No man hung from a tree could ever become the messiah, so Jesus» death
as sacrifice for our sins was developed into theology.
It makes sense why an animal had to die in place of a person as a sacrifice, it makes sense as to why Our Lord have
himself as a sacrifice for our sins and undeservedly took our punishment (which was a painful and humiliating death)(what a loving Lord we serve!)
God the Father so loved us that he gave his only begotten son
as a sacrifice for our sins.
«For God presented Jesus
as the sacrifice for sin.
Leviticus 5:11 «But if he can not afford two turtle doves or two young doves, then he shall bring
as his sacrifice for his sin one tenth of an ephah [measurement] of fine flour for a sin offering.
He gave his Son out of love for us,
as a sacrifice for our sins, to buy back what Adam had lost.
He died a criminal's death because He went there willingly,
as a sacrifice for the sins of the whole world, to take our sins upon Himself and bear them into death.
We have already noted in the Fourth Gospel traces of the earlier apocalyptic notion of a victorious conflict with the powers of this world and now we are observing indications of the conception of Christ's death
as sacrifice for sin.
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.
Dave, Jesus Christ died on the cross
as a sacrifice for our sins.
He had offered
himself as the sacrifice for the sins of the whole world.
The Roman soldiers had at their disposal the tunic of the high priest who was offering
himself as the sacrifice for the sins of the whole world.
Jesus would die on the cross
as a sacrifice for the sins of humanity and thereby, in his own oblation of himself once offered, be a full and sufficient sacrifice for all humankind.
Or will he accept his death sentence — as atonement on behalf of the Catholic Church, or perhaps
as a sacrifice for the sins of his crooked community?
As if resigned to fate, or prepared to offer
himself as a sacrifice for the sins of his church, Father James seems to trudge toward death with a wary — or is it weary?
Not exact matches
It is the spiritual reality of our
sin, created by it
as a natural consequence of our free will — and something God never intended
for us to go to, to the point of total self -
sacrifice to us to help save us from our own self - made doom.
That a God, to undo a rule he created, sends a man to be
sacrificed as a blood atonment
for all our
sins, which he is directly responsible
for so that we can all go and live in a cloud theme park.
She says that churches should BEND towards what people today want in order to allow their
sin, to allow their desire to live
as we ought not, and to make our selfish hearts even harder, to not realize
sacrificing self is not about the church
sacrificing the Message, but
for people to turn to their own hearts and how hard they have become.
Jesus is painted
as an atonement by Paul — however — what that atonement actually means is truly up
for deeper discussion since in the Torah that
sacrifice (of the once a year
for the community) was
for all people there —
for their
sins committed in ignorance (or by accident).
God the Father accepts his Son's
sacrifice of love
for all humanity
as an apology
for all the
sins of the world.
As our subst.itute, «He Himself bore our
sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to
sin and live to righteousness» (1 Peter 2:24); «He, having offered one
sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God» (Hebrews 10:12; cf. Ephesians 1:7; 4:32; 1 John 2:1 — 2).
By being both genetically and behaviorally flawless, the Last Adam's life would be a sufficient
sacrifice for the
sin nature inherent in all men,
as well
as for all their sinful behavior in the future.
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.
Two new kinds of
sacrifice of major importance were added after the Exile the trespass - offering, a
sacrifice of restitution either
for wrong done to man or
as tribute due to Yahweh, and the
sin - offering, an expiation
for the unwitting guilt of the people.
To people who saw Jesus
as God incarnate and / or
as the required unblemished
sacrifice to atone
for our
sins, it may have been both necessary and believable that he was perfect.
When you have a world filled with liars and adulterers and murderers and greed and selfishness (even though we know what's right and what's wrong but we do it anyway) and the God that created you loves you so much that he needs to
sacrifice his Son
for all of us who have not kept his Law, in order to wipe out those terrible
sins, then you should be praying that you're counted
as one who kept his Laws.
Again, what matters most about Jesus is his death
as a substitutionary
sacrifice for the
sins of the world so that we can be forgiven and go to heaven.
What about Jesus
as a
sacrifice, or Jesus paying
for our
sin, or bearing the punishment
for our
sins?
By faith, I believe in Jesus
as the revelation of God to the world... that he was a
sacrifice for our
sins so that we could be reconciled back to God.
The most powerful, self -
sacrificing love is revealed in the Bible
as God Himself became a man to die
for the
sins off the world.The Bible alone reveals the plan of salvation and the conditions that must be met by all to have immortality aand a life that measures with that of Gods.
