Sentences with phrase «sacrificial god»

The Bible is somewhat similar, except that instead of turning out to be pathetic and sad, the story of Scripture reveals a loving and self - sacrificial God which looks in every way just like Jesus Christ.

God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.

Not exact matches

And what better way to do this than quote Scripture and threaten the loss of God's blessings for non - tithers / less - than - sacrificial givers.

The most generous and sacrificial people I know have all had some sort of experience in which God birthed compassion in them through exposure to the poor while on a mission trip.

Hello, Muneef, I hope and pray that you are doing fine, and that you are safe... I don't actualy know where you are, but I gather you live somewhere where there are many unrests... Today is the special day for all people who have put their faith in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, who came to live among us, and who became a sacrificial Lamb, offeirng Himself to God for the sins of all mankind.

Jesus, as the ultimate peacemaker, shows us that the life and work of peacemaking isn't some fairy tale euphoria, but the gritty, subversive and sacrificial life of faithfulness to a God and kingdom that lives by a different standard than the systems and powers of the world.

It does seem hard to believe that God would allow Judas to be another sacrificial Lamb, now doesn't it?

I see a Christ dying to invite us into God's presence and also doing away with the sacrificial system once and for all — and including the Gentiles fully in the process (according to Paul and the gospels).

Thanks Lisa, I still hold to the sacrificial lamb on the cross, he carried our sins and transgressions and satisfied the wrath of God that was due towards our sinful nature.

God is not a baby - killing deity, who seeks to exact revenge on His enemies for a crime many decades old, but is a self - sacrificial, enemy - loving God, who would rather die for His enemies than see His enemies die.

Such a severe penalty leaves room for God's grace and mercy (totally underserved) for those who believe in Jesus sacrificial death on the cross at Calvary and His redemptive resurrection.

Instead, God is to be found in the self - sacrificial death of a lamb, who pours out His blood for others, so that death and destruction, when it comes, passes over the house and can not touch those who live within.

Seems to me that the foundation of Christianity is that God sent Jesus (himself actually) to earth to serve a a sacrificial lamb, to die for the sins of man because all people are born into sin.

Those that believe in the sacrificial and purity gods, collapse into rule keeping, legislative righteousness, slavish thinking, and venomous anger as they kill their own gay children or chant «holiness» as they murder in fact or figuratively.

Many rabbis interpret fasting as a sacrificial offering to God, of the flesh of one's own body.

The prophets, including Jesus, challenged the temple and its worship services, the sacrificial system to gain forgiveness, the priestly hierarchy to mediate God's grace, the separation of people based on nationality, gender, and wealth, and basically, everything that religion requires to hold itself together.

In the monarchical construct, God is implicitly in contest with evil powers, either as victorious king, who crushes them or as sacrificial servant, who (momentarily) assumes a worldly mien in order to free his subjects from evil's control.

The main things I think that Jesus was «bypassing» was the priestly class as mediators between God and man, the sacrificial system as the method for receiving forgiveness of sins, and the Temple as the locus of God's presence.

Yet so similar are the sources in the human spirit that through all ages, and not in Christianity alone, the worship of God has found natural expression in music and song, poetry and the graphic arts, the drama of sacrificial rites, and where not inhibited by convention, the dance.

(Jeremiah 15:20) It is not strange, therefore, that when temple and altar were destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, and the exiles in Babylon, bereft of their sacrificial system, were in confusion, Jeremiah's faith was expressed in a message to them concerning personal prayer — anywhere, in any land, sacrifices or no sacrifices, the God of Israel was saying to his people, «Ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

II, pp. 14 - 15) Christian ideas, however, soon moved too far away from either the practice or the perusal of sacrificial laws as a means of reconciliation with God for the early Christian to be content with such a solution.

That is a good point about focusing on the big picture of God's sacrificial love.

This is a sacrificial meal, a ritual meal, in which we enjoy communion with God.

As a result, the literal and tangible sacrificial apparatus of the Jews became to the Christians symbolic of another kind of religious system altogether, whose temple is heavenly, not earthly, whose high priest once for all has entered the holy place of divine communion, where believing souls may follow him, (Hebrews 10:19) whose sacrifice is voluntary self - giving, and whose consequence is an open way for all to «draw nigh unto God.»

