A History of God 1-7

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[TheSkunkCat]

Uh, no... it's NOT the last story in the hebrew scriptures about human sacrifice.

What about the virgins sacrificed by Moses? Or what about Jephthah sacrificing his daughter? Those are in said scriptures. The biblical god DOES accept human sacrifice in the bible.

[CeaselesslyCurious]

@TheSkunkCat Exactly! Jephthah sacrificed his daughter so that god would give him victory over a battle! Blood and sacrfice is god's fetish. He even sacrificed his "own" son when he could have just forgiven so called sinners.

[UnKnowModz]

HALLELUJAH Like My Comment If You Be live In God :)

[kelbykross1]

@ceeker248 you should also check out

oyc(dot)yale(dot)edu/religious­-studies/introduction-to-the-o­ld-testament-hebrew-bible

[Boudiga]

@eddienamini Again agreed! :) 

[eddienamini]

Totally, it feels good 2know the difference so as 2b able 2realize it already makes me feel morally better about myself. We dont need a religion, specially of a kind that always looks 4ward 2finding 'guilt' in doing sth or 2find sb 2put the blame on rather than teaching us 2give in n 2let go as2 reach the utmost level of love and respect thus attaining true selfsatisfaction. Things that make me feel good about myself r surely worth the try: likewise, with religion, I'd rather do without, chrs:)

[Boudiga]

@eddienamini So we're just agreeing with each other. :) you know what, I argue too much on here. Its nice to say hey yeah man I agree with you!

[eddienamini]

There u go, that's the whole point! They got sth just out of their own miscomprehension about whatever THEY think is true & right (which in fact is not) so every time they prove themselves wrong as this has nothing to do with what OTHERS know of GOD. Actually with their own delusions they believe as right, they portray a misunderstood version of their own doctrines, thus, they give birth to an endless confrontation with all other religions, as well as amongst themselves... I'm glad I am a pagan!

[Boudiga]

@eddienamini Oh I agree. I"m a pagan and I understand the concept of blood being sacred. I personally find it amazing how modern xians view their bible and how little they understand the concepts and traditions of their own religion. I just thought that was an interesting concept in how they stopped human sacrifice. It gave me a new respect for the story, but I personally don't believe its true.

[eddienamini]

I C ur point, however, my question is more in the wide spectrum: why does God need for the sake of righteousness the requirement of sacrifice, be it human or of other mamals? In other words, if blood is considered as sacred, y is it righteous to pour it over and over as to buy back sth we could not? The Bible states that we are sinners, period! Do they think the innocent blood is going to change all that... isn't this all of a false belief which they also like to entitle as pagan?

[Boudiga]

@eddienamini Come to think of it, wouldn't the story of Abraham be a good story to discourage human sacrifice. Think about it. If this was a problem among the ppl and story like this with the ending that god would not ask this again, be a way to put a stop to it? Which means this was a practice of this gods ppl until this story.

[Boudiga]

@eddienamini Very good point! However another point, the fact that Abram believed this was an order from his god, ie a human sacrifice, he believed this was natural of his god. If his god was against human sacrifice he would have thought it were a demon and tell it to leave. Hence this god had to have been know to want human sacrifice before.