Sentences with phrase «appeased by the sacrifice»

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Child sacrifice may have been a last resort in the hopes that the gesture would improve the weather by appeasing the gods.

Appeasing China by sacrificing the interests of the Tibetan people has not yielded any benefits for India, nor has there been tranquillity in the Himalayas in recent decades.

Now, if their religious belief is that they must sacrifice you to appease some random force or god, by all means complain and ask for their beliefs to be stopped, but in that case you may want to run away before doing that.

A big magic fairy man spoke a spell and then there was earth and light before stars and then a snake talked to a woman and then the big magic fairy man had to sacrifice himself to himself to appease himself by exploiting a loophole in a plan he made himself because of an invisible disease (sin) in an invisble body part (soul) so that he doesn't have to torture us forever in the big fire pit he made even though he doesn't want anyone to ever go there but he just can't help himself.

Not quite tallulah, all the other gods are man invented or possibly demonic.Every other idol god either mimics God and or requires a series of works to gain their favor.They are created by men to appease the inner knowledge of God, but all fall short of the creator God.You can not work your way into Gods good graces, you can only be saved by faith through grace.God alone has resolved the sin problem we all suffer from, in the selfless sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.It is by accepting Jesus» redemption for us that allows us to be reconciled with God.God bless

In times of prosperity they acknowledged his goodness and besought its continuance by sacrifice; in times of distress they multiplied sacrifices to appease him and make him again propitious.

The carrot is that Jesus came to save us all by sacrificing himself to himself to appease himself because of all the sin and stuff.

The terrible dynamism of nature had to be both resisted and controlled by rites at once apotropaic — appeasing chaos and rationalizing it within the stability of cult — and economic — recuperating its sacrificial expenditures in the form of divine favor, a numinous power reinforcing the regime that sacrifice served.

Study of Scripture through the filter of man's biases results in the type of man - centered ideas proferred by Baden, like «God learns to accept their inherently evil nature», and humans «are the only species that can give him what he wants — which, in the view of Genesis, is bloody, burned animal sacrifices», and «it is, rather, our job to make ourselves uncomfortable that he might be appeased.»

When I heard that God sent himself As a sacrifice to himself, To appease himself, Of sins invented by himself, Committed by people he created himself, I knew he loved me and turned to Jesus.

There were blood covenants among many primitive peoples, ratified often by ritualistic sacrifices, but with the assumption that the deities must be appeased, or their vanity flattered, or at best that the honor of the gods depended on the faithfulness of the people.

Yes, but that's coming from a book that describes dragons, co.ckatrices, talking snakes and donkeys, mass zombie outbreaks, and a god who's so stupid he has to continually adjust his «perfect» plan by finding loopholes so that he can sacrifice himself to himself to appease himself so that he doesn't torture more than 99.999 % of his creation in a never - ending torture pit he made for his own enjoyment.

The laws about sacred seasons, Sabbath observance, details of sacrifice, clean and unclean foods, bulk much larger than legislation on ethics, and this lack of perspective and proportion, this inveterate idea that Yahweh was appeased by ceremonial behavior, obtained so firm a grip that even the prophets who contended against it never broke its hold, as orthodox Judaism today bears witness.

Furthermore, he did not attempt to appease the hostility of the anti-metaphysicians by sacrificing theism or even minimizing its importance in his thought.

As the story goes, when Agamemnon massed his troops to sail to Troy, he inadvertently killed a deer sacred to the goddess Artemis, and could appease her only by sacrificing his daughter, Iphigenia.

He was likely the victim of a human sacrifice known as the «threefold death», a violent ritual suffered by Celtic kings who failed to appease their subjects.

In it, a cycle of construction and violent destruction leads to the creation of a present world that can only be sustained by continuous blood sacrifices to appease the Gods.

The Left's pogrom against America and modernity may be analogous to pagan societies responding to bad weather by sacrificing a virgin to appease the gods.

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