What is Sacrifice?
[[File:Francisco de Goya - The Sacrifice to Priapus (1771).jpg|thumb|right|180px|{{Center|''The Sacrifice to [[Priapus]]'', by [[Francisco de Goya]]}}]] '''Sacrifice''' is the giving something up for the [[Deity|deities]]. Many [[religion]]s have had sacrifices and rules about them. Many [[Paganism|pagan]] peoples made [[animal sacrifice]]s to their deities<ref>Arieh Kofsky, ''Eusebius of Caesarea Against Paganism'' (Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2002), p. 119</ref> and sometimes [[human sacrifice]]s. The [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] play ''[[Iphigenia]]'' by [[Euripides]] contains an example of this as Iphigenia's human sacrifice is substituted by the animal sacrifice of a [[Deer|stag]] to [[Artemis]]. In the [[Old Testament]], [[Jew|Jewish]] peoples used the laws about [[animal]] sacrifices in the [[Book of Leviticus]] and sacrificed animals to [[Yahweh]]. [[Cattle]] and [[Dove|pigeons]] were butchered and eaten to make successful [[atonement]] with Yahweh for instance. In the [[New Testament]], Yahweh's mortal human incarnation as [[Jesus]]'s death on the [[cross]] is the [[substitutionary atonement]] for the [[sin|sins]] of all the people in the [[world]]. ==Related pages== *[[Epistle to the Hebrews]] *[[Self-denial]] == References == {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commons}} *[http://newadvent.org/cathen/13309a.htm Sacrifice] at Catholic encyclopaedia {{religion-stub}} [[Category:Worship]]