Animals,children,his only son? Is'nt that sick and weird?
2006-09-17 17:38:35 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'll tell you what I think is sick. These religious people who say how great god is and they don't have a clue about him and they should not pretend that they do. they don't have any proof that he exists, and if you argue with them about it they skirt around the subject and say that such things can't be proven. Well if they want to believe that death is not the end of the line than just say it. they don't have to believe in such a wierd fairy tale to avoid scary thoughts and then they call things like sacrifice, death, pain, suffering, and confusion great because their all mighty all knowing god had them in his plan.
2006-09-17 19:16:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Animals were a move away from human sacrifice - a major step for that time. They became an easy way to manipulate God w/o anything but a financial / sheep squeeze. The OT has several quotes where God says he has no use for such things.
There is 1 Israelite human sacrifice. The text is primitive and confirms the prevalence of such in the surrounding cultures. It also confirms 1 reason for moving to animals.
his only son became the only sacrifice
a) Great enough to cover the sins of humanity.
b) Profound enough to challenge us beyond ourselves to live for others.
2006-09-17 17:50:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God made us. He knows that the only things we truly value are the things we obtain through hard work and sacrifice.
All the old testament sacrifices were God's way of showing us what didn't work and why, so we might be able to understand Christ's perfect and totally effective new testament sacrifice, which restored man's relationship with God, and will eventually lead to the restoration of all that has been lost.
God's system is based on his own principles of perfect justice.
Somebody messes up, somebody needs to atone.
We messed up beyond our capacity to atone, so Jesus atoned instead.
Jesus did the work and he made the sacrifice. Then he applied the merits of that sacrifice to us, so we might be saved.
Now we owe God, big time.
But that's just one of the reasons we worship him.
It's peculiar, but not sick or wierd. And it can be logically understood, if you take the time to study all the principles involved.
It's just hard to understand without good, professional, theological help.
2006-09-17 18:14:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Two types of sacrifices come readily to my mind: those for thanksgiving, and those for atonement. Perhaps if you see a sacrifice as someone freely giving back to God a life that one supposedly owned (but that God had given him), it becomes clearer. Because a sacrifice was usually something valuable (like a prized lamb), it was a significant thing for the person to give up to God. This helps explain why Abel's sacrifice would have been more pleasing (because it was more valuable), while Cain's sacrifice was easier and cheaper to procure. The ultimate sacrifice was that of Christ, which God did for us, as no other sacrifice, no other act, could redeem us.
2006-09-17 17:47:45 · answer #4 · answered by MJQ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
he's likewise merely and RIGHTEOUS And that justness and righteousness require service. The Blood of Jesus, His very own son, paid the cost that helps us to be interior the presence of His righteousness. His mercy stored us from getting what we deserved, His grace gave us what we did not deserve, all made achieveable via the blood. Now to take you to job....the genetalia isn't mutilated...it fairly is replaced, nonetheless totally functional...to this i will atest 2d He did not have Abraham kill Isaac, he prevented it until eventually such time as you could ask questions devoid of such hyperbolic nonsense, you would be categorised with the rank and report of the pedantic petulant atheists
2016-12-15 09:41:19 · answer #5 · answered by sameeruddin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not God's obsession. Sacrifice is a very human idea.
2006-09-17 17:41:33 · answer #6 · answered by huckleberry 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
God is holy, obsession is sin.
God IS love and love IS sacrifice.
When you love, you die to self, considering only that which you love.
...and that's just the HUMAN capability. God's AGAPE love far exceeds THAT.
Imagine that.
Thank you for putting God's love right back in the forefront of my heart, which brings me to a desire to PRAISE!
God bless!
2006-09-17 17:47:55 · answer #7 · answered by ConcernedMom 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He's a tad bloodthirsty don't you think? It cracks me up that he wants blood shed in his name all the time with sacrifices, but when a woman bleeds she is "unclean". It's all a load of BS.
2006-09-17 17:44:17 · answer #8 · answered by Sebastian 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Do you really believe that? those men who have said and done that may have a sick mind.
some people can see things that we cannot see because its all in there minds. like the movie "Beautiful mind".
2006-09-17 17:43:50 · answer #9 · answered by caramoanboy 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's not God. People just made up God as an excuse to slaughter other people and animals.
2006-09-17 17:41:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