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Because they had not obeyed my rules, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their fathers' idols. Moreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and rules by which they could not have life, and I defiled them through their very gifts in their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it that they might know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 20:24‭-‬26 ESV

¶Kings Ahaz and Manasseh of Judah perverted the Lord's command that every first-born belongs to Him into a practice of child sacrifice. In the same way, and even today, people who are not content to live under God's law find it necessary to put themselves under arbitrary, self-contradictory, and confusing rules that do not promote human thriving. When we cannot come together as one under God, we find ourselves a devastated and divided people. Then it is even harder to receive as a solution the offer of a Savior who promises but one way to return to God.