[size=15pt]Ritual Human Sacrifice in the Bible[/size]

(Why does God want me to burn animals and humans?)


The Bible, especially the Old Testament, is filled with numerous stories of animal and human sacrifice. God, we are told, likes the pleasing aroma of burning flesh. Animal sacrifice is much more common than human sacrifice, but both occur and are "pleasing to the Lord".

Genesis, the first book of the Bible, has Abraham preparing to sacrifice his son to God. "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." (Genesis 22:1-18)

Abraham takes his own son up on a mountain and builds an altar upon which to burn him. He even lies to his son and has him help build the altar. Then Abraham ties his son to the altar and puts a knife to his throat. He then hears God tell him this was just a test of his faith. However, God still wanted to smell some burnt flesh so he tells Abraham to burn a ram.

Even though he didn't kill his son, it is still an incredibly cruel and evil thing to do. If Abraham did that today he would be in jail serving a long sentence as someone's prison-bit.ch. It amazes me how Christians see this story as a sign of God's love. There is no love here, just pure unadulterated evil.

The first seven chapters of Leviticus have extensive rules regarding animal and food sacrifices. These offerings are supposed to be burnt so that God can smell them. If you read through these it seems clear to me that the priests were getting their followers to make a big feast for them every week. The priests were very particular about what kind of food to bring and how to prepare it.

Even more peculiar is God's obsession with first-born sons. In Exodus 13:2 the Lord said "Consecrate to me every first-born that opens the womb among Israelites, both man and beast, for it belongs to me." Later it says that you can redeem (replace) an ass with a sheep and that you must redeem a child for an unspecified price. It is clear from the context that "consecrate" means a burning sacrifice. These priests are guilty of theft and kidnapping. Since any sins in the Old Testament were punishable by death, these priests used the threat of death to extort food and money from their followers. What do we call a scum-bag that threatens to kill your kids unless you pay a ransom? A kidnapper! If these priests were alive today they would be in prison with Abraham.

However, in Leviticus 27:28-29, the Lord allows for no redemptions. "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." I must admit that I am a bit confused by this contradiction, but it might only apply to slaves in your possession. Not that it makes any difference. A human sacrifice is a human sacrifice, and it is just sick.


Bible Passages About Ritual Human Sacrifice


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)


'God' Commands Burning Humans

[The Lord speaking] "The one who has stolen what was set apart for destruction will himself be burned with fire, along with everything he has, for he has broken the covenant of the LORD and has done a horrible thing in Israel." (Joshua 7:15 NLT)


Josiah and Human Sacrifice

At the LORD's command, a man of God from Judah went to Bethel, and he arrived there just as Jeroboam was approaching the altar to offer a sacrifice. Then at the LORD's command, he shouted, "O altar, altar! This is what the LORD says: A child named Josiah will be born into the dynasty of David. On you he will sacrifice the priests from the pagan shrines who come here to burn incense, and human bones will be burned on you." (1 Kings 13:1-2 NLT)

''He [Josiah] executed the priests of the pagan shrines on their own altars, and he burned human bones on the altars to desecrate them. Finally, he returned to Jerusalem. King Josiah then issued this order to all the people: "You must celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in the Book of the Covenant." There had not been a Passover celebration like that since the time when the judges ruled in Israel, throughout all the years of the kings of Israel and Judah. This Passover was celebrated to the LORD in Jerusalem during the eighteenth year of King Josiah's reign. Josiah also exterminated the mediums and psychics, the household gods, and every other kind of idol worship, both in Jerusalem and throughout the land of Judah. He did this in obedience to all the laws written in the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had found in the LORD's Temple. Never before had there been a king like Josiah, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and soul and strength, obeying all the laws of Moses. And there has never been a king like him since. '' (2 Kings 23:20-25 NLT)


Human Sacrifice To Yahweh

Chastised a little, they shall be greatly blessed, because God tried them and found them worthy of himself. As gold in the furnace, he proved them, and as sacrificial offerings he took them to himself. In the time of their visitation they shall shine, and shall dart about as sparks through stubble; (Wisdom 3:5-7 NAB The Book of The Wisdom of Solomon is mostly in Catholic versions of the Bible.)


Child Sacrifice

And this became a hidden trap for mankind, because men, in bondage to misfortune or to royal authority, bestowed on objects of stone or wood the name that ought not to be shared. Afterward it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but they live in great strife due to ignorance, and they call such great evils peace. For whether they kill children in their initiations, or celebrate secret mysteries, or hold frenzied revels with strange customs… (Wisdom 14:21-23 RSV) The Book of The Wisdom of Solomon is mostly in Catholic versions of the Bible. This passage condemns human sacrifice but acknowledges that it did happen by early God worshipers.



