Why yes I did read your post and I shook my head at it, I just didn't know how to reply because it's so ridiculous. I have heard a lot of weird stuff but I have never ever heard anything like this. Sure I have heard the whole atheist questioning about why did Jesus have to die? why did He commit suicide? etc etc but I have never heard of this whole calling Jesus' perfect sacrifice an abomination. (and no I don't call Jesus' death a suicide but more so an atonement for mankinds sins) ---
Why shake your head? Do you not believe what forgiveness is? Do you not believe we repent for forgiveness? Do you not believe Jesus when He said unless you repent you will perish?
I didn't say He committed suicide. I said human sacrifice is an abomination to God, and you are wanting an abomination (which God hates) to save you.
Jeremiah 32:35
And they built the high places of Baal which are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I did not command them, nor did it come into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.’
Deuteronomy 12
30 take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.’
31 You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way; for every abomination to the Lord which He hates they have done to their gods; for they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
Human sacrifices were how the nations served their gods. God tells us NOT to follow them. We are not to do likewise. The pagan nations committed human sacrifice, and God strictly forbid it. It was an abomination to Him. Only animals were sacrificed and accepted by God.
Perhaps you should read up on abominations to God. Doing them ignorantly is no excuse. And I can assure you, no abomination will save you.
I feel like you're treading in deep waters, to deny what the Son has gone through is to essentially deny Him, His deity, His very being, and to say that His atonement was not enough. Without the Son there is no Father, so I would implore you to seek the Son for your questions and concerns, and earnestly read the Word.
Oh, I'm not denying the Son, nor His diety. Atonement was not accomplished by an abomination to God. If you earnestly read the Word, you would know this.
Read from Genesis to Revelations again and again, it clearly outlines since the LITERAL beginning that Christ was to die and be sacrificed for our sins! Yes God abhors human sacrifices, but Jesus our Lord IS God in the flesh! it took a perfect sacrifice to cleanse us of all iniquity! I think the issue here is your stuck on Jesus being a mere human, when in fact He was fully God and fully man! It literally took God Himself coming to Earth to atone for our sins! I don't have all of the answers, but I do know what the Bible says on this particular subject.
Did you miss the parts on abominations to God, when you read Genesis to Revelation? Nothing in the LITERAL beginning says anything about Jesus dying and being sacrificed for our sins! You have believed what others told you.
Actually, Jesus says the Word cleanses us, not a perfect sacrifice -
John 15:3
You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
The disciples were already clean before any supposed 'sacrifice'. Actually, I am stuck on Jesus' words, which many do not believe. Believe me, Jesus was fully God and fully man. And being fully God, I can guarantee, He hated abominations, including human sacrifice.
I usually avoid replying or going into some deep debate, because it causes nothing but trouble. Now if someone was truly interested in something or had a question because they were generally curious okay, but posts that seem to degrade, ridicule, or undermine a viewpoint that is widely accepted and known in the Bible I won't acknowledge.
You can avoid this if you want; many have avoided what I am saying. They has rather commit an abomination to God rather than seeing the truth. The truth only causes trouble if you don't believe it. It is up to you, freely choose to hear, learn, and understand the truth, or go it alone your own way.
Isaiah 66
2 For all those
things My hand has made, and all those
things exist,” says the Lord. but on this
one will I look: on
him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at My word.
3 “He who kills a bull
is as if he slays a man; he who sacrifices a lamb,
as if he breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers a grain offering,
as if he offers swine’s blood; he who burns incense,
as if he blesses an idol. Just as they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations,