Exodus 22...29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.Later he says he never said those things but I think he like many theist retards was too lazy to read the bible.
>>18460774bump
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literally no one cares that "god" commanded the jews sacrifice their firstborn sons to him? You guys are talking about god all day here...
>>18464002Because you're a fool speaking in bad faith. You leave out the part where God says to redeem every firstborn with a lamb offering and when someone points it out you just say it was added later to the text to hide the truth. So you pick and choose what you want to be real from scripture and dismiss anything that contradicts you as false.
>>18464386god's picking and choosing. He says to sacrifice your children to him and then says just kidding I didn't say that. In some versions of the story of abraham he does sacrifice Isaac.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lITahMeAio
>>18460774There’s an offering made in place of the firstborn, but for various reasons, sometimes the firstborn was in fact devoted to Yahweh i.e. given to the temple for temple service (e.g. Samuel).The lesson is that you are supposed to put God first above all other things. He has claim to your firstborn son, but graciously allows an offering in his place.Child sacrifice was never in view in this passage.
>>18465730nonsense, he says give me your firstborn sons and *likewise* give me the firstborn of your animals. give me for the animals obviously means sacrifice so if the same thing is happening to the firstborn sons ("likewise") they're being sacrificed as well. loosh farming
>>18465811Well, you can choose to isolate the passage and avoid interpreting the text systematically if you want, but let me suggest that that’s a poor way to interpret any text, and it’s clearly why you’re confused about the meaning.
Yahweh just really, really, REALLY likes blood sacrifices, it's not that deep.It's also probably inspired by the Mesopotamian myth that the gods (Enki in particular) poured life into the human clay with divine blood, hence all the talk of "redeeming" our blood debt to him.
