Sentences with phrase «child sacrificed for»

Not exact matches

Parents make extraordinary sacrifices for their children.

Now, imagine that your child will be sacrificed for His killer's gain.

I agree with your post, Mr. Stephens — insofar as I believe that a cobbled - together patchwork of Bronze Age myths that sanction slavery, genocide, human sacrifice, and child murder should not be arbitrarily invoked as the sole determinate for notions of morality in the modern world.

Jeremiah even rails against child sacrifices to other gods by the Jews as a reason for the Babylonian Captivity.

Still to no end Job would pray for them, and many times he would sacrifice unto YHWH for his loved ones to get in good with the Creator YHWH for the forgiveness of his disobedient children until the day when the challenge of Job's faith began.

The sacrifices we make for spouses and children can be among the best reflections we can offer of the perfect sacrifice of Golgotha.

But I guess in the case of the Amalekites it was moral for the Israelite's to sacrifice other peoples children...

«All our talk about peace and the weapons of the spirit is meaningless unless we try in every way to embrace voluntary poverty and not work in any position, any job that contributes to war... We must give up our place in this world, sacrifice children, family... And we will be considered fools for Christ.»

I then run into the rather jarring Lev 18:21, «««Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek, for you must not profane the name of your God.

I debated pacifists in my youth at a youth conference and the thing that became so prominent in my mind was the willingness to be consistent or inconsistent in the principle - I remember a professor telling me he would be willing to sacrifice his wife and child to avoid a violent encounter and while I lauded him for his consistency I abhorred his morality.

Yet the same messenger told the children that souls were going to hell because there was no one to offer prayers or make sacrifices for them.

A more moving portrayal of the meaning of child sacrifice to a good father could hardly have been written than this story furnishes; the profound loyalty involved in child sacrifice, holding nothing back that religious obligation might require, is recognized; and the story's obvious objective is reached when «Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt - offering in the stead of his son.»

(Jeremiah 7:31; 19:5; 32:35) In the next generation Ezekiel tried another apologetic: granting both that the command to sacrifice children was in the Law, as it obviously was, and that Yahweh was responsible for its presence there, he asserted none the less that; Yahweh had given «statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live,» for the ultimate purpose of punishing them with such desolation that they might recognize the divine hand in their tragedy.

Jesus promises brothers, sisters, mothers and children to believers who have sacrificed for him (Mark 10:29 - 30).

One visitor marvels that American parents will make any sacrifice for their children except to stay married to each other.

But he is no zealot, eager to practice child - sacrifice or insensitive to the horror involved; this we learn from the austere, steady, and dignified way he proceeds, as indicated by the simplicity, compactness, and austerity of the verbs used to recount his actions: He arose, saddled (his ass), took (two youths with him and Isaac his son), cleaved (wood for the burnt - offering), rose up and went.

He is murdered by his wife in retaliation for the sacrifice of a daughter twenty years before; she, in turn, is killed by her children, Orestes and Elektra.

She expresses her resentment over what she sees as her children's lack of gratitude for all her hard work and sacrifice (Grandma 6).

Thank you for your self - sacrificing service, your unfailing love, and your patience toward all your children, both those who are growing and grown.

Jeebus has inflicted a Black president on the cult as punishment for not sacrificing enough unborn children.

The same God who accepts without comment Jephthah's sacrifice of his own daughter, who allows children to be mauled by a bear for taunting one of his prophets, who threatens Israel with such devastating famine that they will be forced to eat their own infants.

It the region where people with albinism are killed for sake of richness (belief), it is the region where people sacrifice even their children so as to get gold or diamond and its the region where the main trucks from Dar es Salaam to Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and DRC pass across, thus high rates of HIV / AIDS.

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)

We still must sacrifice for our children if we have them, but when and whether we have them is for us to decide.

In Christianity, and Christianity alone, all these negative elements of pagan mythology are stripped away, and we are told that God loves us so much, that He does not want us to sacrifice our own children, but instead, He will sacrifice His own Son for us.

Further, quran confirms that God ransomed the child of Abrham with a momentous sacrifice for GENERATIONS to come in Later times.

ScottK: So what you are saying is that since the Jews prohibited their people from following the tradition of the Ammonites (burning their children as a sacrifice to their god Molech) that somehow lets people like Bin Laden off the hook for killing, burning and maiming thousands of innocent people?

