Bible Problem: In Amos 4:4 Why Does God Tell People to “Multiply Transgression?”
Problem:
Amos 4:4
Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:
Why did God tell people to multiply their transgressions?
Solution:
God was being sarcastic. Read the entire chapter of Amos 4 to catch the sarcasm.
God is sarcastic in other parts of the Bible as well. In Matthew 23:24 Jesus sarcastically speaks to the scribes and Pharisees:
Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
What Jesus means here is that the scribes and Pharisees would focus on the small, unimportant matters and laws of men, and not on the bigger, more important matters and laws of God.