Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this recording, Archimandrite Athanasios Mytilinaios (1927-2006), answers the question: “The professor at my school told us that God in the Old Testament accepted human sacrifices... What should I answer to her?” "God explicitly condemns the human-sacrifices. The Lord despised His people because they imitated the pagans in committing human sacrifices. "
#humansacrifice #oldtestament #christian

Audio source: “Catechism”, no. 918 (in Greek), March 17, 1996
https://www.arnion.gr/index.php/p-thanasios-mytilina-os/milies-p-thanasiou/diafora-uemata/pantiseis-pori-n-katixitiko

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