Some more scriptures:
Isaiah Chapter 1:11 (KJV) "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats." Verses 11-20 are also good and instructive.
Psalms 40:6 "Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required."
Psalms 50 (KJV) 7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. 13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: 15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
And besides that, even within the sacrificial system, there are numerous verses where God is represented as accepting other things as a sacrifice or sin offering other than animals.
I still affirm the words of Jesus in Matthew 9:13 and 12:7.
In the words of the Psalmist, some here need to have their ears opened.
Personally, if anyone wants to believe that God is a ritual slaughterer, go ahead; it's no skin off my nose. But I do mind being labeled a heretic and blasphemer for what I believe. No one has a right to do that.
It is easy to show you are falsely interpreting your handful of texts. These texts in their context simply show that God refuses and repudiates HYPOCRITICAL acts of worship - period!
My interpretation HARMONIZES both your handful of texts and the multitude of texts while you don't even attempt to present an interpretation to harmonize scripture but rather simply PIT scritpure against scripture! There is no other rational conclusion to draw but that you are being genuinely dishonest with those texts you are abusing.
Mark 2:44 And saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
Michael, Jesus commanded this leper to obey the instructions of Leviticus 14 which required the bloody sacrifice of a bird for cleansing of a leper.
Do you believe Christ sinned by commanding him to offer such a bloody sacrifcie?
Do you believe Christ was commanding this man to conform to paganism?
Do you believe Christ was commanding this person to disobey those scriptures you quote?
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