mercedo wrote today at 1:20 AM
Sacrifice was edible. Offerings were in more commonly used term, tax, of our times. They couldn't replace goat, bull, sheep, by cat, rat, mole. We need coins, not stones.God asked his followers to offer their kids when nothing was found for sacrifice or offerings. Abraham's God refrained from Abraham's offering human sacrifice for the first time in human history. Human sacrifice was common under Molek, God of surrounding peoples. It is needless to say that this incident became the important step to building a civilised society lasting up to current world. Humans were valued for the first time as a successor of culture, not a food for themselves.I think cannibalism was so common before the age of Abraham.