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You also desire to hear why these Christians do not worship in the same manner as the Yehudim.
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The Yehudim do rightly in refusing the idols and in confessing one Elohim as Master of the whole creation.
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But the author then argues that they err when they imagine the Creator to stand in need of the same kinds of material offerings that other peoples bring before lifeless images.
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The One who made heaven and earth and gives every creature what it needs is not Himself dependent upon what creatures possess.
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He provides the very things that worshipers imagine they are supplying to Him.
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Therefore, in the writer's polemic, blood, fat, and whole offerings cannot be understood as though Elohim lacked something and needed Adam to supply it.
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The author compares such thinking to presenting gifts before things incapable of receiving them.
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HaSefarim records this argument as the Christian writer's theological polemic; it is not presented as a neutral description of the sacrificial logic of Torah. Layer note. This chapter is preserved as the anonymous Christian author's …