Sentences with phrase «pagans into»

The ancient church attempted Christ's Mass to redeem a favorite pagan celebration day and bring thousands of pagans into the church.

The month and date also coincide with the birth of the sun; it is also a well - known fact that the date was chosen to draw pagans into the worship of Christ.

Yes, Christianity co-opted pagan winter solstice festivals in an attempt to bring pagans into the faith, but the vast majority of what we associate with modern day Christmas came about after this.

At this time in history, the churches were receiving pagans into the church ranks, the pagan holidays were incorporated with the church so that no one was offended and to keep the pagans comfortable while learning our Savior, Jesus Christ's message of truth.

Christians simply didn't have a date that they celebrated the birth of their Savior, and were attempting to convert many Pagans into Christianity, so they joined the ranks and went with December 25th.

The Church CHOSE to celebrate the birth of Christ on December 25th, mostly in order to co-opt the pagan winter solstice celebrations and ease the conversion of pagans into Christianity.

Performance of sacred stories and subsequent oral interpretations made the faith of Judaism accessible to outsiders and helped to assimilate pagans into the communities of worship.

Christian holidays ARE based of the seasons, but not all of them just the winter solstace and the spring solstace because when Christians were trying to convert Pagans into Christianity they figured it would be easier if the clebrations they had were around the same times.

Imagine, then, if the story had gone that Pagan was actually a decent ruler, but that Mohan had led yet another revolution to seize power which then resulted in the affair and death of Pagan's daughter, sending Pagan into a spiral of madness and making him a more interesting character, at least in my eyes.

Not exact matches

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.

My mother told me that placing my faith in God was the answer / But then I hated God cause he gave my mother cancer / Killing her slow like the Feds did to the Blank Panthers / The genesis of genocide is like a Pagan religion / Carefully hidden, woven into the holidays of a Christian /

I wonder if, as pagan beliefs went into inevitable decline in the Roman Empire, there was the equivalent of a journalist who asked «Whatever happend to Zeus in the Empire?»

Easter co-ming from ancient pagan fertility rituals as stated, not sure how that's fit's into the ancient Passover Seder meal of the Jews...?

The article failed to mention that once the early Christians come into power, they persecuted the pagans.

It wasn't until Constantine «tickled the ears» of pagans to get them into the church that the idea of going to heaven or hell entered.

It was chosen because the King wanted to celebrate Christ and it coincided with the pagan holidays, therefore allowing the pagans their parties without causing them to riot — look into Saturnalia if you don't believe me

It was in a period of philosophical and religious ferment, when the pagan gods failed to offer answers to the problems of ordinary life, that Christ came into the world and revealed God's salvific plan to all of mankind.

To Lamar H and everybody else out there Do you happen to open the bible and compare the christian rituals against ancient pagan rituals (surprise surprise)?!? To everybody else, count to ten and look into your lives, maybe you'll find out that you do nt live your faith as you preach in these forums.

This has devolved into a shorthand: I am a Christian / Muslim / Pagan / Hindu et al (Most times means: I am a gnostic theist); I am an atheist (Most time means: I am an agnostic atheist); I am agnostic (Most times means: I am an agnostic theist).

The ten tribes had been concealed in the pagans who came to the Church, and as each one was baptized into the Church he became part of the new Israel.

The New Testament itself testifies to the persistence of pagan practices amongst the early communities and patterns of socialization by believers that brought them into contact with pagans on a regular basis (for example, 1 Corinthians 8 and 10).

«teachers,» and «apostles»; who managed the staggering influx of widows and women into the Christian community by providing guidelines to ensure that Ephesian churches remained distinct from the pagan cults of the day, but who still expected trained women to prophesy, to teach, and to lead.

C. S. Lewis said that the way to convert the world to Jesus was to first turn them into good pagans.

We are living in Pagan Rome... How long till we start getting thrown into the lion's den??? Jesus said — «No servant is greater than his master — if they persecuted me, they will persecute you!»

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.

