Sentences with phrase «story of a sacrifice»

The reason I ask your opinion initially is because I think there is a better way, today, for the creator of the universe to make him / her / it's self known to humankind, rather than to rely on a 2,000 year old story of sacrifice.

It is obvious that it came from the first story of a sacrifice.

Example art comparative essay Two and artists competed to design decorative panels depicting the biblical story of the Sacrifice of Isaac, advantages and.

The title is a reference to the Iphigenia myth, which tells a similar story of sacrifice and dilemmas.

Its the ultimate story of sacrifice, love and tyranny.

In the end, THE RACE UNDERGROUND is a riveting story of sacrifice and ingenuity.

In this story of sacrifice, Champ and Delie struggle to learn about love and both must grow A Champion's Heart.

A powerful novel of friendship set in a traveling circus during World War II, The Orphan's Tale introduces two extraordinary women and their harrowing stories of sacrifice and survival

Determined not to lose focus, I kept listening to the podcasts and after hearing more stories of sacrifice to pay off debts, I approached DH with a more compelling argument.

I can say thank God for pitbulls because as much as they are reviled by some there are more than a few stories of them sacrificing themselves for those they love (which is probably a reason they will even dog fight for those they love).

These are powerful and moving experiences that are being erased in the minds of gamers every time a critic picks on Mass Effect for example, without remembering that Mass Effect was the story of sacrifice for the betterment of others.

Although I didn't get around to reviewing I Am Setsuna «s soundtrack I did share my thoughts on it, stating that it suited the icy setting and story of sacrifice surrounding the main character.

At roughly six hours long, the campaign of Call of Duty: WWII is no more substantial than those found in most of the previous games, but even in such a short space of time it manages to tell a heartfelt and heartbreaking story of sacrifice and survival, whilst simultaneously not skimping on Hollywood spectacle.

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I don't want public attention because I don't want the story to be about me... I want it to be about what the US government is doing... I'm willing to sacrifice all of that because I can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.

A recent Vancouver Sun story quotes Fred Green, CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway, as saying that he won't sacrifice safety in pursuit of profits.

Their stories of personal sacrifice in order to support their families, so that their spouses can protect our country, are truly inspiring.

Thursday marks World News Day, a day that celebrates the importance of journalism, the stories reporters tell and the sacrifices made in the pursuit of the truth.

Talking snakes, talking donkeys, a boat at sea for half a year with a couple million animals, a temple less than 5000sq feet taking 150,000 workers and 7 years to complete, and then sacrificing 14 animals a minute for 7 days straight, a virgin birth story (like there weren't already a few of them before), a zombie invasion that no third party seemed to witness, a dude living in the belly of a fish for a couple days, a guys last words (before become back as a zombie) being «My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me.»

Thanks to misinterpretation of the story of the Last Supper, early Christians were accused of Human Sacrifice (of infants) and Cannibalism.

Catholic history with all flags unfurled, what it may sacrifice in critical nuance it gains in coherence of story line.

Vic, the whole Jesus - sacrifice story, the foundation of your crazy superstition, is a steaming pile of bull - do.

I applaud what he is doing and hope that he brings others to God throught the torture and bloody human sacrifice of his son (himself, actually) where he died (well, for a few hours anyway) for us all (at least so the story goes) so that we may live with him in heaven (a great place for which no evidence or photographs exist) until the end of time.

The whole Christ - sacrifice story is a steaming pile of bull - do from the get - go.

But the roots of caste can be traced back to a story in the most ancient Hindu scriptures, the Vedas, in which the various social classes are produced from the sacrifice of a primordial man — the priestly class from the mouth, the warrior class from the arms, the merchant class from the thighs, the laboring class from the feet (Rig Veda 90:10).

Vic, the whole Jesus - sacrifice - salvation story, the foundation of your crazy superstition, is a steaming pile of bull - do.

The story's ambiguous messages and graphic imagery make it a jarring look at faith, sacrifice and the voice of God.

Said stories were so popular that they grew into a religion known today as Catholicism / Christianity and featuring dark - age, daily wine to blood and bread to body rituals called the eucharistic sacrifice of the non-atoning Jesus.

