Sentences with phrase «sacrificial offering»

"Sacrificial offering" refers to the act of giving up or surrendering something valuable or meaningful as a way to show devotion or commitment, typically to a higher power or cause. Full definition
The Mayans made sacrificial offerings on its chest, including human blood and hearts.
But they who by sacrificial offering, charity, and austerity conquer the worlds, pass into the smoke (of the cremation - fire); from the smoke, into the night; from the night, into the half month of the waning moon; from the half month of the waning moon, into the six months during which the sun moves southwaid; from those months, into the world of the fathers; from the world of the fathers, into the moon.
The personal sacrificial offering conducive to grace is replaced by the use of someone else's property.
These beautiful natural formations were important to the Mayans, who conducted sacrificial offerings and rituals in these «sacred wells.»
Found in Siberia's Altai Mountains, the mummified remains of the Ice Maiden lay for millennia in an undisturbed tomb, surrounded by sacrificial offerings and valuable possessions.
Even so, Christ wants us, like the poor widow in the gospel, to contribute our tokens as a sacrificial offering for the redemption of our souls.
Many rabbis interpret fasting as a sacrificial offering to God, of the flesh of one's own body.
The revised translation is far more accurate: «May our prayers rise up to you, O Lord, together with the sacrificial offerings
It is His innocence and His charity, maintained and offered continually throughout His suffering that constitutes His sacrificial offering.
God showed preference to Abel, over the sacrificial offerings.
I mean seriously, that is up there with skinning the sacrificial offering, and putting the entrails all fancied up with the skin and head, and then putting the meat in an unappetizing presentation, and then your God says «Hey, yeah, I want the nice looking stuff» and gets duped.
Mohammed orders a glass of water... Jesus turns it into wine... Abraham gets drunk and decides to kill his son Isaac as a sacrificial offering to God / Allah / Yahweh... just cause some hallucination told him to do it
«Consecrate» in verse 19, the climax of the prayer, is a sacrificial term; it refers directly to his death, and it means «I dedicate myself as a sacrificial offering
This behavior is like tossing fuel on an already burning fire in Islam because Christ has already made the sacrificial offering to God by His own death, buriel, resurrection and ascention.
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.
If one values every single individual as unique and irreplaceable, and if one's image of the good is of the widest possible conviviality, then in order fully to aim for the good, even the sacrificial offering of oneself must sustain the hope of one's own ultimate redemption.
The notion that a sacrificial offering without hope of return is the only true gift suggests that to be ethical is to be prepared to lose oneself for the other.
I am amazed that these believers were prepared to make a sacrificial offering for a future need in another country — especially as they were suffering famine themselves at the time.
The question of women's ordination is not one of ability (and especially not about ability to preach) but of fitness to act in persona Christi in the sacrificial offering.
The sacrificial offerings came to an end with the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE.
Sacrificial offerings may not be difficult, but they are expensive.
Totality's eerie light bathes the ring of massive monoliths while robed figures chant and burn their sacrificial offerings.
In ancient times, they used these sites for sacrificial offerings... and, they were believed to be entry points to the underworld — or the after - life.
But it is the fact that the jade megajewel was found not buried with an ancient ruler but with a collection of sacrificial offerings that has historians excited.
The playable protagonist is Aluche, a Holy Knight of the Curia assigned to escort her friend Liliana, a priestess of New Curia, to be served up as a sacrificial offering.
One, comprising a taxidermy lamb, a piece of glowing neon, and a plastic orange, resembles a seance circle or a sacrificial offering.
According to the gallery, «These are the sacrificial offerings of a painterly practice to which the artist returns each night, the collateral of a painting process structured by continual longing for something just outside of reach.»
And they probably also sense that, in the battle to «save the planet», they are cast in the role of sacrificial offering.
The games have never ceased, and they never will all the while hardened overseers and callous brokers / sales managers masquerading as all encompassing parent - like protectors continuously troll for fresh blood for the sacrificial offerings to the commission gods.
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