(Nehemiah 13:31) Clearly, to men like this the sacrificial system was not a substitute for the interior practice of God's presence but rather the «outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.»

With the ancient altars no longer standing, with the sacrificial cultus interpreted as a mere foreshadowing of the access to God that Christians spiritually enjoyed, with the growing rituals of the new churches still plastic and unformed, personal prayer became the typical method of divine fellowship.

(I John 4:7 - 8) As for the sacrificial system, that had been displaced by a moral and universally applicable substitute — «Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.»

Intimate, interior, spiritual communion with God flourished in association with the temple ritual; it found there encouragement and inspiration; it even used the sacrificial system as a trellis to grow upon.

On the cross, Jesus shows us what kind of God Yahweh is, and how Jesus came to rule and reign, not by might, nor by power, but by self - sacrificial service and taking the sins and guilt and blame of the entire world upon Himself.

As Christians, we believe our faith is founded in God's self - sacrificial love, a virtue we are commanded to emulate: «Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven» (Matt.

Yet Abraham does not exactly lie: For in Abraham's eyes Isaac, the sacrificial lamb, had indeed been provided by God, presumably for this purpose.

After the Temple was destroyed in 70 AD, the study of Torah was equated with the worship of God and replaced the sacrificial system of the Temple.

He has experienced awe, the religious passion, during the dark vision between the sacrificial pieces; he has enacted the new covenant marked by (self --RRB- circumcision — a symbolic act of «partial sacrifice,» betokening dedication to God's ways; he has been God's partner in the judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah, and in his own heart has accepted responsibility for (what he thought was) the «death» of Lot; he has beheld the wondrous birth of Isaac and endured the banishment of Ishmael.

Life of eternal dimensions is the here - and - now gift to those who believe that this self - sacrificial One is the Son of God.

When Abram next impatiently demands proof that he will indeed inherit the promised land, God enacts the awe - inspiring covenant - between - the - sacrificial - pieces and, in the eerie darkness, gives Abram some bad news: not he but only his seed will inherit the land, and then only after they have suffered four hundred years of slavery as strangers in a strange land.

Now a considerable number of Christians see his divinity in some special feature of his humanity, such as his intense awareness of God, or his total self - giving and sacrificial love.

In pouring himself out in the form of a servant, and in living his humanity as an offering up of everything to God in love, the shape of the eternal Son's life was already sacrificial in this special sense; and it was this absolute giving, as God and man, that was made complete on Golgotha.

Craig says God was the one who instituted the sacrificial system under the Law.

Once His sacrificial death and resurrection occurred those in the OT who had faith in God had their sins taken away, but not before then.

God allowed the OT saints to «write checks» through the animal sacrificial system, but it was Jesus» death and resurrection that put the money into the account and actually took away their sins.

And besides, later in the Pentateuch when Moses gives instructions to the Israelites about the sacrificial system, fruit and grain offerings are said to be acceptable to God.

Can even God tolerate a people and a preacher who have presumably taken his work in the sacrificial and costly atonement of Jesus Christ, his Son and our Lord, if their leading image of ministry and servanthood is devoid of genuflection?

In the Epistle to the Hebrews, Christ is seen as the priest and the lamb for the sacrificial resolution of peace between God and the people of God.

Therefore God's justice has been manifested apart from the Law through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ (3:21 - 22)-- through his obedient, self - sacrificial death on the cross.

In the month of Shawwal 628, Muhammad ordered his followers to obtain sacrificial animals and to make preparations for a pilgrimage (umrah) to Mecca, saying that God had promised him the fulfillment of this goal in a vision where he was shaving his head after the completion of the Hajj

The body is God's temple, these authors remind their readers, and the real aim of keeping it «under subjection» — thin, firm, disciplined — is not mere self - gratification but sacrificial obedience to God.

Active participation in the sacrificial process was the means through which the person was able to «come close» to God in order to feel remorse.

God presented Christ as sacrificial atonement through His blood!

The idea wasn't that the blood of bulls and goats somehow «appeased God,» the sacrificial system was foreshadowing the time when God Himself would make the ultimate atonement for sins.

But to expect that all tasks will get split evenly down the middle and neither spouse will ever do more work than the other is not only unrealistic, it's not the kind of sacrificial love God calls us to in any relationship.