A righteous man could not atone for the sins of the wicked
There are 79,976 words in the Torah. The oldest part of the Dead Sea scrolls, the Isaiah Scroll, found relatively intact, is 1000 years older than any previously known copy of Isaiah. In fact, the scrolls are the oldest group of Old Testament manuscripts ever found. Out of the 79,976 words there only nine differences between Teimani and Ashkenazi/Sefardi sifrei Torah where a different letter (style and layout differences aside) appears in modern scrolls are:
מנש)ו(א . 1 Genesis 4:13 Ashkenazi/Sephardi vs. Temoni
מעינ)ו(ת . 2 Genesis 7:11 Ashkenazi/Sephardi vs. Temoni
ויהי)ו( . 3 Genesis 9:29 Ashkenazi/Sephardi vs. Temoni
ת)י(עשה . 4 Exodus 25:31 Ashkenazi/Sephardi vs. Temoni
האפ)ו(ד . 5 Exodus 28:26 Ashkenazi/Sephardi vs. Temoni
בשמ)ו(ת . 6 Numbers 1:17 Ashkenazi/Sephardi vs. Temoni
חדש)י(כם . 7 Numbers 10:10 Ashkenazi/Sephardi vs. Temoni
בע)ו(ר . 8 Numbers 22:5 Ashkenazi/Sephardi vs. Temoni
דכ)ה|א( . 9 Deuteronomy 23:2 Some Ashkenazi/Sephardi vs. Some Ashkenazi/Temoni
The Jewish people were strictly prohibited from offering human sacrifices under any circumstances. There is not one place throughout the entire corpus of the Jewish Scriptures where human sacrifices are condoned. In fact, over and over again, the Bible warns the Jewish people that it is a grave sin to bring a human being as a sacrifice. In the Book of Leviticus, only distinct species of animals are permitted for use in blood sacrifices.
The ancient pagan religions promoted the same idea about atonement as Christendom continues to preach today (e.g. Molech). They would joyfully offer humans to the fires of their sacrificial offering in order to expiate their sins and appease the gods. The Torah therefore condemned human sacrifices and forewarned Jewish people of terrible consequences if this commandment were violated.
The Almighty’s directive – He only wanted animal sacrifices rather than human sacrifices – was immediately understood. This teaching has never departed from the mind and soul of the children of Israel.
Vayikra - Leviticus - Chapter 18
21 And you shall not give any of your offspring to pass through for Molech. And you shall not profane the Name of your God. I am the Lord.
Commentary for verse 21
for Molech: A form of idolatry, named Molech, and this was the manner of its worship, that one would hand over one’s child to the pagan priests, who would make two huge fires. The child was then passed through on foot between these two fires. — [Sanh. 64b, see Rashi there.]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moloch (Masoretic מֹלֶךְ mōlek, Greek Μολοχ) is the Biblical name of an ancient form of propitiatory child sacrifice by parents or possibly a Canaanite god to whom the sacrifice was made.
I just can’t help but see Moloch as being the god of liberalism, especially when it comes to abortion
Furthermore the prophet Ezekiel warned the Jewish nation that a righteous man could not atone for the sins of the wicked. The prophet therefore warns that no innocent person can die for the sins of the wicked!
Yechezkel - Ezekiel - Chapter 18
20 The soul that sins, it shall die; a son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, and a father shall not bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
21 And if the wicked man repent of all his sins that he has committed and keeps all My laws and executes justice and righteousness, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
22 All his transgressions that he has committed shall not be remembered regarding him: through his righteousness that he has done he shall live.
23 Do I desire the death of the wicked? says the Lord God. Is it not rather in his repenting of his ways that he may live?
24 And when the righteous repents of his righteousness and does wrong and does like all the abominations that the wicked man did, shall he live? All his righteous deeds that he has done shall not be remembered; in his treachery that he has perpetrated and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die.
Finally, the prophets loudly declared to the Jewish people that the contrite prayer of the penitent sinner replaces the sacrificial system. Therefore, atonement for unintentional sins today is expiated through devotional supplication to God, the Merciful One.
In fact, in the third chapter of Hosea, the prophet foretold with divine exactness that the nation of Israel would not have a sacrificial system during the last segment of Jewish history until the messianic age. Hosea declares,
Hoshea - Hosea - Chapter 3
4 For the children of Israel shall remain for many days, having neither king, nor prince, nor sacrifice, nor pillar, nor ephod nor teraphim.
5 Afterwards shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God and David their king, and they shall come trembling to the Lord and to His goodness at the end of days.
Who can argue with verse 5?
If the prophet is testifying that the nation of Israel will indeed be without a sacrificial system during their long exile until the messianic age, what are we to use instead? How are the Jewish people to atone for unintentional sin without a blood sacrifice during their bitter exile? What about all the animal sacrifices prescribed in the Book of Leviticus? Can the Jewish people get along without animal offerings? Missionaries claim they cannot.
The Bible disagrees.
For this reason, the teaching highlighted in Hosea 14:2-3 is crucial. In these two verses, Hosea reveals to his nation how they are to replace the sacrificial system during their protracted exile. The prophet declares that the Almighty wants us to “render for bulls the offering of our lips.” Prayer is to replace the sacrificial system. Hosea states,
Hoshea - Hosea - Chapter 14
2 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity
3 Take words with yourselves and return to the Lord. Say, "You shall forgive all iniquity and teach us [the] good [way], and let us render [for] bulls [the offering of] our lips.
The prophets never instruct the Jews to worship any crucified messiah or demigod; nor does Scripture suggest that an innocent man could die as an atonement for the sins of the wicked. Such a message is utterly antithetical to the teachings of the Jewish Scriptures. Rather, it is the prayers of the sinner that would become as bulls of the sin offerings.
King Solomon echoes this sentiment as well.
Melachim I - I Kings - Chapter 8
46 If they sin against You, for (there is) no man who does not sin, and You will be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, and their captors will carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far or near.
47 And they shall bethink themselves in the land where they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to You in the land of their captors, saying, 'We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness.'
48 And they shall return to You with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, who led them away captive, and pray to You toward their land, which You gave to their fathers, the city that You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your Name.
49 And you shall hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, Your dwelling place, and maintain their cause.
50 And forgive Your people what they have sinned against You, and all their transgressions that they have transgressed against You, and give mercy before their captors, that they may have mercy on them.