Sentences with phrase «from animal sacrifices»

This «God» at one time demanded, and got its jollies from animal sacrifice, in an oh - so - special ritual right down to the placement of entrails on an altar... but, oops, it changed its mind somewhere along the line.

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Instead we should write to them telling them to abstain from food sacrificed to idols... sexual immorality... meat from strangled animals... from blood.

As for Justice Stevens himself, it is an arresting fact that in the animal sacrifice case he joined the opinion announcing the constitutional requirement that public officials disassociate themselves from antireligious measures.

We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.

They could sure use some help from the Christians on how to barbeque, what with the Christian recipes for animal sacrifice and all.

According to the Qur» an, Muslims are forbidden to eat a corpse, blood, pork, a pagan sacrifice, suffocated animals, animals killed other than by slaughtering, animals which died from a fall, animals killed by other animals, remnants of food eaten by a beast, food offered as a sacrifice to idols.

But when you also add to that the fact that Cain's offering was not acceptable, being of vegetables from tilling the ground, while Abel's was acceptable (being an animal sacrifice), then there is very strong evidence to support what God considered «right» back then in relation to the offering.

The Law from the Old Testament was fulfilled when Christ came, from that time forward we have the Gospel of Christ, thus you read of no animal sacrifices in the New Testament, for example, just to give you an idea.

Such a gift might spring from varied motives — gratitude, homage, or the desire to curry favor — but obviously in the background of the practice of animal sacrifice was the idea that God liked this form of gift and profited by it.

Even when sacrifice was not so drastically eliminated from Israel's early tradition, the prophetic conscience denied all efficacy whatever to animal offerings.

A large area of historic Christian theology would have been completely altered if ideas of atonement, especially as related to the blood of Christ, had not been carried over from primitive concepts associated with animal sacrifice.

What God is looking for is repentence and a turning to him rather than a turning away from him.God instituted the animal sacrifices to show just how bad sin was so we would be sorry that we greived him.For us to be made right there has to be a choice to turn from sin and follow him and out of that decision there should be a desire to walk in his ways.Under the old law part of that obedience was to make offerings however it was by faith in God that made the person righteous and not the blood of animals.

It can encourage such protection inasmuch as the animal is seen as having perhaps been a close and dear relative, and yet it can also discourage such protection inasmuch as the animal can be seen as sacrificing itself for the sake of a better birth in the future, leading ultimately to an escape from rebirth altogether (Bowker, 6).

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.»

The fact is that millions of mainstream Muslims from a range of classes still practice bloody animal sacrifices annually at the» Eid «ul «Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice.

Christians, your own bible is loaded with demands from your «god» that you sacrifice animals too.

The outer court was in these weeks before the festival the scene of a market where animals and birds could be bought for sacrifice, and where pilgrims from abroad could change the money they brought with them into currency acceptable for religious dues and offerings.

Morals do not come from belief and in fact we can find a great many immoral issues with belief - the bible is a proponent of such immoral issues - rape; human sacrifice; animal sacrifice; child abuse; mass murder; idolatry (the 1st 4 commandments are exactly that); bigotry (the non-stop judging of gays based solely on what the bible says); oppression of women; incest.

In course of time, unusual events were studied as of special significance; and from this into portents of one sort or another the way was easy: earthquakes, ec1ipses, abnormal births, abnormal weather, celestial phenomena, and then ritualistic phenomena, such as the structure of a sacrificed animal, the spread of oil on water, and so on in manifold ramifications.

The apostles sent a letter to the Gentiles that included the following: «It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from se - xual immorality.

Christians believe that this ultimate sacrifice redeemed us all from sin in the same way that lambs and other animals were once sacrificed as a symbolic way of cleansing people from sin.

«food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sëxual immorality» hmmm... I thought much of the Levitical / Mosaic code was about just these things, blood and proper slaughtering techniques.

It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sëxual immorality.

While we all take some inspiration from ancient paganisms, there are some groups who are deeply dedicated to studying the primary texts and archaeological records of their chosen cultural framework to try to make their paths as close to their spiritual ancestors as reasonably possible in the modern world — this includes the use of bonfires and occasionally animal sacrifice.

