2007-09-09 15:40:27 · 33 answers · asked by Enigma®Ragnarökin' 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Vowing his vow unto God, (Judges 11:31) that he would offer up as a burn offering whatsoever should come out to meet him if successful, he went forth to battle. The Ammonites were routed with great slaughter; but as the conqueror returned to Mizpeh there came out to meet him his daughter, his only child, with timbrels and dancing. The father is heart-stricken; but the maiden asks only for a respite of two months in which to prepare for death. When that time was ended she returned to her father, who "did with her according to his vow"
2007-09-09 15:44:12 · update #1
Because the Bible was written by woman-hating rapists that were also war mongers.
This is the history of Christianity. They destroyed the female goddess art, they destroyed the human history of worshipping women and made up their own little fable about how all women are Evil Eves and that's why we get periods.
It was all about controlling women and their sexuality and it continues to this day. Women are even helping to oppress themselves and other women with it. That I just don't get.
2007-09-09 15:52:40 · answer #1 · answered by Cerulean 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Hehheee then it was also considered an abomination in Hosea 13:2. Its the Christian bible you are discussing, so what do you expect---some clear cut answer.
People have been using biblical scriptures to uphold and refute many different concepts over the centuries.
As far as the Judges 11:31 reference within your question, one should note that it was in contradiction to the vows attested to in Joshua 22. In which Jephthah's grandfather VOWED that no burnt offerings would be held within Gilead.
Since the text doesn't say that Jephthah went to the Lord's Sanctuary to offer up the burnt offering, it can be concluded that he offered the sacrifice of his daughter in Gilead---which would have been an abominaiton. The family did have a history of following the practices of the canaanites---who were into human sacrifice.
2007-09-09 16:19:56 · answer #2 · answered by Lion Jester 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That scripture has a lot of value in truth. Several things are in there that can be learned from.
1) Don't make a vow to God that you don't want to keep.
2) It shows the strength of some of Gods chosen peoples faith. One his for going on with the sacrifice when he found out it was his beloved daughter, and her willingness to give her life for her fathers vow to the lord, only asking that he give her time to prepare to meet the lord.
3) Human sacrifice has and is the one big standard observed in the Bible however the only one I believe condoned by God is the one he made with his own son for all of us.
4) Only God himself can judge between right and wrong, as to if that sacrifice was right or wrong God will have to judge. But it does give huge lessons for us to follow in behavior.
5) Soon two servants of the lord will willing stand in the streets of Jerusalem and be the two witnesses of Jesus Christ that will be martyred. They will sacrifice their lives for the Lord willingly and knowingly also. They will know who they are before they do this making it a willing sacrifice on their part for the Lords work.
2007-09-09 16:13:07 · answer #3 · answered by saintrose 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Enigma.... Jephthah wasn't raised in the way of the Lord...he was raised by those that had worshipped the idols... the elders had promised to make anyone whom defeated their enemy their leader, which jephthah did, lol, though he was probably the last man the elders would have wanted as their leader.
But, a promise is a promise, and Jephthah became leader... then, Jephthah tried to bargain with God...ignorant, thinking he was doing a good thing by promising to God that he would make a sacrifice to Him of the 1st person whom came out to meet him, he later was distressed to find the one person he never would have offered, his daughter, meet him.
In this, God was teaching a lesson...don't bargain with God with pagan promises of sacrifices AND be sure you know what you ask for of God... because, the answer may not be what you want...
God didn't want human sacrifices then...nor now. That is a Pagan belief of idol worshipers NOT God.
Peace be with you :)
2007-09-09 16:15:18 · answer #4 · answered by ForeverSet 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Once again, since you bring it up, the Bible does NOT condone human sacrifice.
The simple MENTIONING of an act of human stupidity does not qualify a story as a "condoning" of that act. IF IT DID, then we could say that the Bible "condones" acts of rape, murder, parent-child incest, child sacrifice, adultery, fornication, theft, ad infinitum.
However, we cannot, and should not, apply one standard to the Bible and another standard to all other forms of literature. That would be an unfair standard, not to mention stupid. Is the mentioning of American Slavery in your child's textbook an open call for slavery in America? Of course not. Is your newspaper's report on a drug dealer's arrest a condoning of the drug trade in your town? I certainly hope not! Let's see, since one of the characters in "Othello" cooked her own children and fed it to her husband when he returned from war, does that mean this was proposed in common (ancient) Greek society? DUH!! NO!!
Read also Leviticus 27 for further enlightenment on this subject. People were allowed to consecrate all sorts of things to the LORD as part of sacred vows, but not all of them could be burned as a sacrifice. Fields, houses, and equipment could be consecrated, but were used by the priests, not burned. Animals could be sacrificed. Humans were NEVER sacrificed by the Isrealites. Instead, they became servants at the Tabernacle/Temple. It was their equivalent of joining a monastary! Women would not marry, but some men would (Samuel was one such child: he became a prophet and did eventually marry).
Please do a little more research. Your bigotry is showing!
2007-09-09 16:02:10 · answer #5 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Bible does not condone human sacrifice. In this fathers case he made a hasty vow. God chose to reveal man as he really was and is. Our hearts are extremely wicked and our tongue gets us in lots of trouble. Many commentators say that she probably did not die but remained a virgin for her entire life which in that culture would have been as bad as death.
2007-09-09 15:50:44 · answer #6 · answered by foodfun 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The bible condones only one such sacrifice: Christ on the tree.
God once told Abraham to kill his only son. But GOD STOPPED HIM DIDN'T HE? He did this only to add the prophetic, that God would send His own son.
See, you buy things back in like terms. To buy back man, another Adam had to be given...but this Adam was God Himself as man. So what's your beef?
Anyone on this planet, past present or future, that denies that Cross and He who died upon it, will not enter life but will go to the recycle bin. You can laugh at it, poo poo it till the cows come home... does not change a thing.
And for these Christians that through misunderstanding of scriptures think that Jews somehow get a loophole from it all, you've got another thing coming!! Jews have to come the same way..via that cross. If not, they go to hell as the unclean.
What is of God sees God and submits. The rest won't believe a lick of this anyway.
MANKIND, GENERALLY... GOES TO HELL.
2007-09-09 15:48:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
You are going to have to be a little more specific. Human sacrifice is not condoned in the Bible...in EITHER "testament".
You are either ignorant of the subject matter...or you're just repeating some nonsense you heard somewhere. Get specific with book, chapter, and verse so the original language can be consulted to find out where you are in error...because you are.
2007-09-09 15:48:30 · answer #8 · answered by NXile 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Sorry, your mistaken. It does not. People used to offer sacrifices to God as a thank you for he's help. Just because one person says they'll sacrifice "anything" that he finds after battle, doesn't mean the bible supports human sacrifice. The instance where Abraham was going to kill he's son for God, was God testing him, he did not let Abraham do it as he did not want he's son to die.
2007-09-09 15:56:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Bible does not condone human sacrifice in any form. Rather the Bible condemns it. One rare occasion, Abraham led Isaac up to be sacrificed. But God spared Isaac with a ram that was tied up in bushes to be used instead.
Hebrews 11:17
17By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
son was offerred but not sacrificed
James 2:21
21Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
son was offerred but not sacrificed
Judges 11
29Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.
30And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
31Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
And your passage does mention whatsoever, but not a whosoever that was ever made a burning sacrifice.
2007-09-09 15:54:13 · answer #10 · answered by idiot 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