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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Perhaps this substitution comes about because offerings and sacrifices are meant to deflect and bear the brunt of God’s wrath. And, of course, let’s also consider the null hypothesis- that some religious folk don’t spell too good. Examples:
We Use cigarettes like brunt offerings so that the smoke will carry our prayers
up to the Great Spirit.
www.volconvo.com/forums/showthread.php? … e=10&pp=10
Even though you offer me your brunt offerings and grain offerings, I will not
accept them;...
www.clarendonpresbyterian.org/sermons/de91204.htm
Jerusalem had been the lion of God and the center of brunt offerings, but God
would turn it into an “Ariel,†a place of burning.
www.presence.tv/cms/lpj_vol15_1_isaiahandjesus.php
In Chronicles 16:1-3, it states that after David had finished the brunt offerings and peace offerings, that he blessed the people in the name of the Lord.
www.fni.com/worship/200005/msg00451.html
Then shalt Thou be pleased with sacrifices of righteousness, with brunt offerings and holocausts then shall they offer bullocks upon Thine altar.
groups.yahoo.com/group/OurHeartsinHisHands/message/14
The prophet Hosea brought from God centuries before: “for I desire steadfast
love and not sacrifice, The knowledge of God rather than brunt offerings. ...
www.day1.net/printview.php?id=279
... in my house of prayer, their brunt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted
on my altar, for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
www.burningbush.beatitudes.org/english/ … sofbbi.rtf
Partly because our government outlawed it and so you can no longer sacrifice the
birds, cattle, lambs, or even people as brunt offerings in a reglisous ritual.
www.volconvo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2332
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