He wants us to sacrifice our life. We don't have to die, but worship him and ONLY him.
This answer comes from a 12 year old girl.
An offering to God of something precious to us is a symbolic gesture of our gratitude, love, and devotion. It can be a way to show our commitment and faith by giving up something valuable as a sign of reverence and surrender to a higher power.
if you are talking about the story of Abraham and how he was told by God to sacrifice his son Isaac, than instead of his son he sacrificed a lamb because he was going to sacrifice his son for God and so God said that he had proven his faith and that means he loves him, so instead he let Abraham sacrifice a lamb instead!! hope that helped :D
Actually Abraham didn't when sacrifice his son because in the bible it says that when he was about to sacrafice his son, God answered and told him not to do it. Abraham had shown his faith to god and god was pleased. So Abraham didn't sacrifice his son.
Animal sacrifice is in the Bible because God declared that "The wages of sin are death", and "without blood, there is no remission of sin." God is so holy, that even the smallest blemish of impurity would evaporate before Him. Therefore, if man is to come to God, his sins must have been justly punished. In order to permit man to come to God, He permitted man to "cover" his sins by sacrificing pure lambs in their place. The book of Hebrews tells us this was a prophetic shadow of things to come, where God would sacrifice the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, a perfect human, to cleanse away the sin of man, that whosoever would take His sacrifice for their own, would be able to stand in the presence of God. So, God's Justice, and His Love are both fulfilled in the sacrifice. The wages of sin is death - Christ died. Without blood, there is no remission of sin - The Bible says the blood of Christ cleanses us of all unrighteousness. And therefore we have confidence before God.
It just means that God asked Cain and Abel to give him sacrifices as an act of worship. Both Cain and Abel knew what kind of sacrifice God wanted - but only Abel gave the right kind. Cain (on principle because he was proud and rebellious) refused to offer God an acceptable sacrifice. Abel -was prompted by his faith in God (that is he truly understood who God was) and as such was careful to give God a sacrifice that was acceptable. Cain (full of rebellion and pride) gave what he wanted to give God not what God wanted. One sacrifice was pleasing to God the other was not - and the pleasing sacrifice of Abel - given from a right heart with a right understanding of who God is - caused God to see him a righteous. The example that Abel set by responding by faith and the righteousness that he gained through that act of faith - still speaks powerfully (witnesses) to us today about what it is that God requires from every person. It is an example of how we can be made righteous with Him on the basis of faith in Him - but that this faith always produces actions that are pleasing to God. It is those right actions which are proof that we have true faith - The apostle Paul wrote "faith without works is dead". (But also works without faith are dead. Kinda like advertisign without a company, or vice versa. How are you going to achieve.)
No, God does not necessarily want us to know everything. It is believed that God wants us to seek knowledge and understanding, but also to have faith and trust in Him for things that are beyond our understanding.
God wants us in church because it is his house and we learn all about him there
God requires nothing from us, and nothing we do can curry favor from him.
God has shown his love for us through the sacrifice of his son, Jesus Christ, who died on the cross to save us from sin and offer us eternal life.
i don't know about 'divine' revelation, but during the taking of bread and wine God reveals to you how much of a sacrifice Jesus made for us, and makes us think about what we can give to God if he's given us the greatest sacrifice of his son. :)
It depends on your religion. If you have one.
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Do what you want and be what you want. God gave us the free will to do so. Use it
Because then God can show others how strong He is through us
because God want him to sacrifice his son so he find difficult
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Because God gives us the choice to believe in him and doesnt want to just have all of us praise him because we have to but because we want too.