You will also see Qenqo
with its sacrificial altar and the famous pre-Incan fortress of Sacsayhuaman.
Johan Reinhard
with another sacrificial victim found on Lullaillaco.
She said good leadership,
with sacrificial mind, as well as great concerns for the future are lacking in the nation.
How would your life be altered if you truly believed, from the beginning, that God loves
you with a sacrificial love?
Most of what I had written was a hypothesis, a theory, about how to reconcile the violence of God in the Old Testament
with the sacrificial love of Jesus in the New.
Might we love
them with the sacrificial, unconditional love of Jesus.
To be sure, it may have been only a painted stick, a hideous idol, an altar red
with sacrificial blood.
But I am a «slave» of His love as He «bought»
me with His sacrificial death by paying the price for the redemption of my soul.
With the ancient altars no longer standing,
with the sacrificial cultus interpreted as a mere foreshadowing of the access to God that Christians spiritually enjoyed, with the growing rituals of the new churches still plastic and unformed, personal prayer became the typical method of divine fellowship.
The revised translation is far more accurate: «May our prayers rise up to you, O Lord, together
with the sacrificial offerings.»
I see a Christ dying to invite us into God's presence and also doing away
with the sacrificial system once and for all — and including the Gentiles fully in the process (according to Paul and the gospels).
That's quite unfortunate, but an occasional risk
with sacrificial diety cannibalism.
Not exact matches
In time, and
with practice, we can stop looking around the office for
sacrificial lambs and scapegoats, and follow Harry Truman's lead.
Along
with the children's remains, archaeologists uncovered the bodies of one man and two women near the
sacrificial site.
Spanning nine U.S. cities over 11 weekends, the interactive scavenger hunts had campers (ages 18 and older) collecting items at nightmare scenarios like
sacrificial voodoo rituals and blood baths,
with the winner crowned «Hellmaster.»
With the price of literally all cryptos having been slaughtered like
sacrificial lambs, do you place your beliefs in bitcoin or the heretics?
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.
But
with Jesus as the ultimate peacemaker, we understanding that peace can only truly be made real as we follow in the
sacrificial Way of the Cross.
We pledge to stand
with you, our Christian brothers and sisters of the historic Black church, and to work arm in arm
with you in Christ - like self -
sacrificial love to build in America a true culture of life and of family life.
Probably because of the abuses associated
with this scheme, a notion developed in the Aranyaka period which explained that the cosmic power might also be known through symbolic meditation upon
sacrificial procedure (1:1.35).
As St Paul says in Ephesians 5, the more that the husband in his relationship
with his wife reflects the
sacrificial love of Christ for His bride the Church, and the more that the wife in her relationship
with her husband reflects the self - giving love of the Church for her Bridegroom, the more they will be truly fulfilled and the more they will live up to what they are called to be.
In the monarchical construct, God is implicitly in contest
with evil powers, either as victorious king, who crushes them or as
sacrificial servant, who (momentarily) assumes a worldly mien in order to free his subjects from evil's control.
It is a strange picture that we are given of Jesus during these first days in the temple: arguing freely
with Sadducees, scribes, and Pharisees; parrying more or less subtle attempts to lure him into statements that could be used against him; answering sincere questions and approving good answers to his own questions; pronouncing fiery invectives against influential teachers who opposed him; lamenting the failure of Jerusalem to respond to his challenge; and then calmly pointing out to his disciples the tiny but
sacrificial offering of a poor widow.
Joshua, the «law» you speak of that has been done away
with is the
sacrificial system of killing animals as an atonement for our sins.
Divine love is as glorious as a summer day high in the Alps; it is merciful and makes our sins, though they be as scarlet, vanish into insignificance, replacing them
with his own action in us; it is, finally, self -
sacrificial unto death, for it seeks not its own.
II, pp. 14 - 15) Christian ideas, however, soon moved too far away from either the practice or the perusal of
sacrificial laws as a means of reconciliation
with God for the early Christian to be content
with such a solution.
Influential as the old
sacrificial system continued to be in Christian thinking, it was the prophetic tradition
with reference to personal prayer that more powerfully affected the New Testament.
This is a
sacrificial meal, a ritual meal, in which we enjoy communion
with God.
But Jesus»
sacrificial death has given value to all suffering if it is accepted and offered in union
with Him out of love for the Father, sincere sorrow for sins - our own and those of the whole world - and charity towards those who have caused it.
