Sentences with phrase «n't sacrifice their children»

They don't sacrifice their children, eat their pets or preach about the importance of armed robbery.

In fact, we might see Eid Al Ahda and Rosh Hashanah as far more advanced than the rest of the world precisely because these holidays call to consciousness this repressed but real tendency to pass on the pain that was done to us onto our children, and to remind us that the great spiritual leader Abraham was able to NOT DO IT, thereby giving us the message that we too need not sacrifice our children either actually by supporting the war machine or symbolically by passing onto them various other forms of hurt, oppression and cruelty.

Not exact matches

You could accomplish a lot of what it does simply by setting up automatic transfers to a savings account (yours or your child's) on your own — and you wouldn't have to sacrifice the ability to withdraw your cash easily on a moment's notice.

This noble goal unfortunately has many sacrificing their own retirement nest egg to help secure their children's future.

I agree with your post, Mr. Stephens — insofar as I believe that a cobbled - together patchwork of Bronze Age myths that sanction slavery, genocide, human sacrifice, and child murder should not be arbitrarily invoked as the sole determinate for notions of morality in the modern world.

Self - important simpletons commonly hate anyone that isn't bound to the «moral» standards of verses such as Leviticus 20:13 which commands putting people to death that are not within the primitive social norms of living in caves and sacrificing goats and children and owning slaves.

@ME II «Did God not tell Abraham to sacrifice his own child?

Do you not think that children in an ancient civilization weren't taught that it was morally good to sacrifice their own children?

How is it moral to look to a child sacrifice as redemption of the sins of people not even yet born?

If by God is meant the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, who redeems his children by the atonement and sacrifice of his Son Jesus Christ according to the predestined plan of salvation revealed in the Bible and ascribed to by the Christian churches, then the answer obviously is No — Schweitzer does not believe in God.

Happier, children dying in war is not «sacrifice» to a god.

«All our talk about peace and the weapons of the spirit is meaningless unless we try in every way to embrace voluntary poverty and not work in any position, any job that contributes to war... We must give up our place in this world, sacrifice children, family... And we will be considered fools for Christ.»

I then run into the rather jarring Lev 18:21, «««Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek, for you must not profane the name of your God.

(Jeremiah 7:31; 19:5; 32:35) In the next generation Ezekiel tried another apologetic: granting both that the command to sacrifice children was in the Law, as it obviously was, and that Yahweh was responsible for its presence there, he asserted none the less that; Yahweh had given «statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live,» for the ultimate purpose of punishing them with such desolation that they might recognize the divine hand in their tragedy.

Jeebus has inflicted a Black president on the cult as punishment for not sacrificing enough unborn children.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

In Christianity, and Christianity alone, all these negative elements of pagan mythology are stripped away, and we are told that God loves us so much, that He does not want us to sacrifice our own children, but instead, He will sacrifice His own Son for us.

If your god did watch the women sacrifice their children, why didn't He stop them?

Therefore, if people think they can willfully go on sinning and the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross covers them, they are sadly mistaken, But if we sin (on purpose) out of weakness and imperfection then as 1 John writes, «My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.

We who sacrifice fabulous resources to fatten the most inhuman form of violence so that it will continue to protect us, and who pass our time in transmitting futile messages from a planet that is risking destruction to planets that are already dead» how can we have the extraordinary hypo crisy to pretend that we do not understand all those people who did such things long before us: those, for example, who made it their practice to throw a single child, or two at the most, into the furnace of a certain Moloch in order to ensure the safety of the others?

Jews read this passage on Rosh Hashanah, Muslims on Eid Al Ahda — and some in both communities wonder whether it isn't time to become more modern and avoid this discussion of child sacrifice.

Leviticus 18:21 «And you shall not let any of your descendants pass through [the][fire] to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I [am] the Lord (child sacrifice to false gods).

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.

Yeah, the Old Testament just supports child sacrifice and divine retaliation for not being a faithful follower.

The Morozov cult was not quite as horrifying as the worship of Moloch, the dreadful Carthaginian deity who required fiery child sacrifice.

