child-sacrifice-001

Needs manual review — bare reference/URL with no stated argument; no refutation was invented for this row.

Raw entry: Row 1: a bare link with no argument stated, citing Ezekiel 20:25-26 and 2 Kings 16:3 (NRSVUE). Row 2: a spreadsheet section header/category label reading 'God commanded/Rewarded/Neutral' with no verse or argument attached. Row 9: a spreadsheet section header/category label reading 'God Expressly Prohibited' with no verse or argument attached (it appears to introduce the Jeremiah row that follows it).

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Jeremiah 7:31 (also 19:5, 32:35): 'And they go on building the high place of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire -- which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.'Textual Child Sacrifice
Ezekiel 20:25-26: 'Moreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live. I defiled them through their very gifts, in their offering up all their firstborn, in order that I might horrify them, so that they might know that I am the Lord.'Textual Child Sacrifice
Exodus 22:29, 'The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me,' immediately follows instructions to offer the produce of harvest and press without delay; Exodus 13:2, 'Consecrate to me all the firstborn; whatever is the first to open the womb among the Israelites, of human beings and animals, is mine,' groups human and animal firstborn under one formula. Taken together, these are read as Yahweh literally demanding the sacrifice of firstborn sons alongside firstborn animals and crops.Textual Child Sacrifice
'CK' — a bare BibleGateway link to Proverbs 12:21 and Deuteronomy 28:63 (NRSVUE), with no stated argument. Appears to be a stray personal note-to-self ('CK' likely shorthand for 'check') rather than a formulated objection. These same two verses are already addressed by rows 16-17 in batch 1 of this sheet.Textual Specific Issues
'Why isn't God around?' — with a citation of Lev 20:3 and no further argument given.Textual Specific Issues
Exodus 6:3 has God say he appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as 'God Almighty' (El Shaddai) but 'by my name, the LORD (YHWH), I did not make myself known to them' — yet Genesis repeatedly has the patriarchs use and hear the name YHWH (e.g. Gen 4:26; 12:8; 15:7; 28:13). This is read as 'editorializing,' i.e. evidence of composite, contradictory sources stitched together.Textual Monotheism in the Bible