How was this rite performed and what was its purpose?
2006-12-15 12:53:57 · 9 answers · asked by rebekkah hot as the sun 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thanks for the interpretations, but I have no intention of joining a Bible study group anytime soon.
2006-12-15 13:01:02 · update #1
This was not a rite performed. Join a Bible study group at a good Bible based Christian church...you are misinterpreting scripture.
Fire=hell and damnation
Taken from the message.
When you enter the land that God, your God, is giving you, don't take on the abominable ways of life of the nations there. Don't you dare sacrifice your son or daughter in the fire. Don't practice divination, sorcery, fortunetelling, witchery, casting spells, holding séances, or channeling with the dead. People who do these things are an abomination to God. It's because of just such abominable practices that God, your God, is driving these nations out before you.
2006-12-15 12:58:50 · answer #1 · answered by Shayna 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Worship of several gods of the Canaanites included sacrificing their children in the fire. One such god called Molech had statues with up-bent arms that fronted furnaces. The worshippers would place their children in the statues' arms like a drawer and slide the child into the fire. The natural reflexes of a burned child amidst the flames would mimic pleasure and make the worshippers feel better about their disgusting deed. God hated that type of idolatry above all others and told the Israelites never to follow such abominable practices.
The same evil spirits that encouraged the Canaanites to do something so horrible still hangs around the Middle East, causing the descendants of the Canaanites to blow their own chidren up in flames for the sake of their religion.
2006-12-15 21:59:49 · answer #2 · answered by Emmaean 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a methapor for saying that someone will go to a rigorous test in life of spirituality. A person chosen to be doing a mission shall be tested in loyalty, determination etc.etc. Normally compared to goldsmithing where the ore is put in high heat furnace to make it softer and easy to mold into a shape the goldsmith would want.
2006-12-15 21:12:06 · answer #3 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is not referring to Christian or Jewish practices but things the Jews might learn from other nations
2006-12-15 21:17:36 · answer #4 · answered by Angie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This was something that the pagans practiced to their gods of nature. It was detestable to God. It was just senseless murder that empty people did to try to find excitement. Nothing is more exciting than Christianity.
2006-12-15 20:58:46 · answer #5 · answered by L-dog =) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It refers to ceremonies performed using witchcraft.
2006-12-15 20:56:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sacrificing their children in fire to false idols.
2006-12-15 21:02:02 · answer #7 · answered by deacon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's refering to them sacrificing their children to God or false gods. Usually to the god Balim.
2006-12-15 20:57:13 · answer #8 · answered by scriptureman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was laws of the Jewish. In those times they practiced their practices on children for sacrifice.
2006-12-15 20:59:11 · answer #9 · answered by TinyLOKSTER 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