Sentences with phrase «sacrificial death of»

Now that we have this redemptive revelation through the sacrificial death of Jesus, we are able to live in a new way with other human beings.

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.

God Who saves through the sacrificial death of His Son still gives grace and power to sin no more Mat 1:21; Heb 2:14; His disciples were already saved before He prayed for their sanctification.

The very theme of the Epistle to the Hebrews is the sacrificial death of Christ, and I Peter and the Apocalypse are full of allusions to it.

Only in the light of the sacrificial death of Jesus and the continuing sacrifice of all loyal servants of God can we see how really difficult is the way to His Kingdom.

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.

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.

If Christ is not Divine, then what is his role in atonement for our sins, the sacrificial death of just one good man?

Not exact matches

But Jesus» sacrificial death has given value to all suffering if it is accepted and offered in union with Him out of love for the Father, sincere sorrow for sins - our own and those of the whole world - and charity towards those who have caused it.

It was not without reason that 19th - century liberal theologians revolted en mass against the orthodox Anselmian doctrine of atonement that taught that the only ultimately compelling reason for Christ's coming was that he might suffer his substitutionary, sacrificial, expiating, even propitiating death.

The breaking of the bread, the pouring out of the wine, point to the violent, sacrificial death Jesus is to suffer on the Cross.

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.

Likewise, the Isa of the Qur» an is an artificial construct designed to undercut the authentic, New Covenant Jesus» sacrificial death, resurrection, and free offer of salvation to all Muslims... all of which Muslim apologists and teachers deny.

«For Paul, Jesus» death on the cross is an act of loving, self - sacrificial obedience that becomes paradigmatic for the obedience of all who are in Christ.»

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.

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.

And nowhere in Scripture can we behold the reality of Jesus» sacrificial death and the anguish of His separation from His Father more clearly and penetratingly than in His suffering on the cross because of sin.

The violent death of Jesus on the cross exposed the lie of scapegoating and sacrificial violence for what it was.

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.

Instead, Jesus came to inaugurate a new bloodline of relatives, a family connected by the means of His sacrificial death and life - restoring resurrection on our behalf.

This basically mirrors the scene in Mission to Mars between the characters played by Tim Robbins and Connie Nelson, whereby the death of one leads to a void whereby the other is willing to act in a heroic and self - sacrificial manner.

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.

The message of Christianity, the Good News, is not about accepting or requiring either death or brutality, sacrificial or otherwise.

In His death, Jesus exposed the emptiness of the sacrificial system for what it was: a form of satanic enslavement by which humans think they are appeasing God for that which He had already forgiven them for.

The expiation of sin achieved by Jesus» priestly sacrificial death on the cross is brought to fulfilment in the Eucharist of which Jesus is the heavenly high priest.

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.

who came up with the concepts of virgin birth, sacrificial death, making man god?

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.

In Hebrews, the sacrificial character of His death is described in the Psalmist's words, «Lo, I am come to do Thy will, 0 God» (x. 5 - 9); and for this writer His trials and temptations, (Heb.

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.

The love and grace of God requires neither a sacrificial tortuous execution nor a death - defying miracle to prove or perversely demonstrate its existence and worth and validity — God is not an abusive parent.

Therefore, having earned a reward by his sacrificial death, we can avail ourselves of the eternal salvation he has merited.

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.

What the Roman mass has been saying in glorious drama through the centuries is that in the sacrificial death and triumphant resurrection of Christ, ever repeated through the most solemn rites of the Church, the God who has acted in him for our redemption is here at the altar and will act again and now for those who seek him in true penitence and faith.

But our use of the words «sacrificial death» brings before us a further aspect of the action.

That Love, humanly expressed to the point of sacrificial death, was validated and confirmed, for Christian faith, in the resurrection of embodied Love from death and hatred, evil and deception.

His righteousness is immutable, his justice fixed, and the wages of sin were reaped by Christ via his sacrificial death for all those who believe on him.

The sacrificial system was set up to remind the people that the result of sin was death, not to appease God.

The Christian view of death, anchored in Jesus» empty tomb, is the only foundation solid enough on which to build a movement of costly sacrificial confrontation with militarism and injustice.

Finally, the Christian view of death, grounded in Jesus» resurrection, is the only foundation solid enough on which to build a movement of costly, sacrificial confrontation with nuclear militaristic madness and entrenched economic injustice.

The first thing to notice about the context of Hebrews 9:22 is that the author is clearly contrasting the sacrificial system of the Mosaic Law with what Jesus accomplished in His death on the cross.

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.

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.

The cross of sacrificial love usually does not and can not mean the cross of physical death.

With death «demythologised» there is no original sin, because death is no longer a punishment for disobedience, and no Fall and hence no need for redemption or for a sacrificial and atoning interpretation of Jesus» death.

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).

Zwingli broke with Luther largely over the Lord's Supper, holding that the Communion Service was simply a memorial of Christ's self - sacrificial death.

These themes in Jesus» ministry were deeply rooted in the Hebrew prophetic tradition, and Jesus» ministry an his sacrificial death were a continuation and a fulfillment of that tradition.

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.