Yahweh Sacrifice

REPORTER: The reporter/father (Christopher) called with concerns for the victim, Destiny. According to Christopher, Destiny wanted to come and stay with him for the summer. Three or four weeks ago (unknown date), Destiny called her father crying, her mother was cursing and saying that she was not going to stay with her father. On Saturday (three weeks ago), Christopher went to the home and saw blood and a nail mark on the victims head, right above her right eye, where Christy had been poking Destiny with her finger. Also, there were finger prints around her neck, and Destiny said Christy was trying to “slang” her around the living room, but Christy said she was trying to get her off the couch. As they were leaving, Christy told the victim

God promised blessings to Abraham and his family and extends to him and his family. The Jewish Passover reflects on the Hebrews escape from Egypt with the sacrifice of a lamb, while the Christian interpretation of Passover is Easter, when Jesus resurrected. The Atonement is the sacrifice of Jesus Christ to overcome sin and death, Jesus sacrificed himself for the sins of humans. The Jewish Atonement is also covering of sin on the day of Yom Kippur where the blood of the lamb is put over the mercy seat. The chosen people are the ones who follow the order of god, Abraham to spread the word of God, Hosea to go out and marry a prostitute, the people who listen to god in all he says. Hebrew view on sin is that all humans sin and must be repented of sin; but Christian views on sin is that Jesus died on the cross for all sin. When God sent his one and only son down to earth, he sent his son to be among humans, one of the humans. Jesus walked among the people and learned how the mortal world worked and offered a helping hand to any and all who asked for help. He preached the word of God, when he got to Rome he was seen as a sinner in the eyes of many Romans who were upset with his growing power. So they crucified Jesus, and his second to last word was “Tetelestai” which meant “it has been paid” meaning that Jesus died for our

Another key point, is that every sacrifice ceremony was providing just a temporary covering of once sin, and could never take it away forever. On the other hand, the foreshadowing of the perfect Lamb, would come to remove sin forever. That is what the temple represented, that there is one way to heaven, the lamb slain, Jesus Christ. Now, the time has come to have faith in Jesus Christ for salvation of our souls. The temple is no longer needed. In effect, no longer we need to wait for the foreshadow of Jesus Christ, we no longer need to slain a sheep to cover our sins, we no longer need to seek God on an altar, as he dwells within us through the Holy Spirit. God has never given us a spirit of fear, rather a spirit of faith in Jesus Christ. Under those circumstances, when Jesus declared, “I am the way,” is the reason why Jews hated Him. As a result, they were intolerance with Him and Christians, until this day. The Bible speaks of Jesus Christ becoming the stumbling rock for the Jews by not accepting his vicarious death. In fact, the incredible thing about Jesus is that “He is the way, the truth and the life no one comes to the father but through

God stress the importance of holiness all through Leviticus. God stresses this in the way that the Israelites are to approach him and worship him. God gives expressive and specific details on who and how to bring sacrifices to him. The sacrifices, which will make the Israelites holy. God what his people to be a holy people set apart from all others. Wiersbe (2007) states “God’s holiness isn’t simply the absence of defilement, a negative thing. The holiness of God is positive and active. It’s God’s perfect nature at work in accomplishing God’s perfect will” (Wiersbe, p 206). God also stress the fact that the animals sacrificed are to be clean and without blemish and the first-born. A precursor to our Savior Jesus Christ who will redeem all humanity.

This is a negative for the Jewish people as they have to live their lives fearing that if they do wrong they may be killed by God as he is allowed to and has in the story of Exodus when he kills every first born son of the Egyptians like they had done to the Hebrews most people see the killing as in fairness and justice. But if we look at the story of Noah and the flood, he killed every human which were innocent except Noah, his wife, and their two sons.Here he did not kill in justice and in fairness, but more of what he assumed which caused him to kill a lot of innocent people, which is wrong and a contradiction as he’s saying not to mean it is bad as he only wants them to be good. Some and maybe God himself could see the fact they live in such fear in a positive in a way because they are so fearful of doing wrong that they never will and will live their life in good. A positive of the covenants is that they have that special connection and communication with God, but a negative of it is that they have to do what he says and how he wants it even if they might not want to but have to because if they don’t they will be punished and a known punishment by God is

The way that this would influence the Israelites is to establish a solid belief in a single god and the practices that he has established. As far as sacrifices were concerned the practices were limited under a single god. This is because he told them, "I am the Lord your God, who will walk among you and be your God. You shall be my people." This meant that the Israelites had limited sacrifices to God. ("Exodus," 2010) (Bratcher, 2012)

