Sentences with phrase «sacrifice made sense»

Jesus» blood sacrifice made sense to a people that had always practiced blood sacrifice.

In this symbolic vision, donations as well as sacrifices make sense and are useful in themselves.

This sacrifice makes sense as the spiders in a nest are closely related and so share genes.

Not exact matches

In an era when cyber spying — by China or the National Security Agency — is a real concern for corporations, it makes sense to have a phone that sacrifices itself to save your secrets.

It took years for Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos to prove his sacrifice of near - term profits to invest for long - term gains made sense.

But if you wish to hope for something, wouldn't it make a lot more sense to hope for some god that doesn't require any special sacrifices?

Makes a hell of a lot more sense than an all powerful all knowing god needing to give birth to himself, so that he could sacrifice himself to himself in order to save humanity from the punishment that he condemned us to.

Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you accept a blood sacrifice and symbolically eat his flesh and drink his blood, and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a woman made from a rib was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree: makes perfect sense

It makes sense why an animal had to die in place of a person as a sacrifice, it makes sense as to why Our Lord have himself as a sacrifice for our sins and undeservedly took our punishment (which was a painful and humiliating death)(what a loving Lord we serve!)

If Scripture reveals the heart of man instead of the heart of God, then this helps us make sense of the conflicting statements in Scripture about sacrifice.

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.

To make sense of God's role in this scheme, some theologians focus not on God's directive power but on God's self - sacrificing love in and for creation.

But a hyper - critical attitude can blind us to the positive goods that can be realized when a strong sense of national unity motivates people to make sacrifices for the common good.

But this «Therefore» doesn't make sense if you look a the end of chapter 11, where Paul has digressed in a lengthy doxology, which while it discusses intriguing mysteries of God and praises God, doesn't lead to the logical conclusion that we should present ourselves as living sacrifices to him, but if you read into that «οὖν» an «as I was saying earlier», you can see that before the doxology he issued an important warning in Romans 11:22 — if God is willing enough to be so severe as to cut of the natural branches (the Jews) he will certainly be willing to cut of the ones that have been grafted on (the Gentiles); Romans 12:1 - 2 is a very logical «therefore» to follow Romans 11:21 - 24.

It was certainly meant to be taken literally because if it is not the sacrifice of Jesus to forgive original sin doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Christianity hinges on a literal Adam and Eve and Garden of Eden for the Jesus sacrifice to make any sense whatsoever, and we all know that Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden never existed.

As a god who is, according to your belief, immortal and powerful enough to have created the Universe, the whole Jesus sacrifice thing makes absolutely no sense.

With every hostile shock you bore, with every frantic move you made, with every lonely sacrifice, you wakened to the sense of what, long hidden in that ancient whole, you never knew you lacked.

July 4... somewhat «selfish» of us, but makes perfect sense (save JW's who don't observe birthdays) Memorial Day... no point in observing July 4 without reflecting on the sacrifice of the tens of thousands who paid for YOUR freedom and mine with their blood.

Consequently it made sense to explain a severe storm by casting lots to determine who had angered the gods, or by trying to figure out what the king had done wrong, or by consulting a prophet or perhaps an oracle who would read the entrails of a sacrificed goat.

We can see that this might make sense to someone brought up in the ancient Jewish tradition in which an unblemished animal was sacrificed to God to make atonement for the sins of the people, and in which the iniquities of Israel were all put on the head of a goat which was then driven out into the wilderness, taking the people's sins with it.

This may not make much sense to those of us who don't sacrifice other living things to atone for our sins.

1 commited adultery, incest, and almost sacrificed his son for the temptation from «God» (I belive it was Satan, makes more sense).

But if doesn't make sense (like some childish prankster sacrificing himself to himself to appease himself to exploit a loophole he made himself in a plan that caused great death and destruction) then I'm afraid that's just a bit too stupid for me to swallow.

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

With hell fully in view, sin's weight fully pressed on our shoulders, and Christ's sacrifice fully accomplished, love suddenly makes sense.

ìWar, î as Hauerwas puts it, ìis America's altar.î Central to this American self - definition is the blood sacrifice of the Civil War, which became a form of total war once it acquired a divine purpose and had ìbecome for both sides a ritual they had come to need in order to make sense of their lives.î American moderns have no answer to death, no way of living well with death.

