What is correct?
Hebrews 10, quotes Psalms 40:6 as 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 didn't require a sacrifice. So how did "body" get in the quote?
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It came thru the Septuagint, Septuagint wording actually fits the argument of Hebrews: Psalm 40 says God wants obedience, not animal sacrifices. Hebrews applies that to Jesus: His whole body becomes the ultimate act of obedience, replacing animal offerings. So Hebrews isn’t “changing” Scripture — it’s quoting the Jewish Greek Bible that already existed. 3/1/26
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⭐️Creamcrackered Not, animal sacrifice for human sacrifice? ie Jesus hence his body. I read psalms as God listens to (ears) repentance more than any type of sacrifice. -
dalcocono God gave the instructions for animal sacrifice after they left Egypt. Your reading is contrary to the Jews of the era and later ChristiansThe Septuagint isn’t replacing repentance with human sacrifice. The Hebrew phrase in Psalm 40:6 literally says “my ears you have opened,” which is a Hebrew idiom for making someone obedient. The Jewish translators who made the Greek Septuagint expressed the same idea more broadly as “a body you prepared for me,” meaning God equipped the whole person for obedience. Both versions say the same thing: God wants obedience more than ritual offerings. Hebrews simply quotes the Greek version that first?century Jews were already using." You seem determined to find fault with the ancients and God.. -
⭐️Creamcrackered Well, I just read about all the ancient deities, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Zoroastrian, and more right back to Mesopotamia and the Annunaki, uttuku, and the mysteries that went with them, Yahweh a storm God/ El his partner Asherah. Attis the sacrificial sun God, also dies and is ressurected after 3 days of mourning at Easter, cybele the eternal virgin by many names Isis, Demeter, Terra, Inanna, whos womb we return to when we die to be reborn, there is not one authentic thing left in the bible, (even moses in the reeds is there), Old and New Testament. They did eat actual flesh to unite with the deity though, not just bread and wine as a symbol. Actual animal, human and child sacrifice, in ancient Rome. The Dinoysus cults etc all mystery religions playing out the sun, and seasonal festivals throughout the year. I feel sick. I only sought to work out why Jews don't accept Jesus, but now, well all this is one storm God cult, arguing with a sun sacrificial shepherd cult. All the rituals, right down to using birds for signs that the pope does, the prayers, even the Vatican hills is named after a God.
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dalcocono It sounds like you’ve been reading a lot of material all at once, and that can definitely feel overwhelming. Ancient religions do share themes and imagery, but that doesn’t mean everything is “copied” or that nothing in the Bible is authentic. Cultures influence each other over thousands of years, and similarities are normal in the ancient world. The point I was making earlier was much narrower: Hebrews quotes the Septuagint version of Psalm 40, which already used “a body you prepared for me” as a way of expressing obedience. It wasn’t inventing a new idea or replacing repentance with sacrifice. If you’re feeling sick from everything you’ve been reading, maybe take a breath and step back from the big-picture comparisons for a moment. It’s easy to fall down a rabbit hole when looking at ancient religions, but not everything lines up as neatly as some sources make it sound.
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⭐️Creamcrackered I read the Dead Sea Scrolls are more similar to the Masoretic Text, thanks for your input, :)
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There is nothing incorrect in the Bible. It's a body indicating that Jesus was about to come into the world. His sacrifice ended the animal sacrificial system of the Old Testament.
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