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Pagan Christianity?
To gain a better perspective of what and why institutional church has not only let you down, but is not biblical, I suggest you read a book called
Pagan Christianity, by Frank Viola and George Barna, and the follow - up books as well.
Just read Already Gone by Ken Ham or
Pagan Christianity by Frank Viola.
Frank Viola's book «
Pagan Christianity» has a section on tithing and the history of it.
It is the sequel to
Pagan Christianity, in which Viola strips away nearly everything we think of as «church.»
If I may cut in, you may enjoy
both Pagan Christianity by Frank Viola and «The Pastor has no Clothes» by Jon Zens.
After being a Christian for so long and a pastor, it's hard to know where to go after taking the «red pill» of
Pagan Christianity.
I have recently been at a seminar by Frank Viola — he taught us about the Organic Church, and although his books «
Pagan Christianity», «Reimagining Church» and others, really stirred the idea of the «Emerging Church» OUTSIDE the institutional church, in my life, I realized we are going to miss it again.
«
Pagan Christianity» blew my mind.
I just finished studying Frank Viola's and George Barna's recent book,
Pagan Christianity: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices.
When I first read Frank's «
Pagan Christianity» I contacted one of his associates, who was planning to be in our area to visit friends and to attempt to start an «organic church».
Have you ever read «
Pagan Christianity» by Frank Viola?
Jeremy — the conclusion to the book
Pagan Christianity is the companion book Reimagining Church.
Hey Jeremy, I am not sure if it is a good thing to mention other bloggers books and podcasts on another's blog but here goes and please forgive me if I did wrong, I think it would definitely help Brady and others if they read the book by Frank Viola and George Bana called «
Pagan Christianity».
I finished reading
Pagan Christianity today and I mourn for what this book could have been.
That's what
Pagan Christianity should have been about.
So «
Pagan Christianity» is not the end of the story; it's only the beginning.
As much as «
Pagan Christianity?»
It was here that I picked up Frank Viola's books, starting with «
Pagan Christianity» and wow!
Pagan Christianity really ruined things for me... so I stepped out of the clergy and then I got MS literally 1 month later!
It is covered fairly well in
Pagan Christianity?
The Relationship God Has Always Wanted With You — Wayne Jacobsen The Naked Church — Wayne Jacobsen This Is My Body: Ekklesia As God Intended — Keith Giles
Pagan Christianity — Frank Viola & George Barna Reimagining Church — Frank Viola
You can read my review of «
Pagan Christianity?»
I think it's time you read «Reimagining Church», if you haven't already, and perhaps also the prequel, «
Pagan Christianity?»
Not exact matches
Perhaps that's why
pagan traditions remained even as
Christianity took hold.
Judaism is the only true faith and all these heretical versions of it like
Christianity and Islam are false,
pagan, blasphemous, and reject the Covenant Abraham made with the Eternal One, the Ten Commandments, the Tanakh, the one and only Book, and Talmud the codification of the Tanakh.
Easter may have its origins as a
pagan holiday... but Catholics... which are a branch of
Christianity, view Easter as the holiest of days... starting on Good Friday when Jesus was executed to his rebirth on Sunday.
This is the fault of the Vatican, which practices
Pagan Sun worship, not
Christianity.
Moshiach, messiah is not some supernatural second god man thing, I don't quite understand how the whole
Pagan Horus myth got mixed up into what became
Christianity.
Baptisms are a rite of the
pagan perversion of Judaism called
Christianity.
Except that Judaism is the only true faith and all these heretical versions of it like
Christianity and Islam are false,
pagan, blasphemous, and reject the Covenant Abraham made with the Eternal One, the Ten Commandments, the Tanakh, the one and only Book, and Talmud the codification of the Tanakh.
First and foremost, greeks didn't just give up zeus on the spot, they were converted first by the romans on pain of death and later when the romans converted to
christianity, there were still
pagans, no one just looked at their beliefs, decided they were silly and changed.
Yes we have
Christianity is a dying religion because people are realizing it's based on other
pagan myths!
1 63 million Second World War 20C (Christians et al and Communists / atheists vs. Christians et al, Nazi -
Pagan and «Shintoists») 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C (Communism / atheists) 40 million Genghis Khan 13C (Shamanism or Tengriism) 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C (Anglican) 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese folk religion) 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C (Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion vs. a form of
Christianity) 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C 8 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C (Islam) 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C (
Christianity) 11 15 million First World War 20C (Christians vs. Christians) 15 million Conquest of the Americas 15C - 19C (Christians) 13 13 million Muslim Conquest of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C (Christians vs Communists) 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C (
Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C (Christians) 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (Christians vs Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynasty 14C http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat0.htm
The fact is,
Christianity was pretty smart to incorporate many of the early
Pagan celebrations in their rituals.
I think the
pagans should be the ones taking offense at the absurdity of
christianity and how it walked in, stole their rituals and forced them to convert.
As a child, I remember our minister saying that in the early years of
Christianity pagans would remark, «See those Christians, how they love one another.»
I think Simpleton Americans should stop pretending knowing anything about
Christianity or American heritage because you guys have become thoroughly
pagan and Bible - illiterate.
I have in my library a text on the subject, Astrotheology & Shamanism:
Christianity's
Pagan Roots.
1 63 million Second World War 20C (Christians et al and Communists vs. Christians et al, Nazi -
Pagan and «Shintoists») 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C (Communism) 40 million Genghis Khan 13C (Shamanism or Tengriism) 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C (Anglican) 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese folk religion) 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C (Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion vs. a form of
Christianity) 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C (Communism vs.
Christianity et al) 8 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C (Islam) 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C (
Christianity) 11 15 million First World War 20C (Christians vs. Christians) 15 million Conquest of the Americas 15C - 19C (Christians vs
pagans) 13 13 million Muslim Conquest of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C (Christians vs Communists) 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C (Pagans vs Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (Christians vs Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynas
pagans) 13 13 million Muslim Conquest of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C (Christians vs Communists) 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C (
Pagans vs Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (Christians vs Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynas
Pagans vs
Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (Christians vs Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynas
Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (Christians vs Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynasty 14C
In a book called «On the Road to Civilisation, A World History» (Philadelphia 1937) it said, «Early
Christianity was little understood and was regarded with little favour by those who ruled the
pagan world... Christians refused to share certain duties of Roman Citizens... they would not hold political office.»
@ Catholic Mom before you talk you should reseach your beliefs cause in the 2nd council of Nicene they accepted that they could make Idols, that the 2nd commandment was talking about pegan gods lol... the only thing they did was bring
Pagans beliefs and mixed it with
Christianity....
Hitler was a
pagan who USED
Christianity simply to further his ends.
The Christian Post: Paganism and Witchcraft Placed Alongside Christian Studies in UK Schools A U.K. school system has included the study of witchcraft and druidry on its official religious education syllabus for the first time, meaning
pagan practices will be taught alongside contemporary religions, such as
Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
Have the souls of
Christianity and the tutelary spirits of wind, water and sacred grove once invoked by
pagan Greece and Rome come back as software and information, which never diminish however often they are used?
First, the roots of all
christianity is in
pagan customs and roman catholic doctrine.
These are ALL taken directly from the
pagan / heathen Yule holiday, which predate the arrival of
Christianity in Europe.
Pagan criticism of
Christianity corroborates this striking feature.
God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics:
Christianity, Discipleship, evangelism, inerrancy, myth,
pagan, Zeitgeist
This «true myth» idea comes from C. S. Lewis, who said that his realization of Jesus being the fulfillment of the
pagan myths which Lewis had studied his whole life is the realization that led him to move from atheism into
Christianity.