Sentences with phrase «for sacrificial»

It will likely be alone in any fights against Washington as the tech industry looks for a sacrificial lamb to offer up in penance for its sins.

Animals serve for the production of different forms of high quality food, animals have served in rites for sacrificial purposes, they can help to upgrade food waste from kitchens and / or agro-industry, they are a form of informal saving and provide cash income, and they provide manure that can be used as fertilizer in urban crop production.

They are the requiems for the sacrificial human pillars of Japanese modernization.

Foodies will love the authentic Roman Empire bustle as your haggle for figs and olives, and hang around for a sacrificial feast in the evening.

; Mike Watson on Living with the Maldives; Sam Jacob on the myths of primitivism and modernity; J.J. Charlesworth on how not to make public art; Hettie Judah on sauce for the sacrificial lamb; Jonathan Grossmalerman keeps visualising Hauser & Wirth; Laura McLean Ferris on off - space Castillo / Corrales, in Paris.

In ancient times, they used these sites for sacrificial offerings... and, they were believed to be entry points to the underworld — or the after - life.

They: raise money for the Democrat; bring down the Republican Chairman who opposes them; arrange a Senate Minority Leader endorsement for their sacrificial lamb; and make sure Mike Long does not support a real challenger.

That leaves you scrambling for a sacrificial lamb to run in 2020.

According to this view, when the innocent are threatened by an unjust aggressor and all other remedies have failed, Jesus» demand for sacrificial love may require us to use lethal force.

With death «demythologised» there is no original sin, because death is no longer a punishment for disobedience, and no Fall and hence no need for redemption or for a sacrificial and atoning interpretation of Jesus» death.

If I really thought that we were so hopelessly evil as you say, then I could only assume that Jesus was a bit of a sentimental fool for his sacrificial act.

Rather do we take a stern joy in the astringency and desolation; and what is called weakness of character seems in most cases to consist in the inaptitude for these sacrificial moods, of which one's own inferior self and its pet softnesses must often be the targets and the victims.

There would be no need for any sacrificial system.

It will fall to the elders or the most experienced to lead in prayer or chant; some of the younger members may be charged with providing whatever is needed for sacrificial purposes.

In the Epistle to the Hebrews, Christ is seen as the priest and the lamb for the sacrificial resolution of peace between God and the people of God.

As a result we have developed a larger interest in redistributing income legislatively than in providing a rationale for sacrificial giving on the part of the laity.

(I John 4:7 - 8) As for the sacrificial system, that had been displaced by a moral and universally applicable substitute — «Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.»

When the Oliners affirm that the language of care — of compassion, hospitality, and helpfulness — is overwhelmingly employed to express their motives, they clearly imply that face - to - face compassion is a far more salient motive for sacrificial and heroic moral altruism than abstract principles of equity and justice.

In time, and with practice, we can stop looking around the office for sacrificial lambs and scapegoats, and follow Harry Truman's lead.

Not exact matches

There is no room for the self - sacrificial hero in the great ascent into the future.

In his view the valuation of goods finds its origins in the selection of sacrificial animals «in the cult, not in commerce (which knows no basis for typology, but remains purely individualistic).»

And what better way to do this than quote Scripture and threaten the loss of God's blessings for non - tithers / less - than - sacrificial givers.

Hello, Muneef, I hope and pray that you are doing fine, and that you are safe... I don't actualy know where you are, but I gather you live somewhere where there are many unrests... Today is the special day for all people who have put their faith in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, who came to live among us, and who became a sacrificial Lamb, offeirng Himself to God for the sins of all mankind.

At least all we have to do to avoid the ultimate penalty is to accept Christ and believe in his sacrificial atonement, however, we still have to suffer on earth for humanity crime in the garden of eden.

The greatest love known is to give (or risk) your life for a friend - Jesus didn't say that the greatest love known is to «turn the other cheek and forsake a friend» - you recieved sacrifical love from a complete stranger and willfully chose to withhold your sacrificial love in return.

