Why do some people still think the Bible condones human sacrifice?

Question

It doesn't. A few misunderstood passages include:

1) God told Abraham to offer his son as a sacrifice. However God stopped him before he could do any harm. The point - Abraham's son was very important to him, but he put God first even above his son.

2) A man whose name escapes me asked God for victory in battle and promised to "sacrifice" whatever or whoever he saw first upon arriving home. God gave him his victory, and when he came home the first thing he saw was his daughter. The sacrifice WAS NOT the daughter's life. It was her virginity. She was to remain a virgin all her days and she agreed. (Remember, this is during a time when women were often pressured into marriages to strange men at a young age. She was probably very happy with the way things turned out.)

3) Jesus offered himself up as a living sacrifice for our sin. He was not merely human but was God in the flesh, and after three days he rose again. That's nowhere near the same thing as human sacrifice.

Any questions?

Deuteronomy 18:10a - Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter...

Answer 1

Do some people actually think that the Bible condones human sacrifice?

Answer 2

Hehheee then it replaced into additionally seen an abomination in Hosea 13:2. Its the Christian bible you're discussing, so what do you assume---some clean shrink answer. human beings have been applying biblical scriptures to uphold and refute many distinctive suggestions over the centuries. as far because of the fact the Judges 11:31 reference interior of your question, one ought to be conscious that it replaced into in contradiction to the vows attested to in Joshua 22. wherein Jephthah's grandfather VOWED that no burnt selections could be held interior of Gilead. because of the fact the text fabric does not say that Jephthah went to the Lord's Sanctuary to furnish up the burnt offering, this is concluded that he provided the sacrifice of his daughter in Gilead---which could have been an abominaiton. The family contributors did have a background of following the practices of the canaanites---who have been into human sacrifice.

Answer 3

"3) Jesus offered himself up as a living sacrifice for our sin. He was not merely human but was God in the flesh, and after three days he rose again. That's nowhere near the same thing as human sacrifice."

it's near alright...

Answer 4

Jesus is God. God can not die. So Jesus did not really die for us. He only faked death. There is no sacrifice at all.

Jephthah did sacrifice his teenage daughter (a virgin) to God as he promised. Read Judges 11.

Answer 5

I sincerely doubt that many people actually think this. It usually comes up because of either (a) genuine misunderstanding, due to reading a very loooooooong book or (b) genuine bigotry. While I can understand the first, I have a severe problem with the second!

The most recent post about this (cough"Enigma"cough) seems to display syndrome B. This individual actually hates Judaism and Christianity, and feels the entire Bible is a waste of paper. Not content with their own feelings of disgust, they are trying to stir up fear and distrust on the internet by spreading slander about the Bible.

In Greek class, such actions fall under "skubelon", and should be carted out with the same!

Answer 6

People that don't believe Jesus is God, have no choice but to believe the Bible condones human sacrifice. In fact, most of what Christians say to non-believers sounds likes jibberish.

For Christians, the crucifiction is more than what others think. The Roman soldiers did in fact perform a human sacrifice, in their minds, to help the Jewish government appease Rome, and to avoid a civil war. Those people didn't believe Jesus was God, and they were killing one (actually three on that day) to avoid the deaths of many.

Answer 7

Jesus was known as a lamb because many of the sacrifices at the time were lambs. Where do you think when he died and took on all sin? Not to Heaven, to Hell. One would assume three days in Hell isn't fun.

That's the only point I feel like I need to argue. Don't worry, it'll all be over soon sweetheart. You'll see.

Answer 8

What do you think abut this verse?
Jephthah Burns His Daughter

"At that time the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he went throughout the land of Gilead and Manasseh, including Mizpah in Gilead, and led an army against the Ammonites. And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD. He said, "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."


"So Jephthah led his army against the Ammonites, and the LORD gave him victory. He thoroughly defeated the Ammonites from Aroer to an area near Minnith – twenty towns – and as far away as Abel-keramim. Thus Israel subdued the Ammonites. When Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, his daughter – his only child – ran out to meet him, playing on a tambourine and dancing for joy. When he saw her, he tore his clothes in anguish. "My daughter!" he cried out. "My heart is breaking! What a tragedy that you came out to greet me. For I have made a vow to the LORD and cannot take it back." 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." "You may go," Jephthah said. And he let her go away for two months. She and her friends went into the hills and wept because she would never have children. When she returned home, her father kept his vow, and she died a virgin. So it has become a custom in Israel for young Israelite women to go away for four days each year to lament the fate of Jephthah's daughter." (Judges 11:29-40 NLT)

And as far as the story of Abraham goes
ONLY AN EVIL GOD WOULD ASK TO SACRIFICE A SON, (EVEN IF HE STOPPED HIMFROM DOING IT)THE MERE FACT OF ASKING IS EVIL, AND ONLY AN EVIL FATHER WOULD BE WILLING TO DO IT.
IMAGINE THAT EVENT TAKING PLACE TODAY, ABRAHAM WOULD BE IN JAIL, AND YOU WOULD BE THE FIRST ONE TO CONDONE HIS EVIL ACT.

Answer 9

No one accuses people today of over studying except Jehovah's Witnesses. People have never bothered to look up most things for themselves so why be surprised how much they get wrong?

Answer 10

Judges 11:29-40

29 Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah. He crossed Gilead and Manasseh, passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from there he advanced against the Ammonites. 30 And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD : "If you give the Ammonites into my hands,
31 whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the LORD's, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering."
32 Then Jephthah went over to fight the Ammonites, and the LORD gave them into his hands.
33 He devastated twenty towns from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel Keramim. Thus Israel subdued Ammon.
34 When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the sound of tambourines! She was an only child. Except for her he had neither son nor daughter.
35 When he saw her, he tore his clothes and cried, "Oh! My daughter! You have made me miserable and wretched, because I have made a vow to the LORD that I cannot break."
36 "My father," she replied, "you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me just as you promised, now that the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.
37 But grant me this one request," she said. "Give me two months to roam the hills and weep with my friends, because I will never marry."
38 "You may go," he said. And he let her go for two months. She and the girls went into the hills and wept because she would never marry.
39 After the two months, she returned to her father and he did to her as he had vowed. And she was a virgin. From this comes the Israelite custom
40 that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.

Turns out she did get sacrificed afterall... No marriage I'm afraid. Check it out for yourself before you claim otherwise.

Answer 11

But why ask for human sacrifice at all? Why demand of people something that they might balk at anyway?