consolation to one during the breakdown of the daughter of my people.”—Lamentations 4:10.

Centuries before, Moses had alerted the Israelites that their future would be marked by either “blessing” or “malediction.” They would enjoy blessings if they kept God’s commandments, but they would bring suffering upon themselves if they rejected his righteous ways. One of the terrible consequences was that the Israelites would be reduced to eating their own children. (Deuteronomy 28:1, 11-15, 54, 55; 30:1; Leviticus 26:3-5, 29) This actually occurred after Jehovah abandoned the faithless, disobedient nation into the hand of the Babylonians.

At Lamentations 4:10 the prophet Jeremiah drew upon the well-known fact that a mother is naturally tenderhearted, compassionate, and protective toward her children. (1 Kings 3:26, 27;) Yet, the famine in besieged Jerusalem was so extreme and the resulting starvation so compelling that mothers who would normally be compassionate boiled and cannibalistically ate their offspring. Lamentations 2:20.

A similar situation occurred after the Jews rejected the Messiah, who had warned about a coming siege of Jerusalem. (Matthew 23:37, 38; 24:15-19) Historian Josephus described one of the horrors of the siege in 70 C.E.: “Mary the daughter of Eleazar . . . killed her son, then roasted him and ate one half, concealing and saving up the rest.”—The Jewish War

The fulfillment of the prophecies and types in Leviticus further proves its inspiration. Both sacred and secular history record the fulfillment of the Leviticus warnings about the consequences of disobedience. Among other things, it foretold that mothers would eat their own children because of famine. Jeremiah indicates that this was fulfilled at the destruction of Jerusalem in 607 B.C.E., and Josephus tells of its happening at the city’s later destruction, in 70 C.E.

Answer 4

Yeah, so? You're the one that keeps saying the bible is so full of mistakes and errors, why do you even bring this up? Maybe this is one of the things you say that mortal men keep putting in on their own without God's authorization.

Have you ever heard of a guy named Edwin Miese...? He ate himself (well, part of himself.) And he liked it. Have you ever really, really considered eating yourself...? At least a part. A little taste. Don't knock it until you've tried it! Really, shouldn't you do your personal research before you start asking questions of other people...?

How were you planning to gain the moral fiber NOT to eat human flesh, when the going gets tough....?

Answer 5

For the main QUestion.
Remember they did not had enough food at that time so eating childrens was kinda save your self from death and keep worshiping GOD.

Plus GOD is pro-choice and he offers children as food. GOD knows how delicious they are since he is the creator of everything

Therefore GOD and Sunday's do exists.

Answer 6

But the bible was written by MAN!!!
....for the purpose of making the readers of the bible, subservient to the teachers. Power over the majority!
However the bible needs to be taken in the context of the whole rather than in part, in order to experience and understand the real spiritual truth that runs through it!

Answer 7

Religious people are whacked.Get a life and worry about whats happening tomorrow,not some old fable.How many different gods and versions are there anyway?Wanna buy some swampland in florida?This answer applies to all religions.

Answer 8

People choose not to go with the goodness that God offers. People are by nature evil, and choosing to separate yourself from him opens you to the deepest of human darkness, such as cannabalism, ultraviolence and so forth.

Answer 9

Asked many times before.