The god of the Bible is evil!

@Unhinged you exist at a lower form of consciousness. A lower understanding and knowledge of life. And we are here to try and raise your consciousness to Enlighten you as to a greater truth.

@James25 you have been deceived

@Unhinged so all the violence and hatred and murder and genocide inflicted by your God in the Old Testament is deception?

@ElegantAlex He heard voices prompting him to make that heinious murderous vow, THIS is WHY religion is so dangerous and demented. I know exactly what the vow in the book of numbers expects.

@NativePortlander1970 The text states that the spirit of G-d infused Jephtah to carry out his military objectives to destroy Ammon. It does not in any way state that it directed him to sacrifice his daughter. He was not a learned person and somewhat removed from Jewish observance and tradition at the time.

Most rabbinic commentators hold that he did not actually kill his daughter. But as she was childless and she undertook to remain so for the rest of her life it is considered that she was like a dead person.

The rabbis also hold that the vow, insofar as it contravened a divine law against human sacrifice was unenforceable. Jephtah, being removed from Jewish tradition at the time, did not understand this.

@ElegantAlex I'd say this says it all clear cut, no pun intended.