PPT-Religious Sacrifice of Animals:

some issues for discussion An issue paper prepared for the round table discussion organised by Nepalese Indigenous Nationalities Forum Australia 9 th October 2010 Campsie NSW Australia. background. Man was created to live forever in paradise. Genesis 1:26-31; Genesis 2:8-17. Man was created to live forever. He is holy, he sees God face to face, he has eternal . life. Man lost this original state because of sin. Roman Sacrifice. 1. Lustration . (Purification). Circular procession around the victim, usually three times. 2. Procession . to the altar. 3. . Praefatio. . (Preface). Offerings of incense and wine on the altar. Biblical Principles of Sacrifice. Must Be Acceptable To God. 1 Pet. 2:5; Lev. 22:19-25; Heb. 11:4. Must Cost Us Something. 2 Sam. 24:24; Luke 21:1-4. Must Be the Best. Lev. 22:19-25; Mal. 1:8, 13-14. Chapter 17. John 6. Jesus had just fed the 5000 and walked on water. Told His followers that unless they ate His flesh and drank His blood they would not have life in them. The crowd grumbled and asked how this was possible. God . never quits on what He starts. . He . loves and saves to the uttermost . no . matter what the cost. . We . are called to be like . Him.. When something deviates . from . its original plan and design, . Four ‘Ages’ of Creation…. EXODUS/PASSOVER. DEATH & RESURRECTION OF JESUS. NEW HEAVEN & EARTH. CREATION. Time of the Patriarchs. Covenant with Israel in the Promised Land. New Covenant for all people. The ‘end times’. in Ancient Rome. Kelsey . Gabris. The practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural . mean. . The Romans “Convinced as they were that the gods had powers to influence human destiny, the Romans spent much effort working out what their will might be.”. Many ancient religions practiced sacrifice to their gods – including human sacrifice. . What did they think they were achieving?. What was it doing for their relationship to God?. To evaluate 3 theories of the atonement. By: Ike . Alexanian. Mayan Sacrifices. It was an honor to be sacrificed if you were a Mayan. . It was a part of their religion.. Mayan Sacrifice. The human sacrifices were not very common. . They would sacrifice animals or their prisoners. . th. month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man in Jerusalem.” . – Ezra 3:1. 7. th. month = September. Feast of Tabernacles celebrated the Exodus(from a foreign land, Egypt). thuein. . < *IE . dhw. - . (smoke). cf. Engl. . fume. Mythology of Fire. SPECIES. PREPARATION. . LONGEVITY. animal. raw meat. short-lived. human. cooked meat. longer-lived. deity. incinerated meat (smoke). Genesis 1:26-27. Man was made differently than the rest of creation.. We were the last thing that God created – the pinnacle of God’s creative work. . God spoke everything else into existence, but . John 3:16-21. CHRISTMAS COMES WITH A SACRIFICE. For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.. Salary sacrifice changes Considerations and actions for NHS organisations. Background The g overnment consultation on salary sacrifice for the provision of benefits in kind closed on 19 October 2016.