Sometimes we think the elders in the church, pious Christians, pastors or other brave souls who make sacrifices for their faith are the real Christians, the real children of God.

In this activity of procreation and care for children the self - regarding and self - serving ways of the parents are to a large degree transformed into acts of self - giving and self - sacrifice.

We who sacrifice fabulous resources to fatten the most inhuman form of violence so that it will continue to protect us, and who pass our time in transmitting futile messages from a planet that is risking destruction to planets that are already dead» how can we have the extraordinary hypo crisy to pretend that we do not understand all those people who did such things long before us: those, for example, who made it their practice to throw a single child, or two at the most, into the furnace of a certain Moloch in order to ensure the safety of the others?

It's this kind of research that led Princeton sociologist Sara McLanahan and her colleague Gary Sandefur to write that if they we were to design a family, the «two - parent ideal... [would ensure] that children had access to the time and money of two adults... would provide a system of checks and balances that promoted quality parenting... [and the] fact that both parents have a biological connection to the child would increase the likelihood that the parents would identify with the child and be willing to sacrifice for that child, and it would reduce the likelihood that either parent would abuse the child.»

Some examples: that «every single organic being around us may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase its numbers»; that «of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive»; that it is to a mother's «advantage» that her child should be adopted by another woman; that «no one is prepared to sacrifice his life for any single person, but... everyone will sacrifice it for more than two brothers, or four half - brothers or eight first cousins»; that «any variation in the least degree injurious [to a species] would be rigidly destroyed.»

Just today in Philadelphia we had another priest / monsignor indicted for molesting little children and / or covering it up, and we need to share the «sacrifice», I mean we need to share the burden of the legal bills and financial settlements to keep it as quiet as possible.»

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.»

We thank mothers for their self - sacrificing service, unfailing love, and patience toward all children, both those who are growing and grown.

Yeah, the Old Testament just supports child sacrifice and divine retaliation for not being a faithful follower.

We have come to believe that a system allowing parents a choice among schools, if properly organized by an aggressive central administration, can release energies that only diversity makes available, without sacrificing accountability for the effective education of every child.

It covers every facet of human relationships; it spells out punishment for crime; it states the way children, servants, and animals are to be treated; it gives directions in intimate detail for worship, sacrifice, burnt offering, dressing the altar, and a thousand other details.

Take for instance the case of a child being sacrificed in order to insure the success of an enterprise or to avert misfortune.

In «Adoption, Abortion and a Message of Hope,» J.D. Flynn makes an important point: the choice to place a child for adoption is a heroic sacrifice, borne in suffering, which we must always acknowledge and honor.

We condemn drug traffickers for sacrificing their children, their integrity and their human dignity just to make money or experience pleasure — without seeing that our whole society operates that way.

Deception is evil and Satan is existed in your whole life that through our obedience to the government we serve make the sacrifice from YWHY putting his child through death for our sake meaningless.

The great achievements of the Hebrew prophets, from one point of view, were their insistence that God is not to be approached in this external fashion and their success in securing a general consent by the Jewish people to the proposition that «the sacrifices of God are a troubled spirit» — that God wishes the offering to Him of the whole life of His people, both as individuals and as a group, not for His own glorification but rather so that He might effectively use them for the accomplishment of great ends: the redemption of the world and the opening of rich life for His children.

As a parent, I read the passage with even wider eyes — imagine being asked to sacrifice your child, the beloved gift that you have waited for all of your life.

However, Sinkinson insists that there is no conflict in affirming a historical basis for the story while appreciating its message of progressive revelation — that Yahweh was not the kind of God who required child sacrifice.

In the end, the women sacrifice their children on its altars, trusting in a delusion of protection, the responsibility for which is unclear.

Lev 18:21 «Do not permit any of your children to be offered as a sacrifice to Molech, for you must not bring shame on the name of your God.

Do you respect the aztecs for sacrificing children to their gods?

Declaring war / judgment on a people group because of the things already discussed (child sacrifice, etc.) warning them, asking them to repent, having the message / messenger being confirmed by overt supernatural signs, being patient and waiting years, sometimes over a hundred years for people groups to repent...... that's one thing.

In the United States Roman Catholics, at no small sacrifice, were constructing a network of parochial and higher schools for the education of their children under Christian auspices.