Sentences with phrase «cross as a sacrifice»

Dave, Jesus Christ died on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins.

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.

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The Old Testiment prophets even predicted Jesus death on the cross, and Jesus died intentionally so as to be the final and last sacrifice needed.

They say that that the Romans lined the roads with crucifixions as a means to intimidate the masses into submission, that in actual fact, crosses were slammed into the ground and the crucified only hung 6 inches to a foot off the ground, so no traveller could avoid facing the sacrificed and exposed.

The tradition of folding a palm frond into the shape of a cross powerfully illustrates the kingdom message of Jesus, as a symbol of royalty becomes a symbol of sacrifice.

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).

SACRIFICE: * now refers to Jesus's death on the cross as payment for our sins.

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

Therefore, if people think they can willfully go on sinning and the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross covers them, they are sadly mistaken, But if we sin (on purpose) out of weakness and imperfection then as 1 John writes, «My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.

The cross is certainly a many - sided event and symbol, and contexts alter meanings; but in our context at least, I believe, it should be seen primarily, not as a divinely managed human sacrifice to a righteously wrathful God but as God's own solidarity with the creature and the decisive statement of One who would be «with us» unreservedly.

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 si... More

6) I have already given several verses showing the sin - bearing nature of Jesus» cross, I just want to point out again Romans 3:25 & 26: God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood — to be received by faith.

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.»

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 bread and hymns / prayers which mark Jesus» cultic action at the Last Supper are the New Testament fulfilment known as the Eucharist of the Old Testament zebach toda, with the unique bloody death of Jesus on the cross taking the place of the temple sacrifices.

That message, as billions around the world have heard for more than six decades, is salvation and the need to live a new life because of Christ's sacrifice on the cross.

We all «killed» Christ (our sinfulness required His death on the cross as an atoning sacrifice), but if you want to be specific it was the Roman army that crucified Jesus.

Receiving the sign of the cross with ash on Ash Wednesday marks Christians as belonging to a people with a cultural identity that honors the local without sacrificing the global — indeed, catholic — nature of that identity.

Only the mass media can turn the cross into a symbol of hate when it was meant as a symbol of hope and ultimate sacrifice.

For an eternal idea is just as discernible in the mythical presentation of the cross as it is in pagan mythology — e.g. the idea of sacrifice or heroism.

Through His death on the cross, Jesus willingly submitted Himself to the violent death of ritualistic sacrifice as a way of exposing to humanity the sin to which humanity is enslaved.

Mainstream Christian theology's position held that Judaism had been supplanted, the Jewish covenant with the divine no longer valid, because of the incarnation of God as Jesus and his sacrifice on the cross.

Is it really so complicated to understand that the cross as a symbol has come to represent More than just the God who sacrifices himself for humanity and wants us to love and respect each other?

I believe that understanding God as totally revealed in Christ and his sacrifice on the cross for everyone is a historic theological revelation.

Isaac carried the wood for the fire up the place of sacrifice just as Jesus Christ started to carry his cross to his place of sacrifice

In your love and faithfulness redeem me, and make me a new creation, through my trust in Your Son Jesus Christ, who bore my sins on the cross of Calvary that I may be cleansed and made righteous by His sacrifice, and accepted as your son / daughter through faith in Him.

Furthermore, there is a kind of embarrassment in talking about sacrifice in catechesis, not only because it is seen as something negative in itself but also because it can conjure up what is often seen as the Protestant view of the angry God who seeks blood to be appeased and is only fully appeased when Jesus dies on the cross, shedding His blood in our stead.

Grace is not the act of God paying the debt of sin by sacrificing His own Son on the cross as our substitute.

The only way to provide crosses and width, in order to get the best out of Benteke in a 4 -2-3-1 is to either have out and out wingers and sacrifice two of Firmino, Sturridge and Coutinho from the starting XI, or to get Moreno and Clyne flying forward to create an overlap and put crosses into the box — this is viable though, as the two centre - midfielders provide defensive protection for the centre - backs, unlike in a 4 -4-2 diamond where the centre - backs and sole CDM can be left exposed.

As a Christian, Easter reminds us of the great sacrifice Jesus made for us when he died on the cross, and was also resurrected.

«I don't think twice about restricting my diet to things such as canned fish — if you love something as much as I do traveling, the sacrifices you make don't even cross your mind,» Wilkins said.