Nor was escape possible by making them mere thoughts in mind, since this would sacrifice the reality of the objects thought, an objective reality not to be accounted for by the ever - changing sense world.

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.

The fact is that your faith makes no sense — you belive that a god came down and died for our sins, that he was all powerful (so could not die), and that he still lives (hence no real sacrifice anyway)-- this is utter nonsense and anyone with an IQ greater than 50 should realize it!

Or are you telling me that god sacrificing himself, to himself to create a loophole for a law that he himself created make sense?

Because of God's mercies, the only worship that makes sense (logikhn is inexplicably translated as «spiritual» by the NRSV and NIV) is, in Paul's view, to offer our very lives, our bodies — our physical being, our imagination, our skills, our possessions — as a «living sacrifice.»

Their objective is to have a kid - friendly restaurant, catering to young families in the Northeast LA area without sacrificing their sense of casual elegance charm nor their great food, made with organic ingredients, prepared fresh every day and beautifully presented.

These guys have sacrificed so much to get this far the cliche, «who wants it more...», makes no sense.

It would make sense to sacrifice him to get a top defender.

My suggestion is that if Sanchez can learn that, he has the potential to do it much better than giroud does because he is faster off the mark and can dribble.he's too honest in his running so I disagree with those that think it's the set up of the team that failed him.his movement is still a little naive for the premier league Secondly on the left wide argument.Wenger is jamming attacking midfielder out there so as to provide cover for the defensive midfielder using two box to box battlers.it only makes sense because we have lots of them and it can be effective if well mastered.the catch is sacrificing a winger for the the attacking midfielder.if your memory serves you well you'll remember that artetas downward spiral began when teams noticed he was the hub for our possession and started deploying their number 10 to press him.it's been working for ages and can be used on any defensive midfielder regardless of the size so You'll end up with your much cried for cavarlho, kedihra, bender, schneiderline, and every other one passing sideways and backward because of the pressure so I personally appreciate the innovative move but Again appeal to Ramsey and Wilshire to take their job more serious.

He Wants Me to Make All the Career Sacrifices For a new mom with a fulfilling career, after a generation of feminism, her sense of self worth may be tied to what she accomplishes outside the home.

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.

The Vtech Owl monitor will make the perfect present for any new parent giving them a sense of security without sacrificing style and functionality.

Johnson said it would have made sense for him to lead the party because it was a poisoned chalice and they did not want to sacrifice younger talent.

And this makes sense — we shudder at the thought of a friend or partner doing a cost / benefit analysis of whether you should be sacrificed for the greater good.

Because of quirks of their haplodiploid genetics, female workers share more genes with their sisters than with their own offspring, so it makes competitive sense for them to sacrifice their own fecundity to help their colony queen mother produce more sisters.

open minded, athletic, good sense of humor, dependable, great listener, book and street smart, well traveled, thoughly certain about my convictions and always prepared to make sacrifices for them.

Forman does not make a heavy, didactic point of this loss of personal freedom, but the sense of social imprisonment, of individuals sacrificed to the needs of an invisible, unapproachable government, informs every scene of Loves of a Blonde.

I think we all came away with a real sense of the sacrifice that was made by everyone who participated in the war.

He is uniquely qualified to make common sense amendments to the reauthorization of NCLB without sacrificing the core principles behind the legislation.

I accept that there is a strong case for revamping the stakeholder model by making greater use of co-opted governors with insights gained from outside education such as business, social services, police, health etc but without sacrificing the common - sense and commitment made by local people, especially but not only parents, with a strong interest in their community's, not the academy trust's, schools.

Self - publishing makes sense in many situations: for instance, when the author has identified a market that isn't currently served by trade publishers, and has a plan to reach that market; when the author is publishing a book to accompany some other form of presentation or workshop; and when the author is willing to sacrifice the advantages of trade publication in order to enjoy more autonomy over the process.

A sense of doom, perfectly captured, and images of sacrifice hang over the well - developed characters, making this a painful and moving read.»

You'll save a huge chunk in interest without sacrificing the sense of security that comes with knowing you can easily afford to make your monthly mortgage payments — and maybe occasionally a little extra.