Just wondering how to explain these as a Christian?......
Numbers 23:19 God is not a man.
Is human sacrifice OK?
Hebrews chapter 10 quotes Psalms 40:6 :Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me. with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. But Psalms 40:6 actually says Sacrifice and offering you did not desire—
"but my ears you have opened"
burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require. Hence, God was happy hearing repentance he did require a sacrifice. So how did "body" get in the quote?
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Explain it as: the Bible doesn't stop at Numbers. If it did, then a believer would believe God is not a man. But as a New Testament exists, say Hello to God incarnate. John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." John 1:14 "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth." As for sacrifices, Jesus desires mercy.
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⭐️Creamcrackered So the OT says God is not a man, quote" God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?" Yet in the NT , he is a man, and he like man can change his mind, and lie saying he is a man? -
𝘑𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘺 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 ⭐ Genesis 1:26 already says: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness," marking the unique attributes of God's 3-1, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and the creation of humanity to reflect His divine nature. It is the Jews who do not accept that God is a man, being they don't accept the New Testament.
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Numbers 23:19 isn’t saying God could never take on flesh. It’s contrasting God with fallible humans — humans who lie, change their minds, or fail to keep their word. The point is about God’s character, not His future actions. In Christian belief, God becoming man doesn’t make Him a fallible human; it means He took on a human nature while remaining divine, so the moral point in Numbers still stands. As for Psalm 40:6 vs. Hebrews 10, the difference comes from the Greek Septuagint, the Jewish translation used in the first century. The Hebrew says “my ears you have opened,” but the Septuagint translators rendered the idea as “a body you prepared for me.” Hebrews is quoting the Jewish Greek version, not rewriting the Hebrew. Both versions express the same idea: God wants obedience more than ritual sacrifice. Hebrews applies that theme to Jesus by saying the ultimate obedience came through His whole life and body, not through animal offerings. So the passages aren’t contradictions — they’re different emphases in Hebrew and Greek, and Hebrews is drawing on the Greek wording that was already in use among Jews of that time. 3/1/26
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