On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:00:42 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Huh, and here I thought he wiped out most of the planet with a great
>> flood....
> 
> Actually, he quite demanded an awful lot of blood sacrifices. They were
> the only way to cleanse sin before Jesus came along. And of course, once
> you get into *human* sacrifice, and even diecide, then *finally* he's
> satisfied to just take your soul and not your life.

Yes, I had been thinking of some of those other stories - there was one 
story I recall where God told a father to sacrifice his son (literally), 
and at the last minute effectively said "Nah, I was only kidding; I 
wanted to see how far you'd go".  If that's not sadism, I don't know what 
is.

Jim

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