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He did want it. There was a massive sacrifice regimen that is described in great detail. A big chunk of the pentateuch is devoted to it. Its one of the core tenets of the religion as described by all the prophets and patriarchs. It is a central concern of Yahweh if you believe any of the prophets. Their whole fucking religion revolved around it. Moses was just wrong about 2/3 of the shit in the pentateuch? Yahweh just forgot to mention the Joshua and Samuel and Elijiah and Elisha and Isaiah and so on that he doesn’t want sacrifice?

You take one line out of context from Psalms and use it to reject one of the main teachings of the prophets which is emphasized over and over. If David (the supposed author of psalm 40) had a message from Yahweh that Yahweh didn’t want sacrifice, why did David continue to make sacrifice at the tabernacle until he died? More likely is that he meant that Yahweh didn’t require sacrifice at that time that he was saving David, or that he wanted something from David other than/above and beyond mere animal sacrifice. It shouldnt be interpreted as “ All the prophets are completely wrong about Yahweh wanting sacrifice”


Blood was a primordial source of power to the Israelites and they were supposed to drain it from the animals because it belonged to Yahweh.


Yeah I don’t know why you are citing this quote. The priests knew that the poorest israelites didnt have animals to sacrifice so they were willing to settle for a little flour. That just proves the priests are dicks. The levites were greedy deadbeats and Yahwehism was their racket.



Wrong. Jephthah made a vow to Yahweh that if Yahweh delivered the Ammonites into his hands that he would make a burnt offering of the first person that came out of the front door of his house when he returned. A basic feature of the Israelite religion is the ability to bargain with god. You make a vow, you make a sacrifice, and Yahweh does you a favor. That is how it works in the old testament. Yahweh was transactional. There are dozens of other examples just like this.

In the narrative, it is Yahweh that causes his beloved daughter to come through the door. Yahweh is presumably in control of just such things. That is the core belief of the religion. Jephthah being a “righteous” judge knows he must keep his bargain with Yahweh, no matter what. That fact that Jephthah is not smited by Yahweh but continued to be favored by him in battle is all you need to know about whether Yahweh approved. The author of judges give no indication whatsoever that Yahweh was displeased and every indication that he is pleased. What version are you reading? You should go back and re-read that shit. He makes an olah of his daughter. If that was an improper sacrifice in anyway, you know what Yahweh would do.

It’s not the only instance either of human sacrifice to Yahweh. Samuel’s killing of Agog seems to be a human sacrifice as does the killing of Achan and his family in Joshua. In fact, Moloch is now usually interpreted not to be another god in the semitic pantheon but simply a word meaning sacrifice which the Israelites used to describe passing their children through the fire. To Yahweh.

All of these Canaanite people performed human sacrifice to worship their gods of whom Yahweh was one. There’s plenty of evidence that Yahweh and El were separate gods that were conflated and that Yahweh was worshipped alongside other gods until at least 400 bc. Why do you even need a law saying ‘don’t sacrifice your kids’ unless your people are sacrificing their kids? When human sacrifice began to become taboo, Yahweh’s priests accused their political enemies of doing it and minimized/censored instances of Israelites doing it.

He is not real.

You're an ignorant fuck. The story of the Demiurge originated with a group who were unable to reconcile how the Jesus that they honoured would endorse the law of the deity that they considered to be the Demiurge. You're correct that YHWH is not a person of the Trinity, though.

Most Christians believe the OT to be inspired by God. So I think Christians should think about why they disregard all this barbaric stuff in the OT which is clearly required by Yahweh and seems contrary to Christian teaching. Sacrifice is just one example.


I dont think I was abusive at all. Your tone is unhinged. Its not necessary. Im not out to get Christians. I just feel these are fair questions. Animal sacrifice is kind of fucked up and degenerate IMO but its strongly promoted in the OT. Its a requirement to please Yahweh.


Thats just a cop out.


I get that is of lesser importance than the NT. But most Christian denominations accept it as the word of god and they deemed Marcion a heretic.


Im not angry. I just like to discuss these topics.