Sentences with phrase «sacrificial offerings»

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

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.

The sacrificial offerings came to an end with the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE.

It is unclear how much was engraved upon the tablets and how much was simply dictated to him; but, in any event, all the laws, all the ritual and the various sacrificial offerings, all the directions for the construction of the Tabernacle and the fabrication of the vestments and adornments originated with Yahweh.

The revised translation is far more accurate: «May our prayers rise up to you, O Lord, together with the sacrificial offerings.»

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 personal sacrificial offering conducive to grace is replaced by the use of someone else's property.

It is a strange picture that we are given of Jesus during these first days in the temple: arguing freely with Sadducees, scribes, and Pharisees; parrying more or less subtle attempts to lure him into statements that could be used against him; answering sincere questions and approving good answers to his own questions; pronouncing fiery invectives against influential teachers who opposed him; lamenting the failure of Jerusalem to respond to his challenge; and then calmly pointing out to his disciples the tiny but sacrificial offering of a poor widow.

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

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.

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 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.

Thus, we can not, as in the case of the «ransom,» regard Paul's images of the legal penalty and of the sacrificial offering merely as graphic metaphors, however apt.

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.

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.

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.

The word «sacrifice» is almost inexhaustible in its polysemy, particularly in the Old Testament, but the only sacrificial model explicitly invoked in the New Testament is that of the Atonement offering of Israel, which certainly belongs to no cosmic cycle of prudent expenditure and indemnity.

Stoicism offers an obvious example: a vision of the universe as a fated, eternally repeated divine and cosmic history, a world in which finite forms must constantly perish simply in order to make room for others, and which in its entirety is always consumed in a final ecpyrosis (which makes a sacrificial pyre, so to speak, of the whole universe).

The letter to the Hebrews argues that Jesus» perfect self - offering brought to an end the sacrificial system of the Temple.

But instead comes Easter, which rudely interrupts all the minatory and sententious moralisms of the tragic chorus, just as they are about to be uttered to full effect, and which cavalierly violates the central tenet of sound economics: rather than trading the sacrificial victim for some supernatural benefit, and so the particular for the universal, Easter restores the slain hero in his particularity again, as the only truth the Gospels have to offer.

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.

In fact this psalm discounts sacrificial burnt offerings in favour of spiritual renewal.

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.

It requires an offering of self, just as the marriage relationship requires sacrificial service.

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.

So now, the author of Hebrews says, if these Hebrew Christians return to the sacrificial system, then there is not sacrifice there which can offer forgiveness of sins or eternal life.

Much of what Paul writes addresses problems and concerns in the Corinthian congregation, such as the problem of eating foods that have been offered to idols in sacrificial worship and are now offered by a host to an unsuspecting Christian guest, one who might be offended.

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.

Secondly, as an action the Eucharist is sacrificial in quality, since it has to do with an oblation, offering, or self - giving which was the characteristic mark of the life of Jesus in obedience to what he took to be the vocation given him by his heavenly Father.

In fact, in Hebrews 9 - 10, the author uses the «sacrifice» of Jesus to subvert the sacrificial system, and then redeems it by transitioning to speaking about the «offering» of Jesus.

And to offer oneself, if necessary, unto sacrificial death is already to receive back one's body from beyond the grave.

We need to comprehend the first link if we are to understand something of the process by which sacrifice was displaced from an actual bloody ritual practice to a metaphor for moral action, such that we can now say «he was very self - sacrificial» and not mean «he offered his body to Aztec priests.»

For such thinkers as Jan Patocka, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, and, to a certain extent, Jean - Luc Marion, the highest ethical gesture is a sacrificial self - offering which expects no benefit in return.

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.

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.

Worship, then, is primarily sacrificial in kind, in the sense that it means offering to God.

Monasticism undoubtedly offers a way for some, but it is not the only way to the sacrificial life of love.

This explains what seem to us the strange and horrible sacrificial rites of primitive peoples; they are seeking to find something that they may present to their god — their best gift, even if it meant the offering of the bravest man, or of a treasured possession, or of some animal of flawless quality.

That is one side of the Eucharist, then: the offering, the oblation, the pleading, the sacrificial side of it.

Here is the sacrificial lamb offered daily on the altar of the Temple.

Back of more sophisticated meanings, which later were seen in the temple sacrifices, and more rarefied interpretations of the effect of ritual offerings on Yahweh, was the idea of the communal meal where deity and people shared the same feast and the god of the tribe enjoyed with his devotees their sacrificial food.

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.

This name has been given to them because during the time of offering sacrifices they kill the sacrificial animal.

That's a modest accommodation compared to the widespread sacrificial religious animal offerings in Santaria or abatoir practices in Judaism or Islam that affect millions of animals.

The temple cultus, with its sacrifices and offerings and the arrangements for providing sacrificial victims, had become such an elaborate, noisy, and odorous affair that to the earnest young prophet from Galilee the spirit of true worship must have seemed to be lost.

He knew he would become the sacrificial lamb, but he wanted to await the exact time for its offering.