Sentences with phrase «scapegoating violence»

The good / bad tension is there first because of the frank description of the sacrificial, scapegoating violence that has existed from the foundation of the world.

The sin of accusation and blame, which leads to scapegoating violence and murder.

There is still a struggle, but it is not against each other, but against the forces which seek to drag us back into rivalry, accusation, and scapegoating violence.

Jeremy, you wrote, «Why can we see «through» the blatant lies and false accusations and scapegoating violence when we read the account of the crucifixion, but not when we read the rest of the Bible?»

And now we are back to my question: Why can we see «through» the blatant lies and false accusations and scapegoating violence when we read the account of the crucifixion, but not when we read the rest of the Bible?

When we read the account of the crucifixion of Jesus, we see right through the murderous, scapegoating violence.

Understand that there is a vast difference between murderous violence and self - defense violence, and another huge chasm between both of those forms of violence and scapegoating violence.

Why can we see «through» the blatant lies and false accusations and scapegoating violence when we read such historical accounts, but not when we read the Bible?

They are reading the Bible with renewed eyes and are seeing that the violence of the Old Testament text is actually this genocidal, murderous, scapegoating violence.

We didn't know (nor do most recognize today) that sacrificial scapegoating violence is bad.

And Jesus didn't just enter into scapegoating violence to show us it was bad, but to destroy it from the inside (which, as the only truly innocent victim in history, only He was able to do).

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

Not exact matches

God is One Verse, Redeeming Scripture Bible & Theology Topics: Cain and Abel, forgiveness, Genesis 4, One Verse Podcast, sacrifice, scapegoating, sin, violence

God is Redeeming Books Bible & Theology Topics: blood of Jesus, Books by Jeremy Myers, Books I'm Writing, crucifixion of Jesus, law of Moses, Nothing But the Blood of Jesus, sacrifice, scapegoating, violence of Scripture

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

Religion was necessary in the development of human evolution to control violence by imputing guilt onto the scapegoat.

We scapegoat others and make them evil so as to justify our violence toward them.

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.

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?

I love how you are getting into the scapegoating and Girardian memesis in understanding violence as our core problem.

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.

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?

Without the scapegoat mechanism, inter-personal violence only continues to escalate on an ever - increasing spiral of retribution and destruction until society collapses upon itself.

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

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.

And his way of giving life is to overthrow the religion of scapegoating and sacrifice» (McDonald, Violence & The Lamb Slain).

This always leads to violence which can only be quelled by us (with our mixed up thinking) by the sacrifice of a scapegoat.

The death of Jesus on the cross «rescues us from sin» in that it reveals to us the scapegoating, blame - game mechanism behind most of our sin and violence.

Cf. Rene Girard's treatment of the «violent unammity» with which the scapegoat, prirnarily Oedipus himself, is destroyed by the society that benefits from his departure (Girard, Violence, 68 - 88).

In it, he not only includes the best explanation of mimetic theory I have read so far, but he then ties in the accompanying themes of the scapegoat mechanism, how Satan casts out Satan through violence, and how Jesus reveals all this to the world through His ministry, life, death, and resurrection.

Rene Girard; Probably any of his works but notable are The Scapegoat; Violence And The Sacred; Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World.

They still, just like everyone else, lived under a system of rivalry, violence, scapegoating, blame, slander, accusation, and victimization.

Rivalry, blame, accusation, scapegoating, violence, and vengeance.

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

Without the scapegoat mechanism, human culture would collapse upon itself in a never - ending cycle of progressive violence.

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.

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: Discipleship, looks like Jesus, non-violent resistance, racist, scapegoat, violence

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

Of course, as John goes on to explain, if we deny what Jesus reveals to us through His blood, and say that we are not guilty of sacred violence toward others, then we simply have not yet seen the truth about the blood of Jesus and have not owned up to our own duplicity and participation in human scapegoating and violence.

But little did he know that Jesus, by submitting Himself as the willing scapegoat for all the violence, enmity, hatred, and evil of the world, was unmasking the power and dominion of Satan, and thus, defeating Satan even as Satan thought he was striking the victorious blow.

No, the blood of Jesus exposes our sacred violence to us so that we can see in our own lives how we make scapegoat victims out of others, and then calls us to no longer live in this way.

(There is so much to say here... about scapegoating, the myth of redemptive violence, and the role of religion in sanctioning state violence... but it simply can not all be said.

When militant Islamists become scapegoats for violence, the Mubarak regime gains brownie points from U.S. supporters for helping the fight against terrorism.

Furthermore, the term «sin» in the Bible primarily refers to the sacred violence that has enslaved all of humanity in a never - ending cycle of rivalry, accusation, and scapegoating sacrifice.

Girard shows how this theme is found everywhere in ancient mythology and religious writings, but how only the Hebrew Scriptures begin to reveal that the third party, upon whom blame was laid for the original violence, was really an innocent scapegoat.

Guns should not be a scapegoat, but maybe if we keep guns around, we can shoot the scapegoat and deal with the real issues that cause violence, issues such as broken families, class warfare, racism, drug and alcohol addictions, violence in movies and video games, and moral issues such as envy, jealousy, greed, and rage.

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We must not allow the return of that ancient logic, that satanic solution, that other scapegoating answer to the question of what violence is for.

All immigrants, not only people of Middle Eastern descent, are at risk of becoming targets of revenge, violence and scapegoating.