Humans are Fuel for Fire

As for you, son of man, prophesy: Thus says the Lord GOD against the Ammonites and their insults: A sword, a sword is drawn for slaughter, burnished to consume and to flash lightning, because you planned with false visions and lying divinations to lay it on the necks of depraved and wicked men whose day has come when their crimes are at an end. Return it to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you. I will pour out my indignation upon you, breathing my fiery wrath upon you, I will hand you over to ravaging men, artisans of destruction. You shall be fuel for the fire, your blood shall flow throughout the land. You shall not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken. (Ezekiel 21:33-37 NAB)



Burn Nonbelievers in a Mass human sacrifice to Yahweh

"Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. "The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)


So the next time some Christian tells you about the "love of God", show them this page and ask them "Why does God want me to burn animals and humans?"

http://www.evilbible.com/Ritual_Human_Sacrifice.htm

Should I comment

Please do.

What is ur business with what God loves?ppu jx kip asking unreasonable questns...if u cnt gv stay in House....Quality praises av replaced those burning animal through the Blood of Jesus shed on its cross.

Dead bodies are burnt with fire.

Even those animals are not burnt alife.

Jepheth's daughter was not burnt alife. She was made celibate.

Judges 11
36“My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to theLord. Do to me just as you promised,now that theLordhas avenged youof your enemies,the Ammonites.37But 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 her friends went into the hills and wept because she would never marry.39After the two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she was a virgin.

There is no contradiction on the issue of redemmtion of first born.

There are scriptures that condemn alife human sacrifice.


"And they built the high places of Baal that are in the valley of Ben-hinnom to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I had not commanded them nor had it entered My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin," ( Jer. 32:35)

buoye1: What is ur business with what God loves?ppu jx kip asking unreasonable questns...if u cnt gv stay in House....Quality praises av replaced those burning animal through the Blood of Jesus shed on its cross.

Can anyone with a working brain address the question pls?

ROSSIKE: Can anyone with a working brain address the question pls?

Working brain in Nigeria?
You gotta be kidding.
The working brains have gone the way of the dodo bird.

What we have are frontally lobotomized brains programed to worship invisible things in the sky.

plaetton:

Working brain in Nigeria?
You gotta be kidding.
The working brains have gone the way of the dodo bird.

What we have are frontally lobotomized brains programed to worship invisible things in the sky.

Crazy isn't it?

It's amazing none of them has turned up here to explain their holy book.

chinedumo: she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she was a virgin.

I can't believe this! Those Jewish savages had a perfect documentation team. Sugar-coating human sacrifice to make it appear normal. Dang!

ROSSIKE: Can anyone with a working brain address the question pls?

lmao. working brain? Arent you the same dude that believes in aliens, NDEs, crystal children etc, many of these things hearsay without any proof? I wanted to take up an explanation of some of these verses and my thoughts on how to rightly divide old testament scripture, but I perceive this really isnt your agenda. So Im not going to waste cycles on it. I hope you apply the same brutal honesty (which is good) to your beliefs.

My short suggestions for anyone else browsing this thread with questions is that whenever you see verses that contradict what you know to be the character of the Creator, you should do some study on it. Most of the time, you will find English translators injecting their views of God on the original text, many times dramatically changing the meaning of the text, making God do things he never actually did. The story of Job is a classic example, and till today, most people still believe God brought Job's calamity on him.

Remember the original English translators would have seen nothing wrong with their own interpretation, give the tyrannical nature of kings at the time. By the way, some history has it that the spelling of DOG backwards to mean GOD was a deliberate scoff at a purported creator. Wether this is completely true or not, notice that the term God really doesn't have any meaning, unlike say Eledumare or Yahweh etc. So you should put the cultural background (baggage) of the authors in mind, and be especially inquisitive any time you see the term "Most High" used in place of God.

birdman:

lmao. working brain? Arent you the same dude that believes in aliens, NDEs, crystal children etc, many of these things hearsay without any proof? I wanted to take up an explanation of some of these verses and my thoughts on how to rightly divide old testament scripture, but I perceive this really isnt your agenda. So Im not going to waste cycles on it. I hope you apply the same brutal honesty (which is good) to your beliefs.

My short suggestions for anyone else browsing this thread with questions is that whenever you see verses that contradict what you know to be the character of the Creator, you should do some study on it. Most of the time, you will find English translators injecting their views of God on the original text, many times dramatically changing the meaning of the text, making God do things he never actually did. The story of Job is a classic example, and till today, most people still believe God brought Job's calamity on him.

