Sentences with phrase «son as a sacrifice»

This is the kind of love we are talking about — not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they've done to our relationship with God.

God the Father so loved us that he gave his only begotten son as a sacrifice for our sins.

God loves us in spite of our sin, so much he sent his Son as a sacrifice for us.

Yet more importantly is the fact that God gave his only begotten Son as a sacrifice to buy back man from the inherited Adamic sin so that all those calling on the name of God would be saved.

Not exact matches

You would not recognize them either, just as they didn't recognize your son's sacrifice.

For comparison, «sacrifice» of a «son» by an «omnipotent» «god» as a requirement to «save» anyone is complete nonsense, as is the entire Christian religion.

The grace of the father in heaven is the offering of his son Jesus as a sacrifice for us all.

That those animal sacrifices were to learn of what was to happen when God would make that sacrifice and that that is why there is communion today as a means to remember the sacrifice God's beloved son had made.

Mormons worship Jesus Christ as the Savior and Redeemder of the world, the only begotten Son of God, and the only being capable of performing the necessary sacrifice that enables us to be forgiven when we repent.

You mean as part of what it means to make sacrifices the greatest of which being God having to make the greatest sacrifice of all that unlike Abraham who was at the last minute spared from having to make the sacrifice of his beloved son Isaac, God on the other hand due to his love for all of us imperfect beings had to actually sacrifice his beloved son.

When you turn the light of reason on the basic of idea of god needing a sacrifice of his own son to allow himself to forgive, it becomes just as ridiculous as condemning homosexuality.

Eid al - Adha commemorates when God appeared to Abraham - known as Ibrahim to Muslims - in a dream and asked him to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience.

God the Father accepts his Son's sacrifice of love for all humanity as an apology for all the sins of the world.

As Abraham was about to sacrifice his son, God stopped him and gave him a sheep to kill in place of his son.

Hence the principal Christian dogmas, which include such symbols as «Son of God», «satisfaction», «sacrifice», and the like, are, in so far as they are limited to the facts of the Christian story, untenable.

Through the events that faith knows as the Incarnation and the Crucifixion, God empties himself of his sovereignty and transcendence, and not only does this kenotic sacrifice effect the dissolution of the opposition between Father and Son in the new epiphany of God as universal Spirit, but so likewise vanishes the opposition between God and the world.

(Exodus 34:19, 20; cf. Numbers 18:15) In one place, however, the original demand for the sacrifice of first - born sons, as of firstborn beasts, stands not only unmistakable in meaning but unrelieved by any exception: «The first - born of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

So long as Christianity knows the Crucifixion as a vicarious sacrifice for a totally guilty humanity, as the innocent sacrifice of the eternal Son of God to a just but merciful Father, it can never celebrate the definitive victory of the Crucifixion; for such a redeemed humanity remains in bondage to the transcendent Judge, and must continue to be submissive to his distant and alien authority, ever pleading for mercy when it falls away from his absolute command.

But he is no zealot, eager to practice child - sacrifice or insensitive to the horror involved; this we learn from the austere, steady, and dignified way he proceeds, as indicated by the simplicity, compactness, and austerity of the verbs used to recount his actions: He arose, saddled (his ass), took (two youths with him and Isaac his son), cleaved (wood for the burnt - offering), rose up and went.

When you have a world filled with liars and adulterers and murderers and greed and selfishness (even though we know what's right and what's wrong but we do it anyway) and the God that created you loves you so much that he needs to sacrifice his Son for all of us who have not kept his Law, in order to wipe out those terrible sins, then you should be praying that you're counted as one who kept his Laws.

Certainly he told the people that the sacrifices of animals he offered were worthless in itself, and only valuable, if they would be considered as a reminder for the future sacrifice of the Son of God, the only sacrifice which can take away sins.

They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

Hence Jesus Christ, son of God, son of man, is able to make the sacrifice on account of men, and all of humanity, even though, as God he was the offended one.

The Mosque of Omar, as it is also known, is built on the place where traditionally Abraham had tried to sacrifice his son Isaac / Ishmael and from where the Prophet Muhammad (570 - 632 CE) set out for his ascent to the seventh heaven).

Why did we take the privilege of sacrificing him as an offering or were we repeating the crime of the Sons of Adam when Cain killed his brother in jealousy about some sacrifice offerings that were made and was accepted by God for Cain's brother but not to Cain him self?

He gave his Son out of love for us, as a sacrifice for our sins, to buy back what Adam had lost.

