Sentences with phrase «human sacrifices this makes»

If that was true, there would be no need to tell people about how sinful and deepicable they are, how they need to be «saved» and how they can be «saved» by believing there was a human sacrifice made on their behalf a long time ago.

Going back to the ancient times of human sacrifices this makes me go back to when

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7) This god is the Judeo - Christian god 8) It made the entire Universe less than 10,000 years ago, complete with Adam and Eve and later there was a Worldwide flood and Noah and his ark is actual factual history 9) about 2,000 years ago, it impregnated a Greco - Roman Jewish virgin with itself gave birth to a human being and then had it sacrificed to itself to forgive the original sin of Adam and Eve.

2) you deny Judaism has any association with human sacrifice, so what do you make of Genesis 22?

Taboos on eating fat and blood, (Leviticus 3:17) rules concerning clean and unclean foods, detailed directions concerning the dress of the officiating priests, insistence on ceremonial exactness in sacrifice these and similar legalisms have as part of their background and explanation the sense of sanctity and inviolability in things divine, demanding punctilious care to make human relationships with them safe and profitable.

In the end, animal sacrifice was altogether substituted for human sacrifice, and this provision, represented as a merciful evidence of Yahweh's grace, was made picturesque in the legendary story of Abraham and Isaac.

Chapter 5 makes you cringe with the clear explanation of several Old Testament passages where Yahweh clearly seems to be calling for human sacrifice.

For His own edification, He created humanity with inherent flaws so that He could take human form and sacrifice Himself to Himself in order to redeem the creation He made to be imperfect in the first place.

Study of Scripture through the filter of man's biases results in the type of man - centered ideas proferred by Baden, like «God learns to accept their inherently evil nature», and humans «are the only species that can give him what he wants — which, in the view of Genesis, is bloody, burned animal sacrifices», and «it is, rather, our job to make ourselves uncomfortable that he might be appeased.»

Christians worship a god who, for some reason, decided that he must sacrifice his son, so he could forgive the imperfectness of humans that he made to be imperfect.

If you were an Aztec you would've sacrificed humans to make it rain.

In his recent book, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years to the human life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy cause.

And so it makes sense to sacrifice human persons today for the achievement of that future perfection.

The unspeakable sacrifice, the self - emptying, involved in Christ's coming, had to be made because only within human life itself could man's enemy be found.

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.

As the race of men grows in understanding, a substitute is made for human sacrifice; the first fruits of the earth, the first - born of the flock, are offered instead.

Yet Christ is entrusted to this human institution which can make Him present in our world: «It is not because Christ is present that we offer him as our sacrifice, but the other way round».

«Perhaps one of the main challenges of living faithfully before God as a gay Christian is to believe, really believe, that God in Christ can make up for our sacrifice of homosexual partnership not simply with his own desire and yearning for us but with his desire and yearning mediated to us through the human faces and arms of those who are our fellow believers.»

Human sacrifices are also made to these gods or goddesses, either to appease them or to ask favours of them.

Jesus - fully human and fully god, why do you think God would humble himself and be with his creation (total love), when sin entered the world we were seperated from God forever, God pure, and humans tainted, the only way was for God to send Jesus to pay the price of sin, he took the sting out of death, and bridged the gap for humans and heaven, there is no greater sacrifice, God loves all of us, I was an unbeliever, but came to the truth - read the book of John and make up your own mind - so many people taint Gods word, but the Holy bible is the truth and it will set you free.

Under no persuasion could I ever be made to believe that a human sacrifice thousands of years ago vicariously redeems me from sin.

It would make more sense if Jesus, a compassionate human being, offered himself to the blood - thursty God as a self - sacrifice for the benefit of all mankind, but the Christian understanding of the mission God sent his son on, and its purpose, is just wonky.

People living to near a 1000 years old, giants, creation stories, talking snakes, angels making out with women, sea monsters, people being turned into salt, human sacrifice as a good thing,... Compared to that some of the Greek myths actually look realistic.

Sheol itself was a nebulous, dreary kingdom of the dead which got its name from either a place near Jerusalem where the Gentiles made human sacrifices or a garbage dump near the city (I have heard both theories).

i believe Jesus being human and having a hard time with death and pain makes his sacrifice that much more of a great work.