, avoids discussion of many moral sticking points of the next few millennia (even though he knew in advance they'd be sticking points and could have provided clearer guidance), and then makes one of the central points of the entire story — and his entire reason for being here really — a personal sacrifice that is so va.gue that no one can even explain how or what was, in fact, sacrificed.

As Jesus Christ is the «end of the story», it is encouraging to read the prophecies of his coming and to compare his one time sacrifice to the many and ongoing sacrifices necessary just to have a «figurative» cleansing.

Vic, your starting point, your «lord» Jesus - sacrifice - salvation story, is nonsense out of the gate.

A more moving portrayal of the meaning of child sacrifice to a good father could hardly have been written than this story furnishes; the profound loyalty involved in child sacrifice, holding nothing back that religious obligation might require, is recognized; and the story's obvious objective is reached when «Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt - offering in the stead of his son.»

The principal elements in the death and resurrection cluster of the Christian Myth are (A) his death as sacrifice and atonement, and (B) the «magical» elements of the resurrection stories.

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.

In the end, animal sacrifice was altogether substituted for human sacrifice, and this provision, represented as a merciful evidence of Yahweh's grace, was made picturesque in the legendary story of Abraham and Isaac.

I have heard remarkable stories about how families have sacrificed eating out once a month and used that money to change the stories and lives of those overseas.

See also the story of the Exodus from Egypt, where Moses tells Pharaoh that the things that Israelites sacrifice would be an offensive thing (to'ebah) to the Egyptians.

With the expected trial of reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee in North Korea this week, I was once again reminded of the incredible sacrifices that journalists make to bring us stories from around the world.

These shifts are messy and take sacrifice and a great amount of unlearning, but it's what leads to freedom, faithfulness and obedience — which are at the heart of the gospel story we are called to boldly proclaim.

The story told in the Bible requires a literal reading of Genesis for the sacrifice of Jesus to have any meaning.

Israel understands the story of the near - sacrifice of Isaac to say: Except we be willing to lose our life for Yahweh's sake, we shall neither find nor save our life.

It is no accident that the greatest stories of courageous heroism involve personal sacrifice for the good of someone else.

The story of the near - sacrifice of Isaac in chapter 22 is at once the climax and the resolution of the tension.

The source appears for the first time probably at chapter 15 and is illustrated at its best in the second Hagar episode (21:8 - 21; the first, in chapter 16, is usually ascribed to J) and in the story of the near - sacrifice of Isaac (22) 5

Unfortunately, as a former Christian, well acquainted with sin and confession and the whole bloody business of sacrifice to appease Someone who thinks that shows «love,» I question the whole ancient story, all the animals killed, all the trees cut down (for temples and churches and crosses and «holy books») and all the human beings left to feel separated again and again from the universe, Nature, each other and their «gods.»

HINT: This last tactic is most successful if you play to their emotions with a story full of drama, torture, blood, sacrifice and death.

Vic, your whole Jesus - sacrifice story is just a steaming pile of nonsense, and the murderous slave lord that you worship is pure fiction.

Without even recounting the crucifixion, Bell presented such vivid images of the patterns of sacrifice in the ancient Near East (the cultural setting for the sacrifice of Isaac) that by the time we got to the story of Jesus, our hearts and minds were connecting the dots.

Does Christ then offer a new order of exchange and sacrifice, or is he simply the abnegation of human solidarity, a revolutionary outcry that forever interrupts the story of the world but tells no story of its own?

Girard, however, fails to see the richness, multivalency, and ambiguity inherent in the language of sacrifice in Jewish and Christian thought; he fails to grasp, in particular, the conversion theology effects of the story of wrath into the story of mercy, or how it replaces the myth of sacrifice as economy with the narrative of sacrifice as a ceaseless outpouring of gift and restoration in an infinite motion exceeding every economy»

The Koran's version of the story differs from the Torah's version in several different aspects, one of which is that the Koran has Abraham bring Ishmael to the sacrifice whereas the Torah has Abraham bring Isaac.