Sentences with phrase «sacrificial death as»

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Divine love is as glorious as a summer day high in the Alps; it is merciful and makes our sins, though they be as scarlet, vanish into insignificance, replacing them with his own action in us; it is, finally, self - sacrificial unto death, for it seeks not its own.

But I am a «slave» of His love as He «bought» me with His sacrificial death by paying the price for the redemption of my soul.

Secondly, as I have mentioned, Cahill takes seriously the witness of the whole of the New Testament and thus avoids the myopia of those who wish to see the significance of Jesus exclusively in his teaching and who bypass the challenge of his sacrificial death and his continuing presence among us.

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.

I certainly hope for the Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, as I would hope for myself and others with me, if found out to be of Christian faith and a modern order, not unlike the Christians who walked with Jesus as a man and Pastor who, as it were, was finally offered up as a sacrificial offering to God upon a cross after being found guilty of offending the then Church of Israel who then proposed his death sentance to be carried out by a Roman Court, though he was innocent of the charges.

Christ is pictured as a sacrificial lamb whose death ransomed humanity.

The religious understanding of the conflict between good and evil, the fact of the stubborn resistance of the human heart to the love of God and its demands, the vision of the divine strategy of sacrificial love in the life and death of Jesus as the climax of history, all this is foreign to most of the philosophies of progress, but it was the heart of the great expressions of Christian liberalism.

The current tradition of Elijah's presence in heaven meant that as soon as the disciples reached the conclusion that, because of his sacrificial death, Jesus was deserving of an even higher honor than Elijah, it was but a logical step to conclude that God had exalted the crucified Jesus and raised him to heaven to join Elijah and Moses.

After demanding death for being human and for behaving in ways that God apparently finds unacceptable, God sends Jesus to be killed and to serve as the sacrificial lamb for all of humankind.

There can be no doubt that we have here an allusion to Christ's death as constituting a sacrificial offering on account of sin and a satisfaction of the demands of God's righteousness.

Historian David Bebbington suggests a respected paradigm for those who identify as an evangelical: a transformed life through following Jesus, faith demonstrated through missionary and social reform efforts, a regard for the Bible as ultimate authority, and a central focus on the sacrificial death of Jesus.

One need not deny the value of martyrdom in certain instances, or the selflessness of sacrificial death that is sometimes involved in trying to live a life of love, or even at times of pacifism (as a strategy, without believing in it as an absolute principle).

The message of the Bible is that all who look to Jesus Christ alone as having taken on Himself the penalty for mankind's sin and paid for our sin debt in full through His sacrificial death on the cross, will be reconciled to God and spend eternity with Him.

If there is to be a compelling theology of the cross, one that is a true alternative to views of Christ's death as a sacrificial punishment administered by God, it must be one that does not abandon these texts and this language, but offers a different vision of their meaning.

Jesus» accusers intend his death to be sacrificial business as usual.

Jesus» death is intended to be sacrificial business as usual.

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.

However, tipped as the «sacrificial lamb» during the Hutton inquiry into the death of government scientist David Kelly — due to his role as defence secretary at the time of the war and stiff performance during the investigation — Hoon in fact emerged unscathed, not leaving defence until after the 2005 election, and only then for the job of leader of the Commons.