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Post by Admin on Jun 10, 2016 21:39:17 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Jun 10, 2016 21:39:30 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Jun 10, 2016 21:39:43 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Jun 10, 2016 21:40:55 GMT -5
QUESTION: Does Micah 6:6-8 indicate the Mosaic Law had been revoked and that as of the 6 century BCE animal sacrifices [burn offerings] were no longer a requirement for the Israelites?Micah 6:6-8 (see above) is presented in a series of questions with an ultimate conclusion. The questions are in fact rhetorical in nature and serve the purpose of emphasising the concluding point, namely that God requires his people to display the noble qualities of love, justice, and to faithfully "walk wth God." Notice Micah does NOT conclude saying "so do not offer any more sacrifices, the Mosaic law has been revoked" he says that God requires his worshippers to display godly qualities. There is nothing in the verse that indicates that humility, love and justice are mutually exclusive to sacrifices, but conversely, the conclusion implies that lacking love, justice and humility can invalidate the most costly of sacrifices. Furthermore, we note taht all the questions are hyperbolic. A hyperbole is a type of metaphor that takes extreme examples, usually to emphasize a point. Micah's questions are all placed in the context of sacrifices but takes the most expensive sacrifices possible,in the numbers that few ordinary Israelites could possibly afford. The questions progress from something expensive (a young bull) to examples that few Israeltie could affort (a torrent - a small river - of oil) to end with an example of something that no Israelites was even asked for, his most valuable "possession" (the human sacfifice of his son). Was the POINT of this series of questions that it was wrong to make ANY sacrifices? If so, why did Micah choose such extreme examples? Or rather would it not be more reasonable to conclude that Micah was highlighting that the true value of worship lay in the underlying attitudes that should accompany that worship NOT that the religious law had henseforth been changed. In otherwords, its not the size or the expense of a sacrifice but that the most important thing in worship was a person's heart conditionNote the commentaries from bible scholars below. CONCLUSION: Micah 6:6-8 is not making absolute statements of prohibition but rather is highlighting the relative importance of the attitutde and heart condition that must accompany worship, something which cannot be "bought" even with the most expensive sacrifices imaginable.
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Post by Admin on Jun 10, 2016 21:42:09 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Jun 10, 2016 21:42:21 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Jun 10, 2016 21:42:37 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Nov 20, 2017 15:47:31 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Nov 20, 2017 15:47:44 GMT -5
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