Sentences with phrase «sacrificial blood»

There's Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can't save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his «prayer log.»

The shades of the dead in Hades are impotent and mindless, capable of intelligent communication only after drinking sacrificial blood (as when summoned by Odysseus).

To be sure, it may have been only a painted stick, a hideous idol, an altar red with sacrificial blood.

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Spanning nine U.S. cities over 11 weekends, the interactive scavenger hunts had campers (ages 18 and older) collecting items at nightmare scenarios like sacrificial voodoo rituals and blood baths, with the winner crowned «Hellmaster.»

Hmm, «In the precious name of boundaries, and by the blood of the lamb, I will not show self sacrificial love»!

Nearly all Christians know that the blood of the lamb is later used to symbolize the sacrificial death of Jesus on the cross for us.

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.

Behind this sanctity of blood in sacrificial ceremonies stood a profoundly influential idea concerning the nature of life: «The blood is the life»; (Deuteronomy 12:23.)

And the sacrificial system was explained to Adam and Eve who told their children and so it was arrogant of Cain to substitute garden produce for the animal Jesus said should represent Him and flesh and blood did not reveal that to those who believe.

His own blood would seal the new covenant as the sacrificial «blood of the covenant» had sealed the old one at Sinai.

You'd do well to look into the old ways of the «two» priests it required for the atonement of sin of the people — one for the inner court and one for the outer court, and the two animals — the spotless sacrificial lamb, and the scapegoat of whom the blood of that sacrificial lamb was placed and sent into the wilderness.

Jesus was the substitute sacrificial lamb whose blood had to be shed to be an acceptable sacrifice.

Jesus is telling His disciples that through His blood, that is, through His violent death as a sacrificial scapegoat, they will gain deliverance and release from the sin that has enslaved humanity since the foundation of the world.

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.

Now, blood was the best way for atonement because it required the sinner to play an active role in the sacrificial process by giving up and slaughtering his own animal, however not everyone owned animals which is why God arranged alternate processes to give flour and money as atonement offerings.

Moses and angels are responsible for the Law and its sacrificial system — which is a reflection of human thinking, not God's need or want for blood sacrifice.

Jesus was the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek» — the High Priest who fulfilled and therefore abolished the whole sacrificial cult when he offered his own blood as a sacrifice in the heavenly sanctuary.

By letting us shed His blood, Jesus revealed that all such scapegoating sacrificial rituals have nothing whatsoever to do with God and originate instead within the hearts of mankind.

Much of the Old Testament is filled with blood, whether it is the blood spilled in the sacrificial rituals of the Mosaic Law or the blood spilled during Canaanite Conquest and subsequent wars of Israel.

Toward the end of Ut Unum Sint, John Paul cites some of the questions that must be addressed in conversation with the communities issuing from the tragic divisions of the sixteenth century: (1) The relationship between Sacred Scripture, as the highest authority in matters of faith, and Sacred Tradition, as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God; (2) The Eucharist as the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, an offering of praise to the Father, the sacrificial memorial and Real Presence of Christ and the sanctifying outpouring of the Holy Spirit; (3) Ordination, as a Sacrament, to the threefold ministry of the episcopate, presbyterate, and diaconate; (4) The Magisterium of the Church, entrusted to the pope and the bishops in communion with him, understood as a responsibility and an authority exercised in the name of Christ for teaching and safeguarding the faith; (5) The Virgin Mary, as Mother of God and Icon of the Church, the spiritual Mother who intercedes for Christ's disciples and for all humanity.

11, pp. 401 - 403) and even valiant heroes were reduced in Hades to ghosts so feeble that a draught of the fresh blood of sacrificial victims was necessary to rouse them to action.

The author of Hebrews intentionally subverts the sacrificial elements of the Mosaic covenant by transitioning away from images of blood and death, and writing instead about offerings and purification.

Why did God set up a sacrificial system if He didn't want blood to begin with is another long course..

The blood of the sacrificial lamb on the doorposts of the Israelitish homes in Egypt caused the death angel to pass over and spare the firstborn within those homes.

We practice a kind of historical make - nice in which we politely disbelieve that violent myths of the founding of culture might do exactly what they say they do, an unwillingness to admit that there exist cultures which genuinely require for their continued existence the blood of sacrificial victims to be mixed with the mortar of their buildings.

The whole of the letter to the Hebrews is a meditation on Christ's sacrificial Priesthood — «He entered once for all into the Sanctuary, taking not the blood of goats and calves but His own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption» (Hebrews 9:12).

Just as the bread and wine in the synoptic accounts represented Jesus» body and blood given for their redemption, so this act of humble service also bespoke Jesus» sacrificial death on the cross for their salvation.

They view our songs and sermons about His blood in a way that is similar to how you or I might view a cultish sacrificial ritual deep in the woods on a dark night.

For months now we've speculated that Adem Ljajic would be the sacrificial lamb, his blood offered as a sacrifice on the altar of Gervinho, Garcia's favorite player / demigod.

The Mayans made sacrificial offerings on its chest, including human blood and hearts.

McCarthy's provocative early performances in the late 1960s and 70s used his own body as the raw material to explore masculinity, where, drawing on performance art and action painting, he substituted the Viennese Actionists» sacrificial use of blood with ketchup and the Abstract Expressionists» paintbrush with phallic false limbs.