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12772, I didn't say that
Posted by LexM, Sun Jun-17-01 01:55 PM
>>>The sacrifice of animals to the
>>>God that exist is okay...Who
>>>or what ever entity that
>>>Voodoo practioners sacrifice their animals
>>>to is Not God of
>>>the Bible the only God
>>>that exists.

this is a quote from the person I was responding to, not my words. my response is underneath that paragraph somewhere.


>Responce: But you have to remeber
>a lot of times when
>other nations would sacrifice animals
>they were trying to predict
>the future or something. The
>sacrifice of Isreal was symbolic
>of a messiah to come.

But sacrifice, for so-called "pagans," (at least not African "pagans" according to everything I've seen so far) was not a form of divination/fortune telling. It is a sign of respect to the higher being; a way of acknowledging God and welcoming God's presence.



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