Sentences with phrase «animal sacrifice set»

More significantly, the partial foreshadowing of Christ's oblation in animal sacrifice set up the void in which his sacrifice could exist by revealing the distance between the earlier attempts at sacrifice and their fulfillment at Calvary.

Not exact matches

After being cooped up for a year in tiny cages, the animals were once again set free, except for those that were immediately sacrificed to make God happy.

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).

The firstborn animals were to be sacrificed to the Lord, and the firstborn males were to be set apart for life - long service of the Lord (Ex.

So first the animal sacrifices were set up so we could feel better about ourselves then he presented the only sacrifice that can save us, Christ.

No theory of the way in which vicarious sacrifice operates to redeem mankind was explicitly set forth; current forms of thought, such as those associated with animal sacrifices (E.g., Hebrews, chaps.

If, for instance, you were to condemn a religion of human or animal sacrifices by virtue of your subjective sentiments, and if all the while a deity were really there demanding such sacrifices, you would be making a theoretical mistake by tacitly assuming that the deity must be non-existent; you would be setting up a theology of your own as much as if you were a scholastic philosopher.