And they got upset and were trying to figure things out and finally became so frustrated that the Law was so hard to follow and God kept sending them into captivity and there was so much death and eventually the prophets started prophesying about a day that would come where the hearts of the fathers would return to their children and a sacrifice that would be the final sacrifice so that they could all stop killing so many animals (which God also admitted He never wanted in the first place because that was not the point), and also that God would eventually wipe out the old system and write his law on their hearts and minds so that they could finally follow him without making so many mistakes and messing up everything.

There is some sacrificing of children, not just the near incident with Isaac.

Children were not sacrificed in the Old Testament.

We must be as children — don't overthink it — and yet we are trained to strain and labour and pain — not sacrifice, but suffer.

Other cultures have sacrificed children and eaten people as part of their culture and not part of their religion.

The great achievements of the Hebrew prophets, from one point of view, were their insistence that God is not to be approached in this external fashion and their success in securing a general consent by the Jewish people to the proposition that «the sacrifices of God are a troubled spirit» — that God wishes the offering to Him of the whole life of His people, both as individuals and as a group, not for His own glorification but rather so that He might effectively use them for the accomplishment of great ends: the redemption of the world and the opening of rich life for His children.

However, Sinkinson insists that there is no conflict in affirming a historical basis for the story while appreciating its message of progressive revelation — that Yahweh was not the kind of God who required child sacrifice.

I worry about turning the Bible into a children's story book, about helping the tinies to engage with Scripture and wrestle and ask questions, and then I can't bring myself to read about Abraham's near - sacrifice of his son, Issac, on the mountain, no part of me could ever understand that obedience, I admit, I'd probably go to hell before I'd raise a hand to hurt my child, I don't understand it at all.

Patterson goes so far as to compare women who choose not to have children to the people who practiced child sacrifice in the Bible!

Lev 18:21 «Do not permit any of your children to be offered as a sacrifice to Molech, for you must not bring shame on the name of your God.

Child sacrifice wasn't an isolated event.

The notion that man must surrender his dearest possession on earth to his deity — the supreme instance is that of child sacrifice — is so fundamental that it can not be dismissed as mythology.

Parent - child intimacy is not meant to be «sacrifice.»

This for Nathanson is a psychological task that at first seemed «overwhelming» and ultimately required «every iota» of knowledge she had gained through her study and practice of psychology — particularly the art of not sacrificing too much for her children: «Central to the mothering instinct within me is a predisposition to recognize and meet the needs of my children, voluntarily sacrificing my own at times when there is a conflict.»

Commemoration recitals take place not only on the birthday of the Prophet but also on other occasions such as the annual commemoration of the death of one's parents, or at the time of the hair - sacrifice of one's child, or on the night before a boy's circumcision, or the night before a marriage ceremony.

skytag, «Given the sacrifices required to raise a child I can't understand this line of thinking.

Knowing that the sacrifice of one's children to the gods was a common practice in Abraham's time, I wonder if the sacrifice was not more Abraham's idea than God's and God's substitution of the lamb was not to give Abraham a more acceptable way of expressing his committment.

And these children are the same people who as adults will be called upon to make enormous sacrifices to support China's growing ranks of the elderly — for not only is China graying, it is doing it faster than any population in history.

to really live, one has to put something to death.Have you noticed that same principle in any relationship that seeks a higher good; that is, one must practice self - denial, if not self - sacrifice when seeking better health, raising a pet, being a friend, loving a spouse, parenting a child... how much more so when we seek the Divine life in a community?

Boycotting the games could be the best thing but unfortunately some people like to moan like little children and they can not make the sacrifice themselves, too many idiots spending money on AFC.

Lopez hasn't won a tournament this year, partly because of a thyroid condition, and partly, she admits, because she has sacrificed practice time to be with her children.

Can't wait for that spectacle on UFC 209, only thing bad is the UFC will sacrifice one of the guys record and streak only to pamper their golden Irish child.

What I've learned is once you listen to your own motherly instincts and do what is right for your child, then somehow the universe leads you to your life purpose, so giving up a job or a lifestyle you are used to for the sake of motherhood is not a sacrifice, but a gift you give to your whole family.

We can not sacrifice ourselves to the point of endangering ourselves, for then we endanger both ourselves and our children.

They're ergonomic for wearer and baby both, so you don't have to worry about sacrificing anything for your child in return for keeping yourself comfortable while practicing babywearing.