Abel's offering resulted in PAGAN practices! If I were 'God' I'd have required plant sacrifices.
COMMENT:
Referring to your post on the offerings of Cain and Abel, all
I see is how the “sons of Adam” CREATED the TEMPLATE for all Pagan CULTS of the
future to follow, including those faith systems which came to be known as the
Abrahamic religions.
As a decades-long gardener, I would have accepted the sacrifice of plants as the better of the two types of sacrifice which Cain and Abel offered.
REPLY:
It was not the sons of Adam that decided upon the blood offering. It was God Himself, in Gen.3:21, and there is a reason for why blood was required. Everything God does is with perfect reason and purpose. The twisted version of pagan sacrifice you refer to is the creation of Satan in which his counterfeit act skews and distorts the meaning to which God assigned this type of offering.
You say you would rather accept plant sacrifices better. That’s fine if you were ‘God’. Then you could set your own standard for humanity to respect. However, as clay in God’s hands, shall we say to Him that fashions us, “do this”, or “I think that…”, Isa 45:9. No. God has declared these things to be, before the worlds were made. God’s version of the blood offering is pure and perfect and is predetermined to be the ONLY thing that can save our souls. It cost the ultimate blood offering of Christ to redeem us, which in turn informs us of how utterly low we have fallen to have such a heavy price to purchase us back.
Thank God for the blood of Christ which saves to the uttermost those who believe in Him.
