Actun Tunichil Muknal means «the cave of the stone sepulcher» and this cave has received this name after the remains of a young Maya woman were found
in a sacrificial chamber within the cave system.
They remodeled their pyramids at regular intervals, burying the old structures in reed bags full of rocks, tossing
in sacrificial objects (clay figurines, human sacrifices), and covering everything with a new skin of cut stone and colored plaster.
People often talk about love
in sacrificial terms: I'd take a bullet for you.
Even the Roman Catholic Eucharist, once steeped
in sacrificial emphasis, can now be encountered in forms that seem primarily celebrations of community, with a moment of silence, as it were, for the untimely demise of our late brother.
Major myths are rooted
in sacrificial violence, prescribe it, and shield us from awareness of our complicity in it.
Everyone acts in good faith
in the sacrificial system, and no clues are left to stir up trouble.
There are a number of places where Christ or His actions are described
in sacrificial terms, [4] but the title «Priest» is never given, and generally these passages emphasise Christ's role as victim more than priest.
-- God promised Abraham he would possess the land and he responded
in sacrificial worship, v. 7 while continuing on his journey through the land.
It means perhaps we would spend years of our lives giving to the world
in sacrificial and beneficial ways before settling down with our sweetheart to raise children rather than diving into marriage for the wrong reasons.
«On this betrayal night Jesus still invites us to share bread and wine that we may be one with
Him in sacrificial love».
Loney suggests that it may be that these folks were fortunate enough to have «rescuers» — individuals who reached out
in sacrificial love and kept them from falling.
We all need encouragement to exercise a new vision of the public good, and to join with others
in sacrificial efforts to achieve that good in concrete ways, ranging from providing housing for the homeless to parks for everyone and enriched educational environments for disadvantaged children.
What the Roman mass has been saying in glorious drama through the centuries is that
in the sacrificial death and triumphant resurrection of Christ, ever repeated through the most solemn rites of the Church, the God who has acted in him for our redemption is here at the altar and will act again and now for those who seek him in true penitence and faith.
Much of the Old Testament is filled with blood, whether it is the blood spilled
in the sacrificial rituals of the Mosaic Law or the blood spilled during Canaanite Conquest and subsequent wars of Israel.
Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is
in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony.
There is no question such a word is needed today, particularly
in the sacrificial and discipleship - oriented way I am describing...
The meaning and truth of God's self - revelation in Christ is known through identification with the incarnation, both
in sacrificial living and in significant dying.
All the marks of induction into the Aaronic priesthood — anointing, investiture, participation
in the sacrificial meal — were included in Christian initiation.
In this work Niebuhr maintained that the agape of the Cross
in its sacrificial heedlessness and universalism is the only final adequate norm of human life.
Now, blood was the best way for atonement because it required the sinner to play an active role
in the sacrificial process by giving up and slaughtering his own animal, however not everyone owned animals which is why God arranged alternate processes to give flour and money as atonement offerings.
But the priestly temper is unlikely to look beyond the literal Bible as a source of vision, just as a priestly theology is incapable of envisioning a theology grounded
in the sacrificial Christ rather than in the Creator God.
Active participation
in the sacrificial process was the means through which the person was able to «come close» to God in order to feel remorse.
Much of what Paul writes addresses problems and concerns in the Corinthian congregation, such as the problem of eating foods that have been offered to idols
in sacrificial worship and are now offered by a host to an unsuspecting Christian guest, one who might be offended.
Can even God tolerate a people and a preacher who have presumably taken his work
in the sacrificial and costly atonement of Jesus Christ, his Son and our Lord, if their leading image of ministry and servanthood is devoid of genuflection?
On the other hand, Paul prohibited Christians from actually participating
in the sacrificial rituals of pagan worship.
This latter fact bulked so large in the thought of the greatest of the prophets that, even had they granted the best elements
in the sacrificial system, they would still have felt that the perversion of the best was the worst.
Behind this sanctity of blood
in sacrificial ceremonies stood a profoundly influential idea concerning the nature of life: «The blood is the life»; (Deuteronomy 12:23.)
Those that believe
in the sacrificial and purity gods, collapse into rule keeping, legislative righteousness, slavish thinking, and venomous anger as they kill their own gay children or chant «holiness» as they murder in fact or figuratively.
If you read above, you will see my response to cheese on one of your threads the outcome of Abraham and Isaac
in that sacrificial situation.
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.
But with Jesus as the ultimate peacemaker, we understanding that peace can only truly be made real as we follow
in the sacrificial Way of the Cross.
Not exact matches
In time, and with practice, we can stop looking around the office for
sacrificial lambs and scapegoats, and follow Harry Truman's lead.
The CEO,
in other words, would be an unlikely
sacrificial lamb, if a
sacrificial lamb were all that was required.
There are even skid marks
in the sediment indicating places where the
sacrificial victims were reluctant to participate.
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).&raqu
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).&raqu
in the selection of
sacrificial animals «
in the cult, not in commerce (which knows no basis for typology, but remains purely individualistic).&raqu
in the cult, not
in commerce (which knows no basis for typology, but remains purely individualistic).&raqu
in commerce (which knows no basis for typology, but remains purely individualistic).»
Unfortunately, not all markets can benefit from rampant and non-stop bullishness; the
sacrificial lamb
in this case
in the US Dollar Index.
With the price of literally all cryptos having been slaughtered like
sacrificial lambs, do you place your beliefs
in bitcoin or the heretics?
The most generous and
sacrificial people I know have all had some sort of experience
in which God birthed compassion
in them through exposure to the poor while on a mission trip.
Hmm, «
In the precious name of boundaries, and by the blood of the lamb, I will not show self
sacrificial love»!
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.
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).
We pledge to stand with you, our Christian brothers and sisters of the historic Black church, and to work arm
in arm with you
in Christ - like self -
sacrificial love to build
in America a true culture of life and of family life.
If Christ is not Divine, then what is his role
in atonement for our sins, the
sacrificial death of just one good man?
We live
in a world that despises the
sacrificial side of marriage and tries to wish it away.
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.
Probably because of the abuses associated with this scheme, a notion developed
in the Aranyaka period which explained that the cosmic power might also be known through symbolic meditation upon
sacrificial procedure (1:1.35).
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.
In this garden the shepherd replaces the leopards to tend the sheep; and the servant replaces the masters, and Leviathan is replaced by the Lamb, who is the
Sacrificial Lord.