Sentences with phrase «by pagans»

Many of the early «Church Fathers» were highly influenced by the pagan Greek ideas of Plato and Aristotle, who taught the immortal soul idea.

Christmas originally was a celebration by the pagans of the Winter Solstice.

Church was a term used by pagan emperors to usurp the term «ecclesia», defining those called out by God to experience His love, follow Him, worship Him, submit to Him, serve Him, and glorify Him through word and deed — organically, freely, spontaneously.

The Midnight Man co-staring Robert Englund and Lin Shaye is a remake of Rob Kennedy's 2013 supernatural horror flick Midnight Man, inspired by a pagan ritual called «The Midnight Game».

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

After the revolution and Somoza's assassination, the prison was abandoned and used by pagan groups as a sacred ritual site.

It is not Christmas it is Saturnalia, Winter Solstice, Yule, and several other December holidays celebrated by pagan religions.

The Jews weren't expecting it to take the form of a young, would - be Messiah executed by the pagans followed three days later by news of a resurrection.

=== @WASP «Combined by a pagan emperor and edited by pope after pope.»

Yeshua brought nothing, and died nothing, and most of the false books of the false heresy of Christianity were written by pagan Greeks who made this person into some type of tritheistic, illogical, resurrection rehash of Horus or whatever lie that existed from the heathens.

While the celebration of Christmas has been poluted by pagan beliefs from the beginning, celebrating Jesus» birth (specifically) can hardly be considerred pagan.

The gospels were anonymous, and the first one, Mark, was written by pagan - Christians.

The Midnight Man co-staring Robert Englund and Lin Shaye is a remake of Rob Kennedy's 2013 supernatural horror flick Midnight Man, inspired by a pagan ritual called...

(op.cit., p. 175) In this situation persecution was «less the result of a systematic policy than of denunciation by pagans who spread damaging falsehood about the new forms of worship» (Bruno Chenu, et.al.

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.

I agree that apostolic succession is not Biblical but hijacked by pagan Rome during Constantine era, but rest you say you are gravely, eternal consequence mistaken.

Easter eggs were first colored by the pagans to resemble the rising sun and announce the return of light.

Have the souls of Christianity and the tutelary spirits of wind, water and sacred grove once invoked by pagan Greece and Rome come back as software and information, which never diminish however often they are used?

so thank you this county was built by Pagans,... what that as true as what you just said

«Therefore, one can easily argue that the first Christian Bible was commissioned, paid for, inspected and approved by a pagan emperor for church use.

Origen took on the rumor, reported by the pagan critic Celsus, that Jesus had been ugly.

Is it not true that where the state has subverted and constricted religion — as in Stalin's Russia, Hitler's Germany, Amin's Uganda, Pol Pot's Kampuchea or Park's Korea — questions of social righteousness have been subverted by pagan whims?

Well, we do know that the 25th of Dec was a festival observed by pagans.

It is a mistranslation, perhaps deliberately influenced by pagans such as Dante.

The formal letter contained the restriction of eating any food offered to idols - that is, meat put on the market by pagan priests after they had used it in their sacrifices.

At first I thought this was just an attempt by pagan scientists to prove evolution.

When the anonymous Christian in Nicholas of Cusa's dialogue «On the Hidden God» is asked by his pagan interlocutor to explain the difference between Christians and pagans, he answers that followers of Christ know they can not comprehend the divine.

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!

The Talmud relates that the great rabbi Hillel (who was still living during Jesus» boyhood) was once challenged by a pagan to teach him the whole law while he stood on one foot.

Is it any wonder that the early Church was ridiculed by pagan outsiders for being too effeminate?

The Bible is a collection of stories from one small portion of the world and most of those stories come from years before the bible was put together by the pagan ruler Constantine.

But in the seminar I attended (which was taught by a Pagan High Priestess, by the way...), I noted the belief of a creation, of an ongoing battle between good and evil, and of a coming final last battle, in which humans will join in the fight to defeat and vanquish evil from the universe.

2,000 years ago what you and I think of as «slavery» was present and considered acceptable, not just by pagans but the Jewish tradition as well.

well i'm kind of an unique pagan, being an anti-christian actually gets me shunned quite a bit by the pagan community.

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.

Then it was taken ransom by the pagan beliefs.

1) catholicism came before christianity (aka protestants) look at true history and you can follow the rise of jewish belief being adopted and adapted by the pagan romans to make catholics, then the king of england broke away from the catholic church to make the church of england.