McBell
Unbound
I beg to disagree mestemia but roli is right, God never accepted human sacrifice. God did not require Jephthah to sacrifice her daughter, but rather Jephthah made a vow unto the Lord...And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.You will not find anything there that God actually commanded Jephthah to offer her daughter as a human sacrifice. To make you understand a little about making vows, here's an insight concerning vows...
Ecc 5:2 Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
Ecc 5:3 For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.
Ecc 5:4 When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow.
Ecc 5:5 It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.
Ecc 5:6 Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?
And what God has to say against human sacrifice, is it actually to Him you offer human sacrifice?
Jer 7:31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
See, it does not even came into His heart to command such thing (human sacrifice).
God did ACCEPT the human sacrifice.
It does not matter that God did not Command it.
It does not matter that God did not require it before the vow.
But God did require it after the vow.
For one is to keep all vows one makes to God.
ECC 5:2-6 states that one is required to keep the vows made to God.
Since Jephthah vowed his daughters life, God did in fact require the human sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter.
Thank you for further proving my point.