/lit/ - Literature

>>19294058
>"Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you."
Thanks for all you do, brother. God bless you.

>>19166707
How disingenuous of you to use an obviously incorrect rendering of the text. If you actually look at the Hebrew, it is obvious that God is not making them sacrifice their firstborn (as you disgustingly mistranslated, probably from some random Islamic website, because I do not know what actual translation would actually make such an obvious error).
The more accurate translation of Ezekiel 20:26 is something like this - [single brackets] for words with multiple English renderings, and [[double brackets]] for implied words which are not present: "and I [pronounced unclean/declared filthy] them in their own [gifts/offerings/sacrifices], in that [they caused to pass through [[the fire]] all their firstborn], that I might destroy them, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD". Where in this do you get that the LORD made them sacrifice their firstborn son?
Just disgusting lies, you are trying to make the LORD the author of the sin of the Israelites, ignoring the obvious message of what the Prophet is saying: that the LORD, as punishment for them rejecting His commandments and serving idols, gave the Israelites up to their defiled minds, to do what they wanted to do - sacrifice their children to Moloch. Their punishment was that the LORD abandoned them to their own sin. Which, again, is obvious if you actually have any understanding of the Bible, but not if you are just running Islamic apologetics with little-to-no knowledge of what actually happens in the narrative of Ezekiel.

>>19166784
>Yet long after Abraham, some Israelite leaders seemed unaware of that great progress, and sacrificed their own children as burnt offering to Yahweh
Yeah, obviously. Anybody who reads the Old Testament knows that the entire story of Israel is how God saves them and makes them holy, and then they fall back into idolatry and human sacrifice. This is always done in the context of a descending Israel who is falling away from God's law, not Israel when they are following the LORD's commandments (which, again, is explicitly taught by the LORD through Moses in Deuteronomy 12:31 - all human sacrifice is a disgusting abomination which the LORD hates).