If, for instance, you were to condemn a religion of human or animal sacrifices by virtue of your subjective sentiments, and if all the while a deity were really there demanding such sacrifices, you would be making a theoretical mistake by tacitly assuming that the deity must be non-existent; you would be setting up a theology of your own as much as if you were a scholastic philosopher.

When we first meet Queen Morgause, the half - sister who will seduce Arthur with a charm made from a «long ribbon» of human flesh, she is ritually sacrificing a cat to preserve her beauty.

People worshiped the sun and made human sacrifices before they invented god and the bible.

These cultures tend to be ones that, on the one hand, will sacrifice other things to maintain a unified view of the world, and that, on the other hand, maintain important rites of passage by which human life is tied in with the recurring cycles that make the world one.

Human sacrifice is, thankfully, extremely rare today, but even reading about the practice in past times makes us shudder.

«Moreover, an atonement theology that says God sacrifices his own son in place of humans who needed to be punished for their sins might make some Christians love Jesus, but it is an obscene picture of God.

C.f. M.Levering, Sacrifice and Community: Jewish Offering and Christian Eucharist (2005), p. 90: «In teaching human beings about eternal realities in accord with the manner of human knowing through sensible things, God works through the visible sign to make present the invisible reality».

This insistence on sacrifice — a «making sacred» — expresses all the existential depth impliedin the transformation of our human reality as taken up by Christ (cf. Phil 3:12).»

Then, you say, the preacher in a long discourse expounded the idea that man's sin is justly answered by God's wrath, and that the righteous wrath of God can be satisfied only by an infinite sacrifice which no human being can make — only the Son of God himself, who by dying on Calvary made God's forgiveness pos - sible.

Just as human sacrifice only makes sense to those who believe that the gods are pleased by throwing virgins into volcanoes, natural childbirth only makes sense to those who believe that childbirth is inherently safe.

It as if an anthropologist writing on human sacrifice ascribed to the belief that the gods could be propitiated by throwing virgin girls into volcanoes, and having accepted that assumption, proceeded to describe the meaning and meaning - making of the ceremonies surrounding the sacrifices.

If we had an unfolding pandemic that ratcheted up a couple of notches so that the virus went through a mutational cycle and became more virulent without sacrificing its apparently extraordinary ability to transmit between humans, then very quickly distributors in the United States would discover that our N - 95 masks, syringes, latex gloves, and protective gear for first responders are all made overseas.

Indeed, foreign wives are not that good all the time, they are still human beings who will commit mistakes but the sacrifice of leaving their loved ones and own country is also not at all easy for them so patience and understanding will absolutely make two people get more closer and ultimately have a committed and loving relationship.

During the massive third - act battle, Banner even made a sacrifice to help Thor's people by transforming into the Hulk, despite concerns that may not be able to return to his human form.

It hasn't so much been redeemed with time as recognized as quintessential Huston: a motley gang of eccentrics and specialists, a quest in search of a certain grail, a culture of betrayal where human life as a disposable commodity, and a perfectly Hustonian twist that makes all their sacrifices meaningless.

It's also a provocation: How much of what makes you human will you sacrifice for a desire to truly excel?

While in many ways tragic, the ending of the film also gives a glimmer of hope to human understanding and the sacrifices we can make for each other, no matter what our differences may be.

Adam Bernstein takes Gilligan's taut script and finds a deliberate pace that cranks up the tension without sacrificing the small, human moments that make Breaking Bad so compelling — even as characters make exactly the wrong choices in their lives.

The view from TIFF: Converting a book about stats geekery — the rise of OBP and walks, the fall of sacrifice bunts, stolen bases, and the intuition of veteran scouts — into a compelling human drama sounds more challenging than Miller, his screenwriters, and the cast makes it look.

As the launch date approaches, their astronaut — 17 - year - old Matha Mwambwa — must decide if getting into their precarious rocket vindicates her traumatic past or just makes her a glorified human sacrifice.

This is representative of an age of foolishness in which the sacrifices are made by learners who desire and need to learn, but see no motivation in learning that stems from curiosity and a very human love of learning.

Human is the last step out of the egg; we can exceed it only by making a deliberate conceived sacrifice of the organism.

Because standards are not improving fast enough they need to make more human sacrifices.

Can the human race be saved without sacrificing what makes us human?

Though its bewitching world and stimulating combat are brought down by some counterintuitive mechanics, it's still a provocative tale about fate and the human condition that left me contemplating what it really means to be part of a family, and the sacrifices we make for the sake of those we love.