That includes those gory instructions
for animal sacrifice.
Jesus said in Matthew that all the old laws still apply, including those gory instructions
for animal sacrifice.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure
for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
With the ultimate sacrifice of the Christ there was no further need
for animal sacrifice
They could sure use some help from the Christians on how to barbeque, what with the Christian recipes
for animal sacrifice and all.
jesus died for your sins so there is no need
for animal sacrifice, eating kosher, avoiding a woman when she has her period, etc etc. god suddenly became much more of a sweet and loving god, where before he was jealous and prone to killing people that defied him.
The reason
for the animal sacrifice in the old covenant was for the remission of sins.
Given that God's preference
for animal sacrifices caused the first murder to be committed, I'd say that He was rather partial to them.
He drove out the officials who sold purified birds
for animal sacrifices and the money - changers who exchanged (at a good profit for the priests) the popular Roman money for the Jewish coin which alone could be used for the temple dues.
Not exact matches
Talking snakes, talking donkeys, a boat at sea
for half a year with a couple million
animals, a temple less than 5000sq feet taking 150,000 workers and 7 years to complete, and then
sacrificing 14
animals a minute
for 7 days straight, a virgin birth story (like there weren't already a few of them before), a zombie invasion that no third party seemed to witness, a dude living in the belly of a fish
for a couple days, a guys last words (before become back as a zombie) being «My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me.»
For instance, in a colorful case involving a city ordinance restricting the practice of animal sacrifice, the Court severely criticized officials for acting out of animosity towards the Santeria religion, which engages in the ritualistic slaughter of pigeons, goats, and turtles (among other animals) and at least sometimes leaves the carcasses along roadsides and in other public plac
For instance, in a colorful case involving a city ordinance restricting the practice of
animal sacrifice, the Court severely criticized officials
for acting out of animosity towards the Santeria religion, which engages in the ritualistic slaughter of pigeons, goats, and turtles (among other animals) and at least sometimes leaves the carcasses along roadsides and in other public plac
for acting out of animosity towards the Santeria religion, which engages in the ritualistic slaughter of pigeons, goats, and turtles (among other
animals) and at least sometimes leaves the carcasses along roadsides and in other public places.
As
for Justice Stevens himself, it is an arresting fact that in the
animal sacrifice case he joined the opinion announcing the constitutional requirement that public officials disassociate themselves from antireligious measures.
, «mercy and grace» like demands
for cruel
animal sacrifice and burning that your bible demands?
He likely wasn't upset because of the sale of
animals for sacrifice.
After all, as the rather grisly specifics of the practice of
animal sacrifice suggest, it would require a rather unnatural detachment
for the members of the Court not to disapprove of any of the variety of religious beliefs or practices that they encounter in the cases they must decide.
So in the (not so distant) future look
for him to do
animal sacrifices in his yard, beat / kill his kids when they mouth off, torch his neighborhood when he realizes he lives next to people that don't believe as he does, own and beat his slaves, and we won't even discuss how he'll treat his wives.
The problem was that moneychangers were exploiting the people's legitimate need and turning their monopoly on
animals -
for -
sacrifice into a profit - making machine.
The entire economy of the city of Jerusalem was built on temple activities, bathing before the offerings
for a fee, dressing
for going to the temple,
for a fee, buying the offerings,
for a fee, paying the priests, temple entrance fees, food prep fees, growing and feeding the
animals for the
sacrifices, being paid
for them, in the thousands and thousands at festival times, ALL in Jewish currency only, which was required
for their rituals, and most people used Roman currency
for their civil affairs.
In the «Dispensation of Law,»
animal sacrifice was a temporal requirement for the remission of sins until the coming of Christ Whose «Ultimate Sacrifice» is «Sufficien
sacrifice was a temporal requirement
for the remission of sins until the coming of Christ Whose «Ultimate
Sacrifice» is «Sufficien
Sacrifice» is «Sufficient.»
We do not have to give
animal sacrifices any longer
for the mistakes and sins that we make and commit.
After being cooped up
for a year in tiny cages, the
animals were once again set free, except
for those that were immediately
sacrificed to make God happy.
It makes sense why an
animal had to die in place of a person as a
sacrifice, it makes sense as to why Our Lord have himself as a
sacrifice for our sins and undeservedly took our punishment (which was a painful and humiliating death)(what a loving Lord we serve!)
It doesn't look like an
animal sacrifice is a slam dunk in the first chapters of Gen. And it's a bad hermenutic to say that's a blood
sacrifice for sin is what is happening in Gen. 3.
Mankind is who God in Christ is trying to save here, so
animals were the
sacrifice for sin leading up to Christ.
I'm not sure how agreeing with the initial theory that God provided an
animal sacrifice Himself would be to our «theological peril» considering He also provided the
animal sacrifice for Abraham and then again with the Lamb of God at Calvary.
The shedding of the
animals» blood was a foreshadowing of the shedding of the blood of «the Lamb of God,» a
sacrifice necessary
for God to be able to clothe with His righteousness those who would believe on this Redeemer.
and second, the approach to God by way of
animal offerings had been so central in Judaism that, while the
sacrifices were always accompanied by supplications, they had competed with personal prayer, had furnished
for many people a public substitute
for it, so that when the bloody altars were gone a devout rabbi could mingle his exaltation of private communion with the lament «We have nothing to bring but prayer.»
