Sentences with phrase «where sacrificial»

The cave system consists of a series of chambers, ending in a 300 by 50 meter cathedral where sacrificial ceremonies once took place.

The cave system consists of a series of chambers, ending in a 300 x 50 meter cathedral alter where sacrificial ceremonies once took place.

There are even skid marks in the sediment indicating places where the sacrificial victims were reluctant to participate.

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This rigid concept of love fits with a world where no other vocation — no form of sacrificial, devoted love other than romantic sexual union — is acknowledged.

Hello, Muneef, I hope and pray that you are doing fine, and that you are safe... I don't actualy know where you are, but I gather you live somewhere where there are many unrests... Today is the special day for all people who have put their faith in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, who came to live among us, and who became a sacrificial Lamb, offeirng Himself to God for the sins of all mankind.

Yet so similar are the sources in the human spirit that through all ages, and not in Christianity alone, the worship of God has found natural expression in music and song, poetry and the graphic arts, the drama of sacrificial rites, and where not inhibited by convention, the dance.

As a result, the literal and tangible sacrificial apparatus of the Jews became to the Christians symbolic of another kind of religious system altogether, whose temple is heavenly, not earthly, whose high priest once for all has entered the holy place of divine communion, where believing souls may follow him, (Hebrews 10:19) whose sacrifice is voluntary self - giving, and whose consequence is an open way for all to «draw nigh unto God.»

(12) The consumer orientation of electronic culture and the expansion of widely advertised and available alternatives has brought a shift away from a committed and sacrificial relationship to organically - integrated communities towards one where as individuals we construct our own individualised networks characterised by tentativeness and usefulness.

In the month of Shawwal 628, Muhammad ordered his followers to obtain sacrificial animals and to make preparations for a pilgrimage (umrah) to Mecca, saying that God had promised him the fulfillment of this goal in a vision where he was shaving his head after the completion of the Hajj

Ask another what a home is, and a very different answer would be given: A home is a place where we have to consider the wishes of others, where we can not always have our own way, where children fall sick and require sacrificial care, where puzzling problems rise which it is hard to settle, where we must be true to love to keep it, where every day brings some small self - denial and every year some great one.

Although sacrificial love transcends the realities of history (since it is grounded in the character of God), it is nevertheless validated in history where concern for others is manifest.

Back of more sophisticated meanings, which later were seen in the temple sacrifices, and more rarefied interpretations of the effect of ritual offerings on Yahweh, was the idea of the communal meal where deity and people shared the same feast and the god of the tribe enjoyed with his devotees their sacrificial food.

I remember reading his letter from a Birmingham jail where if I remember correctly he talked of the church being under God's judgement and losing its relevance if it is does not recover the authenticity and the sacrificial spirit of the first century church.

Only a self - sacrificial view of life can help — where we put the other person first.

There are a number of places where Christ or His actions are described in sacrificial terms, [4] but the title «Priest» is never given, and generally these passages emphasise Christ's role as victim more than priest.

Responsive parenting is truly a picture of God's sacrificial, unconditional love in that, as we respond to our children where they are, («This is how God showed His great love for us, that Christ died for us while we were still sinners [emphasis added]» Romans 5:8) comforting their cries, guiding their choices, providing for their needs, encouraging their individuality, we are, moment by moment, day by day, sacrificing our lives for them.

The sequel dissipates the impact by having its sacrificial lambs, a family of four, getting into trouble at a seemingly abandoned trailer park where they're intending to stay the night.

Over tense, terse mealtimes, where meagre portions of rationed food are shared, the men display varying coping mechanisms to survive both the harsh living conditions and the orders from on high that treat them as little more than sacrificial fodder.

The Space Stone deemed Red Skull unfit to wield its power and teleported him to Vormir, where the Red Skull was doomed to guard the Soul Stone and to explain the Stone's sacrificial requirements.

During the Black Rock portion of your Belize honeymoon, you'll stay in a Deluxe Cabana overlooking the Black Rock waterfalls, enjoy the excellent meals at Black Rock Lodge and tour the Caracol Mayan ruins (the largest in Belize), the Rio On Pools and Rio Frio Cave in the Mountain Pine Ridge area of Belize, Aktun Tunichil Muknal cave (Cave of the Crystal Maiden) where you'll see the preserved remains of Mayan sacrificial victims — and a night time guided jungle tour.

The Tzompantli structure at Chichén Itzá is a Toltec structure, where the heads of sacrificial victims were placed.

A tour of the Actun Tunichil Muknal (ATM) cave yields a series of chambers where Maya sacrificial ceremonies once took place, and where artifacts remain to this day.

The tour takes you through the majestic Maya underworld in an inflatable inner tube where you will discover stunning stalactites and stalagmites formations, astonishing crystal curtains, fire pits, Maya ceremonial pottery, wall carvings, glyph writings and even skeletal remains of sacrificial victims.

McCarthy's provocative early performances in the late 1960s and 70s used his own body as the raw material to explore masculinity, where, drawing on performance art and action painting, he substituted the Viennese Actionists» sacrificial use of blood with ketchup and the Abstract Expressionists» paintbrush with phallic false limbs.