Sentences with phrase «as a pagan»

Most Christian holidays began as pagan holidays.

And denying that Jesus» death is a human sacrifice as pagan as you'd find in ancient Egypt or Tenochitlan makes you unaware of history.

Having three out of 1,000 people identify as Pagan can seem a little disappointing, but that's the beauty of the internet.

Then each of you will control your body and live in holiness and honor — not in lustful passion as the pagans do, in their ignorance of God and his ways» (1 Thessalonians 4:3 - 5).

He may not be as memorable as Pagan Min or Vaas were, but he's excellently written, portrayed, and supported well by his siblings Jacob, John and Faith, who are again all brilliantly portrayed and developed throughout.

We tent to equate non-religious people as pagans.

Looking ahead: Very few people probably know that Easter began as a pagan holiday.

I believe that despite the fact that Jesus was not born on December 25, and despite the fact that Christmas originated as a pagan holiday, Christians should still celebrate the birth of Jesus on December 25.

There are a lot of holiday customs which are also referred to as pagan even though they lack a religious element, or developed entirely from Christian elements.

Many anthropologists will label native religions as pagan, even if that religious tradition in Africa has nothing in common with one in the Philippines.

Actually, you are completely wrong about who the Koran thinks of as pagans.

I found I liked writing features: News stories about the latest school play didn't thrill me, but an article describing how Valentine's Day started as a pagan festival bordering on the perverse did.

William Barclay, in his commentary on the Gospel of John, pointed out similarities between pagan rituals and the baptism of John, as well as pagan lore resembling the Virgin Birth.

But such an experience may leave a person as far as his pagan neighbors from the Sermon on the Mount.

By the way, Christmas started as the pagan holiday Yule and when Christians wanted to celebrate the birth of Jesus, they just used the Yule celebration.

When we Africans acknowledge this by associating the spiritual powers we feel around us with these other manifestations of God's creative power, we are despised as pagans, worshiping trees and stones.

@Beatrice, As a Pagan who does charitable work, I can chose to utilize charitable organizations already in place, or I can waste valuable time and money in building my own charitable organization to do the same work.

Easter as a pagan festival coincides with the Jewish Passover.

We do also practice tradition, not as tenants of our faith though.Tradition at our house holds that the birthday person picks the meal, it also includes giving gifts at christmas.Not because it was created the same day as a pagan holiday, but because it is a family tradition.

Christianized Indians — and Mormonized Indians, of whom there are many — do not want returned to them items that they now regard as pagan.

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.

There are many such examples including; adultery, incest, bestiality, rape, forced prostitution upon one's daughter, sex as pagan worship and pederasty.

(Halloween is not as pagan as you think it is.)

He was a native of Pontus and reared as a pagan.

An Orthodox Jew himself, he ridiculed the cult of the Wailing Wall as pagan stone - worship.

Some have dismissed the display of Christmas trees as a pagan yuletide custom unfit for Christian usage.

but i do see your fear as a pagan,..

i believe it is SELVES... I do believe yall can have «Santa Claus» thats about as PAGAN as it gets lol..

I speak as a Pagan saying let everyone have their beliefs..

(Though many Christians did speak Greek, leading them to use some of the same terms as Pagans used, but with different meanings.)

Consider the words of «forestboar» (Rev. Lincoln Winter): Embalming has its origins in customs every bit as pagan as cremation.

For the theologian will never be able to interpret the pagan myths in the same way as the pagan historian of religion does.

ChRistians were taught «If there by anyone among you suffering, seek out the elder men of the church» rather than seek pharmakia as pagans and Jews were doing.

There the Church, while not as fully subservient to the State as its pagan predecessors had been, was often a tool of a nominally Christian but essentially non-Christian regime.

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.

During the Middle Ages, the church branded all celebrations of the new year as pagan, but as time passed, such celebrations became accepted.

Your church members still sing about David and Jerusalem and see their own indigenous traditions as pagan and savage.

Rather than following the overt Christian ideology of the Arthurian legend, the film has re-invented the story as a pagan epic

Check out this trailer for the fourth expansion to Crusader Kings II, which enables players to play as a Pagan.

The Pantheon is Italy's best - preserved ancient building, It started out as a pagan temple and then became a church.

She grew up with Pagan Min and even idolised him, but as soon as Pagan feel in love with Ajay's mother Yuma felt Pagan became weaker.