Sentences with phrase «worship as sacrifice»

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-- there is no «price» (again American Christian reference, not biblical); «his agents»: if you mean the Holy Spirit and / or Christ then since those are God then it's just the worship of God because you DESIRE to worship Him not as if there was anything any of us could offer that would be reciprocal for Christ's sacrifice.

Mormons worship Jesus Christ as the Savior and Redeemder of the world, the only begotten Son of God, and the only being capable of performing the necessary sacrifice that enables us to be forgiven when we repent.

* worship God, who has never been, at any time for any reason, a capricious God of death, war, murder, destruction, violence, abuse, vengeance, hate, fear, lies, slavery, systemic injustice, oppression, conditional acceptance, exclusion, segregation, discrimination, shunning, ostracism, eternal condemnation, eternal punishment, retribution, sacrifices, patriarchy, matriarchy, empire, nationalism, only one culture, only one race or portion of the population, parochialism, sectarianism, dogma, creeds, pledges, oaths or censorship — and who has never behaved as a Greco - Roman or narcissistic deity.

[57] St Paul says the same: «Present your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.»

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.»

Numbers 31 refers to a tribe that killed their own kids and cut unborn babies from the womb of their mothers to offer up as sacrifice to demon worship.

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.

You contradict yourself and coming from years of leading worship music and literally crying as I sing about His great sacrifice, you are telling me that to do so is to take away from a hooker's pain?

«Present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

The blood sacrifices God instructed Moses to institute as part of Israel's worship of Him were meant to pave the way for the only and ultimate blood sacrifice that could save humanity from our sin.

I appeal to you, brethren, by the mercies of God to present your bodies as living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God which is your spiritual worship.

Old testament practices of worship are some forms of worship Jesus did, and we should worship God in our actions, by giving, singing, etc (but Jesus has obviously replaced the need for burnt offerings, but instead we offer ourselves as a living sacrifice to God).

The Morozov cult was not quite as horrifying as the worship of Moloch, the dreadful Carthaginian deity who required fiery child sacrifice.

«Up hearts,» or «Lift up your hearts,» is the moment when we put away every other thought so as to focus all our energy on the one and most important act of any given day: the worship of God through our participation in the one sacrifice of Jesus Christ renewed on our altars.

«Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship.

«I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.»

The Pink Monkeys continue to express interest in ancestor worship, human sacrifice, cannibalism, self - congratulation, (describe themselves as «modern», and «evolved»).

Furthermore, «those [scholars] who write about Jesus» desire to return the Temple to its «original,» «true» purpose, the «pure» worship of God, seem to forget that the principal function of any temple is to serve as a place for sacrifice, and that sacrifices require the supply of suitable animals» and, by implication, money - changers to facilitate their sale.

Thus we may say that in the divine - human relationship, as it manifests itself in human acts of worship, there is a two - way traffic: from man to God in sacrifice or offering, and from God to man in the establishment of communion and the gift of new life.

Demetrius the 1st, the nephew of Antiochus the 5th, in 161bce, put on a pig as a sacrifice, after destroying the Solomon temple, worshiping sun - gods, soon after chirstianity began of the 1st, and 2nd centuries.

To worship a three - in - one god born of a virgin who he impregnated himself, and then killed himself as a sacrifice to himself, so that he may spare his own creation from his own wrath requires a constant pounding of myth for extended periods of time from childhood.

At the same time, he regards himself as one of the elite, who worships the true God by means of the sacrifices which God has appointed.

Roman 12: 1 - 2 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God — this is your spiritual act of worship.

As long as your activity is not illegal (human sacrifice, smoking crack) you can worship whomever you want, or noAs long as your activity is not illegal (human sacrifice, smoking crack) you can worship whomever you want, or noas your activity is not illegal (human sacrifice, smoking crack) you can worship whomever you want, or not.

I'm pretty sure all of the different religions represent good will to mankind and all around being the best person you can be while sacrificing as much of your life as possible to the worship of God.

The cult of Moloch is mentioned in the Bible as an example of a terrible pagan god with murderous worship rituals and, thank to Dante's Inferno, has become a defacto descriptor for any cult that practices human sacrifice.

thought by scholars to be the earliest, are such commands as these: «Thou shalt worship no other god»; «Thou shalt make thee no molten gods»; «The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep»; «All that openeth the womb is mine»; «Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest»; «Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread»; «Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.»

«Cultic worship» is a practice performed by a person empowered by the deity to serve as intermediary between human beings and divine powers by presiding over an esoteric ritual (usually a sacrifice) which evokes an appearance of divine power for the benefit of the worshiper.

«Gifts and sacrifices are offered which have no power to make inwardly perfect the one who performs the worship; as they are based only on food and drink and various ablutions, they are no more than carnal rites which last only until a time of renewal.»

Romans 12:1 says, «Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God — this is your spiritual act of worship.»

What does it mean for me to present my body as a living sacrifice in worship of God?

Because of God's mercies, the only worship that makes sense (logikhn is inexplicably translated as «spiritual» by the NRSV and NIV) is, in Paul's view, to offer our very lives, our bodies — our physical being, our imagination, our skills, our possessions — as a «living sacrifice.»

«Worship» in the sense of ritual and tradition, or in the sense of lives as living sacrifices?

As the King's account also reports of his grandfather Ahaz (in II 16:3), Manasseh reverted to child sacrifice (II 21:6); and, also like Ahaz, he introduced, no doubt under the guise of what continued to pass for Yahweh worship and the Yahweh cult, extraneous practices denoting Judah's subservience to Assyria.

As Greenberg says: «Many Jews assume that only Christianity focuses on grace and on the merits of another's sacrifice for their behavior, but in biblical times, temple worship had strong sacramental overtones....

According to Reinhard, the children who served as sacrifices were in effect deified and worshipped as intermediaries to the gods.

Recent excavations of a 30 - meter ash altar on Mount Lykaion in Greece, once worshipped as the birthplace of Zeus, have revealed a 3000 - year - old skeleton of an adolescent boy thought to be a human sacrifice, The Boston Globe reports.

Now there's The Neon Demon, completing a trilogy of sorts by talking about the difficulties of being a girl becoming a woman and an object for men, eviscerated in certain tabernacles where women are worshiped as ideals and sacrificed to the same.

But just as there are tropical fossils under the ice, calling all bad weather our fault, gives the social psychotics of witch burning, omen worship, paganism, superstition and sacrificing virgins, a new meaner brother by the name of climate change.