Unlike the Christian god that wouldn't ever change his mind or doctrine... except for cursing the world for eating an apple... except for telling Abraham to sacrifice his son, but then stopping him... and except for killing nearly all life on Earth and then because of the guilt says I'll never to do that ever again - in exactly that way... and except for deciding that 2 of himself (Father and Spirit) weren't enough any more, and creating / fathering / spiriting as Son... and except for forgiving all sin, when «In the beginning» he had cursed the universe for the eating of an apple, by having his creation torture and kill his only begotten Son... and except for having to repeat himself about the unchanging eternal rules, to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Saul / Paul, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Bahá «u «lláh, David Koresh, and a whole host of others... and except for... and except forson, but then stopping him... and except for killing nearly all life on Earth and then because of the guilt says I'll never to do that ever again - in exactly that way... and except for deciding that 2 of himself (Father and Spirit) weren't enough any more, and creating / fathering / spiriting as Son... and except for forgiving all sin, when «In the beginning» he had cursed the universe for the eating of an apple, by having his creation torture and kill his only begotten Son... and except for having to repeat himself about the unchanging eternal rules, to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Saul / Paul, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Bahá «u «lláh, David Koresh, and a whole host of others... and except for... and except forSon... and except for forgiving all sin, when «In the beginning» he had cursed the universe for the eating of an apple, by having his creation torture and kill his only begotten Son... and except for having to repeat himself about the unchanging eternal rules, to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Saul / Paul, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Bahá «u «lláh, David Koresh, and a whole host of others... and except for... and except forSon... and except for having to repeat himself about the unchanging eternal rules, to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Saul / Paul, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Bahá «u «lláh, David Koresh, and a whole host of others... and except for... and except for...

Indeed, already in 1913 the missionary scholar J N Farquhar noted that «the life of India is dominated by the future, by the vision of the brilliant happy India that is to rise as a result of the united toil and self - sacrifice of her sons.»

He then culminated the symbol in the willful giving of his son as an ending sacrifice for all the sins and misgivings of mankind.

In my book Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation, I point out that in the original Hebrew version the word for «the Lord» that calls Abraham to sacrifice his son is very different than the word for the angel of God (YHVH) who tells Abraham to NOT GO THROUGH WITH IT, and that the reason we Jews celebrate Abraham as the father of our people is NOT because of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOas the father of our people is NOT because of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOas a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOAS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOD.

The idea, however, that we as humans are so important to the universe's creator that we required the bloody violent sacrifice of his son, that is to say himself, seems strangely arrogant considering how minor a part of the universe we are.

Since as we know the first mankind kill on earth has started with these two sons of Adam: Al - Maeda sura 02: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful But recite unto them with truth the tale of the two sons of Adam, how they offered each a sacrifice, and it was accepted from the one of them and it was not accepted from the other.

The biggie I think is Abraham on the 3rd day was provided a lamb to sacrifice as he was about to kill Isaac «for you have not withheld your son» (Genesis 22).

A father takes his young son to offer as a burnt sacrifice because a voice in his head tells him to.

You may be correct Jeremy but I have always known that God is good and just as Jesus suffered and took the whole of the workds sin on Himself so did His Father take on all the rebellion before His Son paid the ultimate sacrifice.

But the Muslim God wanted Abraham's son Ishmael, not Isaac, who Jewish tradition holds was offered as a the sacrifice.

the story of a man who was told to sacrifice his son on an altar, by his «god», to show his faith as a test??

No, before Jesus every one that commited a sin had to sacrife a sheep or alike depending on their situation and offer it to God, but since people constantly were commiting sins on the eyes of God he planned sending his son Jesus as the perfect sacrifice for us and to save us for the eternity since as he is perfect in everything and the only way to get us close to God is by Jesus and his love to all of us not to go to hell but to proceed to repent and follow his commandments

But then something happened,... God asked Abraham to take his one and only son, the son that Abraham had waited 100 years for, the only son of his inheritance, God asked Abraham to take that son, and go offer him up as a sacrifice on an altar.

In short God failed to protect them, so he sent his only son, himself, to be sacrificed as an apology.

Blessings on the blossoms, Blessing on the fruits, Blessings on the leaves and stems, Blessings on the roots, Loving hands together as we say, Blessings on our meal, And our time together, For all blessings come from the Lord Almighty Thank you for the sacrifice of your Son, For without Christ, we have no hope of redemption In your Son's most precious and Holy name, Amen.

Whether friend or foe, we all fall short of the glory of God The gift of the sacrifice of God's son saved everyone who belives Jesus died for all and resurrected from death., thereby defeating death of the soul caused by sin Salvation can not be earned It is the gift of God As for why God allowed the Egyptians to die, God saved his chosen people from certain death by killing those who would surely cause the same.

As Søren Kierkegaard noted in perhaps his most influential book, Fear and Trembling, if the story of Abraham's attempted sacrifice of his son means anything it must signify that God transcends the categories (or at least our categories) of good and evil and that to follow the way of the Lord will eventually, at least for some select chosen ones, mean to renounce those norms.

This passage in James 2 14 - 24 that you referenced (you said Matthew, its in James) uses Abraham offering his son for sacrifice as an example.

If god is omnipotent, why did he have to send his son to die as a sacrifice to himself?

FK Why would God need to send his own son to earth to serve as a sacrifice to himself?

It is at this point that he redefined the covenant and he, as the son of God, became the sacrifice.

G - D, this volcano you speak of probably just needs a human sacrifice to calm it, you know like the barbarians of old used to do when they did not understand something, or maybe offer up your first born son to your invisible man in the sky, blood always seems to calm him down, it may ease your «righteous» anger as well.

It would make more sense if Jesus, a compassionate human being, offered himself to the blood - thursty God as a self - sacrifice for the benefit of all mankind, but the Christian understanding of the mission God sent his son on, and its purpose, is just wonky.