It seems to me that we have re-installed the
sacrificial system (that Jesus had done away
with) in an extent like never before!
Intimate, interior, spiritual communion
with God flourished in association
with the temple ritual; it found there encouragement and inspiration; it even used the
sacrificial system as a trellis to grow upon.
Devotees of the
sacrificial system are well represented, as we have seen, but
with catholic inclusiveness, like a true hymnal, the Psalter gives large place to the attitude of the prophets:
(Matthew 5:18; Luke 16:17; Matthew 8:4; Luke 5:14; 17:14; Matthew 23:23) He was a lover of the temple (Mark 11:15 - 17: Matthew 26:55) and a pilgrim to the
sacrificial feasts, (Luke 2:41 - 42; Mark 14:1 - 2 and his first disciples, far from breaking
with the ceremonial requirements, continued to be such thoroughgoing Jews that the ultimate surrender of circumcision and of kosher food nearly disrupted the church.
When, therefore, the wide ranges of the Psalter associated
with the services and sacrifices of the temple are taken into account, the progressive spiritualizing of the
sacrificial ritual becomes evident.
After the Temple was destroyed in 70 AD, the study of Torah was equated
with the worship of God and replaced the
sacrificial system of the Temple.
The chief ancient ritual of intercourse
with the unseen world was sacrifice, and in her earliest traditions,
sacrificial practices of some kind were assumed as a matter of course.
You sound like someone who is very devoted to
sacrificial giving, and I certainly have no issue personally
with your reasoning.
If today's church does not recapture the
sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club
with no meaning for the twentieth century.
This does that mean you ignore all the OT moral codes (
with the exception of
sacrificial system) it means you are living it out.
It truly will be the «highlights reel» from our life, so that all other believers can celebrate
with us in the kind words we have spoken, the
sacrificial love we have shown, the generosity we practiced.
This extreme self -
sacrificial interpretation of neighbor love has often been coupled
with those passages in Ephesians, Colossians and I Peter that seem to advise women to submit to the spiritual authority of their husbands.
See, for instance, Things Hidden, 235 - 236: «In effect, this
sacrificial concept of divinity must «die», and
with it the whole apparatus of historical Christianity, for the Gospels to be able to rise again in our midst, not looking like a corpse that we have exhumed, but revealed as the newest, finest, liveliest and truest thing that we have ever set eyes upon.»
I mean seriously, that is up there
with skinning the
sacrificial offering, and putting the entrails all fancied up
with the skin and head, and then putting the meat in an unappetizing presentation, and then your God says «Hey, yeah, I want the nice looking stuff» and gets duped.
Mithraism more obviously drew upon spring equinox fertility myths by depicting Mithra's
sacrificial bull
with a tail that consisted of sheaves of wheat that were supposedly scattered throughout the world once it was slaughtered.
I certainly hope for the Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, as I would hope for myself and others
with me, if found out to be of Christian faith and a modern order, not unlike the Christians who walked
with Jesus as a man and Pastor who, as it were, was finally offered up as a
sacrificial offering to God upon a cross after being found guilty of offending the then Church of Israel who then proposed his death sentance to be carried out by a Roman Court, though he was innocent of the charges.
If we put aside Roy's «doppelgänger» ideas, we find that her passage is even more directly relevant in that it is concerned
with the ways in which the American version of
sacrificial logic is currently devastating natural and cultural goodness throughout the world.
Secondly, as an action the Eucharist is
sacrificial in quality, since it has to do
with an oblation, offering, or self - giving which was the characteristic mark of the life of Jesus in obedience to what he took to be the vocation given him by his heavenly Father.
This is because her life radiates beauty: through her hospitality to friends and strangers alike, through her joyful laugh, through her care of those in need, through her passion for education, through her love of framing things on film through the lens of a camera, through her ability to be patient
with her doofus husband, through her genuine love for God, through her
sacrificial generosity to those
with less than we have, and even through her stubborn refusal to let me get away
with any of my trademark snark.
It will fall to the elders or the most experienced to lead in prayer or chant; some of the younger members may be charged
with providing whatever is needed for
sacrificial purposes.
Only «over the long term,» Matthew Levering answers, and even then only
with «bold Christian witness in leading
sacrificial lives, lives of ecstatic love.»