How often should I sacrifice a beast to appease God?

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Dino246

Dino246

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BuffyLou said:
How so?
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"The issue being THAT my sentence was incomplete." (for context)

That is a dependent clause. You could say, "I was confused about the correct grammar, the issue being that my sentence was incomplete." To make an independent clause and therefore a complete sentence, you would have to use a verb form that did not rely on additional clauses to complete the thought. "The issue is that my sentence was incomplete."

The word, "being," when used as a verb, absolutely requires another verb. "Was being", "is being", or "are being" are all valid. In the same way, you would not write, "The boy throwing the ball for the dog" as a separate sentence. Rather, you would write, "The boy is throwing the ball for the dog." You could write, "The boy throwing the ball for the dog suddenly fell over" but then the words, "The boy throwing the ball for the dog" become a noun phrase that requires a verb such as "fell".
 
posthuman

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John 11:49-52

And one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all, nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish." Now this he did not say on his own [authority;] but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, and not for that nation only, but also that He would gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

@BuffyLou
Here you go ;)


You raise an interesting point that it is useful to understand rightly.
 
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Dino246 said:
Either that was snarky, or you really don't understand the relevant grammatical principles.
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Snarky.

I just ran 'I was referring to your focusing on whom had him killed' through Microsoft word. No green underline.
 
Magenta

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Buffy, Buffy, Buffy... Jesus gave His life willingly. The men who crucified Christ were not offering
Him up as a sacrifice to any god. Now the task put before you is to sacrifice your own self. That
may sound strange to you, but it is just another way of saying, pick up your cross daily. Honestly,
you do not seem to be there yet. Do you pray at all? Those who seek sincerely and diligently, find.
 
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Magenta said:
Buffy, Buffy, Buffy... Jesus gave His life willingly. The men who crucified Christ were not offering
Him up as a sacrifice to any god. Now the task put before you is to sacrifice your own self. That
may sound strange to you, but it is just another way of saying, pick up your cross daily. Honestly,
you do not seem to be there yet. Do you pray at all? Those who seek sincerely and diligently, find.
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I never disputed his giving his life willingly.
 
Magenta

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BuffyLou said:
I never disputed his giving his life willingly.
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I never said you did. I have not read the whole hread, though, so I am not aware of everything you may or may not have said :)

And, since you do not dispute that Jesus laid down His life willingly, perhaps you
can drop the whole "human sacrifice" idea as if it were Biblical, since it is not.

If you have not already, that is ;)
 
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BuffyLou

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Dino246 said:
Try running "Your focusing on whom had him killed."
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Why? We established it was an incomplete sentence. I should have said 'I got it from your focusing on whom had him killed'. According to Microsoft Word that sentence is entirely grammatically correct. I was mistaken in assuming 'I got it from' might be implied.
 
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BuffyLou

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'Where did you get it from?'

'I got it from you're focusing on whom had him killed'

Forgive me, but your suggesting I use 'you're' does not make sense here.
 
Dino246

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BuffyLou said:
Why? We established it was an incomplete sentence. I should have said 'I got it from your focusing on whom had him killed'. According to Microsoft Word that sentence is entirely grammatically correct. I was mistaken in assuming 'I got it from' might be implied.
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Good. Let's move on.

Will you now accept that "human sacrifice" is just the wrong concept for what Jesus did?
 
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