A command not to Do (Do not associate any partner with Allah, do not make a prophet as son of Allah, do not say Allah has a son or daughter or wife, do not distinguish between prophets, do not make an angel as one of three (referring to trinity concept), do not disobey parents, do not kill, do not harm, do not steal, do not eat dead meat, do not eat meat from the animal was sacrificed in the name of Idols, do not drink, do not fornicate or adultery, do not look down to orphan and poor, do not spread the fasaad (trouble) on the earth and so on...)

Speaking of your supposed «grace of faith», don't forget that the «loving, personal» Christian god actually, according to what is explicitly stated in the bible, demanded brutal animal sacrifice from his subjects, along with murder, torture and rape of fellow humans.

God clearly taught this from the beginning, when He slew an animal to cover Adam and Eve, when He received Abel's sacrifice and instituted the Old Covenant, dripping with blood in Exodus and Leviticus.

He drives out from the Temple the animals required for sacrifice, and He is critical of ritualism and hypocrisy.

and the 10 commandments are the old covenant from the days when we sacrificed animals.

How much more shall the blood of the messiah, wo through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to YHWH, purge you conscience from dead works, (animal sacrifices) to serve the living YHWH.

I'll believe it when I hear it from someone who sacrifices animals and gives all their money to the poor.

It says You are to abstain from food sacrificed idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.

It's stated explicity in Mark 7:19, Romans 14:20, Colossians 2, and Acts 15:28 (with the proviso that they obstain from idolatry and thus anathema (food sacrificed to idols) and the meat of strangled and / or unbled animals — but compare that with Rom 14), and not only clearly implied but absolutely necessitated by the entire text of Galatians, Romans, and the Pastorals, and implicitly throughout the rest of Acts, the Pauline Corpus, and Hebrews.

According to President Mahama, just as the meat from the animals is shared with family, friends and neighbours as well as the poor, Allah would want us to sacrifice our comfort for the well being of our neigbours including those who are non-Muslims.

The gifts included luxury goods from across the empire, artifacts from earlier civilizations and the remains of thousands of humans and animals — many sacrificed atop the pyramid during lavish ceremonies.

Chemists have confirmed something that archaeologists and art historians have long suspected: Ancient sculptures found in western Africa contain blood from ritual animal sacrifices in their patina.

Animals that were allowed to recover from hypoxia were returned to the animal care facility and brought back to the laboratory for sacrifice.

Animals used for measurement of HIF - 1α mRNA and protein were made hypoxic for variable durations, from 0.5 to 6 h, before sacrifice.

Previous studies of this type relied on microscopic examination of tissue samples from sacrificed animals, but this new approach allows researchers to watch the life or death of cells in real time.

Sure it's a wonderful feeling, but are you aware of the possibility that the bristles in your brush might be from the sacrifice of an unwilling, defenseless animal?

The use of singing, shells, small animal sacrifice, and drums comes from Santería.

It's the story of a self - sacrificing girl who gets involved with a family where everyone turns into one of the animals from the -LSB-...]

It's the story of a self - sacrificing girl who gets involved with a family where everyone turns into one of the animals from the Chinese zodiac when embraced.

Dozens of displaced pets, from portions of flood - ravaged Louisiana, have been saved thanks to a village of rescuers who have sacrificed to ensure the animals» safety.

Whether it is saving a dog from a shelter, from living on the streets or providing extensive medical care to those animals in desperate need; VDR continues to do all that is in their power so no dog will have to make the ultimate sacrifice.

The title does sacrifice some graphical power from the home console versions, with battle stages being static, forgoing the hustle of people and animals moving around in the environment, but the actual battle mechanics are smooth, and the characters look pretty much up to scratch with the 360 version.

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The prosecution claimed that the blood on the cloth was deposited during a ritual animal sacrifice and the glass was a «chalice» from which Hardin drank the blood of the animals he sacrificed for Satan.

It would be instructive, for example, for the HRC to issues opinions on the permissibility of restrictions of such religious activities as polygamy, animal sacrifice, or the exclusion of women from the church hierarchy»: S Joseph, J Schultz & M Castan, The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000, at [17.13].