Sentences with phrase «well as sacrifices»

The Monumental Mausoleum is a construction made of limestone with carved walls which interiors were used for religious rituals as well as sacrifices.

In this symbolic vision, donations as well as sacrifices make sense and are useful in themselves.

To do that, GM would have to make major revisions to the exhaust system, as well as sacrifice some of the Vette's 15 cubic feet of cargo space.

Play modes are pretty standard, with a free - for - all arena mode, a Duel Mode for 1v1 combat, as well as the Sacrifice Mode, which is 4v4 and is similar to capture the flag modes of other FPS games.

Not exact matches

That likely reassured investors who watched Walmart sacrifice profits for a couple of years as it gave workers raises and invested heavily in e-commerce to better compete online and in stores.

The reality is, men sacrifice as well.

Critics of PropOrNot, like Fortune's Mathew Ingram and Katrina van den Heuvel of The Nation, say the group sacrifices credibility by remaining anonymous and has flagged a number of well - regarded news sites as propaganda.

As irony will have it, good communication is often the sacrifice when we leap from tab to tab, juggling the work we're meant to complete on our monitors along with the many, needy little windows imploring for our attention.

Training full time, sacrificing studies and jobs, can have huge opportunity costs as well, as missing out on necessary education and prime years of work experience take tolls on later earnings.

On Veterans Day, Starbucks stores across the U.S. will invite active duty service members as well as reservists, veterans and military spouses to enjoy a free tall - brewed coffee on Veterans Day as a gesture of appreciation for the military community's sacrifice and contributions.

By leveraging some advantages that our college provides in terms of housing and healthcare as well as making some sacrifices (to live in the student housing which not have great location and accommodations), we are able to stay debt free and build our net worth.

Often, employees at nonprofits push aside their well - being, citing their sacrifice as dedication to the mission.

Of course, hedging out an exposure will sacrifice any upside potential as well as the down.

Work flexibility means being able to meet the needs of your family, as well as the needs of your job, and not having to sacrifice one for the other.

It does not mean settling for what's second best because a group of people, the majority of which are not willing to make the ultimate sacrifice of putting themselves in harm's way for others, are thinking about themselves as individuals and putting that ahead of the majority best interests.

Presidential oratory provides much of the supporting evidence for McDougall's ideas about civil religion, from President William McKinley's implication that the United States had not so much conquered Cubans as it had ministered to them («Are we not made better for the effort and sacrifice, and are not those we serve lifted up and blessed?»)

As Samuel would later say to Saul who saw it fit to disobey the command of God — «to obey is better than sacrifice»

This can be verified in Jerimiah 7:21, as well as by noting that G - d reduced access to sacrifices all through the entire Tanach; originally each man was a priest in his own home, offering sacrifices whenever and wherever (Cain, Abel, Abraham), but at Mt. Sinai it was reduced to a single place (the tabernacle / temple) and to assigned priests; this was fine for 40 years of wandering, but as soon as they entered «the promised land», the tabernacle traveled with the army, and those left behind as settlers in the new land had no more access to it.

If some god - like beings were crazy enough to set up such a system you might as well let them sort out the errors with their own sacrifices.

As with all good relationships, entertainment requires sacrifice.

The New Testament values of faithfulness, love, sacrifice and promise - based commitment can be practiced by heterosexual couples without children — and by same - sex couples as well.

It does not require self - sacrifice, discipline, humility, an otherworldly outlook, a zeal for souls, a fear as well as love of God.

By the facial reactions around the room, you'd have thought Sara might as well have asked them if they sacrificed animals.

Actually, other religions like to lob this at Catholicism e.g. «good works» will save you as if we are saying Christ's sacrifice did not happen.

The About.com - Christianity web page goes on to explain that the way this works out is that husbands «illustrate» Christ's leadership authority, as well as His self - sacrifice, while wives «illustrate» the church's submission to Christ's leadership authority.

And I see no reason why the self - sacrificing love of Jesus can not be modeled in a committed same - sex relationship as well as it can be modeled in a committed heterosexual relationship.

The «rules» for both personal responsibility and sacrifice on behalf of the collective good conflate as marriage and motherhood come into play.

Not to preempt, I take the Cain and Abel story as a struggle to please God through sacrifice (a religious act) where the differences led to conflict, though later it is written that obedience is better than sacrifice, as it ever was.

Then, because God had already shown them the «right» way, He pulled Cain up on his «non-blood» vegetable offering as not doing what is «right», as it wasn't shedding the blood of an animal (which was essentially a type and shadow of Christ's sacrifice, as well as being the pattern already set by God in front of Adam and Eve in the Garden).

