Certainly he told the people that the sacrifices of animals he offered were worthless in itself, and only valuable, if they would be considered as a reminder for the future
sacrifice of the Son of God, the only sacrifice which can take away sins.
Not exact matches
Reality quotes a paradiddle,»... Moreover, an atonement theology that says God
sacrifices his own
son in place
of humans who needed to be punished for their sins...» TThey ddon't bbelieve God iis jjust.
For comparison, «
sacrifice»
of a «
son» by an «omnipotent» «god» as a requirement to «save» anyone is complete nonsense, as is the entire Christian religion.
The Death and Resurrection
of the Beloved
Son: The Transformation
of Child
Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity By Jon D. Levenson Yale University Press.
Constantine's
son Constantius II, who reigned from 337 till 361, ordered the closing
of all pagan temples and forbade Pagan
sacrifices under pain
of death.
A scholarly exploration
of a neglected bond between Jews and Christians: the importance
of the
sacrificed son, from Abraham to Golgatha.
But the key is to respond positively for this great unconditional
sacrifice and demonstration
of such a great love by God himself — the author
of love and forgiveness — through his
Son Jesus Christ.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The grace
of the father in heaven is the offering
of his
son Jesus as a
sacrifice for us all.
And you just have to say, What kind
of God invites us to take Him on at the level
of our heartache
of questions and confusion and then offers us not an answer but indeed the
sacrifice of His own
son.
That those animal
sacrifices were to learn
of what was to happen when God would make that
sacrifice and that that is why there is communion today as a means to remember the
sacrifice God's beloved
son had made.
Mormons worship Jesus Christ as the Savior and Redeemder
of the world, the only begotten
Son of God, and the only being capable
of performing the necessary
sacrifice that enables us to be forgiven when we repent.
You mean as part
of what it means to make
sacrifices the greatest
of which being God having to make the greatest
sacrifice of all that unlike Abraham who was at the last minute spared from having to make the
sacrifice of his beloved
son Isaac, God on the other hand due to his love for all
of us imperfect beings had to actually
sacrifice his beloved
son.
When you turn the light
of reason on the basic
of idea
of god needing a
sacrifice of his own
son to allow himself to forgive, it becomes just as ridiculous as condemning homosexuality.
Even at this primitive stage
of humanity's relationship with God, Abraham learns that God does not want his
son to die, but rather it is God who will provide the
sacrifice Himself.
If God spares nothing, not even his beloved
son, for the sake
of his enemies, ought we not
sacrifice ourselves for the other, even the enemy?
Eid al - Adha commemorates when God appeared to Abraham - known as Ibrahim to Muslims - in a dream and asked him to
sacrifice his
son as an act
of obedience.
The passage recounting how Abraham is asked to
sacrifice his
son Isaac is disturbing and appalling to us because we know the nature
of God through Christ.
This is the kind
of love we are talking about — not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his
Son as a
sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they've done to our relationship with God.
God the Father accepts his
Son's
sacrifice of love for all humanity as an apology for all the sins
of the world.
As Abraham was about to
sacrifice his
son, God stopped him and gave him a sheep to kill in place
of his
son.
A more moving portrayal
of the meaning
of child
sacrifice to a good father could hardly have been written than this story furnishes; the profound loyalty involved in child
sacrifice, holding nothing back that religious obligation might require, is recognized; and the story's obvious objective is reached when «Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt - offering in the stead
of his
son.»
Again, it is a lamb which Abraham substitutes for the
sacrifice of his only
son, Isaac.
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.
If god * had * to
sacrifice his
son to appease himself, according to some «angry gods» paradigm, then he was not in control
of the paradigm, and could not have been it's creator.
(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.
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.
But he is no zealot, eager to practice child -
sacrifice or insensitive to the horror involved; this we learn from the austere, steady, and dignified way he proceeds, as indicated by the simplicity, compactness, and austerity
of the verbs used to recount his actions: He arose, saddled (his ass), took (two youths with him and Isaac his
son), cleaved (wood for the burnt - offering), rose up and went.
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.
By showing his willingness to
sacrifice what is his for what is right and good, he also puts his
son on the proper road for his own adulthood — the true test
of the good father.
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».»
Not only in the glory
of creation» these mountains, this lake, this great night sky
of the Alps» and not only in his misericordia did God share with us insight into the special characteristics
of his love, but also in sending us a human model
of it in sending us his
Son, who called us his friends, and
sacrificed his life for us.
If losing an only
son is so much
of a
sacrifice, why wouldn't God just impregnate another human woman or two?
Also, for the first time, Abraham is told that his seed shall be victorious in wars with its enemies — which means,
of course, that there will be later need for God - fearing men to
sacrifice their
sons, this time in battle; in the absence
of fathers who are willing to pay such a price, God's way on earth can not survive in the world against its enemies.
It is like one who offers to
sacrifice another man's
son in the presence
of his father (Sir.
Abraham was willing to
sacrifice his only
son of promise at the very site where Jesus was crucified many years later.
When God commanded Abraham to
sacrifice his
son Isaac, it was not just to see if Abraham was faithful enough to follow his commandment, it was also symbolic
of the
sacrifice God himself would make in
sacrifice his beloved and begotten
son, but unlike Abraham who was spared at the last moment from carrying through with the
sacrifice of his
son, God the father actually carried through with the
sacrifice and although it wasn't permanent it still did not mean that there was no anguish, it doesn't matter how brief it was, if it was enough for divine and eternal beings to have to go through such heartache, all
of which for our lowly sakes, in my view that is quite significant and I believe that such suffering is actually beyond mine or anyone else's comprehension.
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.
How can a book, even the Book, substitute for the clear and concrete symbolism
of sacrifice on the part
of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Son of God, who became flesh and suffered on the cross for our sake?
Human
sacrifice: a burning bush tell Abraham to kill his
son (
of course, only at the last second does God say «naaaaah, just kidding»)
Indeed, it took the
sacrifice of God's own
Son to pay the sin debt that you owed to atone for the wicked deeds that you have done against God.
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.
There is only one thing that makes one a Christian: belief in the atoning
sacrifice of Gods
Son Jesus Christ on our behalf.
By not taking the
Son of God's
sacrifice seriously we anger the spirit
of grace.