“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year ...
Religion, with all its rituals, sacrifices and dogma, is man’s way of making himself acceptable toGod, while Christianity is a system where God makes man acceptable unto Himself. That is not a distinction without a difference. Christianity is the mirror image of ‘religion’ — its core doc...
Religion, with all its rituals, sacrifices and dogma, is man’s way of making himself acceptable toGod, while Christianity is a system where God makes man acceptable unto Himself. That is not a distinction without a difference. Christianity is the mirror image of ‘religion’ — its core doc...
Brandenburg also highlights that worship is a perpetual, spiritual, and sincere act from the heart, akin to offering spiritual sacrifices to God. Then I asked Microsoft Copilot what I said about culture and worship, and it said this:
They had also stolen property and possessions, taken slaves to serve them and humiliate their enemies and, in some cases, had gone to the extent of using their slaves as human sacrifices to fearsome gods. To the Europeans, those deities were demons of hell, so gruesome were the practices ...
May the Spirit renew our minds to think about the things of God — “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2Do not be conformed to this world, but be ...
4. Let us pray again, and strive, that "we may walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing."—Knowing that all our services, all our sacrifices, are nothing unless our God smell a sweet savour in them; nor can we fill the sails of our souls with a more noble and generous ambi...
Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud,To Dagon. Compromise To bind by mutual agreement; to agree. Laban and himself were compromisedThat all the eanlings which were streaked and piedShould fall as Jacob's hire. Sacrifice Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an ...
Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God's sight, and like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.NRSV ...
We accept “proof of work” based on the assumption that there is no faster way to find a nonce which will give a new block a good enough hash value than brute-force search (currently requiring sextillions of guesses on average). But what if there were a hole in the crypto, a short...