Sentences with phrase «greek mystery cults»

The concept of «salvation» was grafted onto the Jesus movent by Paul of Tarsus, who stole it from the Greek mystery cults.

Paul made it up, to compete with the saviors in the Greek mystery cults.

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Also, gnosticism is not unique to Christianity - the idea of «hidden knowledge», founded in Greek mystery - cult, attached itself to many religious communities of the time.

Once Christianity was established on Hellenistic soil, the term «Lord» tended to take its meaning primarily from its use to ascribe divine honors to emperors or to the gods who presided over the mystery cults, not to mention its use in the Greek Bible to render the unspeakable name of Yahweh.

«Mystic» is derived from the Greek mysterion, which was, of course, associated with the secret cults of Greek religion and thus entailed a sense of mystery.

In Plato the two primary Greek meanings for «theos», immortal and soul, coalesce, as they had earlier in the Pythagorean religious tradition, rooted in the Orphic mystery cults as distinguished from the popular Greek religion of the Olympic gods.