Why did the Bible god like people to burn animal sacrifices in his honor?

Question

Wouldn't a real god be above that sort of thing?

Okay, church people, I can hear you now -- we must not question god...but c'mon use your common sense. Wouldn't a real deity know that burning animals on the altar is primitive, idiotic...proving nothing about their devotion?

(And please don't somebody tell me they ate the animals anyway, so it was a good way to cook them. The Baptist already did that one, and when I heard it I hung my head and farted.)

Don't tell me god doesn't like it now, I already know that. The question is, why did he like it then?
C'mon church people just answer the freakin question.

Answer 1

The bible says that God is pleased by the smell of burning flesh!
(go figure that out, I can't)

Answer 2

There are no gods, everybody deep down really knows that, or should do.

Gods & religion are a myth that people hang on to because they have to believe in something, the bible is an autobiography of a disfunctional man or indeed women that has been put into print,
How can anyone believe that an all loving careing person who professes to love all, one day feed the multitude with fish and then stand back and watch tiny children starve so much there tummies swell to twice the size of there bodies, how caring is that ?
Dont know about burning animals as a sacrifice , shouldn't the people propergating this myth that has caused thousands of deaths, through wars, bombings, and countless other atrocities be brought to book ?

Answer 3

Torah originated amongst people who were nomadic shepherds. Sacrifice of some sort was a common practice, probably coming out of old fertility rituals, just people trying to maximize their chances of having enough food to get through the year. Put the two together and burnt animal sacrifice makes utter a lot of sense.

This was around four thousand years ago. Not exactly primitive, but a very different world from ours. Think about it from their perspective.

Answer 4

Who decide that "burning animals on the altar is primitive" if God says it is holy and acceptable in his sight?

If God wanted to be modern or sophisticated don't you think no one could afford his terms and conditions of being accepted by him?

Answer 5

You have to understand the first sin to understand Old Testament sacrificies. The animal sacrificies were made as a act of humility. It let God know you understood why you died... because of your sin. The death of an animal symbolised 2 things. You understood why you would die and that God had to send his Son to die for your sins.

In addition these sacrifices were burnt down to the ashes. It was these ashes that people like King David sat in while he asked God forgiveness of his sin he committed

Answer 6

The concept of sacrifices came from other religions. The sacrifices mentioned in the Bible are heavily influenced by the story of Promethius. He arranged a system of sacrifice whereby humans kept the useful parts, meat and hides, and burnt the fat and bones.

"all the fat is the Lord's" Leviticus 3:16... and many other such quotations.

There is a lot of cross-pollination of customs in ancient religions.

Answer 7

* According to the bible we are so sinful we need blood sacrifices to cleanse us so we can go before god in prayer. According to the bible animal blood was good for only a year, so Jesus had to bve born of a virgin live a perfect, sinnless life and willingly give his life as a human sacrifice for sins, so we can be washed by blood and see god.
Okay, I see you shaking your head. I agree with that is what the bible says. You notice by my nickname I am no longer Christian don't you?*

Answer 8

God is a perfect being. So perfect, so holy so awesome. And He has so perfect and just laws for this universe.
And because He is so awesome and prefect and holy and He IS life, anything that contradicts His laws in the slightest way is death. Out side of his being and Holiness. The sinner needed to die. But the sinner didn't have to because of God's forgiveness.
To be redeemed from that sin God used a example for shadowing what was to come. He used a perfect lamb, innocent. And it needed to die for the person who sinned!

Now we dont have to kill that perfect animal when we sin because God gave us something permanent, Jesus Christ. The perfect innocent thing, for our sins. So that we could be in Gods presence again!!!!!!!!
The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is life, through Jesus Christ!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

Wouldn't sacrificing an animal be far better than the Godless cultures that sacrificed humans?

Answer 10

Its simple.
As it is written in the bible that the penalty of sin is death.
In those days ne1 who sinned had the death penalty on his head.
But why did god create man so that he can see them dying.He did not create man to kill them.but man kept on sinning and the penalty of sin was death.So when a man sinned he had to die for his sins.That's why he made this sacrifice thing.
So according to that any1 who sinned had to die,if he wanted to live sum1 who had no sin in him had to die in his place so that this man can live.So animals were killed in man's place and offered as a sacrifice for his sin bcoz animals had no sin in them and then the sins of the man were forgiven.
That's it.