“You would think the Jews would have learned in 70 AD that choosing animal sacrifices over God’s Son is a bad idea.”
***Oh please. This is based on a 2,000 year old blood libel. Pick up your Bible and read.***
Let s ask a simple question.
The first Temple was destroyed because of the sins of Judah. The people carried away to Babylon for 70 years because they failed to allow the land to have it’s 7 year Sabbath rest.
What SIN did Israel commit that was SO BAD that GOD allowed the Romans to destroy Herod’s Temple,and kept the Jews away from it for 1900 years? God then allowed a ROMAN temple to Jupiter to be built on the spot, then it became an outhouse, then a temple to Arabian moon worshipers.
No where in the New Testament does it say that, even though 1/4 of it was written after the destruction of the Temple.
What quarter would that be? Both Peter and Paul were dead before 70AD so remove their epistles from that list. Irenieus says that Matthew was written before Peter and Paul were killed, so strike that from the list. Luke tells us in the opening statement of Acts that the Gospel he wrote preceded Acts, so we have AD 58-60 there. Mark doesn't mention the fall of the Temple which would seem appropriate in view of Mark 13, so that is predated. Hebrews is commonly believed to be written 62-64AD So basically you have John's writings, which according to many would not include Revelation and the epistles as many claim that also preceded 70AD. So what does that leave?
Read Acts 21. James asks, and Paul agrees to go himself and to pay for 4 others to complete their vow in the Temple.
Did you miss the part of shaving the head which is Nazarite vow? Part of the ceremonies observed at the end of the vow was indeed to sacrifice critters.
1 Cor 9:20-22 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Of course this couldn't be any motivation whatsoever for Paul to do what he did.