Sentences with phrase «about as pagan»
i believe it is SELVES... I do believe yall can have «Santa Claus» thats about as PAGAN as it gets lol..
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
All the other stuff about Easter (as a holiday), eggs, rabbits etc are directly stolen from pagan fertility symbols that are relevant to the return of earthly fecundity in the Spring.
Despite all that we owe to the Greeks and Romans, the ancient, pagan world seems not to have cared much about the individual as such.
A 2008 survey counted about 342,000 Wiccans in the United States and nearly as many who identify simply as «pagans,» a significant increase from the last American Religious Identification Survey, taken in 2001.
There the church was Latin - speaking and produced great writers and leaders such as Tertullian (c.160 - c. 225), who was brought up in Carthage, and Cyprian (d. 258), who was a pagan orator who was converted to Christianity in about 246 and who, two years later, was elected Bishop of Carthage.
Actually, you are completely wrong about who the Koran thinks of as pagans.
Rome had their post-Greek pagan religion for about 3 - 4 centuries after Jesus death, them and the Jews also supposedly had persecuted Christians until Constantine came around and established Christianity as the main religion of Rome..
Reversing what she sees as a trend among historians, Pagels focuses not on the ways in which Christians were similar to their «pagan neighbors» (an emphasis useful in overcoming overstatements about the uniqueness of the early church), but instead explores, in Tertullian's phrase, the «peculiarities of the Christian society.»
All denominationalism, whether Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican or Protestant, has about it an unwholesome atmosphere, not Christian at all but pagan, especially where there is sharp isolation such as has obtained between many of the Christian communions.
Yet, while McVeigh rejected God altogether, Breivik writes in his manifesto that he is not religious, has doubts about God's existence, does not pray, but does assert the primacy of Europe's «Christian culture» as well as his own pagan Nordic culture.
Jesus was attacked as the Seal Prophet was attacked by the pagan and the jews of Mecca for bringing that does not agree with the culture and customs they wanted to live with such as freeing slaves, forbidding the drinking of spirits and all that was mentioned and known about the people Mucca doing before any signs of Islam!
Please don't listen to these people on here they have so many different views and ideas of their own but don't listen to them they have closed their heart to God and are doing Satans work of misleading people away from the Almighty they look for men who like to have their ears tickled so don't take mine our anyone else's word for it look it up for your self history attests to the bible as true and The writings of Moses is far older than anything they have ever found thats right Moses wrote the first parts in the bible 3,500 years ago The scriptures weren't inspired by Pagan stories Pagan stories was inspired by actual events just like those in the bible because if you notice that a lot of the stories found in the bible have a lot to do about people worshipping false Gods.
The selfishness of paganism, therefore, in spite of all that can be said about it, is not nearly so «qualified» as that of Christendom, in so far as here also there is selfishness; for the pagan did not possess his self directly in the face of God.
As I have many «Pagan» friends, I am aware of almost everything you talked about.
I think it's about time people actually do some research as to the other religions that predated Christianity that have the same stories... Maybe research why the birth of Jesus is celebrated this time of year... coincidentally on the solstice when all other pagan religions celebrate the «rebirth» of the «Sun of God».
If Budziszewski would successfully witness to Pagans, I would suggest that he learn about our theologies, and resist the temptation to look upon us as wayward children upon whom fatherly guidance is justly imposed.
Balanced as a Beemer, and as refreshing as a power shower, have you ever thought about reviewing «The Shack» and telling us if it is pagan or not, also could you expand a bit on your «take» on tithing, excusing the pun.
---- the egyptian mystery systems — maybe they are not as mysterious as you think, maybe worth another look, — this time without preconceived notions — like that they are pagan, like that they are about gods and goddesses — try to find and establish the «Eye», which the glyphs speak of ---- Comparison is the key, to the door which is Life --
Notes Karen Jobes: «Regardless of how she felt about it or whether she cooperated, Esther was at the mercy of a ruthless pagan king just as her people were.
