Exodus 29

(March 11, 2014)
There are so many things seem strange from the Old Testament, and the general thinking seems to be that it is indicative of a brutish or ignorant past.  But I am not so sure.  The more I learn about the way that the world works, the more I recognize that I really have no idea how the world works.  This applies to God as well.  I used to think I had knowledge of God and knew His mind.  The more I learn, the more I recognize that I really don’t know God – His thoughts are not my thoughts and His ways are not my ways.  I have gone from the presumption that any questionable material in the scriptures was an archaic remnant of a less-civilized age to the questioning supposition that maybe it is my thinking and my age that is less-civilized.

I raise this issue here because of the idea that the Lord loves the smell of the burnt offering.  I could not imagine that – it made no sense (pun intended) to me.  I assumed that it was just an analogy or a way of describing a more refined and spiritual concept.  But am I right on that?  Who am I to assume that I know better than the explicit language of the scriptures?