Lamb of God

It is the summit of human happiness: the surrender of man to God, of woman to man, of several women to the same man.
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“Personally, I deal with manners of righteousness and God,” he says.
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My body used for his hard pleasure; a stone god gripping me in his hands.
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Yet, for god knows what reason, his name is never brought up in the “Great American Filmmaker” conversation.
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The mythic origin of the feast was the creation of the world by the god Marduk.
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The supernaturalist alleges that religion was revealed to man by God, and that the form of this revelation is a sacred book.
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Each religion claims that its own Bible is the direct revelation of God, and is the only true Bible teaching the only true faith.
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Elyon is the name of an ancient Phœnician god, slain by his son El, no doubt the “first-born of death” in Job xviii.
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But if God made man, then God is responsible for all man's acts and thoughts, and therefore man cannot sin against God.
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He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!
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British Dictionary definitions for Lamb of God

Lamb of God

noun

a title given to Christ in the New Testament, probably with reference to his sacrificial death

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Cultural definitions for Lamb of God

Lamb of God

A Christian term for Jesus, first used in the Gospel of John. It carries out the image of the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus as a new Passover (see also Passover): a lamb was killed for the Jewish Passover, and Jesus himself, in the sacrifice of his death and Resurrection, is the lamb for the new Passover.