How do you treat the obvious tampering and imperfection of the Bible?

Without arguing specifics, I haven't come across anything yet that isn't a misconception, explainable, or inconsequential.

Would you consider consistent denials of the legitimacy of animal sacrifice, as found in the Torah and required for the salvation formula of Jesus, inconsequential? Every time I post this sort of things, Christians only ignore it. One even said:

"There's not one contradiction in the bible, not one. I challenge you to give us your best one and we'll lay it rest for you."

And so I showed him these contradictions regarding animal sacrifice, and in not keeping his word to me, he dealt dishonestly with me and wasted my time, not responding at all. So you respond, since you say a similar thing.

In Jeremiah 8:8, Yahweh says that the Torah itself (first five books of Moses) are forgeries:

"How do you say, 'We are wise, and the Torah of Yahweh is with us?' But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely."

In Jeremiah 7:22, Yahweh says that he didn't institute animal sacrifice as found in the Torah:

"For I didn't speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices."

David affirms this in Psalm 40:6, also saying that no requirement for burnt offering was ever given:

"Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering."

Also in Psalm 51:16..

"For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering."

In Psalm 50, God himself challenges the logic of sacrifice:

"Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God. I don’t rebuke you for your [lack of] sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me. I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens. For every animal of the forest is mine,and the livestock on a thousand hills. I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?"

In Isaiah 1, God again denies the commandments of animal sacrifice as found in the Torah:

"'What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?', says Yahweh. 'I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats. When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample [hooves] in my courts? Bring no more worthless offerings."

There's more, but I think that's sufficient. So let's have it.

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