Why did the Biblical God stop requiring human sacrifices?

Question

Exod. 22: 29-30, "29 You shall not delay the offering from your harvest and your vintage. The first-born of your sons you shall give to Me. 30 You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days; on the eighth day you shall give it to Me."

Num. 31: 40, "40 And the human beings were 16,000, from whom the Lord's levy was 32. 41 And Moses gave the levy which was the Lord's offering to Eleazar the priest, just as the Lord had commanded Moses."

Exodus 13:2 "Consecrate to me every first-born that opens the womb among Israelites, both man and beast, for it belongs to me."

Genesis 22:1-18 "Take your son, your only son – yes, Isaac, whom you love so much – and go to the land of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will point out to you."

Even the Crucifixion is viewed by the early Church as a ritual human sacrifice of a perfect first born virgin son in order to appease the anger of the sky god.

Leviticus 27:28-29 "Note also that any one of his possessions which a man vows as doomed to the Lord, whether it is a human being or an animal, or a hereditary field, shall be neither sold nor ransomed; everything that is thus doomed becomes most sacred to the Lord. All human beings that are doomed lose the right to be redeemed; they must be put to death."

Schneb, the quote from Leviticus makes you a liar.

Apparently, Jephthah changed his name to Saul.

"If you give me victory over the Ammonites, I will give to the LORD the first thing coming out of my house to greet me when I return in triumph. I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering."

And she said, "Father, you have made a promise to the LORD. You must do to me what you have promised, for the LORD has given you a great victory over your enemies, the Ammonites. But first let me go up and roam in the hills and weep with my friends for two months, because I will die a virgin."

"When she returned home, her father kept his vow, and she died a virgin."

She died because he ritually sacrificed her.

Answer 1

Why do you intentionally misquote Scripture?
The first-born were redeemed with an animal sacrifice.
God did not require the sacrifice of Isaac, but was testing Abraham's obedience.
He did not spare His own Son to redeem mankind.
It may not be in your best interest to slander God.

Answer 2

In regard to your quote from Leviticus: Scneb is NOT a liar.

If you read the first seven chapters of Leviticus, it gives in GREAT detail EXACTLY what could be sacrificed, and how. Humans are never mentioned.

There ARE, however, 19 references to when someone should be "cut off from his people" as a punishment for a particular offense against this law. The Hebrew word used is "karath" which meant to destroy the person. It was a death penalty.

In the verse you point out, humans are being put to death, but it is the death penalty, not a sacrifice to God.

Re: Exodus 13:2 "Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast, it is mine." The word for "sanctify" (or "consecrate" in your translation) is the Hebrew word "qadash", meaning "to make ceremonially clean." That is why they are bringing their firstborn in chapter 22 as well.

Why would God save all the firstborn of the Israelites during the very first Passover in Egypt, only to require their sacrifice during the Exodus? I guarantee, if that had happened, they would not still be celebrating Passover!

Re: Numbers 31:40- Read the whole chapter, look at the context. It's not pretty! They killed WAY more than 32 people, but not as human sacrifices. This chapter is talking about war. God instructed the Israelites to kill all the males, and all the married females, in order to protect themselves from an uprising or from being drawn into idol worship. God told them to keep the virgins for themselves, NOT to sacrifice them. When they were giving people to Eleazar the priest, as you cited, they were giving the tribe of priests their share of the virgins.

Re: Genesis 22:1-18- Did you even read verses 10-14?

Re: Jephtha: Very true. This is one of the saddest stories in the Bible. Judges chapter 11.

The thing you don't mention is that God never asked for this sacrifice, God never said "you must fulfill your vow," and it never says that this was a pleasing sacrifice to God. This is merely a historical account of a foolish man. Jephthah had the spirit of God with him going to battle with Ammon, but he made a rash vow out of a lack of faith and selfish arrogance.

Answer 3

Consecrate means to dedicate. The first born was to be dedicated to the Lord's care.

Saul offered his own daughter as a sacrifice. Did she die? No, she stayed a virgin the rest of her life. This was a sacrifice she gave in response to Saul's foolish vow.

In regard to Christ, yes, Jesus was to be a substitutionary death so that we would not have to pay the penalty for our sin. God told Abraham to offer his son as a type or model of what was to come (ie Jesus). Notice that it never happened.

Jesus was the only human sacrifice that God ever sanctioned. Two caveats however. First, it was a willing offering by Jesus. Second, it was God Himself on the cross.

Answer 4

Dear justsome,

The God of the Bible (Jehovah) never demanded human sacrifice. This was a heathen practice-having children pass through fire. The Lord tells us in the Mosaic law that the first-born male son of a Hebrew or Jewish woman was to be dedicated to Jehovah, not sacrificed. This meant that the man-child belonged to the Lord, and was to serve Jehovah. The child was on loan to the parents until he came of age.

The animal blood sacrifices of the first-born male was a ceremonial law pointing to the Lord Jesus Christ, who would be the sin-offering for God's elect. Today, as we approach Judgment Day, if you do not have a sin-bearer (substitute), then you will have to pay for your sins personally.

I hope this helps you.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Where in the Bible does it say that God actually ACCEPTED even ONE human sacrifice?

The case of Jesus does not count as He was called the LAMB of God slain BEFORE the foundations of the earth.

And the case of Abraham and Isaac was a test; Isaac was NOT sacrificed.

Answer 7

Those verse's you quoted are NOT Human sacrifices...nice try though!

Answer 8

Humans taste like chicken anyway, and it was easier to get chickens.