Sentences with phrase «only by sacrificing»

It also accepted the notional figures in Unison's hypothetical examples by stating that «where households on low to middle incomes could pay fees only by sacrificing ordinary and reasonable expenditure for substantial periods of time, the fees could not be regarded as affordable».

Dr. Stiglitz: «While there is no single indicator that can capture something as complex as our society, the metrics commonly used, such as gross domestic product, suggest a trade - off: one can improve the environment only by sacrificing growth.

As the story goes, when Agamemnon massed his troops to sail to Troy, he inadvertently killed a deer sacred to the goddess Artemis, and could appease her only by sacrificing his daughter, Iphigenia.

Atheistic evidentialists conclude that those living in the 20th century who are fairly well educated in matters scientific and philosophical can believe in God only by sacrificing their rationality.

Even so, Marcion clearly tried to lift up a God of sublime benevolence for the alternative church he founded, but he was able to do so only by sacrificing the essential unity between love (his Supreme God) and power (his unloving Creator God).28

Not exact matches

Yet the finish line for Price may be when he can lift his own salary up to market rate — making it easier for the company to replace him, if necessary, and show CEOs that sacrifice by the boss is only temporary when overhauling a company's wage structure.

And he said Comcast wouldn't sacrifice the profitability of its other businesses to build the wireless unit, promising wireless would be profitable on its own by some measures after reaching only «limited scale.»

«We all enter the program with busy careers and social lives, and then we inject 20 to 30 hours of homework and 16 hours of classroom time... and the only way we can accommodate the new demands is by making sacrifices in droves.»

It would cause undue stress and hardship if a dependent not only lost you, but had to expend great effort and sacrifice to liquidate what you had in order to get by.

Not only is there nothing to be gained by believing an untruth, but there is everything to lose when we sacrifice the indispensable tool of reason on the altar of superst tion.

Death has been overcome by Christ's sacrifice on Calvary, and those who put their trust in Him will live again, «For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16).

Not quite tallulah, all the other gods are man invented or possibly demonic.Every other idol god either mimics God and or requires a series of works to gain their favor.They are created by men to appease the inner knowledge of God, but all fall short of the creator God.You can not work your way into Gods good graces, you can only be saved by faith through grace.God alone has resolved the sin problem we all suffer from, in the selfless sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.It is by accepting Jesus» redemption for us that allows us to be reconciled with God.God bless

God sacrificed his only son, the only innoce3nt human in history, he sufferd the shame of occupying a human body and then he lived his whole life without sin, and let himself be wrongly accused and executed that our sins may be traded and washed away by the blood of the lamb of God.

Beware the Mormon who smiles and will not answer — he has taken the oath of Blood Atonement — agreeing to sacrifice your life if secrets are revealed, okay to slit my throat if I am deemed a sinner by the church because that is the only way to save me.

Regarding your second fold, God Himself is unchanging; it is out of His Grace that He kept renewing His Covenants with man who could not keep and broke them until He (God) made the «Ultimate Provision» for our redemption by the «Ultimate Sacrifice» of His only begotten Son, the «Passion of the Lord Jesus Christ,» the «New Covenant,» the «Good News» — Salvation, hence, the method of redemption is what changed.

After all, it is argued, the Romans themselves did not appear to take it seriously (Vespasian's famous deathbed joke, «I think I am becoming a god» seems to indicate as much): it could only be believed by those who were either insane, such as Caligula, who went so far as to sacrifice to himself daily and made his beloved horse a high priest of his cult, or irredeemably barbarian and by implication, stupid, such as the Britons of Colchester who built an enormous temple to the Divine Claudius.

Don't let me get carried away by my own lusts and lose sight of this beautiful relationship we have that is only made possible through Jesus being the sacrifice.

The issue is that by reason we often only grasp the atonement character of Jesus» sacrifice, and that could cause that we become worse instead of better after conversion.

(Exodus 34:19, 20; cf. Numbers 18:15) In one place, however, the original demand for the sacrifice of first - born sons, as of firstborn beasts, stands not only unmistakable in meaning but unrelieved by any exception: «The first - born of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

Freedom to eat meat sacrificed to idols was limited only by the demands of love: «Take care lest this liberty of yours somehow become a stumbling block to the weak, lest your eating offend any brothers for whom Christ died.»

It is instead a penitent approach to a God who gives life freely, and who not only does not profit from the holocaust of the particular, but who in fact fulfils the «sacrifice» simply by giving his gift again.

Not only is the mutable world separated from its divine principle — the One — by intervals of emanation that descend in ever greater alienation from their source, but because the highest truth is the secret identity between the human mind and the One, the labor of philosophy is one of escape: all multiplicity, change, particularity, every feature of the living world, is not only accidental to this formless identity, but a kind of falsehood, and to recover the truth that dwells within, one must detach oneself from what lies without, including the sundry incidentals of one's individual existence; truth is oblivion of the flesh, a pure nothingness, to attain which one must sacrifice the world.

The real difficulty, to my mind, is that they separate Jesus from God, giving a picture of an unforgiving God whose pardon could only be bought by a bloody sacrifice.

The significance of the sacrifices was to see our sinfulness and turn our hearts back to God and that is made clear with the death of Christ.The animals though could not remove our sin that was only possible through Christ as God he could remove sin in the past present and future as he is outside of time and space not like us.So there sins in effect were covered by Jesus as well in the old testament as in the new by Gods we just did nt see it.The example of abraham able enoch they all were righteous they were justified before God.Enoch walked with God and was no more that sounds like the rapture to me so the holy spirit was present in that age just like us.We see that God has always been at work to bring life and to bring mankind to salvation.

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.»