«I wish to express my church's sincere and joyous preparedness to cooperate as best they could with the government now ruling that had set itself that tasks of promoting the Christian education of the people, repelling ungodliness and immorality, developing readiness to make sacrifices for the common good and protecting the rights of the Church.»

By being both genetically and behaviorally flawless, the Last Adam's life would be a sufficient sacrifice for the sin nature inherent in all men, as well as for all their sinful behavior in the future.

Even though Christ didn't come yet, through trusting in God, they were redeemed «on borrowed time» by the sacrifice He did for them also, as well as for us.

The sacrifices were confided in by good men as the outward symbols of forgiven sin and reestablished fellowship with God, but they were also confided in by evil men as an efficacious technique for placating God regardless of one's ethical life.

(Jeremiah 7:31; 19:5; 32:35) In the next generation Ezekiel tried another apologetic: granting both that the command to sacrifice children was in the Law, as it obviously was, and that Yahweh was responsible for its presence there, he asserted none the less that; Yahweh had given «statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live,» for the ultimate purpose of punishing them with such desolation that they might recognize the divine hand in their tragedy.

It was also a thanksgiving sacrifice as well as a meal for the priests who offered it.

Hymn and prayer book of the second temple it may have been, but obviously some of the psalms could never have been sung in connection with the sacrifices, and may well be grouped, as Professor Julius Bewer suggests, under the caption, «Private Worship outside of the Temple.»

And beyond moral indignation at liturgical substitutes for goodness, the scorn which some prophetic passages pour on animal sacrifices suggests intellectual contempt as well.

In place of the synagogue came the church; in place of circumcision came baptism; in place of the temple altars came the acceptance of Christ's sacrifice in the Lord's Supper; and while only the first suggestions of the early Catholic rubric are within the canon, these suggestions are there, presaging, as they are seen in retrospect, the repetition of all the good and evil fortunes that in every age and faith have attended sacramentalism.

They knew that «God demanded an interior sacrifice as well.»

We should never accept self - sacrifice as inherently good or right.

Her argument against this position, as best I can discern and summarize it, is that each new divine occasion would in turn be irresistibly objectified or «superjected» (she uses this as a verb) back into the world, which would «bind the present irrevocably to the past, to sacrifice spontaneity and autonomy at the altar of necessity» (p. 164).

The significance of the sacrifices was to see our sinfulness and turn our hearts back to God and that is made clear with the death of Christ.The animals though could not remove our sin that was only possible through Christ as God he could remove sin in the past present and future as he is outside of time and space not like us.So there sins in effect were covered by Jesus as well in the old testament as in the new by Gods we just did nt see it.The example of abraham able enoch they all were righteous they were justified before God.Enoch walked with God and was no more that sounds like the rapture to me so the holy spirit was present in that age just like us.We see that God has always been at work to bring life and to bring mankind to salvation.

It can encourage such protection inasmuch as the animal is seen as having perhaps been a close and dear relative, and yet it can also discourage such protection inasmuch as the animal can be seen as sacrificing itself for the sake of a better birth in the future, leading ultimately to an escape from rebirth altogether (Bowker, 6).

The best part of Bad Religion appears at the end, where Ross Douthat identifies problematic modern Christianities that, by conventional standards, stand as heretical alternatives to the gospel message of sacrifice, charity, asceticism, and worship of the transcendent.

The exceptional fidelity, self - sacrifice and affection, as well as the pain, grief and sorrow and the deep spiritual response to the suffering and bereavement that is being expressed, is a sign to the churches of the presence of the Spirit of love in these relationships.

It tells many of you who want to offer sacrifices for the good of the church — countless hours of volunteer service as elders and deacons or a lifetime in demanding and low - paid pastoral ministries — that your life choices are so much more sinful than the rest of ours that we've had to erect special barriers to keep you from laying your gifts at the altar.

Come on get real samson old testement its in there wilful sin my definition is walking away from the Lord and doing opur own thing knowing what you should do but still do what you want to do.In the life of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the sacrifice is the same as today repentence we are saved by the grace of God if we turn from our own way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20 years if he had walking in the ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the way.We all have those areas in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or making sin an idol in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flesh.

It's not just life / human nature / NATURE??? There are a lot of beautiful things in this world, but there is the uglier side as well... and to blaim it all on God — good or bad... well you might as well be living in the old testament... I am surprised there aren't still animal sacrifices to the angry, wrathful god that so many believe in... Oh, another question to the thumpers who believe that «God can be cruel» (And I really don't think Stephen King would say any of his work supports that)... So is God actually «perfect»?

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.»

But when a person comes to see the ordering of sex impulse as a necessary means to serving a high good, the sacrifice of gratification can become a source of well - being.