To us, meat comes in packages from the store. Well, one of the reasons that animal sacrifice seems strange to us today is because we’re a bunch of pampered moderns that don’t do our own butchering. Jimmy, I think for a modern person, the idea of particularly animal sacrifice is so foreign to us that we even have to have court cases about whether religious groups can do animal sacrifices or not, so I think I’d like to start by just asking you why did God in the Hebrew scriptures get involved in the animal sacrifice business at all? Now, bring the lamb to the temple and kill the lamb and eat the lamb.” What is this all about? Why did this ever even happen? Why is this part of biblical history, all this stuff about sacrifice? Well, you start thinking about it, it’s weird, and if you start having weird thoughts you think, I need to ask Jimmy Akin, so that’s what we did. It’s a little bit weird, in a way, if you think of it from a modern perspective, sometimes we don’t, but why does God, the eternal God transcendent in every way, why does He tell people, “Okay, here’s what I want you to do to have a good relationship with me. I’m Cy Kellett, your host, and remember to subscribe to focus on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, wherever you listen, so that you’ll get a notice when new episodes are available and, if you would, please give us that five-star review that helps to grow the podcast. Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending the Catholic faith. How should we think about biblical sacrifices? Jimmy Akin, right now. We ask Jimmy Akin why God does this? What good does it do? And does God need all these sacrifices? In the Hebrew Scriptures, God gives quite specific directions on how to make sacrifices to him.
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