Sentences with phrase «by a pagan roman»

btw muslims belive in jesus moses and muhammad as prophets and belive in their original teachings not the ones placed in the bible which have been altered by pagan romans.

The burial site identified by residents at that time was covered by a pagan Roman temple.

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Constantine I, who was the first Christian Roman emperor and who also had his wife, the Empress Fausta, and his eldest son, Crispus, put to death, seized property from pagan temples and by the end of his reign was ordering the pillaging and the tearing down of pagan temples.

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.

No one ever existed by the name of Jesus, hinduism, fabrication of hindu Magi's, criminal tricksters of Rom to promote hindu Mithra ism, pagan savoir ism, religion of hindu, pagan Romans to make humanity their gentile, slaves.

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.»

By the second century, Roman soldiers were bringing their new faith to Britain, and in the middle of the third century St. Alban became Britain's first known Christian martyr, but we don't know much more about who these Christians were, and it is here that Malcolm Lambert begins in Pagans and Christians: The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede, producing a captivating narrative by squeezing what he can» but no more» from archeological evidence (mostly from burial sites) and the limited historical recorBy the second century, Roman soldiers were bringing their new faith to Britain, and in the middle of the third century St. Alban became Britain's first known Christian martyr, but we don't know much more about who these Christians were, and it is here that Malcolm Lambert begins in Pagans and Christians: The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede, producing a captivating narrative by squeezing what he can» but no more» from archeological evidence (mostly from burial sites) and the limited historical recorby squeezing what he can» but no more» from archeological evidence (mostly from burial sites) and the limited historical record.

by the way St augustine was born in Roman Africa hsi father was pagan and mother was christian but he chose chrsitianity..

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).

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.

The treatment of people outside Christianity was even worse, such as our treatment of «pagans» who refused to convert to Christianity after it became the official religion of the Roman Empire, or the Jews during most of Christian history, or other religious groups in Germany and Great Britain who were slaughtered and enslaved by invading Christian armies, or the enslavement of Native Americans and Africans by imperialistic Christian settlers of the «New World.»

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.»

i was raised «pagan» [in the current specific sense of «religion based upon an older religion that pre-dates Christianity and was replaced by Roman / Christian practices»] i LIKE Christianity.

In Augustine's time, Christians were the «third people,» after pagan Romans and Jews, while by the end of the sixth century they were indisputably the «first people,» with all that entailed for the development of Christendom.

The pagan, republican, quintessentially Roman family — as Tocqueville took a moment to hint — runs fundamentally contrary to the typical sort of family lived and theorized by natural - law Christians.

The pagans in the Roman empire resented the Christian criticism of pagan polytheism by pointing out that the Christians themselves are polytheists:

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.

According to Adamson, the case that Plotinus is the third most important thinker in western philosophy goes like this: «He fused together the doctrines he claimed to find in Plato with many of Aristotle's ideas, along with a healthy dose of Stoicism,» which was so appealing that it could be «embraced by pagans in the Roman Empire, by Christians in Byzantium and Western Europe, and Christians, Jews, and Muslims who lived in the Islamic Empire and wrote in Syriac, Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew.»

Jesus establishes himself at Capernaum on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee, a city with a synagogue built by a Roman centurion and not far from Julias, a thoroughly Hellenized and pagan city.

actually many pagans survived and went underground and also in places where the reaches of the catholic church did not get For example a whole other half Europe two whole continents on the other side of the ocean etc Paganism was driven into near extinction by it's brother religion that came from the same roots but it was not at all eradicated The irony find is Christians were persecuted by the Roman empire before the rule of Constantine and then during the burning times persecuted witches and pagans (aswell as non-pagans for corrupted reasons) An oximoron and hypocritical religion

The history was there, in the oral traditions of Jesus» life and death; and the experience was equally real, and could now be shared anywhere and by anyone, by Saul the persecutor, by Gentile centurions and treasurers and simple men of Cyprus and Cyrene and Antioch, by pagan Galatians, and by cosmopolitan Corinthians and Romans — Jews and Greeks, bond and free.

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.

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.

The organic, free flowing Spirit led communities were replaced by a hierarchical, Greco Roman inspired, Pagan influenced organized religion.