Posted by fh on September 02, 2013 at 09:03:08
In Reply to: Re: Think about it. posted by consider the source on September 02, 2013 at 06:05:28:
Now you surely understand that how you (or anyone) view things are usually dependent on your level of understanding the problem or situation at hand. God did not kill his son.
Whatever the various people in the Bible did was not necessarily sanctioned by God. Not even some of what the greatest people did, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David, etc. It is very important you understand this point.
That being the case, it would, contrary to what you proclaim, make the Bible a history book of the good and the bad, not sweeping anything under the carpet.
Lot’s choice of action was not at all times to be reckoned as guided by God. Most everything in the Bible about Lot will tell you he was guided by selfish principles and motives.
Although what Jephthah did in Judges 11 (the other story you refer to) was rather rash and stupid, it was not to do with human sacrifice. As you may know, human sacrifice was forbidden in Israel, totally, Old as New Testaments. Read the story in context. Most likely she was to be ‘sacrificed’ to some sort of religious work, like Samuel.