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How was Jesus a sacrifice?

...d the old sacrifices, is that of the Passover lamb. The link between the two is really quite amazing and to be honest, I didn't realise just how much of this Jesus fulfilled in himself until I was writing this. First we need to go back to the very first Passover to see what it meant for Israel. The whole story can be found in Exodus 12, but the relevant parts to the lamb are about how it should look and be prepared, and the reason for the blood covering: Exodus 12:5-7, 13 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled c...

Does Easter Have Pagan Origins?

...s Jesus a sacrifice? Have a blessed Easter and know that you are celebrating something thousands of Christians have celebrated before you for nearly two millennia!  Further Reading and Sources An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd ed., s.v. “Easter.” (Walter W. Skeat, 1893). Easter is Not Pagan - YouTube by Inspiring Philosophy Quartodecimanism - Wikipedia Easter, Ishtar and Eostre - History for Atheists What is the origin of the Easter bunny and Easter eggs? | GotQuestions.org Who was Ishtar, and is there any connection between Ishtar and Easter? | GotQuestions.org Eostre, Ishtar and the truth about Easter - Uncomplica...

Lent Day 36: Ambrose of Milan: Concerning the Mysteries: 5-9

...t where a sacrifice was consumed with heavenly fire, and the baptism of fire we receive in the New Testament. In Judges 6:21 when Jerubbaal had an angel burn up the sacrifice, and another time in 1 Kings 18:38 when Elijah was battling with the prophets of Baal, fire from the Lord came down to burn it up. “To those [of old] a visible fire was sent that they might believe; for us who believe, the Lord works invisibly” – our fire from heaven is in the form of the Spirit of God who falls upon us, who are “living sacrifices” to the Lord Jesus (Rom 12:1). Anointed as priests After baptism, straight from coming out of the water, the catechumens are then...

Before The Pumpkins: The Day Two Women Defied Rome

...fusing to sacrifice to the emperor’s image could be imprisoned or executed. Among the arrested were a small group of catechumens (new believers preparing for baptism) including a young noblewoman named Vibia Perpetua and her servant, Felicity. Perpetua was only twenty-two years old and the mother of an infant son. Her father, a pagan, begged her to renounce the faith and save her life, but she would not. In her prison diary — one of the earliest surviving Christian texts written by a woman — she records their suffering and her unshakable resolve and faith. After she was arrested with her companions, she wrote of a moment when her father came and t...

Are There Levels of Sin?

...remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment..." If you commit a "lesser sin" you are still guilty just as much as if you commit a "greater sin", much in the same as criminals in a court of law. Yet even then, those who are first time offenders, or didn't necessarily act maliciously, can receive a reduced sentence. In a similar fashion, Jesus would seem to teach that the punishment will indeed 'fit the crime' as it were, which gives me a greater sense and view of God's justice being actually just and not some type of binary black/white system which portrays God in an unjust and very robotic fashion (ie. "you sinned, no matter if it was tel...

An ancient fragment mentions Jesus' wife!?

...hange the sacrifice Jesus made for us all....