What I experience as I stand in face of — and in the very depths of — this world which your flesh has assimilated, this world which has become your flesh, my God, is not the absorption of the monist who yearns to be dissolved into the unity of things, nor the emotion felt by the pagan as he lies prostrate before a tangible divinity, nor yet the passive self - abandonment of the quietist tossed hither and thither at the mercy of mystical impulsions.

The author sees Giles Deleuze as a pagan in his theory of evolution, metamorphosed into a Chaosmological Myth: an unqualified affirmation of the endless, goalless, production of Difference.

He doesn't just use bible verses, he goes back into the history of the topics (pagan rituals, Santa, etc) as well.

So, how did Saturnalia, this pagan celebration of the longest night of the year get turned into Christmas?

In the years when fresh invasions were sweeping new waves of pagans in destructive raids into nominally Christian areas and Arabs were bringing about half of what had been Christendom under the sway of the Crescent, Christianity was recouping some of its losses by conversions in that very Mediterranean Basin and on the borders of what had been the Roman Empire among peoples which until then had been largely on entirely outside its influence.

Just saying the word pagan can get you into some trouble.

Each chapter offers an insight not only into Muhammad, but also the sociopolitical tensions of a 7th century Arabia, which is beleaguered by drought, famine, war and pagan idolatry.

I am a Christian... but an astounding number of agnostics and pagans and atheists keep coming into my life, and I love them to bits.

They were regarded as practices of a pagan past from which the Hippocratic tradition, assimilated into and reshaped by Judeo - Christian ethical thought, rescued humankind for two millennia.

Ah the perils of incorporating pagan virgin birth mythology into pre-existing Jewish cultural tradition.

This was the manner in which educated, Greek - speaking Christians from the very beginning had been schooled, whether they were from pagan families or from Jewish families that had become assimilated into Greek culture.

So by stating that there must be a Christian presence in government you're kinda unconsciously outlining the mind controlling hypocrisy you're indoctrinated into, of early Byzantine cultists who subverted a good religion and plugged 2000 years of pagan rituals into a philosophy that was about love and created the most hypocritical, torturous, murderous, blasphemous, demonic and satanic era of human history, that would have made the devil himself, if he happens to be real, enthralled and delighted at the inhuman acts perpetrated by men who's skill lay only in great fornication and great defilements, that can only be possessed by those that truly revel in the pain and the blood of the innocent.

In 300AD when Rome became a Christian nation from a Pagan nation overnight, they rolled many Pagan beliefs into the «Roman Catholic» church.

Well Bob, let me try to be brief... the old testament is the history of the nascient people of Israel, and tells the story of the hammering process God used to mold them into His people... They frequently adopted the gods of pagans and idol worshippers, and the OT describes how God so wanted them to be His people... So many of the old testament prophecies actually point to a coming Messiah.

Why, the people you are interacting with might only run into you in their life and since many of us wear a pentacle, we are what will represent Pagans in that person mind.

I don't mean that they have become Pagan, and we must «put Christ back into Christmas» to retake the holiday for Jesus.

Islam's widespread practice of amputating the cli - to - ris and sometimes part or even all of the vul - va from the ge - n - ita - lia of Muslim women, affirmed in a had - ith by Mohammed himself, most likely also traces back to the founder's deliberate abuse of se - x to lure pagan males into his cu - lt.

The issue is and remains «may we allow pagan religious customs into the church of Jesus Christ as part of our worship and service to God?

Easter, Halloween and Christmas all started in pagan beliefs incorporated into Christianity as the Roman Catholics conquered foreign lands.

If this is Paul, then why should we not take a pagan situation and turn it into a Christ opportunity?

A little pagan leaven mixed in to puffen and liven things up into a pleasant appearance?

I was actually taught in Catholic school that they were both just stories and that Luke's was cribbed from various myths because he was a pagan and pagan gods came into the world with sensational events and circumstances.

He then took that pagan altar and turned it into a Christ opportunity.

And just as God has made me into a new creation, so also I take the pagan traditions of Christmas, and rethink, reimagine, rework, and recreate them all to point to the person and work of Jesus Christ.

After reading this book, I have half a mind to go out and find the most pagan thing I can, just to see if I can redeem it and adopt it into my church.