The Law from the Old Testament was fulfilled when Christ came, from that time forward we have the Gospel of Christ, thus you read of no
animal sacrifices in the New Testament,
for example, just to give you an idea.
And beyond moral indignation at liturgical substitutes
for goodness, the scorn which some prophetic passages pour on
animal sacrifices suggests intellectual contempt as well.
In the end,
animal sacrifice was altogether substituted
for human
sacrifice, and this provision, represented as a merciful evidence of Yahweh's grace, was made picturesque in the legendary story of Abraham and Isaac.
Ever wondered why he stopped killing rival tribes, just as we did, stopped demanding
animal sacrifices just as we did, stopped wanting the death penalty
for many trivial things just as we did and started accepting gays and other minorities just as we did?
Certainly he told the people that the
sacrifices of
animals he offered were worthless in itself, and only valuable, if they would be considered as a reminder
for the future
sacrifice of the Son of God, the only
sacrifice which can take away sins.
This means that trivial human pleasures and comforts must indeed be
sacrificed for the sake of another
animal's well - being, or
for that of a group of
animals.
What God is looking
for is repentence and a turning to him rather than a turning away from him.God instituted the
animal sacrifices to show just how bad sin was so we would be sorry that we greived him.
For us to be made right there has to be a choice to turn from sin and follow him and out of that decision there should be a desire to walk in his ways.Under the old law part of that obedience was to make offerings however it was by faith in God that made the person righteous and not the blood of
animals.
The firstborn
animals were to be
sacrificed to the Lord, and the firstborn males were to be set apart
for life - long service of the Lord (Ex.
Craig thanks
for commenting the issue i have is that we are saved by faith and by the grace of God both in the old and the new.Not by the blood
sacrifices of
animals i am not saying they are not important as they served an important role in the old testament.But even if cain had offered a lamb his
sacrifice would still not have been accepted because it wasnt given in faith but by works his heart wasnt right so his offering wasnt accepted.
It can encourage such protection inasmuch as the
animal is seen as having perhaps been a close and dear relative, and yet it can also discourage such protection inasmuch as the
animal can be seen as
sacrificing itself
for the sake of a better birth in the future, leading ultimately to an escape from rebirth altogether (Bowker, 6).
because your understand of science eclipses that of the god of the bible, gone would be the stone age morality — slavery,
animal sacrifice, destroying whole segments of populations
for absolutely insane reasons - at least I hope it would be better:)
The temples had merchants selling
animals for sacrifice and money changers.
Even though it does not describe vividly in Genesis 3 about God required
sacrifice to replace Adam and Eve sin, but God showed Adam and Eve how to replace them as the one who should die because of their sin, by killing an
animal and make the clothes
for them.
Human
sacrifice was always waiting in the wings
for Judaism — itself based on
animal sacrifice.
This approach tries to work out the legal intricacies of the rules
for sacrifice, to fill in the gaps and reconcile the inconsistencies embedded in the text:
for example, determining the status of an
animal designated
for one type of
sacrifice but erroneously slaughtered
for another; or determining what to do if an
animal that has been properly slaughtered and its blood correctly sprinkled on the altar is then found to have a blemish that should have disqualified it.
Unfortunately, as a former Christian, well acquainted with sin and confession and the whole bloody business of
sacrifice to appease Someone who thinks that shows «love,» I question the whole ancient story, all the
animals killed, all the trees cut down (
for temples and churches and crosses and «holy books») and all the human beings left to feel separated again and again from the universe, Nature, each other and their «gods.»
The purposes of the Law were brought to an end by the coming of our Life giver, who offered himself in place of the
sacrifices in the Law, and was led like a lamb to the slaughter in place of the lamb of propitiation... He gave his blood
for all mankind, so that the blood of
animals should not be required of us.
If however, we actively repent and feel remorse
for our transgressions we come close to God through our own actions and do not require an
animal sacrifice.
The concept of
sacrifice is not that the blood itself atones
for you; the concept of a
sacrifice is that you feel remorse that it should have been you that is punished to die, but instead, an innocent
animal is being killed because of you.
The outer court was in these weeks before the festival the scene of a market where
animals and birds could be bought
for sacrifice, and where pilgrims from abroad could change the money they brought with them into currency acceptable
for religious dues and offerings.
We can see that this might make sense to someone brought up in the ancient Jewish tradition in which an unblemished
animal was
sacrificed to God to make atonement
for the sins of the people, and in which the iniquities of Israel were all put on the head of a goat which was then driven out into the wilderness, taking the people's sins with it.
Animal sacrifice was indeed performed as a matter of obedience and a ritualistic obligation representing Christ's ultimate fulfilling sacrifice and every animal, for the most part, was eaten as
Animal sacrifice was indeed performed as a matter of obedience and a ritualistic obligation representing Christ's ultimate fulfilling
sacrifice and every
animal, for the most part, was eaten as
animal,
for the most part, was eaten as food.
... and God has his reasons
for not mentioning electricity or DNA... clearly he wanted them to master
animal sacrifice and slavery first...