Certainly he told the people that the
sacrifices of animals he offered were worthless in itself, and only valuable, if they would be considered
as a reminder
for the future
sacrifice of the Son of God, the only
sacrifice which can take away
sins.
I hope the grinding of teeth
for eternity isnt
as bad
as it sounds
for those who reject the
sacrifice Jesus made to forgive their
sins.
As far as Jesus sacrifice goes, I think N.T. Wright hits it on the head in «The Day the Revolution Began» in that in bringing about the «Law», Sin was brought out into the open, and Jesus drew that sin upon himself in order to put it to death in his flesh, and deal with it once and for al
As far
as Jesus sacrifice goes, I think N.T. Wright hits it on the head in «The Day the Revolution Began» in that in bringing about the «Law», Sin was brought out into the open, and Jesus drew that sin upon himself in order to put it to death in his flesh, and deal with it once and for al
as Jesus
sacrifice goes, I think N.T. Wright hits it on the head in «The Day the Revolution Began» in that in bringing about the «Law»,
Sin was brought out into the open, and Jesus drew that sin upon himself in order to put it to death in his flesh, and deal with it once and for a
Sin was brought out into the open, and Jesus drew that
sin upon himself in order to put it to death in his flesh, and deal with it once and for a
sin upon himself in order to put it to death in his flesh, and deal with it once and
for all.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty
for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children
as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty
for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules
for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death
for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure
for animal
sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death
for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death
for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death
for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought
as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse
for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible
for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast
for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death
for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed
for the
sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide
for your family, you are an infidel)
Even though it does not describe vividly in Genesis 3 about God required
sacrifice to replace Adam and Eve
sin, but God showed Adam and Eve how to replace them
as the one who should die because of their
sin, by killing an animal and make the clothes
for them.
SACRIFICE: * now refers to Jesus's death on the cross
as payment
for our
sins.
Yet, we are so corrupted that we consider Jesus»
sacrifice as a mere atonement
for our
sins, and increase
sinning instead of reducing it because we assume Jesus» had yet payed the bill.
Continuing his series on the significance of the cross, David Instone - Brewer examines what it means to say that Jesus died
as a «
sacrifice»
for our
sins
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.
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.
Unfortunately,
as a former Christian, well acquainted with
sin and confession and the whole bloody business of
sacrifice to appease Someone who thinks that shows «love,» I question the whole ancient story, all the animals killed, all the trees cut down (
for temples and churches and crosses and «holy books») and all the human beings left to feel separated again and again from the universe, Nature, each other and their «gods.»
This interpretation of the scriptures and understanding of Christian anthropology gave Christian spirituality a view of God
as a harsh judge who wanted the
sacrifice of the life of Jesus
as expiation and atonement
for the
sins of humanity.
We tend to think that His death was only to provide forgiveness
as the once -
for - all
sacrifice for the
sins of the world.
Jesus is the only way to heaven — his
sacrifice on the cross
for the forgiveness of
sins is the only way to have your
sins forgiven — every human effort to save ourselves is futile
as our own works are worthless in the sight of a Holy and perfect God.
The blood
sacrifices God instructed Moses to institute
as part of Israel's worship of Him were meant to pave the way
for the only and ultimate blood
sacrifice that could save humanity from our
sin.
Unlike the Christian god that wouldn't ever change his mind or doctrine... except
for cursing the world
for eating an apple... except
for telling Abraham to
sacrifice his son, but then stopping him... and except
for killing nearly all life on Earth and then because of the guilt says I'll never to do that ever again - in exactly that way... and except
for deciding that 2 of himself (Father and Spirit) weren't enough any more, and creating / fathering / spiriting
as Son... and except
for forgiving all
sin, when «In the beginning» he had cursed the universe
for the eating of an apple, by having his creation torture and kill his only begotten Son... and except
for having to repeat himself about the unchanging eternal rules, to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Saul / Paul, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Bahá «u «lláh, David Koresh, and a whole host of others... and except
for... and except
for...
He then culminated the symbol in the willful giving of his son
as an ending
sacrifice for all the
sins and misgivings of mankind.
This passage contains the combination of Jesus» nature (
as sinless) and role (
as sacrifice) that is central to the traditional idea of Jesus
as Savior: he was a person without
sin, and by offering himself up in our place
as a perfect
sacrifice he has secured salvation
for those who join themselves to him by faith.
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.
Those who have been asked to live
for others have been instructed to see their subordination
as noble
sacrifice or, worse,
as merited punishment
for sin.