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there are a lot of
apologists, including JW's that are doing their white knight duty to
defend this verse.
Bart Ehrman has said
that the majority of bible scholars will not step into a controversy
where a bible verse plainly contradicts the current ideology that God
is Omni-Benevolent.
So usually they use
the phrase, “This verse has an obscure meaning”
But many Bible
Scholars say the best way to understand a verse like this is to take
a good honest look at the personality of Jehovah/ aka/ YHWH. And see
if the bible verse in question is telling us the complete opposite of
what modern Christians believe God is.
From the very
Beginning, we learn that the God of the bible has a very warped view
of all Human and animal life. He gets some type of arousal seeing the
shedding of innocent Human and animal life.
For example in the
very first bible book notice how he reacts to Noah sacrificing
innocent animals right after the flood. Different bible translations
use different colorful words but they convey the same meaning. He
gets some type of arousal to the smell of BLOOD.
Genesis 8:20-22
And Noah built an altar to the Lord,
and took of every [ceremonially] clean animal and of every clean bird
and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 The Lord
smelled the pleasing aroma [a soothing, satisfying scent]
BRG
And the Lord
smelled a sweet savour;
DARBY
And Jehovah
smelled the sweet odour
In Exodus 22:29 CJB
bible translation, notice that YHWH says “The firstborn of your
sons you are to give to me. But after that He says;
You are to do the
same with your oxen and your sheep — it is to stay with its mother
seven days, and on the eighth day you are to give it to me.
The verse seems to indicate that as soon as parents have their first
born, they can keep it for seven days, after which on the eighth day
they hand the baby over to him, just like the oxen and sheep, which
were sacrificed as a burnt offering. Certainly the baby was not given
to the priests for them to raise up a bunch of babies.
In the story of
Jephthah offering his daughter as a burnt sacrifice it tells us;
Judges 11:31
whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return
in triumph from the Ammonites will be the Lord’s, and I will
sacrifice it as a burnt offering.’
In the bible a Burnt offering is a sacrifice Burnt offering. The
bible says nothing about the daughter vowing to remain single and
live with the priests.
Then there’s the
thousands of innocent animals that were slaughter for Jehovah
pleasure.
1
Kings 8:62-63 Then
the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.
Solomon offered as peace offerings to the Lord
22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep.
Think
about that for a minute and imagine
the effect slaughtering 142,000 thousand innocent animals had on the
minds of those doing the slaughtering. And also all the people
watching the slaughtering for the pleasure of the God they worship.
Today
slaughtering a few cows in a slaughter house causes many men and women
to have mental breakdowns.
This
is a 5 minute video of slaughtering a few cows. The first time I saw
it, it messed me up for a long time.
SO THIS IS WARNING TO
NOT SEE IT IF SLAUGHTERING ANIMALS AFFECTS YOU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KezHKbUzy0A
And last but not
least, even Jesus recognized that his father had this thing for
spilled blood. Sacrifices and offering were not his thing. Jehovah
wanted innocent blood spilled to smell the sweet odor. So he made
sure not to step in when they were beating his son to a pulp
and crucifying or impaling him.
Jehovah could have
easily and painlessly taken the life of Jesus like Thanos took the life of half the Universe, without any pain, and the Ransom
would have been paid, regardless. There was no need for Jesus to suffer the way he did, Unless this God is malevolent and just loves
to see humans and animals suffer.
Hebrews 10:5 EHV
Therefore when he
entered the world, Christ said: Sacrifice and offering you did not
desire, but you prepared a body for me.
So how we want to
read that verse in Exodus will depend on you.
