There is something about blood which pagans recognize. While the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin, pagans try to dilute the meaningfulness of Jesus’ sacrifice by showing it in the context of horror and ritual From Wikipedia –“Taneleer Tivan (The Collector) is one of the Elders ...
one thing we’ve all seen a lot of from young and old Blue Pill Beta men is this logical tendency for them to want to ‘sacrifice their way to happiness with their wives’. It’s as if the more they sacrifice the more they pay for that intimacy they seek, but what they never get ...
Why? Notice that before Paul makes the extreme point regarding this proposed conceptual sacrifice that he introduces it by emphasizing what he is about to say by affirming the following: (1) I say the truth, (2) I say the truth in Christ, (3) I lie not, (4) my conscience is bearing...
But all three mentions of demons seem to treat “demon” as meaning “idol” or “false god” – they’re all mentioned in the context of condemning those who sacrifice to them. Note that Leviticus does say “goat demons”, which might have something to do with the modern image of the...
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The inauguration of the Lord’s Supper was not the last Passover: that came 40 years later. Jesus, the latter Jehu (2 Kings 10), gathered the idolaters together for a great sacrifice, made doubly sure that his people were not among them, surrounded them, and destroyed them. ...
Without the first part of the citation, it is not possible to verify whether the Bologna citation derives from the Psalms or from Paul, who quotes the Psalms. However, in this context it is not really important because the Greek verb ἐκκλίνω (‘to turnaway’, ‘to bend ...
Christianity, with its "mighty and all-embracing message," and its exhibition of love and self-sacrifice, welded together the hearts of men better than the force of power or the cold abstractions of the intellect, proving that the foolishness of the Gospel is wiser than the wisdom (philosophy...
The scripture is clear about acts of sacrifice and devotion that involve sacrificing a child as God said He abhorred it and that it was not commanded of Him nor did He ever intend it nor was it ever in His heart. “…to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I comman...
The third section of the very Mishna (Menachoth, 4:3) which Vaihinger quotes distinctly declares, "The kind of sacrifice prescribed in Nu 28:27 was offered in the wilderness, and the kind of sacrifice enjoined in Le 23:18 was not offered in the wilderness; but when they [i.e. the...