Remember the original English translators would have seen nothing wrong with their own interpretation, give the tyrannical nature of kings at the time. By the way, some history has it that the spelling of DOG backwards to mean GOD was a deliberate scoff at a purported creator. Wether this is completely true or not, notice that the term God really doesn't have any meaning, unlike say Eledumare or Yahweh etc. So you should put the cultural background (baggage) of the authors in mind, and be especially inquisitive any time you see the term "Most High" used in place of God.

I really don't know what you are getting at, but I suspect you are trying to blame most biblical contradiction on the translators.
If we are to blame the translators for every piece of contradiction in the bible, then we might as well dismiss the whole bible as a book not to be relied on for any semblance of historical, philosophical or spiritual truth.
We might as well blame the translators for mis-translating the Hebrew word 'Almah" (young woman) to mean virgin: as in the case of a young woman(Almah) called Mary.

I agree with you that the biblical usage of the words " Most high, Lord God, God Almighty, etc, were deliberate contrivances to obfuscate the fact that the bible was dealing with multiply deities as was to be expected from a polytheistic society that the ancient Hebrews were.

Zikdik:
I can't believe this! Those Jewish savages had a perfect documentation team. Sugar-coating human sacrifice to make it appear normal. Dang!

is this the best you can come up with?

plaetton:

I really don't know what you are getting at, but I suspect you are trying to blame most biblical contradiction on the translators.
If we are to blame the translators for every piece of contradiction in the bible, then we might as well dismiss the whole bible as a book not to be relied on for any semblance of historical, philosophical or spiritual truth.
We might as well blame the translators for mis-translating the Hebrew word 'Almah" (young woman) to mean virgin: as in the case of a young woman(Almah) called Mary.

I agree with you that the biblical usage of the words " Most high, Lord God, God Almighty, etc, were deliberate contrivances to obfuscate the fact that the bible was dealing with multiply deities as was to be expected from a polytheistic society that the ancient Hebrews were.

Dont get me wrong, you dont need a concordance to get light from the bible. And you dont need to re-translate everything. I dont know how you came about the multiple deities (I have heard that before), but that is not needed even after a reading of the original texts. I need to be clear on that.We know what the ultimate God's character is - even evil people know. The places where cultural background helps is in texts we instinctively know to be wrong eg Job. I didnt reply directly to the examples Rossikke gave, because it was obvious most of conclusions drawn from his examples were biased to start with.

I should be more clear. Out of the 6 or so examples the op gave, most are dishonest arguments. Take this passage for example:

In Exodus 13:2 the Lord said "Consecrate to me every first-born that opens the womb among Israelites, both man and beast, for it belongs to me." Later it says that you can redeem (replace) an Bottom with a sheep and that you must redeem a child for an unspecified price. It is clear from the context that "consecrate" means a burning sacrifice.

How is it "clear" that you can now "substitute consecrate for sacrifice"? Do you realize that to consecrate the first born was to cut of the foreskin? Why deliberately ignore this and lie outright. This is common knowledge. Did the Israelites fight wars? Yes. And were those wars bloody? Yes, like every other war. But to perform logical 419 on a few texts and declare God, the most High or Yahweh loves burning flesh so much he orders people burnt for that reason is a lie.

The only real case I see in the OP was Jephthah. And you know what, at no point did God tell him to do this. In fact, the Israelites were forbidden to offer their children up the way the philistines offered up their children to Molech. Obviously God didnt change his mind. I could go on, but its already obvious Rossike isnt really trying to get any truth here... just trying to stir the waters...notice how he never applies any rigor to his own beliefs.


I have no issues with a good strong debate on the Bible, but not when its dishonest.

chinedumo:

is this the best you can come up with?

Hardly. However, it marvels me, the way you christains cherrypick things from your collection of horror-filled Jewish bedtime tales.

Zikdik:
Hardly. However, it marvels me, the way you christains cherrypick things from your collection of horror-filled Jewish bedtime tales.

you know that the the christain God loves to burn alife from the bible that says he doesnt...

Rosike thanks for this

I just realized something

The sacrifice of Jesus is useless because, Yahweh only accepts burnt sacrifice, just was bleeded to death instead

Christians I think when Jesus returns u need to sacrifice him properly

Human meat tastes like pork or beef http://listverse.com/2015/07/01/10-reviews-of-human-flesh-by-real-cannibals/

I guess God aint a vegetarian