Propitiation
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Man's early attempts to buy off ill luck by bribery evolved into a more positive effort to win good luck, eventually leading to the development of schemes to compel spirit co-operation in his evolving religious practices. 87:6.2 89:0.2
The erroneous, barbarous idea of propitiating a wrathful God through blood sacrifice is unworthy of an enlightened age of science and truth. 4:5.4 188:4.1
The positive form of propitiation involved praise, flattery, and entertainment, while renunciation was the negative form. 89:4.7
Life rendered miserable by ceremonies of spirit propitiation, a heavy burden passed down from generation to generation. 87:5.8
The evolution of religious observances progressed from avoidance, placation, and exorcism to sacrificial rites of conciliation and propitiation. 89:0.2 89:4.4 90:0.1
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- Sacrificial system 89:0.2 — Lv 1:1-9:24.