Sentences with phrase «roman pagan god»

The name Jesus is a Roman pagan god.

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Pagans do not care which god you worship but the Cult of the Emperor made the Romans care.

Christians in Rome were viewed as a threat to the Emperor (Roman Emperors, by the way, were not atheists, they tended to have Pagan beliefs — recall the Roman gods).

It was at the behest of the Catholic church that Christmas became an accepted tradition, though it is the combination of the Roman festival Saturnalia (observed from Dec 17 - 24) and the celebration of Mithra, Persian god of light (observed on Dec 25) The Catholic church continues to observe this pagan celebration, rather than following God's words to «touch nothing unclean&raqugod of light (observed on Dec 25) The Catholic church continues to observe this pagan celebration, rather than following God's words to «touch nothing unclean&raquGod's words to «touch nothing unclean».

Right, they do nt mind playing on the «Jewish» Sabbath (i.e. the one in Old Testament) but wouldnt dare play on Sunday, the day the Romans decided to «make:» the Sabbath because that was the day all the Pagans were already worshipping their various Sun Gods.

Now do your homework on how Romans worshiped their pagan gods.

Perhaps it is interesting to look at some of the personal names in the early church recorded in the NT, Stephanas (the pagan Olympic games laurel wreath) Apollos (god of music and sun) Aquila (the eagle, the Roman animal emblem) Narcissus, Hermes, Nympha, Olympas, Artemus, Fortunatus, all derived from pagan mythology.

I agree with you Jeremy in a sense, but I also agree with what Chrissy says, «I believe God is calling His bride out of the Harlot system and these pagan festivals are instigated by the Roman Catholicism, just as the changing of the Sabbath day was too.»

The early Catholic church taught (added) many of these «similarities» to get the current Roman pagan culture to worship Jesus and the Saints as basically the same as the Roman Gods.

Once the good ol' winter months starting approaching, the pagans in Greco - Roman times feared that the days were getting shorter because the sun god was mad at them.

As to hailstones, telling someone that God can rain down 100 pound hailstones on their heads doesn't sound much different from the pagan pantheon found in Greek, Roman, and Celtic traditions... It looks nothing like Jesus.

Just as God loosed the mighty pagan Roman Empire on Jerusalem which along with the Jewish Temple was completely destroyed in the year 70 A.D., so will God loose today's powerful governments on organized religions led by men rayping our boys.

Pagan still means a spiritual belief in nature dieties and roman gods.

Romans 1:23 - 32 — noticed you skipped over 23 since that set the precedence for that scripture they were worshiping their pagan god using sex.

Christianity was just another sect of Judaism, until Constantine hijacked it by adding Greco - Roman mythology to it (e.g. Jesus human son of top god Jehovah replacing Hercules human son of top god Zeus), and pagan festivals (e.g. Christmas replacing Yule, All Saints Day replacing Halloween, Valentine's Day replacing Juno's day, Easter replacing harvest festival.

Father god created a man Adam but the man sinned (& so whole future humanity came under curse) so father god needed someone perfect to pay with his blood for atonement (a pagan roman practice), though father god could have forgiven the sins!

It was in this way that the Greek and Roman gods ceased to be believed in by educated pagans; it is thus that we ourselves judge of the Hindu, Buddhist, and Mohammedan theologies; Protestants have so dealt with the Catholic notions of deity, and liberal Protestants with older Protestant notions; it is thus that Chinamen judge of us, and that all of us now living will be judged by our descendants.

Hindus and buddhists and sikhs and muslims and pagans and greeks and romans and zulus and aborigines all had their gods who gave them just as much hope... or more since some of them are much older than your Jesus.

Commenting on Jeanne d'Arc, Roman Catholic Saint, reference to a pagan god — Jove — is accepted without demur.

Pagan religions like Greek and Roman had a multiplicity of whimsical gods.