Sentences with phrase «also sacrificed himself for our sins»

He also sacrificed himself for our sins.

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It's unique among modern religions in that human sacrifice:» (Jesus) is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.»

On the cross he makes up for the selfishness of others with his selfless sacrifice of obedient love and he also apologizes to his Father for the infinite offence which sin gives to Divine Goodness.

The sacrifices were confided in by good men as the outward symbols of forgiven sin and reestablished fellowship with God, but they were also confided in by evil men as an efficacious technique for placating God regardless of one's ethical life.

If we accept that view of Jesus sacrifice, it will also be an atonement for our sins.

Come on get real samson old testement its in there wilful sin my definition is walking away from the Lord and doing opur own thing knowing what you should do but still do what you want to do.In the life of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the sacrifice is the same as today repentence we are saved by the grace of God if we turn from our own way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20 years if he had walking in the ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the way.We all have those areas in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or making sin an idol in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flesh.

I also believe that no one should be manipulated, scared, or forced into accepting the existence of God or the sacrifice for sin that Jesus made.

1st John 2:2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

persuade not only individuals but also whole communities that, both for the living and the dead, remission and absolution of sins may be had by sacrifices and childish performances that they are pleased to call initiations and which they allege deliver us from all ills in the next world, where terrible things await the uninitiated.22

Your final point, that Christians should still make sacrifices is also quiet false, the whole reason Jesus came was to pay for the sins of the world.

It was also a model of the Christ who would come (God's firstborn) and the Son of God who would indeed be sacrificed for the sin of the world.

For believers: If someone really follows Christ in the power of baptism or Christ's death and resurrection, Christ's sacrifice is also an atonement for our siFor believers: If someone really follows Christ in the power of baptism or Christ's death and resurrection, Christ's sacrifice is also an atonement for our sifor our sins.

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.

«He (Christ) is the propitiation [atoning sacrifice] for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.»

See also Harrison, Making the Connections and «Sin and the Possibility for Social Transformation: Reinhold Niebuhr's Doctrine of Sin and Self - Sacrifice Revisioned,» unpublished paper by Sue Nelson Dunfee.