“…For God to say ‘I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge
of God rather than burnt offerings,’ is not to say that he no longer
required obedience in the sacrifice and burnt offerings of the old
covenant, but that those things had become distorted when they replaced
knowledge of God and the real practice of ḥesed - the steadfast love of
God. Without this relational aspect of their worship, their rituals became
transactional or coercive towards God; a means of inducing him to act. This
was one of the ways that Canaanite religion had corrupted the worship of
God, that the worshippers thought that they could relate to God through
sacrifice in order to obtain what they wanted without the loving and
compassionate heart that comes from a transformational life with God.”

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