Sentences with phrase «scapegoat god»

I have wondered about all the blood and gore in the O.T. I even get the idea that we humans do scapegoat God.

When people wrote that God told them to kill and slaughter others, they were scapegoating God, but He was letting them do it — even inspiring them to do so.

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i've said it before and it is more true today than ever... gods are for the weak, timiid and those that need a scapegoat for all the bad and good in their lives.

BEcause your blood contains sin, and God has become the scapegoat for the evil hatred we carry.

god becomes the scapegoat for a crime an individual or group of individuals decides to commit.

''... making God the great scapegoat of history.

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«Christians (et al) must give up a perverse, unhealthy and inhuman doctrine of predestination without in so doing making God the great scapegoat of history.»

God is One Verse Bible & Theology Topics: Adam and Eve, crucifixion of Jesus, Genesis 3:11 - 13, Rene Girard, scapegoat

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God is One Verse, Redeeming Scripture Bible & Theology Topics: blame, cain, Genesis 4:13 - 15, One Verse Podcast, scapegoat, violence

The Bible was not written primarily to reveal God to us, but was written to reveal the same thing that Jesus revealed on the cross, which is that we scapegoat people in the name of God.

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God knew this in the Old Testament (and even today), and so allows people to blame Him for the most horrendous actions, not because He has done these things, and not because He has commanded that such things be done, but because He knows that if He does not act as the scapegoat, we will destroy ourselves.

Obviously, Jews who do not believe Jesus was the messiah do not believe what Christians believe about him: that Jesus became the scapegoat and the Passover «lamb of God» to atone for our sins, thus separating sins from sinners and enabling God and us to love sinners while hating sins.

Rainer, how come your god needed a scapegoat story stolen from earlier fictions to get rid of sin?

The goat which was selected by lot was offered to God as a burnt offering, while the one which was rejected became the scapegoat (Lev 16:7 - 10).

God knew that without the violence of the scapegoat mechanism, mankind would only spiral into ever - increasing violence, which ultimately would end in our complete destruction.

In our scapegoating violence, we have made God the universal scapegoat for all violence.

By teaching Israel about the scapegoat, and indeed, implanting the scapegoat mechanism into the hearts of people around the world, God was preparing people for the ultimate scapegoat of human history — Jesus Christ.

Terrorists or dictatorships who persecute innocent people because they claim it's part of faith are not welcomed — their use of Islam as a scapegoat, does not make Islam what they portray it to be, in fact those false persecutors will be punished themselves by God, «God is the only judge.

Could it be that in using the scapegoat imagery, God was not only giving Israel a way of escape for their own violent tendencies, but was also revealing to them (and us) what He Himself was doing about the violence of Israel, and indeed, the violence of the whole world?

By being the scapegoat for natural and human violence, God thereby rescues, redeems, and delivers mankind from the disastrous consequences of owning up to what is truly in our hearts.

Islam meaning is «Submission to One God» and that was Abrahams Religion on which all the Prophets before him and after him had followed until «Issa the Son of Mary» then as our Friend»» «gozar»» «mentioned that (God did not need a scapegoat story stolen from earlier fictions)... doesn't that look like a fine line of poetry that summarized the whole situation of the crime that took place against a prophet and messenger of God became a dead sin taker...??

That God allows Himself to be the scapegoat for our sin is seen partly in the fact that the practice of «scapegoating» is found, not just in Leviticus 16, but in all cultures and all religions throughout history.

Could it be that the scapegoat imagery of Leviticus 16 that God wasn't just telling Israel that their sins were carried away into the wilderness by a goat, but that He Himself was bearing their sin on His own being, so that they might be delivered from the ever - increasing spiral of violence that threatened to consume them?

A priest who is accused of even one incident» even if it was no more than a misunderstood hug, and even if that was twenty or thirty years ago» and has given his life in faithful service to the people of God ever since, is rudely thrown out, not because he poses a credible threat to anyone but because he is a convenient scapegoat for bishops who, after years of laxity, now want to look tough.

The whole idea of appeasing gods through sacrifice or scapegoating ones sins, even in the case of Jesus, is pretty ridiculous isn't it?

From him we can learn that the «social crisis» which is resolved through the «scapegoat mechanism» is in reality the crisis of human existence before God, the crisis of creation.

Like gods they flood The plain with scalding words And scapegoat plots.

The scapegoating concept has changed my understanding of the word of God.

Jesus went willingly to the cross, not because a blood sacrifice was necessary to pay the penalty for sin, but because going to the cross unmasked the scapegoat mechanism, revealed the violence inherent within the heart of men, exposed the myth of redemptive violence, and brought an end to the war that men had waged on God for centuries.

Didn't God institute the scapegoat?

Yes, I would say that the scapegoat instituted by God was intended to reveal the human practice (crime) of scapegoating humans.

Yesterday we looked at the idea of God as a divine scapegoat.

Hint: the whole cruxifixion think is nonsense, scapegoats are a way for cowards to not do the diligence of looking into real causes, and your god does not exist.

Jesus said the writings all decsribe me yet it seems God did show us evil scapegoating from Adam onward.

Because of their vulnerable status, it has become common to scapegoat and hurl insults at them without regard to the fact that they are human beings created in the image of God.

If the Scriptures are to be believed, then the actions that follow do come as a result of God's command, not people «scapegoating.»

Furthermore, Paul, viewed by most Christians as a great role model, said, «I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets...» It seems Paul couldn't see the scapegoating either.

But as usually happens in such situations, people started looking for someone to blame, and in this town, because the Jewish people were seen as «outsiders under the curse of God,» they became the scapegoats.

God is One Verse, Redeeming Scripture Bible & Theology Topics: Adam, Eve, Genesis 3:1, One Verse Podcast, scapegoat, temptation

This book reveals how terribly wrong this perspective is, and instead reveals to us that Jesus died on the cross to reveal to us what we have been doing to others (and to God) for all of human history, namely, we have been scapegoating them.

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.

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: Books by Jeremy Myers, Leviticus 16, scapegoat, Theology of God, Theology of Sin, violence, When God Pled Guilty

God is a divine scapegoat, allowing us to blame Him for our violence, so that He can carry our violence away and rescue us from violence.

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He not only revealed to us what God had been doing all along, but also unmasked the scapegoat mechanism for all to see.

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: Books by Jeremy Myers, crucifixion, Jesus, scapegoat, Theology of God, Theology of Jesus, Theology of Sin, violence, violence of God, When God Pled Guilty