‘(and thus blood had to be shed to kill the animals as a sacrifice).’
have you ever wondered why an omnipotent and eternal deity would require blood sacrifices, with its attendant terror and agony of the victims, to consecrate his compact with his people...?
Yes. When we research it, we find that sin is awful, and must be atoned for somehow.
First off, God is what He is and He doesn’t answer to anyone. Perhaps I misread your intent. We, the created, have zero rights here. He could destroy us for whatever or no reason, except we are told He loves us. God’s motives are His and His alone, and it’s the height of arrogance to expect Him to explain Himself to His own creation.
Nevertheless, despite your tone, I will attempt to answer your point. Animals are killed all of the time for food. It’s not like sacrifice is something unique and cruel. A sacrificed animal was not treated poorly, and from what I understand, the meat wasn’t generally wasted (although it wouldn’t matter if it was).
There is cause and effect for everything in creation. If a wrong is done, an unbalance created, how can it be made right? It must be restored by some sort of payment. It is said that God knows our hearts. When someone sacrifices the pride of their flock, an unblemished animal worthy of sacrifice, they demonstrate true repentance in their heart.
Finally, God provided His own sacrifice for us, Christ, so that we will not have to pay the price ourselves in blood. You are free to believe or not. However, it’s impolite to post snark on these threads if you don’t believe.
perhaps because in reality this world is not “life” to God.
possibly seen as a developing egg unborn into spiritual truth of his existence and ongoing creation..so a certain amount of backbone is required of His children, once saved in Christ, to begin walking the life he intended for us. This is walking though the shadow of death aspect of scripture..
ie man holds on to this world as life, but we have not seen it yet, how does one teach that?
Made food a reminder that they owed God homage.
Never saw where He condoned torturing the animals - making it sacrificial probably made it more humane too.
Trying to make folks question God or are you lurking with a viable answer?
In general, animal sacrifice ended with the destruction of the Second Temple, for which prayer has been most widely substituted. There are those sects that continue the practice, but they are few and far between, mostly centered in Israel. I believe they’re wrong.
It’s said by many, though I’m not sure a majority, that when the Temple is reconstructed, animal sacrifice will continue.
I pray for the Temple, though not for the sacrifice of animals other than for food for the masses.