But there is a Pagan religion (think Vikings), and as I have come to learn more about Paganism, I have found several things I appreciate about their ways which I believe Christians could benefit from.
It is not mere «clever evasion» on his part; nor is it mere quibbling about the propriety of handling a heathen coin with its profile of the emperor or its pagan inscription — as has recently been suggested.
Just as Paul wrote that the Law was given to lead people to Jesus (Gal 3:24), so also, other religions and pagan traditions and ideas about creation and the afterlife and defeating evil were given to lead people to Jesus.
Are they the one's on Earth controlling our lives or are you about God the creator of universe that is worshipped by mankind in different ways, given different names, given different looks and combinations, partners, sons... others worshiped Satan or made him partner to God... The Message of the «Monotheism» was there from time of existance up to Noah PBUH and the monotheist derived from those saved by Noah named Abraham PBUH who came up then with the message of «Submission» and rebuilt the house of worship in Mecca for religion teachings redirecting pagans worshiping idols, trees, or worshiping many Gods they made and named as in Greek mythology...
a set of cosmological and anthropological views that owed not a little to the vast mélange of Hellenism and Orientalism flooding the world where he grew up, and providing him with the unique setting for still other ideas, of sin, Satan, death, of the sinful and therefore mortal nature of man — as «flesh» — of the «spiritual» forces arrayed against God and his Messiah and all the faithful, of the victory to be won by the Messiah when he should at last appear — all these ideas were shaped to the mold of certain half - Jewish, half - pagan ideas which Paul seems to have derived from the world about him.
They are about rape, worshiping a pagan god using sex, male prostitution, idolatry, none of it has to do with the loving long term relationship of a gay couple as we know and understand it today.
, The most striking feature of the myths about the pagan gods is the way they speak of persons and events in an invisible world as if they were like those with which we are familiar on earth.
The pagan temptation,» as the philosopher Thomas Molnar described it, is hardly new — the Church has been fighting paganism since the time of Christ — but what is new is its aggressive resurgence, its seduction of so many Christians, and the warnings Pope Francis has issued against it.The Pope's scorching words against paganism have not been well - received by many, but Francis has gone right on assailing it, particularly in areas that pagans care about most: the environment and sex.Francis has been a bold and eloquent defender of the environment, and understands that protecting the environment is not a recent fad, but a long - standing Catholic principle, highlighted by many of Francis's predecessors.
And this, it must be realized, was to come about not through some deep transformation in which they would «become the kingdoms of our God»; instead they would live on as pagan and alien kingdoms.
We get really into celebrating it around here, maybe cause there are a lot of Pagans and Wiccans around here, I don't know... anyways, I found packs of puzzles, stickers, and rings to give out as well as some non-nestle candy... I let my son eat a few things after he goes out and then he forgets about the cany after a few days.
I cover topics such as playdates, homeschooling, and pagan parenting while also reflecting a natural parenting mindset: my son is attachment parented and is learning about how to be a responsible human in terms of his impact on the world and those in it.
Your church members still sing about David and Jerusalem and see their own indigenous traditions as pagan and savage.
A guerrilla war took place through the 1980s and 1990s in which much of the countryside was evacuated, thousands of Kurdish - populated villages were destroyed by the government, and numerous summary executions were carried out by both sides.However they were later driven out of Hazza by pagans, and settled in Tamanon, which according to Abdisho was in the land of the Kurds.Tamanon lies just north of the modern Iraq - Turkey border, while Hazza is 12 km southwest of modern Erbil.One of the earliest records of the phrase land of the Kurds is found in an Assyrian Christian document of late antiquity, describing the stories of Assyrian saints of the Middle East, such as Abdisho.When the Sasanian Marzban asked Mar Abdisho about his place of origin, he replied that according to his parents, they were originally from Hazza, a village in Assyria.The region came under Persian rule during the reign of Cyrus the Great and Darius I.
The eventual selection of Dec 25, made perhaps as soon as 273, shows a convergence of Origen's matter about pagan gods and the church's id of God's boy with the celestial sunlight.
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