Sentences with phrase «use animal sacrifice»

Hoodoo practitioners harness the power of natural herbs, and use animal sacrifice, bodily fluids and special elements such as lodestones to conjure their spells.

Hestia's duty in Olympus is maintaining the fires of the Olympian hearth using the animal sacrifices made by mortals.

Not exact matches

The entire economy of the city of Jerusalem was built on temple activities, bathing before the offerings for a fee, dressing for going to the temple, for a fee, buying the offerings, for a fee, paying the priests, temple entrance fees, food prep fees, growing and feeding the animals for the sacrifices, being paid for them, in the thousands and thousands at festival times, ALL in Jewish currency only, which was required for their rituals, and most people used Roman currency for their civil affairs.

They could sure use some help from the Christians on how to barbeque, what with the Christian recipes for animal sacrifice and all.

I think you would be on shakey ground theologically to not assume some sort of animal sacrifice here, surely?!? And certainly if you though anything else but animal skins were used — shakey.

(Exodus 24:4 - 8) And always in the hinterland of animal sacrifice lurked age - old ideas of the magical potency of blood as a powerful agency of deliverance if rightly used (E.g., Exodus 12:12 - 13) and a supernatural peril if wrongly handled.

Animal Sacrifices: Religious Perspectives on the Use of Animals in Science.

He drove out the officials who sold purified birds for animal sacrifices and the money - changers who exchanged (at a good profit for the priests) the popular Roman money for the Jewish coin which alone could be used for the temple dues.

Even in the bible with talks of how the early church was to worship, it basically just says that whatever method with which you feel comfortable worshiping, use it to glorify the Lord (within reason, clearly animal sacrifices, etc were no longer accepted practices).

Of course, it was easy for Christians to criticize pagan religion, with its many gods, its veneration of objects of wood and stone and gold, its divining and use of auguries and portent, and most of all, its practice of animal sacrifice.

While we all take some inspiration from ancient paganisms, there are some groups who are deeply dedicated to studying the primary texts and archaeological records of their chosen cultural framework to try to make their paths as close to their spiritual ancestors as reasonably possible in the modern world — this includes the use of bonfires and occasionally animal sacrifice.

Luke seems to be hung up with the idea that Jesus, in order to be a sacrifice for people's sins, had to be as «perfect» as the doves and other animals they use to kill for YHWH at the Temple.

Animals were used for sacrifice because they had no sin.

I used to think the same way until i discovered that: 1) The animals killed in sacrifice were eaten by the priests.

Must we, then, go on forever, using the analogy of bloody animal sacrifice to express our interpretation of Christ's death?

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Animals used for measurement of HIF - 1α mRNA and protein were made hypoxic for variable durations, from 0.5 to 6 h, before sacrifice.

Following optokinetic assessment, animals were dark - adapted overnight and then either sacrificed in darkness (using a dim red light) or following 90 minutes of constant illumination (white light at 250 µW / cm2).

The use of singing, shells, small animal sacrifice, and drums comes from Santería.

Vet software for your specialized clinic that is aimed at saving clients money, while providing a community service for animals, doesn't need to sacrifice full functionality, nor, does it need to come with lots of specifics your clinic won't ever use.

In dog fights, other animals are often sacrificed, including smaller animals such as cats, rabbits or small dogs (often stolen) and used for «bait» during training.

No animals were trapped or sacrificed for the purposes of this study and therefore, a formal approval by an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee was not necessary.

The market hums with traders of carved wooden statues and dried animal parts used for sorcery and animal sacrifice that call upon the spirit world.

Noah built an altar to Yahweh and used some of the clean animals to make sacrifices.