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G-d abhors human sacrifice - Key Passages

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There are several passages in Tanakh that clearly say that G-d abhors human sacrifices. This could be as we are created in the image of G-d. Leviticus 18:21 “‘ Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek , for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord. Leviticus 20:2-5  “Say to the Israelites: ‘ Any Israelite or any foreigner residing in Israel who sacrifices any of his children to Molek is to be put to death . The members of the community are to stone him.   I myself will set my face against him and will cut him off from his people; for by sacrificing his children to Molek, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.  If the members of the community close their eyes when that man sacrifices one of his children to Molek and if they fail to put him to death,  I myself will set my face against him and his family and will cut them off from their people together with all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molek. Deutero...

ONLY THE ONE TRUE G-d of the universe can forgive us our sins - Key Passages

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Below are some of the passages that G-d tells us is way for our sins to be forgiven. None of them are talking about believing in Jesus to have our sins forgiven. Genesis 4:7 Is it not so that if you improve, it will be forgiven you? If you do not improve, however, at the entrance, sin is lying, and to you is its longing, but you can rule over it." Leviticus 26:41 Then I too, will treat them as happenstance and bring them [back while] in the land of their enemies. If then, their clogged heart becomes humbled, then, [their sufferings] will gain appeasement for their iniquity, 1 Kings 8:46 If they sin against you, (for there is no man that does not sin), and you be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near; 47 Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land where they were carried captives, and repent and make supplication unto you in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, "We h...

G-d is THE ONE TRUE G-d of the universe - Key Passages

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  Exodus 20:2 "I am the Lord, your God, Who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 You shall not have the gods of others in My presence. Numbers 23:19 God is not a man that He should lie, nor is He a mortal that He should relent. Would He say and not do, speak and not fulfill? Numbers 4:11 And you approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire up to the midst of the heavens, with darkness, a cloud, and opaque darkness. 12 The Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of the words, but saw no image, just a voice. Numbers 4:35 You have been shown, in order to know that the Lord He is God; there is none else besides Him. Numbers 4:39 And you shall know this day and consider it in your heart, that the Lord He is God in heaven above, and upon the earth below; there is none else. Numbers 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God; the Lord is one. 5 And you shall love the Lord, your God, with all y...

Messianic Age - Key Passages

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  Deuteronomy 4:24 For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a zealous God. 25 When you beget children and children's children, and you will be long established in the land, and you become corrupt and make a graven image, the likeness of anything, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, to provoke Him to anger, 26 I call as witness against you this very day the heaven and the earth, that you will speedily and utterly perish from the land to which you cross the Jordan, to possess; you will not prolong your days upon it, but will be utterly destroyed. 27 And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will remain few in number among the nations to where the Lord will lead you. 28 And there you will worship gods, man's handiwork, wood and stone, which neither see, hear, eat, nor smell. 29 And from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him, if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 When you are distressed, and all these thing...