I see a Christ dying to invite us into God's presence and also doing away with the sacrificial system once and for all — and including the Gentiles fully in the process (according to Paul and the gospels).

If Christ is not Divine, then what is his role in atonement for our sins, the sacrificial death of just one good man?

Nearly all Christians know that the blood of the lamb is later used to symbolize the sacrificial death of Jesus on the cross for us.

God is not a baby - killing deity, who seeks to exact revenge on His enemies for a crime many decades old, but is a self - sacrificial, enemy - loving God, who would rather die for His enemies than see His enemies die.

Such a severe penalty leaves room for God's grace and mercy (totally underserved) for those who believe in Jesus sacrificial death on the cross at Calvary and His redemptive resurrection.

Instead, God is to be found in the self - sacrificial death of a lamb, who pours out His blood for others, so that death and destruction, when it comes, passes over the house and can not touch those who live within.

Seems to me that the foundation of Christianity is that God sent Jesus (himself actually) to earth to serve a a sacrificial lamb, to die for the sins of man because all people are born into sin.

Even so, Christ wants us, like the poor widow in the gospel, to contribute our tokens as a sacrificial offering for the redemption of our souls.

As St Paul says in Ephesians 5, the more that the husband in his relationship with his wife reflects the sacrificial love of Christ for His bride the Church, and the more that the wife in her relationship with her husband reflects the self - giving love of the Church for her Bridegroom, the more they will be truly fulfilled and the more they will live up to what they are called to be.

True power and true victory lie in love for your enemies, in self - sacrificial service, in infinite forgiveness, and in bearing sin and shame for the sake of others.

God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.

For others, the books were a celebration of the Christian ideal of sacrificial love.

As stated in my comment, I do not believe the sacrificial system was «for receiving forgiveness of sins.»

Joshua, the «law» you speak of that has been done away with is the sacrificial system of killing animals as an atonement for our sins.

So before we can talk about what exactly Jesus fulfilled through his sacrificial death on the cross, we must understand what the sacrificial system was for.

The main things I think that Jesus was «bypassing» was the priestly class as mediators between God and man, the sacrificial system as the method for receiving forgiveness of sins, and the Temple as the locus of God's presence.

And the sacrificial system was explained to Adam and Eve who told their children and so it was arrogant of Cain to substitute garden produce for the animal Jesus said should represent Him and flesh and blood did not reveal that to those who believe.

It is Jesus Christ in his incarnation and sacrificial death who is he final model and motivation for servanthood.

Divine love is as glorious as a summer day high in the Alps; it is merciful and makes our sins, though they be as scarlet, vanish into insignificance, replacing them with his own action in us; it is, finally, self - sacrificial unto death, for it seeks not its own.

To the prophet, therefore, prayer was no appendage to a sacrificial system and required no smoking altar for its support.

II, pp. 14 - 15) Christian ideas, however, soon moved too far away from either the practice or the perusal of sacrificial laws as a means of reconciliation with God for the early Christian to be content with such a solution.

As a result, the literal and tangible sacrificial apparatus of the Jews became to the Christians symbolic of another kind of religious system altogether, whose temple is heavenly, not earthly, whose high priest once for all has entered the holy place of divine communion, where believing souls may follow him, (Hebrews 10:19) whose sacrifice is voluntary self - giving, and whose consequence is an open way for all to «draw nigh unto God.»

(Nehemiah 13:31) Clearly, to men like this the sacrificial system was not a substitute for the interior practice of God's presence but rather the «outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.»

But Jesus» sacrificial death has given value to all suffering if it is accepted and offered in union with Him out of love for the Father, sincere sorrow for sins - our own and those of the whole world - and charity towards those who have caused it.

He must be harmless as the dove (the sacrificial victim, ready to sacrifice himself in his action — for the dove is the sacrificial victim) and wise as the serpent (that is, fully aware of just what he thinks and does).