sacrifice
48 subentries
- sacrifice (89:4-9secs). See also atonement doctrine; avoidance; coercion; conciliation (ceremony); exorcism; placation; propitiation; redemption
- Andonites originated ceremonies of (63:6.4)
- animal sacrifice
- Abel sacrificed animals in the second garden (76:2.2-3)
- Adam substituted offerings of fruit for blood (74:7.21)
- at first man offered his best animals (89:4.8)
- at Jerusalem temple (125:1.1,4) (125:2.1,3) (125:5.5) (173:1.1-2)
- bullocks (162:4.3) (173:1.6-7)
- by Andonites (63:6.4)
- doves and pigeons for the poor (122:10.2) (173:1.2)
- held in greater esteem than offerings of agriculture (81:1.4)
- Isaiah opposed (126:4.5)
- Jesus opposed (125:2.3) (125:5.5) (173:1sec)
- Mithraics ate flesh of animal sacrifices (98:5.4)
- replaced human sacrifice (89:5.16)
- atonement for sins of commission and omission (89:0.2)
- atonement s. was blanket insurance for racial sin (89:4.5)
- barbarous idea of winning God’s favor through (4:5.4)
- believed to purchase prosperity (89:8.6)
- conceived as message bearer to gods (89:4.3)
- debt s. embraced idea of redemption (89:4.2)
- drink offering (162:4.4)
- earliest idea was neutrality assessment (89:4.5)
- examples of early s. (89:4.1)
- gift s. connoted attitude of thanksgiving (89:4.2)
- human sacrifice
- ended cannibalism (89:5.15)
- in foundation provided ghost to protect new structure (89:6.4)
- Moses forbade (4:5.5)
- Neanderthalers practiced (64:4.12)
- Old Testament examples (89:6.3,6,8)
- physical mutilation became acceptable substitute for (89:8.2)
- practice of sacrificing first-born (89:6.7) (93:9.4)
- practiced by all Andonites except Badonans (64:3.1)
- regular feature of weddings among well-to-do (83:4.4)
- to appease invisible and unknown forces (64:4.12-13)
- virtually universal among primitives (89:6.2)
- idea implies absence of wholehearted affection (180:1.6)
- Jesus
- death on cross was not a s. (188:4.3)
- did not participate in any religious service of s. (179:0.3)
- sought to free apostles from idea of s. (141:4.3)
- taught forgiveness without s. (138:8.2)
- Melchizedek substituted sacrament of bread and wine for (93:4.14)
- place in evolution of religious observances (90:0.1)
- primitives only attained favor with God through (89:10.1)
- propitiation was positive form of (89:4.7)
- seeks to substitute material offerings for consecrated wills (91:2.4)
- value gauged by pain suffered (89:4.1)
Cross-references
- See also atonement doctrine
- See also avoidance
- See also coercion
- See also conciliation (ceremony)
- See also exorcism
- See also placation
- See also propitiation
- See also redemption
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