After creating humans God wanted to partner with them to work creating a perfect world. But yet, humanity as a whole rejected this partnership and turned away from God. God then set apart a smaller nation, Israel to form a partnership or a covenant with him. God makes promises to them, in return the Israelites have to live up to God's standards and accept the terms of the covenant. Besides being holy God asks the Israelites to be ambassadors representing God not only through holiness abut by also sharing the true God with the other nations who did not now. There are four main covenants God has made with the Israelites, and each can be found in the first four books or the Torah. He made one with Noah, Abraham, Israel as a whole

Not only is this committed but so are 'detestable practices' to which God forbids also in Deuteronomy 18:9-10, "When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. 10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the

Thomas S. Monson once said, “We are reminded that anger does not solve anything. It builds nothing, but can destroy everything.” In the Bible Passage, Cain and Abel, two brothers both sacrifice their work to God. Abel, a shepherd, sacrifices his best lamb, and Cain, a farmer, only sacrifices part of his left over straw. When God goes to accept their sacrifices he sees that Cain does not sacrifice his best and therefore does not accept it, shown when the fire burns higher for Abel’s sacrifice.

According to the Torah, the Jews have a special relationship with God. This is the covenant which was made between God and Abraham and his descendants. They established a relationship whereby, the Israelites agreed to abide by the Torah in exchange for God’s protection. If the Israelites abided by

Mankind was disobedient. He gave them the Ten Commandments to live by. In the book of Leviticus, there were so many offering that man had to offer to God. God used prophets to deliver messages to His people. They may change for a little while but they would revert to ways that were not of God. During Noah time, God destroyed the earth with water because of the wickedness of man. After giving mankind another chance, he still disobeyed God. The relationship between God and man was estranged. Man had no sacrifice that would be worthy to offer God. God offered a sacrifice to Himself, his Son. As mentioned in the introduction, Jesus became the ultimate sacrifice. According to Carl Stam (2003), “We can’t say that our worship is about Christ unless it includes the bold and scandalous message of the

“A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens is about the French Revolution and the lives of some of the people who get caught up in it. It takes places over 17 years from 1775 to 1792 with flashbacks going back even further. It shows the injustice leading to the Revolution and the consequences. It is also in many ways a Christian allegory about sacrifice and spiritual redemption. The book starts in 1775, and Jarvis Lorry, a businessman, is on his way to reunite Lucie Manette and her father, Dr. Manette, who has been in prison in the Bastille for the last 18 years. Although Dr. Manette first appears to be a little ‘off’ after his time in prison, Lucie’s love brings him back to himself.

Though today, these sacrifices are believed to be more humble than what they once used to be. In modern times, human sacrifices are still being made around the world. For instance, an occult group by the name of Orkas will give a human sacrifice to summon the rain and save their shrivelling crops. It is not only this group of people who will make human sacrifices, but also people who follow the religion of Hindu will make human sacrifices, as well as animal sacrifices, to please their Gods and bring them good luck. These types of sacrifices are more common in nations such as India and various countries throughout Africa and the most practice form of sacrifices are far more nonbelligerent; such as a person’s church, or place where they practice their religion, closes so they move to where a new one could be found. In doing so, this person will be sacrificing their current lives to start a new one, in some cases, far away. Although, religious sacrifices aren’t the only sacrifices in this world. More often than not, people will make a sacrifice based on their morals, rather than

Sacrifice has contributed to a major part in society for centuries. Examples are seen in religion works, such as Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son in the Abrahamic religions of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. God told him to sacrifice his own son, and Abraham’s readiness to do what God told him shows his love for him. Knowing of Abraham’s love, God lets him sacrifice a ram instead. In addition, religious sacrifices can also be seen during the Aztec civilization, where they performed human sacrifices in order to please their gods. They valued their gods more than the life of humans, and the happiness of their gods, they believed, resulted in better weather and crop yields. The Aztecs lost human lives, but, on the other hand, they gained the happiness of their gods. Sacrifice is

An excellent example of worthy and unworthy worship in the Old Testament is that of Cain and Abel since it is the first arresting message of God in Genesis after the fall man and persuasively an essential message of redemption. Both Cain and Abel worshiped God but approach it differently. Remarkably, Abel loved and feared God most of all in his life that he carefully obeyed all His instructions and requirements for worship, while Cain selfishly worshiped God according to His will and presumptions. Abel, in awe of his creator, offered God the best firstlings of his flocks and their fat portions. The aroma of Abel’s offering reached God and was well pleased and honored. As a result, God accepted Abel and his love offering and