Category: Anachronisms
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God’s Issues With the Temple Cult
A casual reading of the Pentateuch leaves one with the impression that, for some unexplained reason, God created a line of priests to mediate between Him and His rescued Hebrews, and laid out in meticulous detail an intricate and fully-developed sacrificial system, tabernacle, and culture. A more careful reading, however, at the very least calls into question the God-ordained pedigree of these details and practices. Scholars, theologians, Rabbis and regular Bible readers have noted these issues for centuries[i],[ii]. And, we know that we have biblical textual scholars telling us that most of the Pentateuch was authored between the 8th and…
