Sentences with phrase «christ as a sacrifice»

6) I have already given several verses showing the sin - bearing nature of Jesus» cross, I just want to point out again Romans 3:25 & 26: God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood — to be received by faith.

However, once God opened up my eyes that I deserved damnation as a sinner, I finally surrendered and accepted the atonement of Christ as sacrifice for my sin by faith, and a heavy burden was lifted off my back, and I have a clean conscience before God, and I also felt the power of God saving me from my sins.

Not exact matches

Mormons do believe in the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ as the only way to receive remission of sins.

«lhe Council established the main elements of Catholic culture as it exists today, and among those elements is the resolute assertion that «There is indeed one universal church of the faithful outside of which nobody at all is saved, in which Jesus Christ is both priest and sacrifice.»

-- there is no «price» (again American Christian reference, not biblical); «his agents»: if you mean the Holy Spirit and / or Christ then since those are God then it's just the worship of God because you DESIRE to worship Him not as if there was anything any of us could offer that would be reciprocal for Christ's sacrifice.

Instead, we are called to have the same attitude as Christ Jesus and emulate the humility, self - sacrifice and love displayed through his incarnation.

Actually, other religions like to lob this at Catholicism e.g. «good works» will save you as if we are saying Christ's sacrifice did not happen.

Mormons worship Jesus Christ as the Savior and Redeemder of the world, the only begotten Son of God, and the only being capable of performing the necessary sacrifice that enables us to be forgiven when we repent.

And so, that which is true of Christ as regards the Church, and true of a husband as regards his wife, is also true of anyone who is «head» or has authority: it is a leadership of service and self - sacrifice.

The About.com - Christianity web page goes on to explain that the way this works out is that husbands «illustrate» Christ's leadership authority, as well as His self - sacrifice, while wives «illustrate» the church's submission to Christ's leadership authority.

As Jesus Christ is the «end of the story», it is encouraging to read the prophecies of his coming and to compare his one time sacrifice to the many and ongoing sacrifices necessary just to have a «figurative» cleansing.

It means to see the suffering we go through (whether we want it or not) from the perspective of Christ, Paul, Peter, and countless people who suffered for the sake of their faith and offered their suffering to God as a sacrifice on behalf of others.

Jesus Christ had to be the Last Adam, a «lamb from out of the flock,» but «without spot or blemish» so that he could die as an acceptable sacrifice.

Then, because God had already shown them the «right» way, He pulled Cain up on his «non-blood» vegetable offering as not doing what is «right», as it wasn't shedding the blood of an animal (which was essentially a type and shadow of Christ's sacrifice, as well as being the pattern already set by God in front of Adam and Eve in the Garden).

Even though Christ didn't come yet, through trusting in God, they were redeemed «on borrowed time» by the sacrifice He did for them also, as well as for us.

The problem comes with seeing Christ's atoning sacrifice, as some Evangelical Protestants do, in terms of punishment.

«It is love to the end that confers on Christ's sacrifice its value as redemption and reparation, as atonement and satisfaction».

We were especially struck by his powerful invitation to us as laity to participate in Christ's reconciling sacrifice which He wishes us to bring to the world.

As the Council of Trent explained: «In this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ Who offered Himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the Cross is contained and offered in an unbloody manner.»

Today, though a Christian be as thoroughgoing as the Quakers in discarding ritual, he must none the less appreciate the often superior quality of inward spiritual life and outward social service on the part of those who in the sacrifice of the Mass see Christ verily present.

So far as this is so, Christ is crucified «for us», not in the sense of any theory of sacrifice or satisfaction.

In place of the synagogue came the church; in place of circumcision came baptism; in place of the temple altars came the acceptance of Christ's sacrifice in the Lord's Supper; and while only the first suggestions of the early Catholic rubric are within the canon, these suggestions are there, presaging, as they are seen in retrospect, the repetition of all the good and evil fortunes that in every age and faith have attended sacramentalism.

Hebrews offers us an album of snapshots of a love life offered as a sacrifice of gratitude to God, whose Christ has already given himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God (Eph.

Only in the light of Jesus Christ's sacrifice of himself can man be compelled to live as man.

A large area of historic Christian theology would have been completely altered if ideas of atonement, especially as related to the blood of Christ, had not been carried over from primitive concepts associated with animal sacrifice.

Modern persons will never find rest for their restless hearts without Christ, for modern culture is nothing but the wasteland from which the gods have departed, and so this restlessness has become its own deity; and, deprived of the shelter of the sacred and the consoling myths of sacrifice, the modern person must wander or drift, vainly attempting one or another accommodation with death, never escaping anxiety or ennui, and driven as a result to a ceaseless labor of distraction, or acquisition, or willful idiocy.

«Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father, making intercession by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he was handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of man requires, by which the bloody sacrifice achieved once upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission of those sins which are daily committed by us.»

We can only offer our lives to God as a living sacrifice through the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross, in which we participate in the sacrifice of the Mass..

While, from a pagan perspective, the crucifixion itself could be viewed as a sacrifice in the most proper sense — destruction of the agent of social instability for the sake of peace, which is always a profitable exchange — Christ's life of charity, service, forgiveness, and righteous judgment could not; indeed, it would have to seem the very opposite of sacrifice, an economic and indiscriminate inversion of rank and order.

In this sacrifice Christ, who has given himself for us once and for all, is presented as the Church's gift to the eternal God.

instead, ceremonial & judicial laws are abrogated because Christ FULFILLS them (i.e., Christ has made us clean as the ultimate sacrifice, so sacrifices wouldn't continue; in Christ, God will bring people from ALL nations to himself, not just Jews).

The significance of the sacrifices was to see our sinfulness and turn our hearts back to God and that is made clear with the death of Christ.The animals though could not remove our sin that was only possible through Christ as God he could remove sin in the past present and future as he is outside of time and space not like us.So there sins in effect were covered by Jesus as well in the old testament as in the new by Gods we just did nt see it.The example of abraham able enoch they all were righteous they were justified before God.Enoch walked with God and was no more that sounds like the rapture to me so the holy spirit was present in that age just like us.We see that God has always been at work to bring life and to bring mankind to salvation.

1 Peter 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Such sacrificial willingness is supremely Christlike, which only goes to show that if Paul were indeed to die for Christ as he desires, this would not separate Him from Jesus but would instead be the perfect representation of Jesus in His sacrifice for us.

In Hebrews 2:17 and 4:14 - 16 the Jewish cultus of the temple is brought to mind and Christ is seen as the supreme sacrifice which assuages God's anger and enables us to come before Him.

I'm now saved (for the 1st time) because I have truly seen the error of my ways (Need of a Saviour), repented to God, turned from all known sin, and have trusted in Jesus Christ's atoning sacrifice as the only means of my salvation.

Hence Jesus Christ, son of God, son of man, is able to make the sacrifice on account of men, and all of humanity, even though, as God he was the offended one.

We who believe in the Christ remember his life and sacrifice just as the Hebrews did at passover time when life was taken so that others may live.

Just as you say, our duty is to recognize our helplessness and inability and throw ourselves on God's gracious provision in Christ's sacrifice.

The crucifix, for example, could serve as a focus for meditation on Christ's sacrifice for our sinfulness and help the devotee cultivate the virtues of humility, gratitude, and identification with Christ's suffering on behalf of the world.

Since the Syriac fathers see the old order of sacrifices as having lost its former value, it is curious how firmly both Aphrahat and Ephrem held a tradition which is strange to the New Testament, namely, that Christ as High Priest «according to the order of Melchizedek», actually received the Aaronic priesthood by unbroken succession of imposition of hands through John the Baptist, who was of priestly family; when the former priesthood was repudiated, the power continued in Christ and he passed it on to the Apostles.

It is by these mercies of God that we present our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God through Christ (Rom.

However, when we look at the book of Ezra — which takes place approximately a thousand years after God spoke to Moses, hundreds of years after many of the Psalms were written, and 400 years before Jesus Christ was born — we see that Zahnd's theory is simply inaccurate, as Israel reinstituted sacrifices to God even before they began reconstructing the temple (Ezra 3).

As we read in Ephesians 5:1 - 2, «Be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.&raquAs we read in Ephesians 5:1 - 2, «Be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.&raquas beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.&raquas Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.»

The glory of the totally other world of God as a transforming power in this world is present in the Christ who was forsaken by God and sacrificed by him.

For there is no distinction, since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; they are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement by his blood, effective through faith.

The answer, for Christian thought, must begin with Israel, apart from which one can not grasp the way of being that Christ embodies and that the Father vindicates at Easter; it is in Israel's many orders of sacrifice that sacrifice (conceived as an economy of violence) begins to be undone.

So when we speak of Christ as spending three days in the grave, it was actually His body that was in the grave while He was spiritually in heaven before God presenting His sacrifice.

Animal sacrifice was indeed performed as a matter of obedience and a ritualistic obligation representing Christ's ultimate fulfilling sacrifice and every animal, for the most part, was eaten as food.

That message, as billions around the world have heard for more than six decades, is salvation and the need to live a new life because of Christ's sacrifice on the cross.