The Sabbatical Series; Does the Bible Condone Human Sacrifice? (What's Up With Jephthah?)

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Alisa Childers

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Elisa Childers podcast where we equip Christians to identify the core beliefs of historic Christianity,
0:06.4	discern its counterfeits and proclaim the gospel with clarity, kindness and truth and we are going to continue to do that even while I'm on sabbatical and not
0:15.1	recording full-length episodes until after the new year. But as we were going
0:19.6	through some old content we realized that there were some posts that only went out to a select group of
0:24.2	listeners and many of you, if you've been following the podcast for the past two or three years,
0:29.5	have not heard these posts and these are short answers to tough theological and apologetics
0:34.6	questions so we're going to be bringing a new one to you every day during sabbatical
0:38.2	here's today's. The Old Testament is brutal at times. It records instances of violence, cannibalism, treason,
0:57.0	betrayal, and murder, just to name a few. So is God okay with all of this? For example, does the Bible implicitly approve
1:05.0	of human sacrifice because of the story of Jetha? It's important to note the Bible does not condone everything it records.
1:27.0	Repeat that.
1:28.1	Memorize it.
1:29.1	Tattoo it on your face if you have to, but never forget that some of the books of the Bible are historical in nature,
1:35.0	and they don't make moral commentary on every historical event they report about.
1:39.0	This will solve at least half of the problems you may encounter with the more troubling stories in the Old Testament.
1:45.0	Let's not forget that the Old Testament is largely about a very rebellious people who disobeyed God at every turn.
1:51.0	There is bound to be some unpleasantness. This will also help us a bit
1:56.1	with the story of Jephthah, but admittedly it's not quite that simple in this case. You see,
2:01.1	after sacrificing his only virgin daughter to God,
2:04.0	Jefftha is honored in what is often referred to as the Hebrew Hall of Faith in Hebrew 1132.
2:10.0	He is mentioned among greats like Samson, David, and Samuel, except were they really that great?
2:17.6	More on that later.
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