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Originally Posted by NewParadigmGuy
I read the book... What I get out of it is that we should start sacrificing animals, but certainly not any blind or sick ones. This seems so sick to me - why would God require it?
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The sacrifices you refer to are from Jewish law but are also a metaphor. He isn't referring to actual animal sacrifices - but the honor that an individual gives to God and the quality of that honor.
Malachi 3 14-18
"You have said, 'It is futile to serve God. What did we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the LORD Almighty? But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly the evildoers prosper, and even those who challenge God escape.' "
Then those who feared the LORD talked with each other, and the LORD listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the LORD and honored his name.
"They will be mine," says the LORD Almighty, "in the day when I make up my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as in compassion a man spares his son who serves him. And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.