Sentences with phrase «sacrifice of his son so»

But above it all is God's love for man - kind manifested in the willing sacrifice of His Son so that you and I have the opportunity to dwell in Heaven for eternity.

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The greatness of Abraham is not that he takes his son to Mount Moriah, the Temple mount (the place where today stand both the Western Wall sacred to Jews and the Dome of the Rock sacred to Islam), so that he can sacrifice his son.

I applaud what he is doing and hope that he brings others to God throught the torture and bloody human sacrifice of his son (himself, actually) where he died (well, for a few hours anyway) for us all (at least so the story goes) so that we may live with him in heaven (a great place for which no evidence or photographs exist) until the end of time.

Hence the principal Christian dogmas, which include such symbols as «Son of God», «satisfaction», «sacrifice», and the like, are, in so far as they are limited to the facts of the Christian story, untenable.

Through the events that faith knows as the Incarnation and the Crucifixion, God empties himself of his sovereignty and transcendence, and not only does this kenotic sacrifice effect the dissolution of the opposition between Father and Son in the new epiphany of God as universal Spirit, but so likewise vanishes the opposition between God and the world.

So long as Christianity knows the Crucifixion as a vicarious sacrifice for a totally guilty humanity, as the innocent sacrifice of the eternal Son of God to a just but merciful Father, it can never celebrate the definitive victory of the Crucifixion; for such a redeemed humanity remains in bondage to the transcendent Judge, and must continue to be submissive to his distant and alien authority, ever pleading for mercy when it falls away from his absolute command.

When you have a world filled with liars and adulterers and murderers and greed and selfishness (even though we know what's right and what's wrong but we do it anyway) and the God that created you loves you so much that he needs to sacrifice his Son for all of us who have not kept his Law, in order to wipe out those terrible sins, then you should be praying that you're counted as one who kept his Laws.

An» «angry Father» [contemplates] the disobedience of man in human sin, decrees to condemn [us] to eternal death... Against which sentence of divine justice the Son interposes Himself... so that in His total sacrifice «the Father is appeased».»

If losing an only son is so much of a sacrifice, why wouldn't God just impregnate another human woman or two?

Christians worship a god who, for some reason, decided that he must sacrifice his son, so he could forgive the imperfectness of humans that he made to be imperfect.

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.

My brother sacrificed a huge offering to a certain ministry and packed up and allowed his successful business to be ran by someone else to be part of that ministry and about lost his business; and his son to this day was so damaged by that «ministry» that he is not even living for Christ anymore, years later.

But, the point is, all 3 Persons of the Trinity, The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit, all agreed that the Sacrifice of Jesus's blood was the only way for sin to be forgiven, and for the debt to be paid for, so we didn't have to face the judgment that our sins deserve, an eternity in a lake of fire.

The idea, however, that we as humans are so important to the universe's creator that we required the bloody violent sacrifice of his son, that is to say himself, seems strangely arrogant considering how minor a part of the universe we are.

Jesus, IN His divinity, takes up that position of powerlessness and sacrifice, and then through this position the Father gives Him the name that is above every other name so that at that name every knee shall worship God the Son.

But again the point of Jesus dying isn't that God requires a sacrifice but rather the point is that God loves us so much that he was willing to send His son to die for us

Yeah, so you're an average American «feeling» the presence of a middle - eastern sky god giving you love and the promise of eternal life if you blindly belief he «sacrificed» his son so he could resurrect himself to save his creation from an eternal damnation he created.

You may be correct Jeremy but I have always known that God is good and just as Jesus suffered and took the whole of the workds sin on Himself so did His Father take on all the rebellion before His Son paid the ultimate sacrifice.

Is this the same book that has talking snakes and donkeys and mass zombie outbreaks and invisible body parts (soul) and invisible diseases (sin) that get passed down from father to son so god had to sacrifice himself to himself to appease himself so that he doesn't torture 100 % of his creation for all eternity in a pit of fire but only 99.99 % of his creation..

A command not to Do (Do not associate any partner with Allah, do not make a prophet as son of Allah, do not say Allah has a son or daughter or wife, do not distinguish between prophets, do not make an angel as one of three (referring to trinity concept), do not disobey parents, do not kill, do not harm, do not steal, do not eat dead meat, do not eat meat from the animal was sacrificed in the name of Idols, do not drink, do not fornicate or adultery, do not look down to orphan and poor, do not spread the fasaad (trouble) on the earth and so on...)

God loves us in spite of our sin, so much he sent his Son as a sacrifice for us.

Yet more importantly is the fact that God gave his only begotten Son as a sacrifice to buy back man from the inherited Adamic sin so that all those calling on the name of God would be saved.

And with the cup, so clear a symbol of his blood in that red wine, he saw, as we did, that his life, poured forth, would seal a new commitment, would form upon the altar of God's grace a whole new covenant that would replace the ancient, worn - out slaughter of the animals with one complete and final act, the sacrifice of God's own son to show the world, to show us all the height and depth and majesty, the eternal glory of God's love, which gives itself forever, or until we come, at last, and offer up our own lives in return.

And if he was god and son of god, he'd have known everything beforehand, so he wasn't even very brave in «sacrificing» himself.

Father was satisfied with Jesus sacrifisce but NOT because Father would require blood and death of an innocent Son, but because Father's and Son's love is so great that it was WILLING to endure and sacrifice everything, even to die undeservingly and unjustly, in order to show us that love.

We might consider doing the same: Lord who made me and remade me, illuminate my mind so that I may understand that you exist so truly that you can not be thought of as forsaking your creatures, forgetting your revealed promises, or bringing to naught the work of redemption you began with the incarnation and sacrifice of your beloved Son.

As the earlier Feast of Tabernacles symbolized the incarnation, God's tabernacle with his people in the person of his own son, so this later Feast of Dedication symbolized the dedication of the son of God to his mission, the climax of which would be his voluntary sacrifice of himself for the sins of humanity.

Catholic News Service: Father of «VatiLeaks» suspect hopes son's testimony will help reform The father of the pope's personal assistant, who is under arrest in connection with the so - called «VatiLeaks» scandal, described his son as an honest, faithful Catholic and said he hoped his son's «sacrifice» would help the church rid itself of corruption.

You make sure that I'm on the right track, and I'm so so appreciative of you because you sacrificed so so much for me... You've blessed me with a beautiful son that I'm so thankful for.»

The «Billy Elliot» actor - who has a four - year - old son with ex-wife Evan Rachel Wood - admits having a child can be «really stressful» and requires a lot of «sacrifice», so he can understand why the pressure can be too much for some people.