2007-11-10 14:01:29 · 10 answers · asked by Peter D 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Burnt meat sacrifices didn't please my ex..................
2007-11-10 14:05:13 · answer #1 · answered by bete noire Carpe Noctum 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the Old Testament of The Holy Bible, there are a lot of animal sacrifices given by prophets and other believers of the, One God. In the New Testament, there aren't so many, if any at all. Jesus was the sacrifice.
Maybe people thought because it was important to them, their food source, they may have taken it as a true sacrifice for them to offer up their food to God. I think, it always pleases God when we, in His name, give up something we love or need.
2007-11-10 14:13:22 · answer #2 · answered by lee f 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hos 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
2007-11-10 14:04:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, sacrifice itself was neither required nor desired by God. God could not be interested in – much less appeased by such slaughter of animals. David wrote, "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire...burnt offering and sin offering You have not required." (Psalm 40:6) And in another place he said, "You desire not sacrifice...You delight not in burnt offering." (Psalm 51:16) The Lord repeatedly gives the same message: "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? says the Lord. I am full of the burnt offering of rams and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lams, or of he-goats." (Isaiah 1:11) With even stronger words, He says, "I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them." (Amos 5:21; Jeremiah 6:20; 14:21) He even states that sacrifice did not come about by His command: "For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them...concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: but this thing I commanded them, saying, Obey my voice." (Jeremiah 7:21) Clearly, sacrifice is not a penalty demanded by God.
“Though you offer me burnt offerings... I will not accept them... but let justice run down like water, and righteousness like a might stream.” Amos 5:24
How Is Christ Our Atonement?
Some people use the word "atonement" as if it implies that Christ was punished by the Father for our sins. Actually, "atonement" has no connection with punishment. It comes from "at-one-ment" and simply means "making one" or "reconciliation." In fact, "atonement" and "reconciliation" are the same word in the Greek. We might ask, Who was reconciled–God or the human race? The Bible's answer is the human race. "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself." (2 Corinthians 5:19) We receive "at-one-ment", never God. "We were reconciled to God by the death of His Son.... We have received atonement." (Romans 5:10,11)
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2007-11-10 14:11:51 · answer #4 · answered by Nikki 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hardly see how a god could benefit from human action unless it was a human in disguise . or to quote :
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
Albert Einstein
2007-11-10 14:10:35 · answer #5 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a sweet savour unto the Lord.
2007-11-10 14:04:00 · answer #6 · answered by Pull My Finger 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a pleasing scent unto the lord.
2007-11-10 14:04:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What an unpleasant idea. Why do you choose to useth such strangeth languageth?
2007-11-10 14:05:11 · answer #8 · answered by geni 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sure pleases the taste buds of those who savoured it afterwards.
2007-11-10 14:04:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no .. no they didnt ... david said so in the psalms
2007-11-10 14:04:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