Otherwise explain Enoch to me how could a unredeemed sinner stand in Gods prescence only a redeemed and righteous man could therefore he was covered by the blood of Jesus he is the only acceptable sacrifice.Jesus is the same yesterday today and forever with God all things are possible.To me how else could God have forgiven sinners in the old testament?It was by faith and by the grace of God it never changed but Christ was the sacrifice for all past present future.brentnz

Jesus died for all of the sins of the human race, all sins are forgiven, for by one, and only one, sacrifice for sins forever, Hebrews 10:12.

Come on get real samson old testement its in there wilful sin my definition is walking away from the Lord and doing opur own thing knowing what you should do but still do what you want to do.In the life of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the sacrifice is the same as today repentence we are saved by the grace of God if we turn from our own way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20 years if he had walking in the ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the way.We all have those areas in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or making sin an idol in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flesh.

The struggle against this tendency to make the keeping of rules independent of the surrender to the divine will runs through the whole history of Israelite - Jewish faith — from the prophet's protest against sacrifice without intention and the Pharisees» protest against the «tinged - ones» whose inwardness is a pretence up till its peculiarly modern form in Hasidism, in which every action gains validity only by a specific devotion of the whole man turning immediately to God.

What the Reformation ends up with is not a God whose very Nature is Unconditional Love; but a Father God whose Love can never be immediately experienced by the believer; but only through a scape - goated Son cruelly sacrificed in our stead — Calvin's Cosmic Bully!

Unlike the Christian god that wouldn't ever change his mind or doctrine... except for cursing the world for eating an apple... except for telling Abraham to sacrifice his son, but then stopping him... and except for killing nearly all life on Earth and then because of the guilt says I'll never to do that ever again - in exactly that way... and except for deciding that 2 of himself (Father and Spirit) weren't enough any more, and creating / fathering / spiriting as Son... and except for forgiving all sin, when «In the beginning» he had cursed the universe for the eating of an apple, by having his creation torture and kill his only begotten Son... and except for having to repeat himself about the unchanging eternal rules, to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Saul / Paul, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Bahá «u «lláh, David Koresh, and a whole host of others... and except for... and except for...

I sacrificed them on the altar of biblical womanhood, fervently believing that the only way I could be blessed by God was to follow the clear guidelines laid out in Scripture.

We have come to believe that a system allowing parents a choice among schools, if properly organized by an aggressive central administration, can release energies that only diversity makes available, without sacrificing accountability for the effective education of every child.

Reflect on the fact that this is less than one of some 160 pages of only one Kanda describing only one sacrifice, and that the Satapatha - Brahmana of which it is a part is but one of many Brahmanas, all of which were regarded as sacred by the early Hindus, and transmitted orally from priest to priest for centuries.

This reality makes us aware that every narrow definition of Christian doctrinal certainty will finally have to be abandoned; every claim by any branch of the Christian church to be the true church or the only church will ultimately have to be sacrificed; every doctrine of infallibility — whether of the papacy, or of the Scriptures, or of any sacred tradition, or of any individual experience — will inevitably have to be forgotten.

The Marian theology (especially Wagner's suggested conflation of the goddess Venus with Mary), the knight asking for absolution from the pope, the theme of «works righteousness,» the notion that Tannhäuser is saved by Elisabeth who both sacrifices herself for him on this earth and then in the afterlife intercedes before God on his behalf, and the fact that Tannhäuser himself is redeemed only to die» all these are, to the conservative Protestant at least, distortions of Christianity.

This always leads to violence which can only be quelled by us (with our mixed up thinking) by the sacrifice of a scapegoat.

A Catholic baptism is valid, but only becomes effective, if someone repents and believes that he has got metaphysically connected with Christ's sacrifice by the sacramental baptism (mostly infant baptism).

persuade not only individuals but also whole communities that, both for the living and the dead, remission and absolution of sins may be had by sacrifices and childish performances that they are pleased to call initiations and which they allege deliver us from all ills in the next world, where terrible things await the uninitiated.22

No, before Jesus every one that commited a sin had to sacrife a sheep or alike depending on their situation and offer it to God, but since people constantly were commiting sins on the eyes of God he planned sending his son Jesus as the perfect sacrifice for us and to save us for the eternity since as he is perfect in everything and the only way to get us close to God is by Jesus and his love to all of us not to go to hell but to proceed to repent and follow his commandments

Isaac he must love with his whole soul; when God requires Isaac he must love him if possible even more dearly, and only on this condition can he sacrifice him; for in fact it is this love for Isaac which, by its paradoxical opposition to his love for God, makes his act a sacrifice.

so by knowing that God has sacrificed His Only SON, and (you particularly), or a person, should «choose» NOT to accept God's invitation to «eternal» life, through His Beloved Son, you think He «s being «particle `... huh... is that what you're saying?

The GRACE of GOD is our LORD's HOLY SPIRIT accepted by all who believes in our LORD's one and only SACRIFICE on the CROSS for all sins.

The way of Jesus is not only marked by sacrifice, but also by humility.

So, you saying that the «law» that was fulfilled by Christ's sacrifice was only the Mosaic law, correct?

He sent his son to be a sacrifice (because the only way to pay for sin is by blood... your blood, or his), so that whosever believes in him shall not be destroyed, but have everlasting life.

These detestable practices the other nations partook of (and child sacrifice was only one), Israel was influenced by, and at times, Israel unfortunately did similar things.

But only a man who knew what sin was and was tempted just as we are and never chose to sin, but instead chose to give himself as a ransom for many, could and would be a worthy sacrifice, and WAS by the way.

Not only were they not harmful to anyone, they seemed to be characterized by positive motives and traits instead, like faithfulness, commitment, mutual love, and self sacrifice.

In this, sex might be the quintessential form of spirituality: Eros (desire) can only be experienced by agape (self - sacrifice).