Any religious text, and I don't care what, that demands sacrifice (animal/ human/ alien..) to me is not the word of God. Period.
If you are a Christian you have just broken the 2nd commandment.
The Word of God says...Without blood there is no sacrifice. In the old testament they sacrificed animals as an atonement for sins...but also as a foretelling of the sacrifice Christ would make on the cross for our sins ( the animals had to be perfect without spot or blemish...just as Christ is perfect)...animal sacrifice was imperfect..it needed to be done over and over..but once Jesus came and became the sacrifice for us...animal sacrifice was no longer needed. Jesus did it all....
The Jews wanting to reinstate animal sacrifice to me is just another step to the final days.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. - Romans 5:8
It's either Him or you. Take your pick.
Although it's called a "sacrifice" (at least in English) the Passover sacrifice is really just a big BBQ. The meat wasn't wasted -- it was all eaten After the lambs were slaughtered, they were roasted up and everyone ate. It was no more or less barbaric than killing or eating meat any time of the year. Rather than calling it a "sacrifice," it would be more accurate to call it "ceremonial BBQing."
What, I ask you, is the difference between a lamb being killed on a farm somewhere and you eating it for dinner, and a lamb being killed on the Temple Mount and you eating it with your family that night?
Incidentally, it is for this reason that the Christian belief that Jesus was a "Passover lamb who saves from sin" displays an incredible ignorance of the Torah and Judaism. The Passover ceremonial BBQ had nothing to do with "saving" from sin. It was a ceremony done for and in remembrance of the Exodus from Egypt, when the Jews slaughtered lambs to mark their homes, allowing the Angel of Death to passover them.
In fact, in the entire Bible, the only sins that any sacrfices could redeem were unintentional sins.
"Any religious text, and I don't care what, that demands sacrifice (animal/ human/ alien..) to me is not the word of God. Period."
I guess you must throw out the entire bible, eh?
Christianity has as it's basis the blood sacrifice of Jesus (unbeknownst to His executioners at the time...) . Biblical religion is clear, "without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin." (Hebrews 9:22)
If you want to deny the Bible is God's Word, even though you have no ground to do so--other than your own squeamishness--go ahead...as from Adam and Eve, to the end of the world in Revelation, anyone saved is saved by "substitutionary atonement" which involves blood sacrifice.
Fortunately for us today, since Jesus Christ, no more blood sacrifices are necessary, since Christ fulfilled that requirement completely.
However, please don't call Jews who, not knowing Jesus, just want to do what the Torah requires, bad names...that's really called anti-Semitism (besides being anti-biblical and anti-Christian).
If you are a vegetarian, please keep your comments to yourself. These animals that were sacrificed were eaten as part of a rich meal, not thrown away or discarded.
How about if Someone gives His only begotten son to be sacrificed?
You said -- "Any religious text, and I don't care what, that demands sacrifice (animal/ human/ alien..) to me is not the word of God. Period."
Well, the Bible specifically requires it. In fact, it says that without the blood there is no sacrifice. And God instituted the sacrificial system with Moses in the wilderness and it continued through to the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD.
The first sacrifice that was required was by the hand of God, in the Garden of Eden, in killing that first animal, because of the sin of Adam and Eve. The last sacrifice needed is shown to be that of Jesus Christ, as His sacrifice was once and for all, after that.
However, the Bible also makes it clear that there will be the reinstitution of the Temple Sacrifice during the time of the Tribulation, at which time the Antichrist will put a stop to it -- at the midpoint of the Tribulation. That's why many Christians have been looking for the coming of these events. They've known it was coming pretty soon.
At any rate, in regards to "sacrifice" the New Testament writers made it clear that this sacrificial system looked forward to the day of Jesus Christ and His sacrifice on the cross, which was also in His own blood. And that's why you hear references to the "blood of the Lamb" in connection with Jesus.
You're obviously not a Christian if you don't know that. It's all clearly supported and was commanded by God's word, as anyone with a cursory knowledge of the Bible can see.
Regards,
Star Traveler
How old are you, twelve?
You decide what is and what is not the Word of G-d? Or maybe you decide what is the Word of G-d for you and I decide what is the Word of G-d for me, and that way there is no objective religious truth at all.
Go back to your commune, Bible-hating hippie.
AMEN!!!
Yes, He is. But because He became the Lamb, there is no longer any need for animal sacrifice.
Why?