Sentences with phrase «in ancestor worship»

The Pink Monkeys continue to express interest in ancestor worship, human sacrifice, cannibalism, self - congratulation, (describe themselves as «modern», and «evolved»).

Not exact matches

Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.»

As you will see in tomorrow's post, animism and ancestor worship is much more significant in this culture than Buddhism and Taoism.

Take a moment to listen and begin to hear about ancestor worship, the growth of the church on the mainland compared to the slower growth in Taiwan, and a bluegrass concert.

More on this over the next couple of days... but please weigh in below, specifically on Robert's comments and missions in this culture — where not worshiping one's ancestors to be both dishonoring and spiritually dangerous.

Ancestor worship is one of the major barriers to faith in Christ.

They were more concerned about the ancestors within the reach of memory and, as time went on, new spirits were incorporated in the circle of worship.

Historical criticism tells us that Cain was considered the embodiment or ancestor of the Kenites who, though they worshiped Yahweh, were never included in the covenant community nor were they heirs of the promised land.

In our culture we no longer worship the sun and see it as a divine presence as our ancestors did.

In the Old Testament, however, the actual practice of worshiping ancestors had been so far overpassed that while one first rate scholar says, «There is a growing consensus of opinion that the Hebrews, like all other peoples at a certain stage of thought, worshipped these spirits,» (Henry Preserved Smith: The Religion of Israel, p. 25) another first - rate scholar says, «The alleged indications of Ancestor Worship are all exposed to more or less serious objections.»

It says in the Old Testament Deuteronomy 13.6 - 8: 13:6 If anyone secretly entices you — even if it is your brother, your father's son or your mother's son, or your own son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your most intimate friend — saying, «Let us go worship other gods,» whom neither you nor your ancestors have known, 13:7 any of the gods of the peoples that are around you, whether near you or far away from you, from one end of the earth to the other, 13:8 you must not yield to or heed any such person.

Imagine worshipping God in a place where 600 years before, your ancestor Abram had also worshipped God.

The use of ancient prayers in public worship unites us with our ancestors in the Christian way; modern prayers bring us into contact with the contemporary world and its needs, as well as with our brethren across the world in our own day.

But in my opinion, ancestor worship is still practiced in Christianity too.

Many of the miners in his town worshipped statues of Satan, and most of the people left food out for the dead on All Saints» Day, sprinkling flour on the floor and later looking to see if their ancestors had visited and left footprints.

Yoshi told me that there was no reason to draw hard and fast lines between Buddhism and Shintoism, because most Japanese people practice some mix of the two, with a dose of ancestor worship mixed in.

When he's not playing fetch, he enjoys sitting in a lap and being worshipped, just as his ancestors may have been.

Ancestor worship and animism — belief in the spiritual worth of living things — feature in the proceedings and there are plenty of games, including spinning tops, as well as feasting, singing and dancing.

The ancestor - worshipping lineage associations that proliferated beginning in the 1890s worked to preserve the status of old Yankee families during a period of high immigration.

A lonely Hindu enclave in the predominantly Muslim Indonesian archipelago of 17,500 islands, its unique variant of faith is a composite of Indian cosmology, Tantric Buddhism, local animist traditions and ancestor worship.

In Balinese culture, a man and a woman is considered to be complete when they are unite to form a family that worship common ancestors in the family shrine of each Balinese householIn Balinese culture, a man and a woman is considered to be complete when they are unite to form a family that worship common ancestors in the family shrine of each Balinese householin the family shrine of each Balinese household.

The worshippers are not just pay homage to the Gods but also worship their respective ancestors in each Pedharman (clan) temple that spread all over Besakih temple complex.

Each Hindu family has family temple to worship Hyang Widhi and their ancestors, so that there are thousands of temples in the island of Bali.

The locals have visited the caves to worship their ancestors, bringing gifts to the holy stones in the caves.

Apart from being the only Hindu - majority region in a predominantly Muslim country, the island of Bali has an enchanting mixture of local animist traditions and practices, Tantric Buddhism, ancestor worship and more.

A world in dissolution deserved better of the artist than an uneasy aesthetic isolationism which identified virtue in art with the rural western idyl of Thomas Benton, the backwoods folklore of John Steuart Curry, and the somewhat satirical ancestor worship of Grant Wood.

Neither does the Bible, all the more so when it is trying to metaphorically convince me not only of a fairy, but a cobalt blue fairy with peculiarly tinted wings, forcing me to also consider the sky blue fairy of Judaism, the navy blue fairy of Islam, the red fairies of Hinduism, the purple fairies of the Norse religion, the green fairies of paganism, the rainbow - colored fairies of ancestor worship, all of which are equally implausible and mutually exclusive alternative kinds of fairies where we don't even have a single fairy of any color trapped in a cage.