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Religious Cognitive Dissonance
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Thelands post below (re: ritual animal slaughter)
Sums it all up.
The biblical wholesale slaughter of animals and sacrifices is overlooked but the butchery by anyone else of animals is somehow abbhorent??
Same as when Biblical God orders the genocide of entire nations (including women children and animals) Its somehow righteous. When someone else does it, its evil in the extreme.
Cant wrap my head around how one is right and the other is wrong...
Sums it all up.
The biblical wholesale slaughter of animals and sacrifices is overlooked but the butchery by anyone else of animals is somehow abbhorent??
Same as when Biblical God orders the genocide of entire nations (including women children and animals) Its somehow righteous. When someone else does it, its evil in the extreme.
Cant wrap my head around how one is right and the other is wrong...
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does the Bible actually command anyone to sacrifice an animal?
I know Abraham did it, but that was after God changed his mind at the last minute and decreed that killing an animal was better than killing his son. That's pretty much a metaphor for Jews distancing themselves from pagans who still practised human sacrifice. But I don't know that anyone insists you should be looking for rams in thickets to sacrifice these days.
I know Abraham did it, but that was after God changed his mind at the last minute and decreed that killing an animal was better than killing his son. That's pretty much a metaphor for Jews distancing themselves from pagans who still practised human sacrifice. But I don't know that anyone insists you should be looking for rams in thickets to sacrifice these days.
//does the Bible actually command anyone to sacrifice an animal? //
///An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee. Exodus 20:24///
///An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee. Exodus 20:24///
The question to ask is why the animal sacrifices had to take place?
The genocide question in the Bible is deeply problematic. I accept that.
The way I look at it is the Jewish nation had to survive and God made sure it did.
Out of the Jewish nation would come Jesus who is saviour of every nation and people group
The genocide question in the Bible is deeply problematic. I accept that.
The way I look at it is the Jewish nation had to survive and God made sure it did.
Out of the Jewish nation would come Jesus who is saviour of every nation and people group
Can I please just interject to say that Christians follow the teachings of Christ (or try to) and not the teachings of the Old Testament, which are those of Judaism and the basis of Islam. All the quotes you have given are from the Old Testament - to which Christians give due regard as they form the basis from which Jesus emerged - but to which they don't necessarily adhere ( I think the 10 Commandments are pretty generally accepted). I'm open to correction (and someone will correct me, I'm sure) but I don't remember ever having been adjured to sacrifice an animal of any sort to follow my religion.
//The genocide question in the Bible is deeply problematic. I accept that//
Not problematic at all. Its rubbish.
God is miffed at certain tribes (tribes that include kiddies) So God causes all these tribes to simply fall asleep (with the same magic that he hardened Pharos heart with) and then his 'chosen ones' came in and BOOSH!...THE LANDS THEIRS....
EXCEPT...
Things turned out a little different for this omnipotent God didn't they?
He insisted on slaughter after slaughter, sacrifice after sacrifice.
A God who enjoyed the smell of burning flesh??
You couldn't make this carp up.
Not problematic at all. Its rubbish.
God is miffed at certain tribes (tribes that include kiddies) So God causes all these tribes to simply fall asleep (with the same magic that he hardened Pharos heart with) and then his 'chosen ones' came in and BOOSH!...THE LANDS THEIRS....
EXCEPT...
Things turned out a little different for this omnipotent God didn't they?
He insisted on slaughter after slaughter, sacrifice after sacrifice.
A God who enjoyed the smell of burning flesh??
You couldn't make this carp up.
In reply to Nailit there is no forgiveness of sins without the shedding of blood. That's why in OT times Jews were required to sacrifice rams, goats etc.
When the perfect sacrifice was made which was Jesus the Lamb of God the animal sacrifices became obsolete.
I dont know about where you live, but the local Christians here dont go in for animal sacrifices
When the perfect sacrifice was made which was Jesus the Lamb of God the animal sacrifices became obsolete.
I dont know about where you live, but the local Christians here dont go in for animal sacrifices
//In reply to Nailit there is no forgiveness of sins without the shedding of blood//
Tends to make a mockery of an all powerfull god then don't you think?
I don't need to take the life of a ram/goat/chicken every time my son offends me!!
I simply forgive him. No need for any blood.
If God is all powerful, then he would have no need of blood.
A sick doctrine!
Tends to make a mockery of an all powerfull god then don't you think?
I don't need to take the life of a ram/goat/chicken every time my son offends me!!
I simply forgive him. No need for any blood.
If God is all powerful, then he would have no need of blood.
A sick doctrine!
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