Undoubtably, reconciliation to God is the whole bible’s most central theme in its message to man. However, its message is interpreted in so many different ways and unfortunately is mostly wrongly interprted, especially by those who proclaim Christianity. The main message is that God sent his own son to earth (supposedly God Himself…), in the form of a human being, to sacrifice him and lay all the sins on the world to pacifiy his anger for the iniquity of the world, and all one has to do is believe in this sacrifice and that God raised him from the dead. Even more surprising is that one merely has to believe and can do nothing else to merit salvation.
Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Christians quote Paul saying that none of those who depend solely on their works of righteousness will enter into the kingdom of heaven. Obviously Paul didn’t read what Jesus had to say on the subject:
Tit 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Eph 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: (9) Not of works, lest any man should boast.
I have heard it time after time from the mouths of Christians that just your works of righteousness won’t get you into heaven. And even if you don’t have any works of righteousness at all, but you have “confessed Jesus as your savior”, you go to heaven (inherit life eternal).
Jesus taught just the opposite — that it’s exactly works of righteousness that make you righteous and it’s only the righteous that enter the kingdom of heaven — notice the key word “done”:
The Righteous:
Mat 25:40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Mat 25:46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
The ones that have not done works of righteousness are the ones that “go away into everlasting punishment“:
The Wicked:
Mat 25:45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
I have heard it said that all you have to do is repeat the “sinner’s prayer” and God gives you go to heaven for eternity — for free. And if they do like Paul taught, and live as they like without any good works, they are going to stand before him on judgement day and say Lord, Lord… But he’s going to say to them “only those who have done the will of my Father will enter into the kingdom of heaven”.
Child Sacrifice
A common practice of the heathen in ancient times was to sacrifice an animal or even a human being to the Gods. They believed that if crops were bad or there were a bad disease or they lost a battle, and so forth that it was because the gods were angry at them. They believed that this was a practice the would apease the gods. In the times that Israel was captive to these heathen nations or had influence with them in some way, they picked up these beliefs and incorporated them in their own modes of worship.
their sins. What’s more they even would at times sacrifice their own sons or daughters to make God happy, so they thought. However, this never even came into God’s mind, much less did he order it. In fact, he considered the practice of child sacrifice evil and he condemned it and destroyed the false priests and others who taught the people to do this.Jer 7:30-31 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
(31) And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.Deu 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire…
Lev 18:21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
38.2 And Yeshua said to them, “They, whose hands are stained with blood, or whose mouths are defiled with flesh, or they who partake of benefits which are gotten by wronging one of God’s creatures, cannot be righteous; nor can they touch holy things, or teach the mysteries of the kingdom.”
21:8.He also said, “I have come to end the sacrifices and feasts of blood, and if you don’t cease offering and eating of flesh and blood, the wrath of God will not cease from you, even as it came to your fathers in the wilderness, who lusted for flesh, and ate to their content, and were filled with rottenness, and the plague consumed them.”
21:9.And I say to you, “Though you be gathered together in my bosom, if you keep not my commandments I will cast you forth.
So not even Jesus would have believed that God would sacrifice him. How could he if he preached against that very thing?
If Issac in the Old Testament was an illustration of Jesus being sacrificed for the world, then it never did happen, since according to the story, Abraham never did kill his son — and neither did God sacrifice his son, Jesus. Here is another typical misinterpretation of the bible in an attempt to prove by the bible itself that Paul’s false doctrines are true.
A human sacrifice for the remission of sins?
Jer 7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
Jer 7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
So how is it that they can say that God sacrificed Jesus, when God himself condemned it? And how is it that God put all the world’s sins on Jesus when he says that “the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him” and “the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father”?
And how is it that believing in this lie will save people from their sins?
How could sacrificing Jesus please God if God considered human sacrifice an abomination and prohibited its practice? If God Himself says that every man must die for his own sins and not the sins of another how is it that it is said that He placed the sins of the whole world on Jesus so that anyone who simply believes on him would be saved? This is contradictory and makes no sense at all that God would do such a thing. So if people believe that all they have to do is believe in Jesus and don’t need any “works of righteousness” then what does that say about Jesus’ teachings that say only those who do works of righteousness go into life eternal? This idea contradicts Jesus’ teaching also.
According to Jesus’ teachings inheriting eternal life is summed up in these:
- Do works of righteousness
- Do the will of God
- Obey the commandments of God
Actually the idea of Jews sacrificing animals wasn’t their idea but God’s. He was the one who tolf Moses to write down what he said in Leviticus. And the sacrificing of children was to a foreign god called Molech. They had turned away from doing what the lord, God Almighty sid and instead starting worshipping false gods angering God to the point that he did to them exactly what he said he would do if they stopped doing what he told them to do which was allowing them to be carried away as captives.
Not so. GOD NEVER COMMANDED ANIMAL SACRIFICE
God HATED animal sacrifice.
“He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck, he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.” Isaiah 66:3
GOD PROHIBITED CHILD SACRIFICE